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good start on q.5 but needs more. go into the 'edit posts' option and you will see you have several half done there- you need to tidy this element up. Juno stuff is good!

Case study of an opening sequence

In the film opening for the terminator, there is no action which suggests to the viewer that the film is going to be thrilling, so they will watch it. The title font is similar to that of an old computer or typewriter, which suggests that the film is going to be a sci-fi. The actors who play the leading roles in the film, are listed first and then the director, editor and director of photography are listed after.

Original Juno opening sequence

The original Juno sequence

Screengrab from the original sequence

Screengrab from our sequence

I think our group did quite well trying to re-create the Juno opening sequence. We wrote down what angles the camera would need to be at, and where the character needed to be in each shot, to make our sequence very similar to the original. I think that this was very effective.

How we did our opening sequence

We spent last Tuesday (15th) planning how we were going to do our opening sequence for our version of Juno, by drawing a storyboard, writing down all the different camera angles and what props we would need, i.e juice carton, skateboard,etc. We then shot the footage on Friday, ready for us to edit this Tuesday. We used the programme 'Final Cut' to edit our footage, whilst also learning more new techniques, such as how to zoom in on a shot, how to delete the audio that was with the footage so it didn't come up on our final video. We had to shoot all of our material on the Coleridge grounds, because we couldn't take the cameras offsite due to insurance, so we found shooting scenes such as the part where the girl crosses the road and when she walks past a shop quite difficult, but we managed to improvise and use different areas of the school grounds.
I think that our opening sequence came out quite well. We did have some problems with our footage, such as one of the shots we needed to use was over exposed, but we needed to use it. Our sequence doesn't have any titles on it and I think if we had been able to have a little extra time on editing our footage, we could have put some in, but overall I think both me and Liam did really well with our editing, especially seeing as neither of us had used 'Final Cut' before.

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Your points about the films you looked at are very good. For the post on Shifty, you need to say more about how the moodboard task worked and how it was based on a particular scene and trying to give a sense of atmosphere from that. Later you will be creating moodboards for your own project ideas.

Pete

Student film opening

I went on Youtube, but this time I searched for some film openings by students at Long Road. I found one called 'Kidnapped'. I thought this opening was very good, it kept me gripped throughout, and it ended on a cliff-hanger. This made me want to see more.

Film opening on Youtube

I went on Youtube and looked at the film opening for the film, 'Blade'. I found this opening interesting, because at the beginning the lighting in the club is dark and the characters shown right at the beginning of the clip, suggest that something bad is going to happen. The colour of the writing of the titles, red, is the same colour as blood, which is then shown later on in the clip coming out of the sprinklers.

Postcard design

Today, we had to design our own logo for creative and media. We did this in photoshop, and used various different tools. For my logo, I chose two images and changed the opacity of one, so that the two images were faded together. I then put text on to my image, and changed the size, font, colours and position of my text. I think my image turned out very much how I intended it to.

Using Final Cut

Also on Tuesday while we were at Coleridge, we learnt how to the use some of the features of 'Final Cut'. We learnt how to fade two clips together, also how to add text and how to position it, what fonts and colours and also sizes. I think we did quite well with our video we made, especially seeing as it was the first time I had used 'Final Cut'.

City opening sequence

On Tuesday, at Coleridge we were set a task to take several clips of city scape, and had to use some to make a short opening sequence.

Mood board

On Friday we made mood boards for the film Shifty.
We chose these different pictures to represent different aspects of the film.

The scene we looked at was where a drug deal takes place. It is set in a run down area, which is why we chose pictures of run down places. Also because the characters are quite shifty, we chose to put pictures of rough, looking people on our mood board.

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