I think as a whole the entire opening sequence worked very well with the music, sounds, acting and special effects. The greyscale effect added revealed the genre and also made the opening look much more professional. one if the things they could have improved on is making it look as if it is a film opening because for me it looked more like the credits of a movie and also could not really tell the story behind it. To make theirs successful they could have possibly added some sort of story line behind the opening sequence to reveal it slightly to the audience.  

The opening sequence of this film was very good because it seemed very professional based on how realistic everything looked including the blood and the dead body although the acting wasn’t perfect it was still good enough. They could have improved by adding the credits where the action was taking place to make it look better and more realistic in terms of actual thriller openings. To make their opening successful they could have added the credits in straight away during the scene which makes it a lot easier because then at the end or the beginning their wont be just credits on a background.

The things they have done well in this opening is use music which is very fitting to the scenario, show the credits during the action taking place and the fact that you can see a clear storyline to it makes it interesting. They could have improved on some of the acting, the sound effects and also the acting did not suit the scenario, for example they should look nervous but instead look happy and cheerful. To make it successful they could have improved on all of these factors and maybe could have added some more editing in it to make it more realistic and enjoyable. One major thing they should completely avoid is using another company at the beginning of the video; this is because they were not involved with this company and may also lead to problems in the future.

Preliminary task

What we did:

This video shows what we have created for the preliminary task at the beginning of the course. We use things like match on action and the 180 degree rule, furthermore we edited this video using final cut express to make it seem smoother and much more realistic.

Narrative:

The story is about an individual (Enid) attending a job interview but has the wrong attitude and is far from prepared. As she enters the interview it all seems fine until she starts talking about how she only cares about the money and doesn't really have any interest in the job, she soon faces the consequences of her attitude and faces being rejected.

Evaluation:

The things that went well in our preliminary task was the acting, the match on action and the camera work as well as the editing. The things that we could have done better were to adjust the lighting in the first scene to make it brighter so it makes it clearer. One of the things I would change is to try a make the video a bit longer and to add a few more transitional effects.  Think that we followed the brief very well by following all the rules such as the 180-degree rule and we included the match on action scene, which was required, we also included the shot-reverse- shot, which was also required and was mentioned. During this task I developed my editing skills on final cut express and also learnt about how to handle the camera and how to use the features on it.     

The Shining

Title Sequence Work Sheet MUJO

Introduction to the Brief

Today we have been introduced to our coursework task and overall i think it will be an exciting but long project. Our task is to create a title and opening of a new film, to last a maximum of two minutes. I feel this will be a tough but enjoyable project due to the fact that we will get to use a variety of technology, it will also be tough because we will have to learn how to use all the softwares, equipment and programmes.