christmas holidays work

Over the Christmas holidays we were asked to do some work on the planning side of our opening sequence we were asked to do :

1. Write up a detailed textual analysis (500-1000 words per film) on the opening sequence of 3-5 films of the same genre to your production. You should focus on the following: 1. How narrative and character and genre are established. 2. How the sequence uses 'micro' features, such as camerawork and editing to do the above.

2. Summarise your research into the key 5-10 bullet points which represent genre conventions in opening sequences for your genre.

3. You should summarise how you are going to use your research into similar products and how it will inform your product (i.e., what ideas and 'micro' features will you use and adapt).

We were also asked to do:

1.Do some research into target audiences. This could take the form of questionnaires, Internet or other research into box office figures, how films are promoted etc. You should attempt to make reference to how you will use this research to inform what you are going to do in your production.

lesson 3

today we talked about what goes into planning when making an opening sequence. We came up with this short list:

• Pitch our ideas to the class
• write up a treatment
• research the genre
• storyboard and scrip your ideas
• organise locations
• risk assessments
• cast the actors
• shot list and schedule
• oranise the music

Roles

These are the roes that we have decided on depending on out personal strengths and weaknesses.

We have also decided to colour code all of our work so it is easier to see who has done what in the blogs

Ben (Red)

Lighting Engineer
Storyboard
Cinematographer
Location Manager

George (Blue)


Director
Artistic Director
Musical Director 
Chief Editor


Matti (Green)

Producer
Scriptwriter
Sound and Foley Engineering
Title Designer

All of us (white)
Casting director

lesson 2

today we talked about the roles involved with makeing a short title sequence. the ones we came up with are as follows

Lighting Engineer
Storyboard
Cinematographer
Location Manager
Director
Casting Director
Artistic Director
Title Designer
Chief Editor
Producer
Scriptwriter
Casting Director
Sound and Foley Engineering

lesson 1

in our first lesson we looked at a number of beginnings of films. from this we then discussed what they all had in common and this is what we came up with:

These are,

• Contains a title sequence
• Introduces the main character
• A hint at the narrative
• Has music
• Introduces the setting
• establishing the setting