The Issue With The Shop Scene

The opening of our title sequence begun in a corner shop where the man was going to buy himself some cigarettes in which the poison was located. However there was an issue that we recognised and tryed to address, this was that we could not get permission to film this scene in a shop as we were essentially disrupting their bussiness and it was easy to understand why they wouldnt want us to use their shop.

Whilst trying to get around this issue one of our group members suggested that we set up a shop in the studio with the help of the set designer however imediately there were holes spotted in this idea as we would not be able to make it look like a working shop as we would need lots of food and magazines, cigarettes etc. to make it look realistic. However the fact that we were trying to address this quite frustrating situation was really positive. Here were some of the other ideas that we thought of:

- Picking the poison up from a small flat.
- Starting with a standard change over between two people
- In a briefcase being delivered
- The poison is posted within a letter through the post of a home

After brainstorming more ideas for a lesson we finally came up with an idea that we all liked and that we could see no reason that we could not or should not be able to film it. We chose that the sequence would begin with the letter throught the post of a house.

The camera shows the mail being delivered at the mans house. The man picks it up, walks to the window and peers out behind the curtains to ensure that the post man has gone. He then hurriedly puts his coat on and leaves the house. As he is crossing the street with the letter the cross over happens and the main character (the spy) is seen getting into his car. The camera then continues to follow the man with the letter to the cafe where the pass overs begin.