Final Film Opening

46. Whitney Razaq, Zhane St Jacques, Huy Nguyen, Danielle Chivers from 283goswell on Vimeo.

Evaluation Question 1

Conventions of film openings:
 

Mis en scene during a film opening will establish the genre, for example, a blade shown in the opening will show that there is violence portrayed in the film itself.
Below is a mis en scene used in the film “se7en” ( on the right) and on the left is my thriller in which we used the same context in portraying the blade as violence.

Establishing the location:

Variety of shots such as a wide shot will establish the location, which will give the audience sense of genre. However, there are very little shots included in my thriller that gives a sense of location, this would make sense since the killer is trying to commit murder without being seen or heard, an establishing shot would reveal the location. In Se7en, there is no establishing shots and we followed this convention also. Lots of close ups are used to portray the fact that the victim is trapped that there is only little space to wiggle in to rather than wide shots which will maybe show that there is escape routes, but in this case, there is none.

 Creating atmosphere:

 Atmosphere can be created using non diegetic sounds (music), in which it gives an insight into the mood of the rest of the film overall. During a thriller, tense music will be required in order to establish the genre to the audience (excitement or tension). In our thriller, we used the non diegetic sounds of tension which links to the genre of thriller/horror, there is a lot of upbeat sounds which include dark sounds of drums and violin to create the mood and dull atmosphere. The same convention is used in the thriller "Se7en".

Here is a prezzi that i made for the conventions of a title sequence

 

EVALUATION - Question 1

EVALUATION - Question 1

Note: due to a technical error I had to publish this Prezi on to another students account but all work in this Prezi is credited to me (Danielle Chivers).

This is a Prezi about the conventions of film openings it consists of sections labeled ; key conventions, A film opening must have a title sequence, sound and types of shots which all are linked back to the key conventions of film openings.

This is a Power Point presentation (made in Scribd) of title sequence conventions this includes idents, types of openings, list of titles in order, etc.

Conventions of Title Sequence

EVALUATION - Question 2

Evaluation Question 1

Due to a technical difficulty I had to use Whitney's prezi account which is why the Prezi says it is by Whitney although I did create it myself :)

EVALUATION - Question 2

Representation of social groups in films are defined as a group of individuals that are aimed at to inspire the creation of the characters in the film. This appeals to the stereotypes in today’s society and creating and forming the characters you see in the film express it.

Our target social group is a mix between sophisticated, middle class men and young teen girls aged 16 - 20. We decided to show these two contrasting characters to emphasise on the division in society and community. We did not choose to make the middle class male character evil and obscure to represent middle class men as bad people but to simply create a contrasting personality, status, and mind set compared to the younger female character. This expresses how differently opposing classes are perceived as.

Examples of our target social group: http://s1352.photobucket.com/user/gazzchivers/library/social%20representation