(Research and Planning) Underworld

Underworld is a Action film about the ever going battle between Vampires and Lycans (Werewolves).
Within the first two minutes we start off with the opening logo's with an overcast of clouds and darkness, this has already let the watcher know that the film they are about to watch has a dark essense about it, you can hear thunder and rain in the background. As the logo's fade to the film the rain and thunder continue, to show the camera panning down from the ceiling to show a woman in a long leather coat crouching on the railing of a balcony. At the point the audience will be thinking 'What is she doing there and why isn't she afrade of falling?' this is ten reviled when you hear the narative come on over the sound of the thunder and rain, she begins to tell you about the war that has been going on between the Vampires and Lycans, how the Vampires have basically won the war and have killed nearly all on the Lycans left, but how it is getting harder due to the fact that there are now Lycans who have evloved to resist the moon and who are able to change at will.
This is building suspence for the audience due to the fact that they now know that the war that is going on has become even harder then ever before.

Once all has been told about the war and the evolving Lycan's the myserious woman ontop of the balcony look's to a companion who is also purched on a balcony. He signals to her that he has spotted two Lycan's and they both jump to the street below to pursue these shapeshifting creatures and kill them.

An audience will be sucked into this kind of film because in the first two mins we already know the past story and we have a sence of danger, this is what action film fans love to see when they watch. We have the helpless looking woman to suck in the male audence but at the same time this woman can kick ass, this will draw in the female audience because it will make them think 'see woman can be the main fighter too.'
Action audence are always looking for that film that will give them a sence of thrill and suspence, this is why I feel that a film based on a war between shapeshifting people and the undead would be a sure fire attraction for the action audience.