MAIN Post 4: Group Meeting

As a group we had a meeting to discuss what elements we would like to involve in our film. Below is a write up of what was discussed in the meeting.

MAIN Post 3a: Further look at opening sequences

MAIN Post 3: Research into Opening Sequence Designs

I watched these two video interviews with Kyle Cooper who is a famous title designer in which he discusses what he has used in the past in order to make his title sequences stand out. Watching these will give me an idea of good aspects to include when i make my own title sequence. The two links that I watched the videos from are linked below.
After watching these clips of Cooper's interview i now have a better idea of what goes into making a opening sequence interesting, eye catching and stand out. An opening sequence should be the first hook of the film, it should make the audience gain an interest in the film and hint towards what will happen within the film. In the interview, Kyle Cooper also talks about how an opening sequence can sometimes be used and an extra scene at the beginning of a film as a type of prologue. This can be used to give the audiance information about the story line which will help them to understand the film later on.

Watching these interviews has influence my ideas of the opening sequence as it has shown me how import the typography is within the opening sequence.  Cooper spoke about how the typography can not be an afterthought and can be used to add to the overall impression that the opening sequence had. Kyle Cooper's interviews have also taught me that in order to get a good opening sequence it helps to be adventurous and try different ways of doing things to get different effects.

These interviews have helped me to gain an greater understanding of the importance of opening sequences and will help our group find the best ideas when we are designing and creating our own opening sequence.

MAIN Post 2: Choosing a Genre

To create an opening sequence to film, we needed to find out what genre we want our film to be.  When we were first discussing what genre to choose we initially thought about doing comedy. However, once we thought about it in greater detail, we realised it would be quite difficult to create an opening sequence for a comedy film and that this genre would probably not be the best option if we wanted to gain a high grade, therefore, we done some research to find out what is the most popular film genre and what type of film there is a gap in the market for today.

After carrying out some secondary research online I found that the top movie genres are Drama, Romance, Action, Adventure, Animation, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Comedy, Crime, Family & Thriller. So therefore it would be best to chose out of these. I then looked at the best selling box office films of all times to see what genre these films were. I found that most of these films were in the Action genre of a hybrid of this genre such a Action Adventure, therefore this would be a good genre to use.

http://moviedistributionfacts.wordpress.com/tag/popular-movie-genres/

As a group, we then carried out some primary research, by doing a questionnaire, to find out what peoples favourite genre of film is and what genre they would like to see more of.
Here is a screen shot of our Questionnaire we handed out.

Below are the results we recive form the questionaire we handed out

After looking at both our primary and secondary research, we decided upon doing an opening sequence for the Action Adventure genre. Although this was not out top answer in out questionnaire, it was still one of the highest and our secondary research proved that it was popular as well. As well as this, this is a genre that everyone in our group enjoys watching so will make the task more enjoyable.

MAIN Post 1: Conventions of an Opening Sequence

In order to be able to make my own opening sequence I need to gain a greater understanding of what is involved in them and what the conventions are. To do this, i have analysed 2 opening sequences from films that are already out. I hope this will allow me to make a more successful opening sequence myself.

The first film I analysed the opening sequence of is Juno.

The second film that I analysed the opening sequence to is Breaking Dawn Part 2.



Post 12: Independent Work Towards Targets

Before we started making our pre-production documents we had to decide on a theme for our short film to be based on. Once we had decided on The Break Up I made a diagram of some ideas to be put into the production.

When we were trying to find a time that we could book the edit suite I made a table of all of the times when were were free so that it was easy for us to find a time when we could all work together and help each other out.

Post 11: Targets

• My main target for the Preliminary task was to create a shot film that was unique, entertaining and involved all of the continuity aspects that would help towards making it seem more realistic such as match-on-action, the 180 degree rule and the 30 degree rule.
• My second target was to make sure that the lighting during my filming was sufficant so that the quality of the film was good, in order to do this we had to put a lot of thought into concepts such as where about to film and what time of day would give us enough light. As it was coming towards winter, filming after school would have not been an option as it would have been too dark.
• Another target is to make sure pour script includes enough places where we ca demonstrate techniques such as shot-reverse-shot, match on action and show that we understand when different shot sizes are used and the effect each of them have. The script should also flow seamlessly from shot to shot and scene to scene.
• Another target is to make sure that we finish the task on time. We had to keep moving at a very fast pace during this task and it was quite hard not to fall behind. This meant that as a group we had to put in some extra hours, using our free periods and lunch times to film and edit.