Hey Internet,  I have started work on the beginning of my opening. The beginning is a brief story being told with ancient drawings, I have drawn three images for this section.

     This is the first picture in the story that will be told at the beginning of my film. The voice over will be accompanied by subtitles, it will be saying something along the lines of:" A long time ago in the kingdom of ____(to be decided)___, an evil king ruled the land. The king had all of the villagers do his bidding. A gemstone with great power was found withing the borders of the kingdom, so the king took it for himself". This will not be the exact wording, but it will talk about the king and the gem. 

     I have also started to create props for my opening. I have created a sword and the amulet that the gem will be inside that gives the hero power. I am planning on filming tomorrow, but I am not certain if I will be able to because many things are happening in my family right now (nothing bad) so I will see if I am available tomorrow. I will keep you posted.  

     What's up Web. So right now I am working on my story. I was going to create a character first, but after some peer review I have decided to develop the story first. 

     The basic story is that a hero has an ancient power in them that hasn't been seen for a very long time. The villain wants this power because it was taken from his family all those years ago by another hero. The film will follow the villain as the protagonist trying to take the power back. The hero will still follow the hero's journey, but the villain will as well. The hero's main goal will be to kill the villain, little does he know the villain is following the hero on his journey trying to trap/stop the hero and take the power. As I said before the film will be like an RPG with the main character gaining "party members" along the way. The climax of the film will be when the villain takes the power from the hero but instead of the power going into the villain it is stolen by an even greater villain, one of the villains"party members". This greater evil will be a person even the villain was not sure to travel with him. The rest of the film will be the villain teaming up with the ,no longer powerful, hero trying to stop the greater evil. (this is still a work in progress, but that is the story that I will create my characters from)

    The first character I have thought of is the Hero. (just as a side note: I will address each character by an aspect of them because I haven't thought of names yet.) The hero will be an over exaggeration of the hero archetype (this link will also go in depth about the villain archetype which I will talk about later). The hero will be a very cocky, confident, strong man who isn't afraid of anything, but with a defect. The defect will be the fact that he is nothing without the ancient power. When he loses it he becomes a broken man. I want people to see him as Mr. Perfect, a person that is incapable of failure. 

     The Villain will not focus on brute strength, but rather wit. Instead of trying to destroy the hero he will try to outsmart him. I am not going along with the typical Villain archetype because my villain will be the main character, so he can't be someone that the audience despises he needs to be likable, but still evil. Now the villains background. He is part of a royal family that lost the ancient power to the hero many years ago. The villain dive is that he wants to retrieve the power for his family because he feels as if they lost their honor to the hero. ( I will probably design the hero in a few days so I can show you what I want him to look like. Also he wont look like a dark fantasy villain because the audience should be able to see a part of themselves in the protagonist, so I will make him brighter and have a visible face unlike villains that wear masks.

      That is all I have now, but I will tell you when I reach a new breakthrough. 

     Hey Internet, I think that I thought of a good idea for my opening. I think I may start the opening with a chase scene through the forest. This will introduce the main villain, title, setting, but not the main character. I want the villain to be chasing a friend or acquaintance that knows the main character. Then when the chase is over I will change the scene to the main character in his/her normal life.    

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     This is the type of setting that I want the chase to happen in (I will get a picture of my actual filming location soon). 

     The rest of my story will be about the main character being the "chosen one" or the one with ancient power. The villain wants this power to gain control of the rivaling kingdoms. (The main villain is of royal decent). The main character will gather a party of people with different skill sets like an RPG (role playing game) style video game. They will face many challenges on their way to defeat the villain.

     Even though I'm still developing the story I will probably draw up elements that I want in the film and will post the when I am done.

     Hey Internet Surfers, I have good news! I figured out where to set my film opening. There is a park close to my house that is very big and looks like a forest. Perfect for my fantasy adventure film. The park is called Markham Park  there are many different locations that I could use there. There is a forest area, a lake, and open fields that I could use to show my film. 

       Now that I have my setting I can decide what will be happening in my world. My fantasy world will be over run my darkness (evil) and there will be a glimmer of good still left in the world. There will be a sort of rebel group and a group of people that dislike the evil but don't do anything about it. I want there to be different tribes of people that live in certain places around the world. I would like the world to be like Lord of the Rings or The Legend of Zelda video game series. 

     So now I am going to create a situation for the characters to be a part of. I will get back to you when I figure it out.

     Hello people of internet land. So I have decided to go with the adventure genre because (as you can see from my last post) I think I could create a more structured story using the hero's journey. I'm not saying that I couldn't use the hero's journey in an action movie, I'm just saying that I think  I could create a better adventure film opening using it. I also don't want to make a very serious piece because I wouldn't be totally invested in it, and the adventure genre could be more friendly.
     Now I should probably think of a story. I am going to create the world before I decide what will be happening in it. I would love to create a science fiction or fantasy film ,but the location that I would be filming in doesn't look like either of those things. Without a budget for my film I am restricted to filming in my town with no ability to change the set. The only exotic (relative to my home) setting that I could create would be a forest which could work for a fantasy film if I can think of a story that could incorporate a forest. I'm going to have to find an area that I really like before I make a decision. I will probably do the same thing that I do when I don't know what to draw ( I'm an artist). Write down 6 different locations and roll a die to see where my story will take place. If I can't find a good place or think of a good story I may decide to go with my backup idea which would be a black and white detective film, but I think I will be able to create an adventure film. I will post again when I found a place or have another idea to spit out.

     Hello to everyone who can access the internet. My name is Eric Weinstein and I have been given the task of creating a two minuet opening for a film. This blog will tell you the exact process that I will go through to make the best film opening that I can.

     Today I am researching the various types of film genres that I may use for my film opening. The action and adventure genres caught my eye when I thought about their potential for a film opening. If I choose to create an opening for an action film I could start out with an action sequence: a chase scene with hints to the characters personality in the way he/she runs away or in the actions they preform as the character runs. If I choose to create an adventure film opening I could potentially create an ordinary character, but at the same time showing the potential of the character to become a "hero". I would follow the hero's journey if I go with the adventure genre because many successful films follow this format.

So I would have to start by showing the character In the ordinary world with hints of a big journey ahead, similar to the openings of Lord of the Rings or Star Wars. Then there is also the fact that I have to be able to actually create the scenes I wish to make, so I have a lot of thinking to do about the genre of my film opening and the scenes that I want to create.