Music

For our opening we wanted two pieces of music that completely contrasted. Firstly, we wanted a romantic piece of music to set the genre and make the audience think they are watching a romantic film then we wanted to put our own twist and change the music. For this we added a disk scratch and imported a cover of Teenage Dirtbag . We thought it was a good choice as it highlights the genre shift and makes the audience question the genre. Instead of Teenage Dirtbag we originally had All Star by Smash Mouth and soon realised that we couldn't use it as it was copyrighted. This was disappointing for us as we thought the music really made the opening and clearly represented our characters was feeling.

These is the music we used:

Film Openings - Titles Research



Down With Love



Young and Wild



Moonshine Kingdom



Napoleon Dynamite



Meteo+

For our film opening we research many different film opening and found a mixture of things.
Our findings:
- Colour schemes to fit with genre
- Speech/Dialogue used- Upbeat music
- Colouring to show time that set (Moonrise Kingdom) This was done by using a filter
- Key links to the character and story


After looking further into film openings, we found Napoleon Dynamite and thought that it was an interesting take on a film opening. They incorporated everyday objects/symbols into the opening which created a lot of enigma. The enigma created made the audience want to know more and want to find out who Napoleon Dynamite is.We took inspiration from this film opening by also using everyday objects including titles which linked/highlighted our main character. For example, we took inspiration from the plate on chicken nuggets but linked it to our character by using a slice of cake.

Shooting Schedule

The first shooting date was when we first filmed our film opening. Unfortunately after editing all our shots taking a fortnight to do it was deleted off the computer by mistake, therefore we had to plan to re shoot all our shots after the Christmas holidays. The third and fourth shot dates were added as we wasn't happy with some of our shots as they looked unprofessional and we didn't want to lose marks because of this, so we redone some of our older shots and added new ones which we thought suited the genre better.

Camera Work

Close Up
- Of the characters face
-Show emotion and facial expression

Mid Shot
-Shoulders up
-Understand more about the characters personality

Medium Wide Shot
-Shows body language, movement and clothing
-Understand more about character/s

Extreme Close Up
- Can be of a person, place or thing
- To emphasise emotion or tension

Extreme Wide Shot 
-Used for Establishing Shot
-Show more setting

When we looked and researched film opening we found that they used a variety of camera shots and angles, above are a few that we found were most commonly used and we will try and use these in our opening sequence.

Film Pitch - One Last Heist

Storyboard for Breakfast at Tiffanys Opening Sequence

This lesson we had to create a storyboard for a film opening of our choice. We chose Breakfast at Tiffany's, we had to then draw what was happening in that scene and write what type of camera work/shots we being used, what it showed and the effect on the audience. From this task we learnt how much you can gather from the opening of a film and how much work goes into making it. Also we learnt from this clip the use a range of camera shots in our own opening as it appears more effective.

Juno Storyboard - Preliminary Task

When filming for the Juno preliminary task we watched the actual opening of Juno to make shots precise and actuate. We made a storyboard to make filming easier to know what shots to film and what order they need to be in to re-create the actual film opening. Making these storyboards helped us be more organised when it came to filming and editing as after uploading all the clips from the camera to Premiere we could use the storyboard to figure out the order of shots. Also when we came to editing the footage we could also know where the shot was meant to be and what transition it needed to have to move onto the next shot. I would use this when we plan out actual film opening as it helped the filming be more organised as we knew what shots we had to film.