Presentation

I have researched different movie genres and made a prezi presentation which includes definitions, examples and initial ideas for our opening sequence.



This is the link to the presentation:

http://prezi.com/m_lnucbroxis/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share

Ideas

Before deciding on the genre of our opening sequence, we brainstormed different genres, locations, possible titles, props and costumes our characters could be wearing and using. The final idea we all agreed on was doing a romantic comedy, using two actors (male and female) and show their two totally different live styles. 

Film openings

I have looked at some low budged British film openings as well as some romantic comedies. In most openings, the rule of thirds is used. Some have music in the background, some have just dialogue and some have both, dialogue and music. The tiles come up at different times, in some film openings I've analysed the title comes at the beggening but in some at the end. I think this has a big effect on the viewer as the titles usually give some information on what happend or what will happen later on in the movie. 

                                                   

Preliminary task video

This is the first filming and editing task we did. 

AS Media Trip to BFI

On thursday, 21st November we went to the BFI in central London on a school trip to get help, inspirations and extra information needed for creating our Opening Sequence. The day was hosted by a man called Pete who showed us many different Opening Sequences and gave comments about each one of them. This was very useful as he told us common things people use and do in their Opening Sequences and showed us things which we can do to gain more marks and to make the video more interesting. Overall i think the day was very useful and gave me a few ideas for creating my own Opening Sequence and warned me about what not to do. 

Pete's blog: http://petesmediablog.blogspot.co.uk