Evaluation Question 1 - Conventions from film openings by tashaii https://padlet.com/ab93832/av3exb3f8b4n By Tashaii Palmer en-us 2017-01-26 15:12:29 UTC 2024-06-15 20:27:41 UTC hello@padlet.com Purpose of a film opening sequence ab93832 https://padlet.com/ab93832/av3exb3f8b4n/wish/149626263 -To set the scene
-Introduce main themes
-Introduce the crew and cast
-Pose questions
-Background info
-Tension established (mood/tone)
-Provide audience with superior knowledge
-Music that fits the genre
-Grab audience's attention
]]> 2017-01-26 15:17:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ab93832/av3exb3f8b4n/wish/149626263 Conventional order of titles in a film opening ab93832 https://padlet.com/ab93832/av3exb3f8b4n/wish/149626987 These are the conventional orders of titles in a film opening sequence they are in this order to show the importance in the creation of the film.

- Production Ident
- Distribution ident
- Production company
- Distribution company
- Director
- Actors names
- Film title
- More Actor names
-  casting by
- sound design
- Music by
- Costume designer
- Film editor
- production designer
- Director of photography
- Executive producers
- Produced by]]> 2017-01-26 15:18:46 UTC https://padlet.com/ab93832/av3exb3f8b4n/wish/149626987 ab93832 https://padlet.com/ab93832/av3exb3f8b4n/wish/149640706 This is an example from a real title squence compared to mine which show that we both use titles on a blank screen that are stylised]]> 2017-01-26 15:48:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ab93832/av3exb3f8b4n/wish/149640706 ab93832 https://padlet.com/ab93832/av3exb3f8b4n/wish/149650078 The term genre means 'category' or 'type' and is useful when discussing fil, because it helps to group or organise different films according to  what they are about and what they look like]]> 2017-01-26 16:08:45 UTC https://padlet.com/ab93832/av3exb3f8b4n/wish/149650078 ab93832 https://padlet.com/ab93832/av3exb3f8b4n/wish/149653885 This is another example from a real title sequence which show how my title sequence is similar to real media also it shows that we have followed the genre conventions in the genre thriller]]> 2017-01-26 16:17:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ab93832/av3exb3f8b4n/wish/149653885 ab93832 https://padlet.com/ab93832/av3exb3f8b4n/wish/149657232 This shot is from my title sequence which is similar to the shot next to it which is from a real title sequence. Here you see that we are establishing genre through our use of shots as it helps create a discrete opening sequence]]> 2017-01-26 16:24:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ab93832/av3exb3f8b4n/wish/149657232 ab93832 https://padlet.com/ab93832/av3exb3f8b4n/wish/149657471 2017-01-26 16:25:00 UTC https://padlet.com/ab93832/av3exb3f8b4n/wish/149657471 ab93832 https://padlet.com/ab93832/av3exb3f8b4n/wish/149659069 2017-01-26 16:28:43 UTC https://padlet.com/ab93832/av3exb3f8b4n/wish/149659069 ab93832 https://padlet.com/ab93832/av3exb3f8b4n/wish/149659383 The convention behind this shot is the use of lowkey lighting and we took influence from Seven's title sequence where he starts cutting up a picture which you can see in the picture to the right.]]> 2017-01-26 16:29:27 UTC https://padlet.com/ab93832/av3exb3f8b4n/wish/149659383 ab93832 https://padlet.com/ab93832/av3exb3f8b4n/wish/149760740 A theorist called Altman says we can talk about films in two ways:
- Semantic: the way the films looks (Micro)
- Syntactic: the stories they tell (Macro)]]> 2017-01-26 20:52:03 UTC https://padlet.com/ab93832/av3exb3f8b4n/wish/149760740 Micro conventions of Thriller ab93832 https://padlet.com/ab93832/av3exb3f8b4n/wish/149764692 - close ups and extreme close ups to identify key themes and characters.
- Non diegetic eerie sound
- Foley sounds such as heavy breathing, footsteps and screaming.
- low key lighting
- extreme bright light to create shadows to build suspense.]]> 2017-01-26 21:10:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ab93832/av3exb3f8b4n/wish/149764692 Macro Conventions of Thriller ab93832 https://padlet.com/ab93832/av3exb3f8b4n/wish/149765213 - Discrete title sequence
 - Mise-en-scene used to hint at the narrative 
- Characters usually introduced using extreme close ups and close ups where it isn't necessarily noticeable or easy to identify the main character.]]> 2017-01-26 21:12:51 UTC https://padlet.com/ab93832/av3exb3f8b4n/wish/149765213 ab93832 https://padlet.com/ab93832/av3exb3f8b4n/wish/149765867 I believe in the most part of our title sequence we followed the genre conventions of a thriller opening sequence as we have used all the features that belong to this genre so that it is easily identifiable. But I think that where we have challenged the genre conventions is that we revealed our main characters and we had a female as our main character.]]> 2017-01-26 21:15:55 UTC https://padlet.com/ab93832/av3exb3f8b4n/wish/149765867