Main Task 1: Conventions of an Opening Sequence

From watching some of the opening sequences on www.artofthetitle.com I can see that the main conventions of an opening sequence are:

• They show the main actors and actress’s names on the screen first, the well- known ones.
• They then show the main people in the technical team. For example the director and producer. They only show a few of the names, as they are normally shown at the end of the film, and otherwise the opening sequence would be too long.
• They have theme music which is appropriate to the genre of the film.
•  They use moving images from the film.
• They use relevant colours, for example a horror movie uses dark colours, mainly black.
• Sometimes they use different animations, again to fit the genre of the film.
• They normally show the main character/characters.

     This is from Casino Royale. These pictures

show clips from the opening title sequence. I chose this

one to look at because it was a good genre and the 

opening sequence included lots of animated pictures,

like the cards.The music linked to the genre.

This is from Catch Me If You Can. This was

a good opening sequence as it has lots of

animation, which made it different to the

other ones i had seen.

This is from Se7en. This was a good opening

sequence to look at because it was a

different genre to the other two. It was quite a

opening, which made it stand out.

Post 12: Evidence of Targets

• To be more creative when thinking of a storyline

I used this website to look at some creative ideas. It gives you a range of different storylines which could be used. This could help give us an idea, or base our project on this storyline.
http://www.makeliterature.com/reading/creative-writing-ideas

• More Detail in the Script

I used this website to help me get ideas for putting more detail into the script, so it isnt too basic or boring. It has different sections down the left hand side which you can click on and it gives you ideas and examples of how to write a good script. Using this website may help me to have a more exciting script, rather than a plain one.
http://www.scriptwritingsecrets.com/contents.htm

Post 11: Targets

Targets:

• To be more creative when thinking of a storyline.
• Plan timings better, so we have more time to film and edit.
• More detail in the script.
• Practice the different shot sizes, so we can use a variation of them.

Post 10: Evaluation

From doing media studies at GCSE, I already had some knowledge and skills about filming and editing. I knew how to use the camera and the different shot sizes, I knew how to do do all the pre-production tasks like the shot list and location recce. And I knew how to use the editing suits. The preliminary task has helped to improve these skills.

By watching our preliminary film back, we can see that there are some areas in which we could have improved. For example some of the shot sizes that we had planned in our shot list weren't used in the filming. For example we used some medium close ups where a close up should have been used. I think this was because the room we had chosen to use was quite busy so we tried to film it quickly. Another area which we may could have improved is the lighting. From watching the clip back it looks quite dull, so maybe we could have filmed a short clip to see what the lighting looked like before filming the actual thing.