Our main research consisted of researching one movie and a series that would have meaning to our opening. We compared Saving Private Ryan and the series: In Loving Memory.
Saving Private Ryan is an American war film set at the time of the invasion of Normandy during WII. The opening is quite intense, with the typical guns and firearm. It shows soldiers going into battle, with all the props giving intense atmosphere. Whereas, "In Loving Memory" is a saddening story about a widower, and her nephew who recently had to take over a small running family business as the husband has died.
They both conflict, which is what we need to make our opening. Our opening is planned to be about woman going down memory lane, remembering times of her, and her one to be spending time together, having fun. However, he soon has to go to war, and he gets killed in war. Our aim is to make our opening to the film more saddening, with plenty of happy memories; we do not plan to add in guns and violence.
For inspiration, we went to the WII museum in London; we gathered lots of information about the evacuation in Britain. Experiencing it for ourselves, there were prototypes that try to relate to the experience of having to be evacuated. There was a very well constructed prototype of the typical house back in the WII times; it would show each room at its best. One thing we learnt related to rationing was the bathtub; most families had a line around, inside their bathtub, to give a guideline to the amount of water they should be using.
By Daniel Heighington
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