Opening Scene

clarkage

clarkage

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Im filming an action short film and i wanted to make a cool opening scene i currently have Powerdirector 6 as my editing software. Any ideas??
 
Umm, well what do you want as your opening? Whats your story? What are the characters?

We can't really give you advice like that. It's like a painter asking someone else "what should I paint?"

Think of a story, or a scene, or characters, and work from there. Try to not do something you've seen out of a movie, or just a basic storyline, and come up with something cool. Then from there build the story step by step. From there the opening scene should just fall into your lap.
 
Robbery

Robbery

It is going to be a robbery movie and I figured out what i want and im thinking that i need like a lighter to open up the first part. Im using the song "Our Revolution" by Halifax as the opening song and in the beggining of the song you here a Zippo Lighter and so i was thinking that would be cool to put in there. But I dont want to just film my hand lighting a lighter because that would be really cheesy i think, but i was wanting to make it like how they did in the opening scene of Casino Royale like how it was animated and i was wondering if any of you knew how they did it.
 
My guess is greenscreen, then the characters got turned into a cartoonish/posterized effect...Really cool, i like that intro
 
Start with sound only, on pitch black (and perhaps titles?). Then the song begins, and the video starts in synch with the sound of the lighter.
 
I was thinking on doing a green screen effect nut my program doesn't do green screens unfortunately. Which sucks because it does everything but that.
 
lol me 2 we have it down but i wanted to add some effects into it. My program i am slowly learning doesnt have all the things i need. =( I would like to no how i could make some clips i have that have black bascgrounds and put them into my movie. I cant composite them because my program doesnt do thatbut do you guys no any other ways?? THX FOR THE HELP
 
As confusing as the first post.

Please use whole sentences and have posts with details explaining why, where, how, who, etc... So that we can understand.

When I first saw the first post of this thread, I had no clue what you wanted, or why, or how, or what you expected from us. Only later down you explain what idea you had.
 
haha sorry i think we have got it. My program does do compositing and green screen and the whole deal. I would now like to know though where i could find some cool stock footage like this site.

http://www.detonationfilms.com/UnitK.htm

But i want it to be free for right now. So if you know of any other sites that would have the same thing that would be great if you could list them.
 
You're not likely to find anything decent for free. Pay the $7, or find out how to make it yourself.
 
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