Film Brief idea 1

For our briefs for our coursework of a film opening title sequence, we were given four briefs to choose from. Personally, i liked the idea of briefs 3 and 4 the most, but also thought about having a go at briefs 1 and 2 aswell. When first hearing about the four briefs i instantly got ideas about each, but for my main title opening sequence i am thinking about using animation on after effects, or using machinima, rather thanfilming an actual scene, as this seems personally more suited to me and would be a good way to do an opening sequence.

Film Brief 1
A mainstream action film that will appeal to 15-25yr old males
Your film should appear to be based on a "fictional" comic book
Example - Batman (Tim Burton, 1989)

For Brief 1, i believe i would find it quite hard to do as a male would know more about their audience and what would appeal to their age group. However i do have some ideas about this brief which i think could be effective. My first idea is of a new superhero, in contrast to Batman, Spiderman etc. I would not want to do the cliche of a superhero film where the superhero has amazing powers and helps to save the world etc as i would feel this is not my own idea. I think an idea of a superhero is good, and - something that would benefit their lives substantially but would not help them astonishingly save the world etc.

My other idea is similar to the idea of Spiderman, an ordinary person from an ordinary background inheriting power from some source, for example from their parents, and then the characters lives change in a massive way.

The second idea is similar to the film 'wanted' where the main character is just a normal everyday character. He then gets extraordinary knowledge or power from a source and then his life changes immensely. For example, the character could learn how to become a millionaire etc and then when rivals see he starts to make money, he is targeted and this is when the action is involved. This idea seems good and i could do the title opening scene in after effects, i would not necessarily have to film the opening sequence. A good example of a millionaire storyline is the new movie 'Slumdog Millionaire' below. However, the brief states there needs to be action so i could use the storyline as a base and work from it, modify it until i have a storyline i would be happy with and that would suit the brief.