(Initial) Ideas for our Opening Sequence

Having already decided we were going to do an opening sequence for a British Social Realist film we now needed to start coming up with some ideas for what our sequence was going to be.

I've had an idea for a scene to start a film for quite a while, and this will hopefully form the start of our opening sequence. The scene is a shot of some form of hill or steep embankment, we can see over the top of the embankment which has a good view of the surrounding countryside. It is empty when the camera first sees it but we can hear the sound of people walking up it. It then cuts briefly away to a black screen with credits, and then back to the shot of the embankment, the walkers now come into view-two teenage boys. (Possible cut away again two black title page). The two boys have now reached the top and are getting their breath back/admiring the view. After a while they have the following dialogue:

Boy 1: Well here we are, we're not gonna get higher than this around here.
Pause
Boy 1: This is it, isn't it?
Boy 2: So it would seem.

The boys then stay looking for a few more seconds, then turn and go back down the hill.


Ideally the idea would this would be all in one shot, but this might be subject to finding a practical location for this.



The rest of the opening would then be following the two boys home, probably with them on bikes, one will then split and we follow (what will become our main character) along to his house, where he enters past (hopefully if we can do it) his parents arguing and up to his room where he slumps on his bed and the opening ends.

As for the shots during this sequence I think we're gonna go for as many long held shots/takes as we can to give the feel of a British Social realist film, but probably just several big wide long shots that capture feeling of the (emptiness of) the Fens around where I live where we'll be shooting. I'd quite like to have a shot once we get into the village a sort of medium long shot from the side of pavement with some pensioners on the pavement and then the two teenagers riding past on their bikes. Other then this I haven't really got any fully formed secure ideas for shots in my heads yet, something which will probably form once I've been out and done a location scout out.