British film institute

On Tuesday my class went to London to cost the British film institute, I took notes on the lectures we were given information by various amounts of people such as, Pete Fraser and the chief examiner of OCR media studies, Simone frame and the writer of "attack the block" Joe Cornish.

First of all Pete Fraser gave us information on how to improve and enhance our coursework.
The key features in opening sequences ar followed:
-genre
-narrative
-character
-atmosphere
-setting

This allows us to create an opening sequence which will attack the audience straight away and hopefully keep then watching. Every creator of an opening sequence the jus of things in general first and the. Elaborates on them more specifically and doing research at the same item as well.

After speaking about opening sequences that we way he's numourus of past opening sequences in order to see what makes a good and bad opening sequence taking into consideration the key features. The opening sequence is there for the audience to make a judgement I. What they think the film is you f to be about, we were the. Give. A list of six opening sequences that where common in which we should avoid doing for our final piece there include:
-saw- mysterious stalker
-se7en
-lock,shock
-someone waking up
-flash backs and to the future

We then got information on problems which occur in an opening sequence
-making it look like a trailer
-making it look like a short film
-not many opening titles
-poor lighting and sound quality
-actors which were not directed correctly
-making it complicated for the audience

Pete the. Told us about the sets we should take when filming our own opening sequence

Step 1: take shot
-building on skills, research and planning
-time and giving yourself e Pugh time to shot and edit

Step 2: setting up blog
Step 3: build up skills
Step 4: investigate

Step 5: brainstorm ideas
- mood board
-realism
-feedback
-pitched

Step 6: planning
-experiment-story board

Step 7: shooting
-costume, light, actors, movements, props and setting (CLAMPS)
-rehearsals
-keeping track or record of processing

Step 8: editing
-screen grabs
-audio and titles
-foley
-peer feedback and set a deadline

Step 9: evaluation
-evaluating everything that has been done and filmed

Over all, I've learnt a lot from what the class has taught me, the steps we have to make our final piece realistic and what we should and shouldn't do while filming. Also that we need to plan everything ry well and avoid creating an opening scene that is common.