We spent a lesson looking at film genres by creating some film openings using Jellybabies and post-it notes. We had to put together some different openings of films with different genres to help us learn the importance of timings, narrative and titles. In our group, we put together three different film openings: Action, Horror and Comedy. We considered the length of each shot, narrative and the timings of the titles as well as music.
Film Opening One: ACTION
With our first attempt, we found that we over-complicated the opening and moved more into creadting a short film. At I think that we timed the titles well but our Narrative needed to be improved. I think that we had too many characters and too much going on for this to be the opening of an Action movie.
Film Opening Two: HORROR
We also made a similar mistake with our horror opening however I think we made better use of camera angles and sound for this opening but we must ensure that we do not forget that we are only making an opening for a film.
Film Opening Three: COMEDY
With our comedy opening I think the Narrative is again, over complicated and confusing. I think we have the correct light hearted atmosphere but we have again over complicated things.
This exersise has helped me to understand that we must keep things very simple and not over-use particular elements. I have learned how easy it is to over-complicate the narrative and create more of a short film than an opening but trying to put too much into the opening. It has definately helped me to understand why timings and the order of titles are important to film openings and how to appropriately use them.
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