2013 MAIN Post 1 - Conventions of an Opening Sequence

I am looking at some opening sequences to get a better understanding of what I will be making and what they normally look like, from doing this I hope it will help us as a group to make the best sequence possible.

The first sequence that I am going to be looking at is 21 jump street, the reason that I have chosen this open sequence is because it is a comedy and it is about teenagers like are sequence/film will be about.

These images are showing us clips of the opening sequence of 21 jump street. What I found out when watching this clip is that it gives you a strong idea of what the film is going to be like without giving away the main plot.

They do this by making the sequence full of action to portray what the film is going to be like, the opening sequence also gives you all the actors names so you know who is staring in the film, how produced it and writer for example.

 Also the sequence let me know that there would be a lot of violence and content that would not be suitable for a young content.


The next sequence I am going to be look at is skyfall, which is an action film. The reason I thought I would look at this sequence is because our film will also have clips of action within the open sequence.

When I was looking at the open sequence I found out that the background music can be a key features as it can cause the tense you want within the sequence to draw people in.

This sequence also showed me that not all sequences have to be fast and full of action but can still be affective.

http://www.artofthetitle.com

This link above gives you all the opening sequences you want to watch and will help you get a good understanding of opening sequences because there is all different genres.

Post 12: Independent Work Towards Targets

 Here is an image of me practising shot size's as you can see from my second post I took more to get the adjustments right when filming because I was the camera man. I personally thought that this would be a good idea because if I get all the angles right filming it would be better and look more professional.

This is an image of me practising the 180 degree rule so that we would be able to stick to the rule to make the film look realistic. By doing this I wanted to achieve full understanding of the rule so that I could master it when filming, when film we put tape on the floor so that we know we would cross the line. It is important to do this because you can make the people/actors look like they have changed sides. this is why i went out and did independent work.

Here I have also practiced a shot-reverse- shot because I know that I would be using it a lot within filming so I thought it would be good to go out and get some practice of the shot to make sure it would work in our film and speaking parts.

What I have done here is gone around all the locations that we will be shooting in to make sure that we have choose the right area's as a group because it is vital to get a perfect loaction.

 

 

 

Post 11 Smart Targets

So that I improve my film and blog I am going to set myself five smart task.

Smart targets

1. Lighting- My smart target is to making sure I use lighting when filming because when filming the preliminary task i didn't take filming into consideration and just filmed with the natural light when it would of been better to use artificial light.

http://www.steves-digicams.com/knowledge-center/how-tos/camcorder-operation/production-lighting-6-tips-for-filming-at-night.html

This link takes us to a website that will show you how to use lighting in different environment.

2. Script writing- What I have to take into consideration when writing the script is weather or not the audience will connect to what we are writing or weather they will enjoy the final articular. what i will do to insure that the script is better than last time is take these details into consideration.

3. Framing- When filming what we have to take into consideration is the rules of framing like the rule of thirds and make sure we include them in the film to make our film better and more realistic.

http://www.surreyborder.org.uk/woolmers-wisdom/woolmers-wisdom-1.htm

This takes us to a website that will show us and teach us about framing so we will be able to improve are filming from this advice and skills.

4. Improving level of ICT in blog- How I plan to do this is be adding more links so that we will be able to look at website that helps us with the area we are looking at, at the time. I will also like to add in more video's because i feel that they help people and me to learn better and it give the blog a different look and will benefit people as well.

5. Team communication- I feel that our group could improve our communication but i feel that we work well as a team last time. What i would improve would be to make sure we know all the times of filming and talk more as a group when making decisions.