- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Picture this. We fade in. Opening credits. The camera is flying over white gausy clouds at tremendous speed. No music. We just hear the atmosphere ripping around us. All of a sudden the camera takes a nose dive. We see terrain. Grassy hills, and a small river making its way through the landscape.
As the camera starts falling faster, it begins shaking a little bit. We notice movement on the ground. We see the familiar glow of plasma fire. The camera is falling exponentialy. Now we can hear the explosions and gunfire. People screaming. Grunts screaming. At frightening speed the camera approaches the ground. JUST before we hit the dirt, the camera pans up. We're now following a Warthog.
This thing is FLYING. The soldier in the back manning the chain-gun is screaming as adreneline shoots into his veins. As the turret turns, the camera turns with it (with a split second of delay). Even though the camera is moving as though it is attatched to the gun by some invisible connection, it changes positions. We go from being right next to the gun, looking along the barrel, to a low shot, along the ground, farther away. As the soldier and the turret rotate, the camera hurls around the front of the Warthog, to the other side. Hundreds of shells are flying at the lens of the camera. We can still hear the metallic ringing from the shells as they fall past us. It seems like the Warhog is airborne half the time. The gun fire is so loud and deep, we can feel it shaking our insides.
We hear breif covenant cries of pain pass us as this soldier brings death to every hostile he sees. He sees them all.
I don't know...that's just an opening sequnce idea I've had in my head for a long time. The shot where the camera moves parallel with the gun turret looks really freakin cool in my head...
[Edited on 8/6/2004 12:40:40 AM]