Dream Works Production

For our opening we knew we wanted to use dream works as it was a well known production company and it suited the type of film we wanted to make which is a psychological thriller. All the dream works openings we found were quite upbeat and had a fairy tale sense to them with light hearted music as dream works also does cartoon films such as Shrek and Kung fu Panda.In the end we then found the opening to The Ring which has the same conventions as us; mysterious/horror/thriller and it was also a Dream Works production. Their opening was a lot spookier it had effects over the writing that looked like electricity and it matched the credits we used at the end of our opening sequence, the coloring was a lot darker so straight away you can tell its going to be a scary film. So we copied the Dream Works opening from The Ring and edited it into the beginning of our film.


Louise Jarvis

Certificate 18

We decided to change the certificate of our film because of the context of horror, it could cause nightmares on the audience and as it is a psychological thriller it may cause confusion on an audience aged 15 and above. Some of the conventions of a thriller that has been certificated 18 are manly to do with how big an effect it will have on the audience. We think that due to the fact that our film is set in an environment people can relate to it could cause disturbance to them. Another reason we changed the certificate to 18 is because 15 year olds still go to school and the opening of our film is set in a school so it could disturb them s much that it effects their education or day to day life.


Louise Jarvis

Final Opening Sequence - Over Time

By Yharnna,Evie,Louise and Jamie

Opening to Forrest Gump

The opening of Forrest Gump starts with a tracking shot of a feather flying over a city, this is the establishing shot so we know where the film is set. The credits are put over the picture so you can see the directors of the film and who's staring in it. The feather then lands at Forrest's feet, this is where we meet our main character he is dressed quite smartly but his shoes are worn showing that hes come from a long way. Forrest looks at the feather and then puts it inside a book showing that is a significant object in the film.


Louise Jarvis

Opening to pirates of the caribbean

In the opening sequence to Pirates of the Caribbean it starts off with a load of pirates lined up waiting to be hung. Then there is a cut to one of the men who works for the duke reading from a law book banning the pirates human rights. At the same time we have a shot reverse shot between the soldier and the pirates being hung. following on we have a cut to all the dead pirate's being piled up on a cart there are hundreds of pirates showing how much the duke hates them and wants to be rid of them.


In addition there is a cut in to a new line of pirates waiting to be hung. Among them is a very young boy, he is used to make the audience feel sorry for them and keeping the audience on their side. This is where the non diegetic music starts to play, its quite eerie and high pitched symbolising something is about to happen. Soon after the young boy starts to sing quietly to himself, the other pirates hear and all join in stomping their feet and jingling their chains causing a disturbance. we then have a cut away to a spooky dark back ground with the coin falling through the air and the same eerie music playing this shows the coin is significant in the film, as it hits the floor the title appears.


Louise Jarvis

Prelim

for our prelim task i was one of the camera people. i helped decided what camera angles and shots to use for the short sequence. i feel our prelim task was well prepared, we planned it all together and made the story board straight away giving us more time to film. from the assessment we have learnt that we need to focus on our time keeping as we took longer than the other groups during filming. but over all i think we worked well together and everyone participated in the whole process.


Louise Jarvis