Brothers Bloom

This is the finished opening scene for 'Brothers Bloom', directed by Rian Johnson and released in 2008.

In the early staged in the production of this film, an animatic was made by Rian Johnson and Daniele Auber to present the way he would like his scene to work out.

This is the animatic:

As you can see, the film opening follows the animatic very closely, and was very successful in keeping to its initial idea (though at points camera work changes and so on, but these were informed decisions.