opening sequence 2

The two following clips are opening sequences from two different films that both have a different approach to how their opening sequences. Firstly link above is to a film called 'The dead zone' from the look of the opening sequence it is for a thriller. I was able to tell this by the music playing in the background, the main colour of the scene is gloomy, dull and grey; both of those things hint toward the genre of the movie.

http://www.watchthetitles.com/articles/00152-The_Dead_Zone




The next link that I will post is about a film that is a the opposite of the thriller which is a romantic comedy called 'The back up plan'. Straight away we can see the different between the two clip. One of the main differences is that the overal colour of the two openeing sequences are different where 'The dead zone' is dark 'The back up plan' is happy with bright fun colours ect. also the music is very upbeat which also adds to what the film will be like throughout.

http://www.watchthetitles.com/articles/00177-The_Back_up_Plan

opening sequences

The following video is a trailer from the film 'Se7en'. Firstly the film industry use trailer to get people to go the cinema and part with their money to watch their film. A trailer consists of various different things such as a trailer has to have the best parts of the film without giving too much away from the viewer. Also it has to create a sense of interest so that people would want to go and see the film they do this by fast pace shots to gain interest of the viewer.

This is in comparison to an opening sequence of a film. Sometimes an opening sequence can be confused with a trailer of a film but the main difference is that a trailer has to sell the film, where as an opening sequence means that the viewer has already parted with their money so the film has to be interesting enough for the audience to stay and watch the whole film to draw in and absorb the viewers attention, and leave the audience in curiosity of what will happen next. It has 2-3 minutes to set an atmosphere to let the audience know what they are in for.

Se7en

The nine images above are just some screen shots of what the opening sequence of 'Se7en' consists of. As the screen shot show the opening sequence of se7en is a very dark and grey feeling it is relevant to the type of film it is which is a thriller. this gives us a brief insight of the overall film would be like. That again is one of the jobs of a title sequence to show the audience what the film will be like throughout with fonts of the credits and other techniques.

WWW and EBI

I think that my continuity task was an overall very successful piece. I think that I the video was very free flowing and also we all of the techniques asked of us for example:
1. Shot reverse shot

We use shot reverse shot when it is time for luke and daryl to start this conversation about the bay that they are about to have together.
2. Match on action

We use match on action when we are about to open a door we show us grabbing the door handle then we show the character walking through the door.
3.180 degree rule

we use the 180 degree rule throughout the whole piece. we do this by keeping the camera on one side at all times so that audience do not get confused.
4. Eye line match

Lastly we use eye line match when darly opens a door, luke looks at daryl but he is out of shot so we show what luke is looking at which is daryl.

There were various things that we could have done better in our continuity task. one of the could have been that we could have done the 180 Degree rule. For example it was questionable if we violated the because there was a point where we were not sure.

I also think if our intentions were to get the continuity task perfect then we could have made it more free flowing than it currently is. like in certain parts on the match on action we could have made it faster when daryl was opening a door, otherwise the task is very good.