Task 12: Thinking of a concept/Final idea

Final concept from Tom Constable

Task 10: Analyse previous students work

Learning comments

From analysing previous students work i have learnt that I need to use a wide range of camera shots and angles, make sure the narrative is hinted at but not given away, and use the appropriate sound to reflect the mood etc. I think that this is very important because it avoids making the opening sequence morning, repetitive and not suited to the genre. My opening sequence needs to be a suited to a coming of age film and appropriate for an audience of mainly teenagers. I also need to use titles that are suited to the audience and not make it too long. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMa_9edjbG4

Task 9: Representation in films

Ferris Bueller's Day off from Tom Constable

The breakfast club from Tom Constable


Learning comments

What i have learnt is that it is very important to represent social groups in the opening sequence if films and that it can be done using many different techniques such as camera angles, props, speech, actions and music and sound. This is something that I am going to have to make sure i include in my opening sequence to represent different social groups.

Pirates of the caribbean from Adam Tanner

Credit to Adam Tanner for this slideshare.

Creative Task: Create a continuity sequence of at least 20 different shots

Learning comments

I have learnt that it is very important to have a lot of shots and a variety of shots so that it creates pace  an it flows. I found it hard to keep the shots short but when we did it had a great effect because it was quick and looked good. The editing process was hard because there were a lot of clips and we had to make sure they weren't too long but they were seamless at the same time. The sequence worked and we managed to get a variety of shots.

Here is the story board that we used to plan our creative task.

Creative Task: Create a title credit sequence for a coming of age 80's film.

Credit to Alex Hall and Tom Cornock for this opening title sequence.


Learning comments

I think that titles are very important in a film. Not only do they tell us who produced a film and starred in it, the font and style of them tell us what the film is going to be like and the font often suits the genre. They are the first thing that the audience sees in the film so it is important that they look good and create an impression. We found it hard to recreate at the titles of a film because we needed to make them be in the right place in the correct font and be in order. We found this hard to do and some of them come in with an effect on it.

Task 8: Narrative Structure

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Skyfall

Task 7: Title Research

Juno title research from Tom Constable

Ferris buellar's day off title research from Tom Constable

The breakfast club title research from Tom Constable

Task 6: Audience Research

Task 6 from Tom Constable

Learning comments

I have learnt that producers try and make the film appeal to a certain audiences by the use of clothes, characters, props, colours, music. For example if the audience is mainly teenage boys, the protagonist will be male and will wear manly clothes in manly colours. It's important that the audience is represented in the film so that it appeals tot hem and they know that they will like it.