We visited the bfi today on southbank for a lecture/presentaion all about film openings. Our examiner Pete lead the presentaion and as well as talking through what to do and not do in our film openings he also had a 2 guests that talked through their work in the industry of film.
Pete gave us a very useful website which i have added to my 'Extra Website' coloumn on the side which has a huge variety in different film openings and it also sets the openings out in several or the different frames that are within the films opening.
He also went through the 6 most common film openings,(luckily ours is not included) a few of them are:
*Saw- Someone tied up in shed
*Scream- A man following a young girl then killing her
*Wake-up- The process of waking up, brushing teeth ect.
I did find his presentaion on his blog which i have posted below if you wanted to have an over view of the different topics in which he discussed with us.
The day did have it's negatvies due to the repeated mention of animation which i found to be very time wasting due to A.S students not being ale to do animations due to the specfication specifically saying that we must include different acmer angles, although this may be possible in animation for pros, as A.S students i felt it a bit wasteful.
Other than that i found the presentaion to be very knowledgeable and productive especially when he went through what not to do and fnding that we hadn't done any of these mistakes yet.
Idents where also mentioned which are the production company's such as 20th Century Fox and Universal, which i found very insightful as what is most effective is the use of Foley which we can also use in our actuall opening to ensure that the sound bridge between the birds tweeting and the song is done smoothly.
Overall it was a really enjoyable day and i feel that as a group we can now add the different techniques that he mentioned such as Foley and Ident which will improve our film and overall grade consideratley more.
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