Film inspiration

After watching the film "Submarine" we got a few ideas of what we could do in our opening two minutes from some of the techniques used in the opening two minutes of "Submarine". The reason we watched "Submarine" for ideas is that within the film romance is featured quite heavily and is therefore relevant to our film as it is a Rom-Com. In "Submarine", the main character narrates/voice overs the top of the actual dialogue and narrative that is being shown. This makes the whole opening more intimate as it feels as if the character is talking directly to you. As well as that, it also introduces and establishes the character which is fairly common in Rom-Com's opening sequences, with films such as "4 weddings and a funeral" where each major character is shown and established to an extent in the opening sequence. This is the reason we thought that having one of the characters in our film narrating/voice over in our opening would be a good technique to use as it is used within other films of the same genre. However, when we came to filming we decided that we weren't going to use this idea simply because we didnt feel as if it fitted well with our music, dialogue and how our opening was set.