First analysis, This is England

The opening sequence for this is england is really inspiring for us, the montage of clips shows England in the 70's to 80's the clips are varied but have a large amount of clips of the 'skinhead' movement and of Margaret Thatcher, aswell as this there are clips of the army and riots prehaps showing lack of control at the time and general national revoloution in the sense of protestes, womans power and racial discrimination.
The montage works because it is very fast paced and exciteing which are important trates for an opening sequence as well as this it gives you a taste of the general topics that are comeing up in the movie. I really like this method and think it breaks the viewer into the film without the large question of 'Who are they' which is relevant in quite a few films, i think our opening sequence should follow a similar technique to this one.

opening sequence's conventions

Today we as a group have discussed in detail A British social realist drama as a genre and the typical functions of them, we mainly concentrated on This is England we noticed conventions such as hand held camera work and long takes which are examples of little basic editing.

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I am back on here to blog upon deciding that i really want to get a good grade and as a result am going to put alot of work in. I have decided to instead of doing a social realist drama to do an adventure story for younger audiences, i have chosen this because of my lack of group and therefore lack of cast, so as a result i have decided to base my opening sequence on a more artistic aspect, a cartoon with if possible some smart editing to animate it into real life filming.
This decission was not a rash one, it involved a lot of thought and planning possibilitys, ive watched many opening sequence's from other summaries and from this aswell as from lesson i made my decission. I have been EXTREMELY influenced and inspired by the opening sequence of juno and curious george because of their cartoonized artistic approach to the sequence, i will speak about this more in my clip analysis. It appears stereotypical conventions of child adventure films openings are an upbeat memorable defining song accompanied by straight away showing of the main character so that this can be established very early on in the childs head, aswel as this there are the obvious credits of the production team, if the film is targeted at a slightly older audienc say 10 years it may begin with a story or alot of action at the begining. I think that definatly music choice is a very key part to any good childs film hence most pixar movies have this as their trademark.
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Here are a few examples http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arBP26pUC94 <- this is the lion king (it is part 1 so it is quite long). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1uc-0m427c <--hercules