My special day at the BFI in south bank London. Peter Frazer introduced us to a wide range of ways to improve our blogs and enlightened us on opening title sequences.
The first thing he did was talk about 5 aspects which included genre, narrative(enigma) creates a reaction from the audience and questions the audiences mind so that they want to see the rest of the film. Structure and atmosphere. Some of the films included, Dawn of the dead, Napoleon dynamite and catch me if you can. It was decided that atmosphere potentially one of the key factors in epically films such as Dawn of the dead which genre was clearly thriller. We then analysed student films and talked about showing too much of the plot there by demonising any enigma. We were told to add as many as 22 credits into the film in order to express all the different area productions to make the film fit with conventions.
We also talked about sound Foly which is basically creating your own sound effects which would ultimately improve your blog together. 50% of opening sequence is about sound as a result it is key to focus on this highly. The titles were only at the front of the sequence as a result not blending in with the rest of the sequence. We need to make sure that the titles are merged with the imagery not just at the begging of the sequence. There was also a strict array of age as most of the people were all the same or similar age where as normally in production there is a mixture of actors ages which creates a sense of realism in the sequence. The sequence should last around 2mins for it to be successful or else if it is too long the audience will get disinterested where as if it's too short they will perhaps not gain the right information. Also make sure that the soundtrack matches that of the sequence as a lot of the sequences that we saw did not go with the right genre of the film As a result not generation a sense of realism in the sequence.
The trip bettered my understanding of film overall as well as how to benefit my opening title sequence. Overall i believe that i am now able to fully able to conduct a opening title sequence of my own and expect it to look well constructed and made.
Make sure you spell Pete's surname right.
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