Wednesday 7 January 2009

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

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