VODCAST / Conventions of a film opening

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1. Idents
2. Titles
3. Establishing shots
4. Narrative Enigma
5. Sound
6. Exposition
7. Intro to Characters
8. Basic Narrative Structure
9. Genre Signification
10 Transition to Film

PODCAST 3

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In this podcast Sam and I spoke about what we have done in the past week and what we will do in the near future.

PODCAST 1+2: Introduction to our group and Idea

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In this podcast we spoke about our idea and our production company

Terminology used so far

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Terminology Log (Terms used so far) from OliStr

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Film Opening report

HOT FUZZ

Working Title

BBFC:15 MPAA: R

Budget: £8M

Box office: £80M

Distributed in 41 countries

Trailer:

TITLES

Number of people/company names in titles:Start/end time of main titles: 0:33-1:01Running time of main titles: 58 seconds
Titles in order using exact text:

UNIVERSAL PICTURES PRESENTS

IN ASSOCIATION WITH STUDIOCANAL

A WORKING TITLE PRODUCTION 

IN ASSOCIATION WITH

BIG TALK PRODUCTIONS

TITLES ANALYSIS 1: THE COMPANIES

In the opening of Hot Fuzz only 4 companies were credited and those were the main production companies. Universal Pictures is a member of the big 6 and Working Title is a subsidiary of Universal. StudioCanal is a massive European production and distribution company. Big talk is a smaller production company who is owned by ITV.

TITLES ANALYSIS 2: ROLES

No actors have been given a title which is surprising considering Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are very well known actors.

TITLES ANALYSIS 3: GENRE/NARRATIVE CONNOTATIONS

The font used for the titles is bubble, white. This connotes that this wont be a very serious movie, but it wont be childish due to the more serious white colour. Everything is in upper case, however the names of the companies have been made larger, probably to put emphasis on the names of the companies. This font has been used to signify the movie wont be serious but it wont be a kids movie either.

FIRST SHOT + THE PROTAGONIST

This is an interesting way to show the central protagonist as there is just one long take where the protagonist, in this case Simon Pegg, walks all the way up to the came and shows his badge. As he come closer we can see part of the costume and it becomes clear what he is when hes close. He is a PC.

Technologies I have used so far

• Blogger
• YouTube
• Final Cut Pro X
• Microsoft Word
• Sony A58 Camera
• GoPro
• Slideshare
• Apple Mac
• Greenscreen

10 points about a past coursework

So for this I will be giving points from Evie's Slaughter Revenge.
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1. You must create your own company idents and Evie's idents are very realistic and look authentic and I feel like I will want to do something fairly similar like the modern slightly Sci-Fi.
2. Her last ident had a diegetic audio bridge which is very common in horror movies.
3. In the very first part of the actual film she has a chase scene and the short cuts are used to show that it is a very intense chase scene. 
4. It then cuts to a pretty obvious greenscreen but its to show a movie is being filmed and it has been done by putting on a filter.
5. After a while it cuts back and forth from what seems to be the victim and then someone tied up
6. A GoPro has been used for a kind of first person view. 
7. She has used a dutch angle to suggest something is off but also add to the suspense she has created with quick shots and suspensful music and creepy sound effects
8. She has used effects that connote horror e.g. red colour, looks like blood when she announces all the names and companies in the beginning to create verisimilitude.
9. She uses candle to create a more creepy feeling and adds to natural lighting.

5 things I have learned about the coursework in AS level

1) I will need to research and watch film openings and know all the key conventions about a film opening such as actors names, directors names, company idents.
2)I will have to work constantly on this blog publishing posts as I track my progress with my film opening and research.

3)I will have to submit a creative critical reflection in which I use a presentation of some sort or a podcast and i will write/talk about different things such as how my skills have developed since the start of the coursework,

4) All the assessment objectives (AOs) you have to meet and what they imply: AO2, AO3, AO4. 

5)That you have to create your own company ident to create verisimilitude.

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Here are the AOs and the evidence needed

The creative critical reflections

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