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Good points but needs to be more detailed. You needed screengrabs for Juno as well. can you embed the clip from the film? have another go at editing the post.

Case Study of a Film Opening.

The Film opening i will be looking at is Love actually.
This is one of my favourite films of all time and i think that the opening scene actually has a hidden meaning.
The scene starts with someone walking through the airport and on the screen apears,"Universal Pictures and Studiocanal Present"
This then fades out and "A working title Production" appears. This also fades out and "In Association with DNA films" comes onto screen.
You then have about 3 shots of people greeting each other at the airport , Mothers and daughters, Husbands and Wives etc..before hugh grant begins his voice over.
His voice over explains how he feels that everyone at airports come to greet each other with love, he then also comments on the twin towers and how all the messages left were ones of love and not hate. As the voice over is going on you see several shots of relatives and friends greeting each other with hapiness at the airport which relates to what Hugh Grant is saying.
Over all of the clip is a very slow, almost harmonic music which gives a romantic feel to the scene.
This carries on till about 1:02 when the words come up "love actually" in white, then "is" in red and then "all around" in white, this comes up at the same time Hugh Grant says it.
You then see a clip of a group of relatives hugging and the words "is all around" fade out, and the word love changes to the colour red to emphasise the meaning of what Hugh Grant is saying.
The background picture of the family then fades out to leave, on a black background, Love Actually.

Below is the link to the Love Actually opening scene;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMScPVO4rLw

Juno

This is our remake of the film opening juno. Our group decided to split the roles in the film equally so that we had a go at doing everything.

we used the tripod a lot during filming to make the filming less shaky and more professional. We used props to make the filming better quality.

Although i wasn't there i think the editing was really well done and that it made it look how juno does in the beginning. I also think we made it as similar to juno as possible by getting most of the shots and making it look real.

Sometimes during the filming i think that the shots were not flowing well enough as each tie there was a new shot it just cut to it straight away with no effects.

A difficult part of filming was trying to get all the shots in and in the right frames and looking as good as the original.

I think sometimes during the filming we were not prepared enough to shoot all the shots like not having the right props. next time we should be more prepared.

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Very good detail on Casino Royale. Well done.

For the post on Shifty, you need to say more about how the moodboard task worked and how it was based on a particular scene and trying to give a sense of atmosphere from that. Later you will be creating moodboards for your own project ideas.

Pete

Student Film Opening.

This Film opening is called R1 18. It is a student film opening.

I enjoyed this film opening becuase i think because it was filmed about people my sort of age that i could, as a teenager, relate to it.
I really thought the two diffrent chararcters were a good point to the film becuase playing them alongside each other really highlighted the differences in the 2 characters and made the differences seem more extreme.
The shots were also very effective as the 2 characters were acting out similar sorts of scenes which again highlighted there differences.
A negative thing i found about this film is that the acting was of poor quality and made the scenes seem unrealistic and were more difficult to watch.

Casino Royale-Film Opening.

Above is a link to the film opening from Casino Royale. For this weeks homework we have been asked to watch a film opening and say what we find interesting about it and why. Being a generaly 'chick-flick' sort of girl it was nice to see a different genre of film that i really enjoyed. The scene is a frantic chase involving two characters. The camera at the start if the scene moved with the crowds and the characters to give an impact of what it was like to be there. It really made me, as a viewer, interested and hooked. Another Camera technique used was the 'Helicopter Shot'. When used during dramatic moments it gave a real sense of how the whole scene was unfolding and the Huge impact things were having on surroundings and people in the scene. They also used slow motion during dramatic stunts to make it more tense and to give a dramatic impact to the film. A camera technique they used that i found very effective was how they sometimes shot through the characters eyes, to give a real sense of what was actually happening.
The sets constantly were changing to give the impact of the pace the characters were running and it also gave the viewers the idea of the size of this chase.
Constantly through the film were stunts preformed by both actors, which keeps the vieweer hooked by the almost 'unrealistic' effect although it was very convincing.
The music used throughout the scene was constantly building up suspense and drama and almost symbolised the characters emotions at that point in time.
Although you are never told during the scene which character was 'good' and which was 'bad' it was fairly obvious due to discreet things added in. What gave me the idea of knowing which character was bad was when during the beggining of the scene when there was a snake on the ground which the character jumped over, i thought that as snakes represent danger and evil that character would be identified as 'bad'.
The good character, however, was identified by the characters inabilty to do stunts as well as the other character. This therefore fits into the sterotype of good conquering evil.

Cityscape Video.

On Tuesday Pete gave us a task to creative a film opening from a series of short video clips with a backing track using Final Cut. We had to edit the shots the music and learned skills like making the shots fade in and out, and input text over the clips. Below is the short clip we made.

Moodboard

I made two moodboards on Friday each one represented the different sides of drugs and the effects they have on people. The first one shows the good effects and the second the bad effects. In the first one it shows the kind of 'Party Lifestyle' that someone who takes drugs leads. In the second one we concentrated on the eyes as its well known that drugs take immediate effect on the eyes and their appearence.

The moodboards were based on a particular scene from the film shifty. In the scene you could really sense the atmosphere and i think this comes across in the moodboards.

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