Main Post 4: Group Meeting

Below are the minutes from a group meeting we held, of which we discused what sort of opening we were going to do and all suggested some ideas for the opening some ofwhich were used others which were not.  

Main Post 3a: Further look at opening sequences

Main Post 3: Research into Opening Sequence Designs

I watched these two interviews and took note of what was said, to see if it would help me and my group decide on our opening sequence.

The first thing i noticed from watching these interviews was that the main objective for any films opening sequences is that it needs to attract viewers and audiences making them grasp and keep people in there seats as Kyle Cooper said. From watching these two interviews, I found out a lot of interesting information of which will help my group. In one of the videos, Kyle Cooper mentioned that it was important that an opening sequence, hooks the audience and makes them want to see and watch whats going to happen in the rest of the film and also has to set up certain expectations for the rest of the film. This will influence what we put and use in our opening sequence as we don't want it to drag or be boring. It was also said that it is not always unnecessary to use computer generated images as there are other more simple ways/methods that could be used, that can create the same feel. I also noted that you have to think outside the box to get something unique and original and that experimenting is always good as it allows you to try new things and come up with strange yet interesting techniques and designs, not everything has a reason sometimes things either just happen or are accidental.

Another piece of advice I picked up from watching the Interviews was that the typography should and needs to suit and fit in with the genre of the film. For example in the interview Kyle Cooper talks about the opening sequence to Se7en, of which he goes into how and explains how the written journals and the names of the crew all appear on the screen to be hand written, which links to the story line of the film and creates a feel to whats to happen. Below are some images of the typography of which Kyle Cooper talks about.

Overall from watching both parts of this interview and seeing and understanding what Kyle Cooper had to say, I feel that it has helped us as a group to decided and come up with more ideas for our opening sequence and will hopefully help us create a good opening sequence with interesting typography that will fit with our chosen genre. In  the interview Cooper states that "it is important to get the opening sequence right as it can set expectations for the rest of the film" As a group we aim to seize this in our end opening sequence.

Main Post 2: Choosing my Genres

I found choosing my genre very hard as there are so many different genres. Here is a list of a few of the most popular and main fiction genres from the film industry such as...
Action Adventure
Crime
Fantasy
Horror
Romance
Science Fiction 
Mystery/detective.

 I believe that the most popular genre would be comedy, science fiction or an action based film as such a wide range of films fit/come under this title. So to find out as a group, what the most popular genre is and why, I gave out 15 questionnaires to relatives and friends of all ages to find out. 

Here is a screen shot of our Questionnaire we handed out.

Here are the results from our questionnaires:

As a group we found it difficult to decide on a Genre to base our opening sequence on, but after looking at our questionnaire results and completing individual research about different genres we decided on creating an action adventure opening sequence. We also chose this genre as it was our second best result from our questionnaires, we would have gone with the first best but it was a comedy and we all thought it would be difficult to create this in our opening sequence.

Here is a link to a useful website of which helped me to understand and find out what the Top genres of 2012 are going to be. The hobbit and the hunger games both being in the top 5 which was to be expected. 

http://www.rantingdragon.com/twenty-anticipated-genre-films-in-2012/

http://moviedistributionfacts.wordpress.com/tag/popular-movie-genres/