Shot 1 - The Thing, 2011
I chose to look at this film opening because it uses close-ups a lot throughout the sequence. We used this idea of putting in a lot of close-ups so that the sequence feels quite claustrophobic in parts, this is a convention used in horror films particularly and is demonstrated by the opening of The Thing. In this shot there is also credits alongside the close-up of the object to the right. We took this idea and put the close-ups with the credits in the same way, however unlike this opening we had other types of shots without credits in between the credit shots. The dark lighting around the edge of the shot is also something about this opening that we tried to incorporate into some of our shots.
Shot 2,3 and 4 - Blade II, 2002
This opening sequence is very different to most openings but some of the ways they have put the shots together we used in a similar way. In shot 2, instead of having almost still objects, they have put the credits over the top of the action shot that's in the background. There is a tracking shot of a man walking through a room with a voice over in the background but the focus is on the closest object and the credits. This type of credit shot has been used in other film openings too but we decided to steer away from this method and more towards the one used in shot 1. This opening also cuts to action shots without credits in shot 3, and this is something that we decided to put into our film opening in between the still credit shots. We also made the decision to make the action shots quite quick instead of longer like in Blade II. In shot 4 it shows that the title Blade II is put at the end of the opening sequence, this is quite unconventional for a film opening, but we liked the idea of having the title at the end instead of at the beginning or in the middle of the sequence so we also put our title at the end of the sequence. our title was also set against a dark background, this is very conventional of horror film openings as shown in Blade II.
Shot 5 - Sweeney Todd:The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, 2007
This shot shows the type of font used in this opening sequence is a plain, serif font as this is very conventional of horror film credits. We also took a serif font as our final choice to apply to the credits in our film opening so that it would follow this convention of horror films.
Shots 6 and 7 - Insidious, 2010
Shot 6 shows one of the ways that the credits are displayed in this film opening. Each line of text moves in a different direction from the one above and below it (left or right) to make them more interesting to watch, there are also some words that are bigger than others to make them stand out more. We took this idea from this sequence and applied it to the credits in our opening as we thought it was a good way of making them more interesting to watch than still text and we made some of the words bigger that we wanted to stand out. In shot 7 it shows a scene inside a house in black and white with the credits in red put in the darker areas of the shot. We developed this idea by having the credits in the almost still scenes, with the camera moving around the scene slightly, like in this opening but we kept those in colour and applied black and white to the action shots to create the sense of a flashback. So we took the conventions of a horror opening from Insidious and changed the effects around slightly to give an unique film opening.
Shots 8 and 9 - Dawn of the Dead, 2004
Dawn of the Dead opening sequence consists of cutting quickly between action shots and still credit shots. The order this openings action shots have been placed in makes it seem more like a trailer so to avoid this we did the similar thing of swapping between action and credit shots but the action shots were in order so that they showed part of a story that was going to lead onto the rest of the film. We also developed the credit shots so that the image in the background was part of the story line too.
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