Showing posts with label Titles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Titles. Show all posts

Friday, 5 February 2010

Storyboard


The first shot is a black screen, the sound over the top are siren noises froma crime scene. To end this shot there is one flash of white light to then move on to the next shot. The second shot, is a shot of a house in the middle of nowhere- slowly zooming in. This is an establishing shot to show where the scene is set. The sounds over the top of this shot are birds. When the camera zooms in and the hosue fills the whole shot, it quickly flicks to the next shot.


This shot is a close up of a T.V screen changing channel- through music channels, camera slowly zooms out. A title will fade in and out over this shot saying 'earlier that night'. The sounds over this shot is dialogue by the two main characters. A long shot of two girls sitting on a sofa in a living room having a conversation. camera slowly zooms in- phone rings- next shot.


The two girls walk towards the phone scared- as the camera pans round following them out the room, there is a figure outside the window. Camera faces the back of girls and they walk away from the camera. Close up of the phone ringing, girls hand picks it up- camera then follows the hand to the face. Girl speaks.


Girl answers phone and lights suddenly go off. Lights flicker back on- girls speak.


Lights turn off. Lights turn back on, there is as figure in the background.


Lights turn off. Lights turn on, figure is closer.


Lights turn off. Lights turn on, figure is closer.


Lights turn off. Lights turn on, figure is grabbing on of the girls.


Lights turn off. Lights turn back on, one girl is missing- girl screams. (title comes up)

Lights flash back on and one girl is missing, the title of the film then flashes up for the end of the opening.

Thursday, 21 January 2010

Movie openings



This film scared me (Jordan) more than any film ever has! I couldn't find the opening scene on youtube so i put the trailer up.

The trailer is effective because it doesn't givemuch away, and with a film like 'The Grudge' you can't give too much away in the trailer because it ruins the film because it is a thriller so it has twists and jumpy bits.

The opening scene of this film is a man in bed with a girl and he gets out of bed and jumps off his balcony and kills himself, with no dialogue, this is an effective opening because it grabs the audiences attention straight away; why did he do it? etc.

Previous A level work

As a class, we had to watch 2 examples of movie openings from previous year 12's. This gave us idea's for our blogs and film openings.

The first opening we watched has quick editing and flickering titles, this fitted the genre of a horror film. It also had really effective music that helped build tension and also fitted the genre.

The second opening we watched had a wide variety of camera shots from different angles, this made the opening more complex and interesting. It also helps the characters build up.