At our BFI study day we looked at opening title sequences. These included 'Napoleon Dynamite', 'Dawn Of The Dead' and 'Catch Me If You Can'
Through watching these examples we learnt many important requirements for our own title sequences
- They should include around 20 credits
- They should be around 2 minutes long
- You shouldn't tell too much of the story
- You should have an enigma, something that would make people watch on
- The music should suit the type of genre as this is very important
A good summary of what is required - your blog is looking better, but you are still missing some posts -see full list below.
ReplyDeleteTo Improve:
1. Catch up on posts
2.You will also need to write more on Representation (you've spent a whole term on this with Mrs Rolfe).
3.Don't use white on black for your font as blogger can't seem to cope with this and it becomes illegible. The last student to use it got marked down as a result.
4. There isn't enough info on the history of opening sequences.
5. Write up why you think the student films you have embedded got the grades they got - see me for a copy of the marking criteria in order to do this.
Posts to have been completed by the end of the Christmas Holidays:
P20-22 Textual analysis of 3 opening sequences
P23 Analyse type faces-colour, positioning, movement, relate to genre
P24 Layering of sound - Record sound onto phone and narrative over - put on Soundcloud and embed on post
P25 Re-creating a Thriller opening sequence
P26 Continuity Editing - students have taken own photos
P27 Timelines of credits in opening sequences
P28 prelim task - film
P29 Storyboard
P30 (post 11) Targets
P31 (Post 11) Independent work towards targets
P33 Loglines - ideas for your idea
P34 Treatment
*P35 BFI Study Day - Pete's media blog, x2 PPTs
*P36 Levels of opening sequences
P37 Kyle Cooper- embed film and write about
*P38 Analysis of opening sequences as discussed at BFI
P39 Guest speakers at event
*P40 Credits - length of, number of, placement of, own cards for top billing actors
P41 Foley
*P42 Research into Production Co idents
*P43 My own Prod Co ident
*P44 Create my own fnal log line and put on website for feedback
*P44 Make alterations to logline according to feedback
P45 Film tests with 700D for your own Opening sequence idea
P46 Record different sound and put on i-cloud and discuss to help with layering of sound for your o.sequence
*P47 Pre-prod for o.sequence - storyboard, animatic, shot list, costume, props, equip, recce, risk assess - create a post for each of these. State who created what in your group.
ReplyDelete*P48 Rough cut of opening sequence
*P48 Feedback to o.sequences
*P49 Alterations to rough cut
*P50 Final o.Sequence
*P51 How does your o.sequence fit with Pete's 5 important aspects - genre, narrative, character, atmosphere and settings?
*P52 How has all the research you have done helped inform your final o.Sequence?