Research - General
· Whilst looking into opening scenes I have learnt that very little happens in the first two minutes.
· They tend to be quite slow and are based on setting up ideas and not on giving much away.
· Main characters are sometimes established although not always named.
· Opening credits can take up a fair bit of time - more time than I'd realised.
· It has helped me to not try and put too much into the opening scene.
· And to also keep it fairly simple - we don;t need action to impress.
· I also understand that if it is boring or seems boring it will still probably get high marks because it is more like what a normal film would be like.
· I wanted to use music instead of conversation in the opening two minutes as I found that that is more common.
Research - Heist
When we began this task, we were still debating what genre to work in. Now we have established it is the heist genre, I need to watch film openings in this genre to work out how our genre works.
Ocean's Eleven
- diegetic sound plays while credits roll
- one shot, a mid shot, that does not move or vary
- cold blueish lighting
- we don't see the interviewers so are curious about them
- we know Clooney is playing an important character because of the focus on him.
Smokin' Aces
- shows how important the credits are to the style
- almost like a James Bond credir sequence
- I like the movement from drawing to real life
- I also like the slow zooming in and out of the shot, obviously done in post and not in camera
Lock, Stock
- filmed almost in reality style
- start in what feels like the middle of a scene
- brownish filter in post
- broken up by plain slides
- use of slow motion and voiceover at end to establish characters and give light but stylish feel to action
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