The bourne identity was directed by Dough Liman, and was released on 6 September 2002. This movie is based on the novel of the same name by Robert Ludlum in the early 1980's at the height of the Cold War. The book has also spawned a television series and several more books. The opening of the film contains fast-paced and exciting action sequences.

Genres that are at work in this thriller are:

1) Action- Adventure:

• Stunts
• Car chase
• Violence

2) Romance:

• Love story
• Increasing danger

3) Crime:

• Identity crime
• CIA- Central Intelligence agency
• Global Crime

The opening that my group are producing uses genres that are at work in this movie. Through watching the opening of the Bourne Identity I think that it is very successful in creating tension and leaving the audience in suspense as to what is about to happen. Its use of unexpected storyline adds to the sense of tension and leaves the audience wanting more. This portrays the success of the film as it has entwined special effects with great camerawork to ensure a sense of realism and belief for the audience. Our group is aiming for our opening to have this effect on our audience, as this portrays that it would have been successful.
I noticed that the opening of the film had a constant use of darkness. I witnessed as a viewer how effective this was to watch and the group agreed about using this in our opening as it would work well with our story. Also the use of music was amazing, it fit so well with what was going on in the background and accumulated the thrill for the audience. For the audience the non-diegetic music acts as a way of distancing themselves from the events that are happening on screen. Another factor that we will consider using (that is also used in The Bourne Identity) in our opening will be the use of foreign language. We as a group believe that it makes the audience wonder in suspense. In our opening, the character of the girl that gets taken is from Iran and has come to visit someone in England, so therefore is not fluent in English. She makes a phone call to her mum back in Iran, which we were going to use subtitles for to let the audience understand what she is saying. However, we have decided to do a version with subtitles and see how well it works. If it doesn’t work we will not be using the subtitles.
It was interesting to observe how they used the car scenes and which camera shots were used. This gave our group ideas on camera angles that we could possibly use for the car scenes to create the effect that we wanted.