In today's lesson we evaluated three past student film opening scene's. We did this to give us an insight into what we think the sequences were like. This will also help us and give us some ideas which we could see what it is like to create a film opening scene.
Roses are Red is an opening sequence which came across as a teen drama or teen bully. This came across evident as it was fairly stereotypical in the fact that the younger girl was listening to an upbeat song something that is associated with a teen girl that is commonly seen doing make up and taking a long time to get changed. I think the editing skills and the camera shots was very clever as they organised this around the titles. However although the editing with the titles was extremly well done i found this piece rather boring as personally i would not like to see somebod getting changed for up to three minutes. This rather dragged for me and it did not make me want to carry on watching. However the twist at the end did add some extra effect of mystery but i felt as though i waited to long for that to happen. I think the editing was really good however the music i found rather irratating. Overall i think that it had really good editing. I gave this task a Level 3 42/60.
GEMINI is an opening sequence which came across as a thriller. This came across as a thriller because it had a cetain air of mystery. It gave the audience an enigma as it started off straight into the action which i personally liked. It made the audience ask lots of questions such as why is there two couples. It enters straight into the action which immediately makes the audience want to carry on. The editing was not great as i found the movement between he camera shots to be quite sudden and although they tried to make this to add to the mystery i found this was not the case and every shot was not timed perfectly. some of the editing however was really good effect such as showing the splitscreen and the timing of the sound effect of the gun came across really well. The titles and the movement of the titles was a really good idea and the colours suited the genre. I think although the idea was really good and it made the audience want to carry on i feel like if they edited and sorted out the sound to a higher quality then it would of been a really good piece. I felt as though some of the acting could have been better. Overall i think that it was a good opening sequence. I gave this ask a Level 3 47/60
The Edge is an opening sequence which came across as a thiller. This came across as a thriller because it was a very mysterious piece of work where the use of older age groups showed this. It immediately gave the audience an engima such as: why was the boy there? why was the boy on roller skates? This opening sequence had very good titles which suited and was in time with the music and camera shots. The editing was really well done as the shots all flowed and the titles entered at precisly the right moment. The action made the audience want to watch more and the overall story was quite unique as you dont often see a young boy on roller skates being chased. The music was very in tune with all the movements with the music starting off slowly before being in tune with the chase. They used different shots from a person view to a high angle view which really created a greay effect. The fast paced shots and movement from one shot to another made it flow and the chase looked real life and believeable. Overall i think that it was a great opening sequence. I gave this task a Level 4 60/60
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