Film Opening Analyses

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Ideas for 2 minute film opening

Today, we came up with three different topics which were love triangle, relationship & problem and gangster. 

After that we started to look up on some websites to look for a music that is suitable for the themes that we thought of. 

Conventions of a Film Opening:

•           Enigma
•           Narrator
•           Lighting can also set a tone
•           Music can reflect the mood and genre
•           Set the scene/date/location
•           Establishing shot
•           Set the story
•           Introduce a character/s (mise-en-scene)

Enigma

What is an Enigma?

•  An enigma is a question that is left unanswered to create intrigue or suspense to the audience. The questions that can make the audience think will be like what happened next, who it was, when did it happened, where it was and how it happened. For example, a body is discovered right at the beginning of a drama this will make the audience think who is the killer and how the person did got killed. This will make them watch the drama more to find out the killer and to find out what’s the story behind it.
•  Sometimes it can be presented by the use of the speed shots like fast and quick shots shows that there will be danger.
• Also enigma can be presented by editing in a film like using jump cuts in the film opening to make the audience think what is happening and why is it done that way. Like the film called Se7en, the film opening is really scary and weird as there were fast jump cuts in the beginning with the titles that ware used were really creepy and the sound that was used was scary which made me think why was he underlining those words on a paper and who was that person that was doing it because I couldn't see the face of the person.

We want enigma for our 2 minute film opening to tease the audience by presenting a puzzle or riddles to be solved and this will make the audience wants to watch more to find out what’s going to happen next and to solve the mysteries that made them think right at the beginning of the film. This can also get us a higher grade if we use it in our film opening. 

Our Group

Hayley on the left, Rachael in the middle and I am on the right!

I am Khem Slawson, 16 years old and from De Aston School. I will be working with Rachael Halstead and Hayley Jacklin on this project. We decided to work with each other because we all have the same ideas and thoughts on genre of a film. We know each other because we all go to the same school. We all know each other well enough to work well and I think we will make as a good group. I am positive that we are a good group as we know each other well enough to communicate, sharing ideas and thoughts to each other, helping each other out and well organised. 

Brief

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Our brief is to produce the titles and opening of a new fiction film, to last a maximum of two minutes.