"Film the opening sequence of a new fiction film, including titles and soundtrack to last approximately two minutes."
One important part I should consider in the brief is new fiction. This is when we will have to make our video up. We will need to decide as a group what fiction and the type of genre. We will need to understand different genres as they have different openings to them.
For example, the conjuring and P.S I love you have very different openings due to their different genres.
The conjuring, this is a scary movie
I also need to consider the titles for my video. I need to understand that the director always comes last and I need to know that the titles include the type of film and the principle characters in it. I also need to work out how long and how big the titles would be.
A soundtrack also has to be included in the opening, however we can not use copy write music. Sound could include diegetic and non diegetic as well as backing tracks, voiceovers, dialogue etc. The soundtrack has to link to the genre of the music. For example, if the genre is scary it is slow, quiet music.
I also need to manage my time. It can only be two minutes long but the video takes a long time to edit and produce so the best way to manage my time would be this time management sheet:
This is an example of an opening sequence :
This is an opening sequence of the conjuring. It implies to us that it is a scary film because of the quiet, tense music. The pictures of families could also suggest to us that the film is based on a true story.
