opening sequence first draft

audience feedback for first draft

Some of the things which I have been advised on it that:

• The scenery shots were good however there are too many and I need to take some out.
• It was odd that the boy is shown getting out of bed already in his clothes.
• Some of the shots taken in the bed room were blurry and out of focus. These are the shots in which I am going to reshoot.
• Wake up scene is overused so should taken out and replaced with him just getting ready and heading out.
• I am also going to take some new shots of him watching and his mum shouting at him as I want the opening to have more conflict and excitement so to further hook the audience to watch more of it.

opening sequence conventions

1. List of generic conventions of opening sequences

2. Conventions of your specific genre

3. Conventions you will choose to stick to

4. Conventions you will deliberately subvert (change slightly/turn on their head)

1.

·      The purpose of a film opening is to entice the audience to continue watching the film, it should usually establish the characters and the genre and this can be done in many ways.

·      Establishing shot, it is often used in an opening sequence to show the audience where the film is set, what location.

·      Sometimes there can be a narration which will inform the audience on minor details that will give them an understanding of perhaps backstory, what is going on, who the characters are etc.

·      Often in action movies there will be an opening with an action scene, which will be fast paced to get the audience interested straight away.

·      Another thing that would usually be used in action movies would be a chase scene this also attracts audiences to watch as they become interested.

·      Productions logos shown before the actual film, if the film is high budget the logo will be adapted to reflect the genre and story line of the film.

·      Title sequences can be used, sometimes showing the cast and production teams, the titles can also be used to build up tension and suspense and possibly show the genre of the film.

·      Animation can be used to portray the beginning of the film in a creative way and visibly show the difference between the film itself and the opening sequence.

·      A compilation of photographs can be used for example in romantic films, it shows the audience the theme and relationships within the film.

·      Narrative content, this includes the context as well as the pace of the narrative increases as level of engagement increases.

·      Soundtrack, the tone, volume and tempo, which will generically start, quiet and slow-paced.

2. I am choosing drama for my opening sequence so the conventions for that are:

·       Exhibits real life situations with realistic characters, settings and stories.

·      Portrays journeys of the character development.

·      Intense social interaction.

·      Purpose of a dramatic story line is to move the audience emotionally.

·      Heart of drama is the conflict.

·      Conflicts include inner/outer realistic struggles depicting hardships, difficulty, and pain.

·      Audience can relate to the characters (preferred reading - Halls Theory)

·      Structure with climaxes and anti climaxes to keep the audience emotionally attached and the tension on-going

·      A form of realisation at the end/happily ending.

3. The conventions I will try to stick with are:

·      Exhibits real life situations with realistic characters, settings and stories.

·      Portrays journeys of the character development.

·      Purpose of a dramatic story line is to move the audience dramatically.

·      Conflicts include inner/outer realistic struggles depicting hardships, difficulty, and pain.

4. Conventions I will change will be:

·      Heart of drama is conflict

·      Audience can relate to characters

·      Intense social interaction

Representations of characters

Will (Ethan Norman): Will is meant to be shown as a lower class boy with a passion for golf as his dream is to one day be a professional golfer. His clothes are dirty and he shown to be very fond of golf as he takes his club and ball with him and plays where he can, on the street and down alley ways. He is also shown at the start stealing money from his passed out mother in order to buy himself food and possibly prevent her from using it to buy drink.

Will's Mum(Millie Cochrane): Only seen in the opening for a few shots, he is shown passed out holding a bottle of vodka representing her as a drunk and therefore bad parent figure. She is also shown to be careless simply leaving money on her bedside table 

Foley Sound

Foley sound is the reproduction of everyday sound effects that are added into a film/video/other media forms in order to enhance the audio quality. It can be any sound from the swishing of clothing and footsteps to closing a door and then breaking glass.

For my video I am going to be replicating the sounds of:

• A door opening
• A golf club hitting the ball 
• People muttering
• Footsteps 
• A golf ball smashing into something 

In order to create these sounds I am going to

Equipment I am going to need for this will be to make the noises will be:

• Golf club
• Golf ball
• A door
• Several people

Equipment I am going to need in order to capture and record these noises will be:

• Cinemizer E614 Mics
• Firewire audio interface with 8 mic pre-amps
• Headphones
• MV44 soundproof headphones

The photos above is me using equipment to recreate the foley sound of a golf club hitting a golf ball 

Designing my ident on adobe illustrator and after effects

In order to create my ident I used both Adobe Illustrator to first design the images to be used and then Adobe after effects to actually create the animation using said images from illustrator. I took screenshots of the created images on illustrator first and chose the colours I preferred. I managed to easily create a circle and triangle with the circle tool and then pen tool, also in order to make the letters M and C, I felt it would visually creative if we could edit at another copied circle and triangle and turn them into the actual letters. I took inspiration from The Weinstein Company ident in which they make 3 triangles become a W.
Using the scissor tool to cut out parts of the actual shapes and then moving them together so they became letters. After then grouping them all together and taking more screenshots, I moved them to adobe after effects to begin editing and create the animation. I first put in the circle and managed to get the animation to make it fade out as if it was turning, while turning a piece of it came off in the shape of the triangle which was the one I had made on illustrator, the circle then continued to turn and fade while the triangle turns as well separated. Once the circle was completely gone I got the triangle to fall into the centre of the screen which also had a line emerging from the bottom so now was simply a triangle on the line. Using more fading tools I managed to make the triangle shrink to fit in-between the custom made M and C which came up from the line and beneath the line the word "productions" came out and thus made the full title.










I used this photo to get this specific colour chart however I ended up going with my second colour tally as I preferred the other colours.


I used this photo to get this colour tally which I preferred to the other one I felt the first options colours were too bright.


This is the custom made M and C that I made from editing 2 triangles that and one circle, both the triangle and circle were copies of the ones used as the graphic element in my ident.

Ident draft

Before I begun designing my ident on Adobe after effects, I drew diagram sketches of the animation I wanted on several different post card notes and then took a vine sequence of them all in order to show an understanding of what I wanted to do.