Foundation Portfolio in Media

We spoke about how we are going to set up our opening sequence

Saw opening scene: The film opens with slow, mysterious titles that make the film see more sophisticated than other horrors that would start with quite prominent titles featuring dripping blood and screams. The first shot of the film is a close up of a man submerged underwater with his eyes closed, his face only illuminated in some areas by a small blue light that shows parts of his face. The man suddenly opens his eyes and sits up out of the water coughing and spluttering. There are a few close up shots of the plughole of the bath as the bath starts to drain, with the mysterious blue light also being flushed down the drain. This tells the audience that there is some importance to that prop and raises questions as to its significance. We then have a medium shot of the man getting out of the bath, and we see the scene is played out in almost complete darkness. The fact the location of the scene is kept a secret for the time being builds tension as the audience waits for the big reveal

Title/Opening sequences have changed throughout time, with all the new technology that is being introduced recording films will also change. I'm going to talk about the differences from a modern day title and an olden day title. se7en: David Fincher (1995)   In both of these opening scenes you can see the differences technology could make because se7en starts off with rock music and the the images the audiences can see are all xrays of hands and the audience can also see the characters fingers and how he is picking all the skin off his hands. however in Dr strangelove, the scene starts off with calm and relaxing music but the audience are only shown 2 planes flying through the air. when we can see the directors name and the actors name in se7en, you can see the effect they have used when editing the film to make sure the names disappear at a certain time and also the font they are using shows what genre the film will be even with the music which helps identify the gen

setting; school characters: teacher and students school gets taken over by police in search of a jewel teacher and student work together to try find it before they police do because it can get into  the wrong hands.

genre- action comedy Films I have chosen- rush hour - 1998 and 21 jump street 2012 Rush hour- opening sequence Setting: the start of the film is based on a dock in China, where they are offloading containers off a boat which has been delivered from another country, the docks look very lonely, meaning no one can see what they are doing because it could be illegal and you can see the fog and steam from the boat, which means something big is about to go down either from a fight or a big drug deal. Characters- the characters from the opening sequence look Asian meaning this could be set in a foreign country, and they look like they are fed up from working at the docks, this could meaning they are working forcefully by the main villain in the film. As soon as the intro sequence is about to finish you can the main character pop out of a hiding place. Audience Response: In the opening sequence the audience will be asking questions on whats happening at the docks, also

Titles in a silent film: Words and lettering played an enormous role in films of the silent era. Film titles made their appearance in the earliest silent films, along with letter cards (or inter-titles), which provided context. These cards were the responsibility of the lettering artist, who collaborated with the scriptwriter and director to create narrative continuity so that audiences could follow what they were seeing. Distinct from these inter-titles was the film’s main title, a vehicle of particular concern to film producers because of the legal, copyright and marketing information this footage had to bear. This gives me an understanding that words had a big impact on the films that had no sound because of the technology they had back then, but now in this generation technology is at its highest meaning you wont see any words or lettering in a film without sound being in the film. The director, film writer and producer had to wok together to make sure the film had a clear u