Voice over inspiration

After our first screening we got a lot of feedback that said our opening looked too much like a trailer, we decided to make it obviously an opening by adding a voice-over, to explain that it was a flashback. Voice-overs are used in numerous openings here are a few we got inspiration from:

Never let me go

The opening to Never let me go begins at the end of the film with a voice over from the main protagonist who explains to us that this is the end, however not through obvious wording. She then goes onto talk about how she prefers to look back this smoothly introduces us the the beginning of the film. Overall this opening does exactly what we want ours to do; intrigue audiences into what has happened in the time from the beginning to the end and to help audiences understand why she is looking back. The opening also introduces the three main characters something which would add to our voice-over if we could also do. 

The Lovely Bones

Even though not a social realism film, The Lovely Bones is about a dead girl who is looking back on her life. Fleur would die in a different way to the girl in this film but they still both look back on their life if only briefly in the openings. From the lovely bones opening it is evident that the protagonist speaking is a lot older or dead imposing a sense on intrigue on the audience. By using similar techniques in our opening such as words like 'I remember' we can also create the sense that Fleur is a lot older or has died since the beginning of the film.