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1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (i.e of film openings)

Write about how typical or not of opening sequences your particular design is.

The aspects we would like you to consider are:

The title of the film
Setting/location
Costumes and props
Camerawork and editing
Title font and style
Story and how the opening sets it up
Genre and how the opening suggests it
How characters are introduced
Special effects

How does your opening sequence develop or challenge the conventions of an opening sequence?

Does your use of conventions indicate that other opening sequences have influenced your work?
If so, then be specific with examples.

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

What are the social groups represented in terms of gender, age, class, race, etc?

Pick a key character from your opening. Think of one or more characters from other films with some similarity to them (but maybe some differences too!). Write about the similarities and differences in terms of appearance, costume, role in film etc.

So for example if you have a lone cop type character, look for other lone cops to compare him with...

3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Would this be something that could be produced by a major Hollywood studio, if yes then why? Is it similar to existing products?

Would it be a TV movie?

Would it be an arthouse film?

Would it be an internet only release?

Why would it be released? Does it offer opportunities for franchises and/or merchandising?

Where might the money come from for a film such as yours?

What films are similar 'institutionally'?
(Name some films which would be released in a similar way.)

Link your conclusions to a discussion of the mise-en-scene (visual style) of your opening sequence.

4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

Consider the age and gender of your target audience.
(Link this to the narrative and style of your film.)

What kinds of taste might your target audience have : Where would they shop? What music would they listen to? What would their favourite TV programmes be? etc.

What other films are similar to yours? Who do they appeal to?

5. How did you attract/address your audience?

Link this into your audience profile (I.e. what age and gender they are)

Are there particular points in your film that would appeal to a certain age or gender? If yes then explain them in detail.

You should refer to genre conventions, use of music, similarities with other movies and what you have identified as the Unique Selling Point of your imaginary film.

6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product?

Talk about the filming process. Were there problems you faced? How did you resolve these issues?

Did you get to use new equipment that enhances your opening sequence? I.e. the dolly.

Editing software - Final Cut Express. What have you learnt about editing?

Photoshop - What have you learnt about using the software?

Garageband - was it a useful programme for creating a soundtrack? What challenges did you face during this process?

7. Looking back to your preliminary task, what do you feel that you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Concentrate on editing and camerawork.

Show what you know about shot types, edit terms and techniques.

Discuss the planning stage, storyboarding, and explain how this helped you to produce your opening sequence.

Make sure you mention the 180 degree rule, match on action and shot/reverse shot

Has your use of specific shot types improved? I.e. match on action, point of view?

Do you feel more confident with the equipment?

How successful do you feel your end product is as fulfilling the task?

Peer Reviews

good points:

good use of colours in titles
well-suited for audience
title didn't give much away in terms of possible storyline/plot
good music
enthusiastic acting
funny and imaginative



improvements:


music seemed messy in places
quite repetitive
writing was sometimes too difficult to read
long shots needed to be shortened
some aspects of the sequence didnt need animating

FINAL OPENING SEQUENCE / PEER FEEDBACK

T2-56 CHILDREN'S FILM OPENING FINAL from SATMEDIASTUDIES on Vimeo.

Fonts

These are are final titles made in photoshop, we used the downloaded font 'klam' as we thought it was a very good child friendly style. There was a slight problem with the style of the 'A' though which is a bit of a problem but in the end we used this. Here is a screenshot of a couple of the title that will be used.

We also changed the colours of individual letters to make it more interesting, friendly.

Shots

a shot of our location breakdown sheet, which directs us on what angles to shoot at, which shot types to use for particular parts of the filming. It also instructs us on some stage directions i.e. running to elevator.

a shot of the camera crew determining which angle is best to film from an almost birds eye view of the quad.

offering direction to the actor on the balcony

a shot of our opening sequence storyboard time-line, which basically gave us a chronological running order of what to shot for the opening

this is a shot of our initial spider diagram of ideas for the opening sequence. it entails such things as adaptions from other movies that we later incorporate into our own filming, idea's of different location within which to shoot, who would play what role (act, film etc) and also idea's of titles for the film.

these two shots are of our storyboards, supplying a visual/menatal image of what our piece should like as we are filming



the editing process begins !

filming going into the lift, this shot is towarsthe end of the opening sequence.

Brothers Soloman

Screenshot from Brothers Soloman, interacting with the title

Stills of filmingprocess

These are stills dfrom filming showing behind the scenes

Possible Shooting Locations

This is one that will be used in the final film.

This goes on the idea of 'jumping out a bin'.


This is where a title could be revealed.

Shots

This is from Napoleon Dynamite, although this isn't completely the idea we were going for, we have adapted various aspects from the shot to incorporate into our piece. Ours will be more along the lines of one of our actors carrying some book or there being a sign/piece of paper on the wall with a directors name/actors name etc

This close up shot gave us the idea to have a shot of this in our film, with an ID then it moves down to reveal the character.

A close up shot of a lift button that we will shoot for our film, and edit the title in above the button.

This is an idea of an establishing shot that we will later apply to our long road shots.

Ideas- Childrens Opening Sequence

Cross between High School Musical, and School of Rock.
The idea from School of Rock of titles on everyday objects like, on the back of t-shirts, on posters.
Are idea to use that into our own like around the college have titles like someone rides past on a bike then we get a close up of a title hidden on the bike.With this the title is a neon light.
Also the idea from the opening of Brothers Soloman with titles involved with the characters.

I couldnt find a screen shot but this is the kind of what its like, with the happiness with the titles around.

Sony advert

Bouncy balls would be good for the children's film with colour and fun.
The sony advert had balls bouncing down a hill

Preliminary Task T2-56

T2-56 PRELIMINARY TASK - YR12_2009 from SATMEDIASTUDIES on Vimeo.

What is continuity editing?

Continuity editing is an editing technique so that a film/clip flows together between two cuts

The three rules you tried to use were: the 180 degree rule, match on action and shot/reverse shot. Explain the three terms.



Match on action is where a shot is cut to a different position halfway through an action such as opening a door and it needs to flow with continuity editing

Shot/reverse shot is when two or more people are having a conversation and a shot is taken from the point of view of the different characters


Write about how far you think your group succeeded in demonstrating these basic rules. Refer to examples to show where you did and did not succeed.

we succeeded well in continuity, match on action and shot/reverse shot in the establishing shot conversation and other shots.