Feedback - Miss Spencer

Film Opening feedback:
There is loads of detail and a clear understanding of the influences/conventions of your genre. Your ideas are in keeping with the genre. However there is far too much detail for an opening of a film, look back at the film openings you have studies, and watch some more. How many scenes does there tend to be? how much of the narrative is revealed? how much of the character is built up? How much of the stting is established?
Do you think your ideas fit in with this? THey seem to be whole film ideas rather than just the opening.

Have a look again, you do need whole film ideas, but you also need to be clear about where the opening you are making will end.


Analysis of film openings feedback:
You have made an excellent start Ben - using lots of media language and often discussing the meaning of the elements you have picked out. You have also thought about conventions of the genre and linked them to the elements you have picked out.
I would like ot see a little more detail however (make sure you cover Sound/mise en scene/ editing and camera movement/framing etc)
Your work is currently on a level 3 but in order to improve you should:

Use your Foundation Portfolio Booklet to ensure that all posts have the correct title, and make sure they are in a similar order.

You are marked on grammar and punctuation etc, check through your work for this, including capital letters for "I" proper nouns etc.

Break up your work with JPEG images throughout you analysis (stills from the film) and a video of the opening sequence in order to illustrate your analysis (make then relevent to what you are talking about throughout)

Ensure your work it titled appropriately - put the genres together in separate posts (one post for each genre - two films for each genre!)

Think about the questions below, ensure you are addressing all of them.

  Study the opening sequences of any film from the Thriller, Horror, and Romantic comedy genre. E.g. Seven, The Dark Knight Rises, Halloween, Notting Hill, Love Actually etc. Analyse how the sequence has been constructed through its use of: Camera angles, shots, movement, Editing, Sound, Special effects and Mise-en-scene etc.

· In terms of editing how have the separate images been put together - Think in terms of frequency of cuts, fades in/out, jump cuts, dissolves etc.

• What visual images appear on screen throughout the sequence? And what do they mean?
• · Describe what narrative (story) is being displayed in the sequence from start to finish.
• · Describe what kind of music; diegetic/non-diegetic/incidental/ambient etc. is being played over the sequence.
• · How and what titles are being displayed during the sequence and in what order.
• · What kind of characterisation is evident? - Age, gender, relationships etc.