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

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.

Terminology rap

To be used with this instrumental (ignore swear in title of video):
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Uh uh
The worms eye view is from the floor
The master shot show you more
If you don't do media here's the door *points to door*

Uh
Verisimilitude is convincing
Tracking is following
Don,t go too high though
That boy is sorrowing

Dont go too low though
Make it too powerful
Pan the camera around
And we can see the shower full

That has nothing to do with this though
You have a shallow field of focus
Make it wider get the bigger picture
Its hard making a rap
You have to make it rhyme
I need more takes, more time

Uh Dun know
Frosty in tha house repping Cents squad
Uh