RESEARCH is everything you do help you understand how to most properly make the kind of film you want.
In this case that means you should by now have watched at least 20 title sequences to different films and at least 10 of these should be films like the the sort of film you want to make.
If you can fit your film clearly into a genre that will certainly make this task easier.
You should by now have written up on your blogs what you have learned about how the opening sequence of a film works:
Establishes place
The main protagonist
The genre (more or less)
Gives a hint or flavour of what the story will become.
You should identify 4 or 5 films in particularly that you are using for inspiration and explain how they have lead you to make certain directorial choices.
Include links to clips or trailers or at least some visual reference to a poster.
Some of you demonstrated your planning quite well for the preliminary task so take your lead from there.
Also linked to RESEARCH maybe, camera testing. Trying certain shots to see their effect. Identifying the different ways in which certain types of films use different types of shots or editing to quicken or slow the pace of a sequence. For example a chase scene, on foot, might be shot with the camera hand held and be quickly edited with reaction shots of the pursued person, looking terrified in close-up.
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