Introduction

For my pre-production I decided to construct a shooting script for the opening scene for a new film ‘State of Regression’. As part of my research I looked at a number of different texts similar to my idea including watching opening scenes, and reading shooting scripts of films with similar genre/plot lines. I looked up how to construct a shooting script, including the language involved. The shooting scripts for ‘Momento’ and ‘Fight Club’ were my main sources of information. I also watched a number of opening scenes from films such as ‘Total Recall’, ‘The Island’, ‘The Hunger Games’, ‘The Dark Knight Rises’, and ‘Tomb Raider’. As each of these films have some similarities to my idea. I conducted further research and analysed a number of posters from films that were highlighted as the top grossing films of 2012 by IMDb.