Credits list for opening sequence

credit list

Anamatic

Censorship

Censorship

Risk Assessment

Abigail Risk Assesmnet

Treatment

Treatment

Final Script

Openning Script as Media

Character Profiles

Character Profiles on Prezi

Final synopsis

After discussing and gather our ideas as a group, we have come up with our final idea. We came to this conclusion by taking necessary elements from each of our ideas to help create a impressive combination of them all in one.

Synopsis

Designing a synopsis for the film

As the genre of my film opening sequence will be a thriller, I am obligated to include the many codes and conventions associated with this genre. 

Synopsis

A male character investigates a case of a young girl being kidnapped, this leads to sacrifices and risks being taken. Everybody knows when and how she was taken but nobody knows where or why. Detective A. Smith puts his blood, sweat and tears into cracking the case, not only for the cause of justice but through him having his own personal bond with the young girl.  

Deals and dangerous trading result in the fortunate return of the young girl but with a unusual twist. After being tortured, abused and kept away from her loved ones for which felt like a life time. She was too frightened to even explain, let alone describe her experience.

Will contain a range of different shots, such as XCU, long shots, match on action, shot, reverse shot and low angle shots.

Mind map genre conventions

Comparison of three student title openings

The first video of an AS group film opening was of a high standard in my opinion. This is due to the various and successful camera shots used, film editing of the piece and engaging plot of the clip. As shown, the group conformed the 180 degree rule, aiding to make the video affective, they also used the camera technique ‘shot, reverse shot’, allowing the audience to view the emotions and actions performed by characters efficiently in a short space of time. Match on action was used throughout the to help build up suspension and create a sense of realism (Verisimilitude), an example of this would be when the young boy is being chased by the character in the suit as they took different routes to end up at the same destination. Lastly, I thought the synchronous text moving in time with the characters, this was affective as this was a technical code showing their skill. However, I found that there sound could be improved slightly and made more clearer, nevertheless this is a good opening that could help me to generate ideas for my own piece of work.

I found this second example ’AS Media Studies – Opening Sequence to a Thriller Final’ to be of a very high standard. This video was so impressive as the camera shots used, such as match on action and XCU, were included successfully. XCU are commonly used to show important objects and/or characters, it was used to show the significance and value of the tool used, possibly connoting it being a murder weapon of some sort.

The music was used quite intelligently, as sound motif was used. A sound track that is immediately synonymous, in the audiences’ point of view, with a particular genre, in this case a thriller/horror. Lastly, although not seen to be graded, the acting and realism of the actors was very impressive and decent. This helped to improve my experience when watching the video and enhance the entertainment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vud3lVQutk (This embedding code has been disabled, however here is the link to the video)

The final video I viewed ‘The masked man AS media opening sequence Thriller’ was reasonably entertaining but however was not as impressive as the first. This was down to a lack of engagement with the audience, for example, the plot or storyline of the clip was not very clear, although this could be a deliberate technique being used as it is a common convention in opening sequences.  Also, I found that the clip was rather short and the title could have been presented in clearer format as it did not particularly stand out. On the other hand I thought that the music choice was appropriate and therefore effective, also, the way in which the text was presented was pleasant, one of their technical codes. Lastly, I believe that the groups’ camera shots could be improved further, for instance XCU would have been more affective in some events rather than XLS. Overall I do not think this video was of a high standard and therefore hope mine will be of better quality.

Comparison of four opening sequences

Brandon Title Sequence Sheet

Presentation on favourite title sequence

Kung Fu Panda

Preliminary task

Evaluation of Preliminary task:

Overall I am reasonably pleased with my preliminary task, this mainly down to the high levels of effort put in by mt team and I. What I think worked well, was the range of successful camera shots it contained, an example of this would be the 'match on action' shot used when the student character is running up the stairs, this is then 'matched' when he is running down the corridor, giving it a effective and satisfying. We also conformed the 180 degree rule helping to make our clip more effective and create realism. Furthermore, I believe that another factor that made this task an achievement was the constant use of editing, after shooting the short video. This consists of alteration both sound and visuals, to go towards perfecting the video. I personnally, put a lot of input into adapting the sound levels in the editing stage and cutting unnecessary footage the video, which aided to develop and improve my skills in this are.

On the other hand, although I am pleased with the piece of work, there is always room for improvement. Possible music could have been used to help enhance its engagement with the audience and build up more tension and suspension. Also, perhaps the videoing could have been done more carefully and  strategically to recieve the best results possible.

Preliminary task

Evaluation of Preliminary task:

Overall I am reasonably pleased with my preliminary task, this mainly down to the high levels of effort put in by mt team and I. What I think worked well, was the range of successful camera shots it contained, an example of this would be the 'match on action' shot used when the student character is running up the stairs, this is then 'matched' when he is running down the corridor, giving it a effective and satisfying. We also conformed the 180 degree rule helping to make our clip more effective and create realism. Furthermore, I believe that another factor that made this task an achievement was the constant use of editing, after shooting the short video. This consists of alteration both sound and visuals, to go towards perfecting the video. I personnally, put a lot of input into adapting the sound levels in the editing stage and cutting unnecessary footage the video, which aided to develop and improve my skills in this are.

On the other hand, although I am pleased with the piece of work, there is always room for improvement. Possible music could have been used to help enhance its engagement with the audience and build up more tension and suspension. Also, perhaps the videoing could have been done more carefully and  strategically to recieve the best results possible.

Script writing practice

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