Analyzing Opening Scenes.

Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events Clip:
http://www.artofthetitle.com/2007/12/21/lemony-snicket/

This was the first clip I looked at, as it starts off, its very dark and mysterious, then a cartoon begins to play, rolling titles then appear on the screen, telling you what its based on, Production Designers etc, but the cartoon rolls on. The audio is repetitive, sounds dark, but gives off a sort of Journey feel, it ties in with the film very well as the Children are often stopped in their tracks. This Opening Scene doesn't really have a theme, it symbolises feelings like Misery and Confusion if anything. There aren't any Transitions but even for an animation, it has got several different camera angles, there are a few Close ups, to capture that this will be a dark film, they do this by showing the Children's expressions but most of them are Extreme Wideshot and Wideshot, I think this is because there is a lot going on in the background of the Animation.
This Opening Scene sums up a lot of the film, I suppose to give the audience a taste of what the film is about, from this Opening, you can tell it is going to be a dark and miserable film, well I think the biggest clue is in the title.

Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet:
http://www.artofthetitle.com/2009/03/23/william-shakespeares-romeo-juliet/

This Opening Scene starts off by the incorporation of Shakespeare's Prologue, which runs through the whole of the Scene, but I think this works well, as it draws you in and makes you want to see the film, as it starts, all you see is a television screen with a news presenter quoting the Prologue, this shows the Director trying to modernize this 18th Century Play. They slow this part down by using a 'Dolly Shot' this is when a camera is pushed along the ground, this is what happens in this clip, when the camera is focused on the TV screen. The whole set out of this Opening, with a series of clips shows that the film will be a tragedy, they use a montage of clips to prove this, half way through, it fastens, but fits in with the audio, which is "Requiem" this is a good song for the Opening as it shows the urgency and Irony of the film. When the Opening does fasten up, the clips which are from the film itself, fit in with the bridge of the song, I think this helps attract the audience to the film, the clips have also been shortened down with maybe a razor tool, and the Motion Control has definitely been edited during this sequence as they run so fast, I think only one transition was used, which is at the end when the Title 'Romeo + Juliet' Appears, a 'Wipe' Transition is used so it flows more smoothly into the film itself.

True Blood- Television Programme Opening Credits:
http://www.artofthetitle.com/2008/11/21/true-blood/

With this Opening, I decided to go off the film track and look into a Television Programme's opening credits, I decided on this one as it has many aspects to look at.
The concept behind it is very irregular, and quite disturbing, but at the same time makes it look different to every other Opening Scene of a Popular TV Series. In a One minute opening Credit, they compare  Black & White Religions, compared to Slutty, Mysterious Gothic Vampire ways, which in the series is an on going debate. Many Camera angles are used, as it opens a 'Crane Shot' is used, this is used for the first two shots, the changes to a slight 'Dolly Shot' and then a Wide Shot, from then on in, the Opening Credits are Video clips, incorporated with the TV Programme, no Transitions are used, they just go from one to the other. The Audio fits in well with this Opening Credit, Its a medium sort of pace, but when you hear the lyrics, they are quite dark and suit the credits well.

CityScape- Premier Pro Practice

To help us get used to Adobe Premier Pro, I created a thirty second piece with short clips of London City.
To start off, we imported all the clips, audio and Visual into Premier Pro, we then selected the video clips we wanted to use, after this we put them in order with the accompanying sounds in the one below, titled "Audio 1"

Once the clips were in place, I introduced myself to the 'razor tool' this tool is very handy, as you can cut out pieces of video that you do not want, I also edited the motion controls, depending whether I wanted to slow it down or speed it up, in my case, I slowed down the opening shot of the city, I also slowed down the shot of the gherkin, because I felt like it rushed into the other clips to fast. I sped up several clips, like the taxi shot, the crowd scene, also, the café shot, even though it was already fast, I made it slightly faster.
I enlarged all the clips, as they were quite small, to make the clips flow better as if to be a mini opening scene, I put in some transitions.

So my clip didn't sound too quiet, I added an audio sound, when it came to choosing the one I wanted, I wanted it to fit in with my clip. In the end, after browsing through my selection, I chose an audio called 'Continued On' from a Royalty Free Source. The Song was long enough to cover my whole clip, so after my video had finished, I used the razor tool to cut the last remaining bit off. I played my video through, and it seemed like it ended too quickly with the music, so I used the "Audio Effects" tool, to slow the end of the song so it gradually slowed and then stopped, instead of coming to an abrupt end.

Lastly, I added a title into the beginning of my video, using these title tools, I could choose where I wanted the title to be, the size of it, colours, and font, after I designed it, I simply dragged it into the 'Video 2' box, and made sure it was right at the beginning line, I put it in 'Video 2' to make the title overlap the video, so you could see both at the same time. To finish it, I added Transitions to make my title fade out instead of just disappearing.

I enjoyed doing this task, and I learnt a lot about Premier Pro and the tools to use and how I use them.

Every Picture tells a Story

Trainspotter's Opening Scene

Train Spotters Moodboard

As a class, we watched the opening scene of the film 'Trainspotters', we then got set the task of creating a moodboard that was filled with relative pictures.

In my Moodboard, most of my pictures are about drugs and the risks people take to get them, e.g Crime. I also put some famous faces in there to show that its not just normal every day to day people that choose this for themselves.

Drugs can lead to severe addictions, and people sometimes do it because they feel alone or rejected, I incorporated this also into my Moodboard.

In this Opening Scene, they use Syncronised Music, to make the pace seem faster, they also freeze images which makes you realise it is not going as fast as you thought.