Conventions of an Opening Sequence

Your course work main task is to produce the titles and opening of a new fiction film, to last a maximum of two minutes. All video and audio material must be original, produced by you, with the exception of music and audio effects from a copyright-free source. 

You will be working in groups of no more than four. You do not have to work with the same people as in the preliminary task.

So to start with it is important that you understand the conventions of an opening seqeunce as even across the different genres they all have elements in common.

An excellent website for this project is http://www.artofthetitle.com/

 

As a class you will analyse a number of opening sequences and discuss the conventions. Individually you need to complete the following tasks.

Task

1. Watch the opening sequence of 2 films from different genres and write a summary of the conventions they use.
2. Take screengrabs from one of the films to illustrate your understanding of conventions. You may like to use the format above of 9 frames.
3. Put your screengrabs on to individual PowerPoint slides and save a JPEG interchange file; apply to all slides.
4. Blog your findings, complete with introduction explaining to the examiner why you are carrying out this research. Inserting your images as appropriate.