Film Opening
Key Features:
- Genre
- Narrative
- Character
- Atmosphere
Questions to consider when creating your film opening?
- What's the task?
- What's the assessment?
- What's the timeframe?
- What's the equipment?
Task & Assessment:
- Titles and opening of a new fiction film
- Up to two minutes
- 20 marks research & planning
- 60 marks construction
- 20 marks evaluation
Timeframe & Equipment:
- Build your skills
- Build up your research
- Build up your planning
- Give yourself time to shoot and edit
- Keep evidence throughout the whole process
Build Up Your Skills:
Investigation:
- What do film openings actually look like?
- What does other students work look like?
- What do you need to know about titles?
- How are you going to do something that stands out?
- Youtube g321 film openings to gain knowledge
Brainstorming Ideas:
- Possible scenarios for pitches/treatments
- 25 word pitch
- Moodboard treatment
- Peer and teacher feedback
- Realistic expectations - keep it simple
- Know the film but make the opening
Possible Pitch Scenarios:
- Low budget uk film with young teen protagonist, set on housing estate
- Supernatural thriller aimed at female audience; co-production with europe
- A character returns to town after years away
Planning:
- Experimenting with camera and editing
- Shots of locations
- Examples of shots, costumes, props, etc onto blog
- Post-it storyboard, animatic, moodboard
- Logistics planning - including risk assessment
The Shoot:
- People, places, props, costumes
- Rehearsing
- Equipment, jobs on the day
- Keeping a record of the process
Edit:
- All having a voice/hand in it
- Screengrabs of process
- Importance of audio and titles
- Foley - not just music
- Rough cut deadline and peer feedback
Evaluation:
- Seven questions, seven marks
- Nine frames
- Split screen comparison
- Voiceover on distribution
- Ideal target audience member
- Tagged youtube video - how audience addressed
- Technology photo and you
- Screengrabs from prelim and final videos
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