Genre Moodboard

A moodboard is a collage of images,fonts,words,films,costumes,locations etc. They are used to display a type of genre and what is related to that particular genre. We created a moodboard to display what we considered to be related with our genre- Thriller. We've already uploaded our moodboard onto a group on facebook to get feedback from our target audience.

First Ideas

For our opening sequence of a film we have decided to work with the genre of Thriller. Our target audience is 16-19 year old's as it will be easier to relate to them. I will be working with Colette & Dom.

From Script to Screen: How does the credit sequence from Dexter work?

The opening sequence of Dexter shows in detail a normal morning routine that a man performs everyday. However, in this sequence it is filmed differently to show what kind of a person this man is through the use of violence.
The creator Eric Anderson got his ideas from re-contextualising mundane things and giving them a sinister importance. He started his ideas from noticing the name 'Dexter' looks the same if it is turned around, this gave him an idea that a person could have two sides to them. He then looked at crime scene photography and realised that the photographs contextualise mundane things and got the idea that a entire situation can unfold from one photo giving it an importance, once the history is discovered behind it eg. the Martin Luther King photo - where he was shot.
To fit this sequence Eric needed a character which introduced two sides to him, showing a man doing normal things in the morning but doing them in a brutal, harsh way to create a side of violence. The final sequence that Eric chose communicated the idea of 2 sides of this character in this sequence as the use of noir lighting and shadow depth of field helped to add a certain atmosphere to the piece. By Eric showing the detail by using shadow depth of field it made the viewers see 'normal' things as violent by the use of diegetic sound and jump cuts.
There are 2 trailers for this sequence. Eric decided to chose the one over the Xploding Plastix track. He did this because the first trailer had sinister music along with fast paced edits to connote tension, but the other creators thought that this clip gave too much away to the viewers rather than leaving a mystery - Bart's enigma code. The final sequence that he decided to select had a more playful soundtrack throughout it -the 'Rolfe Kent' track. By the use of this track it connoted tension but in a more mysterious way and set the clip to have a more humorous light whilst introducing subtly that this character could have a violent side to him.

Research: Analysis of the opening of Juno

Research: Key Conventions

The main point of an opening to a film is to introduce the main characters/cast and crew. They also indicate what narrative is being used as an opening eg. the opening of 'Brick' sets out an enigma code as it opens with a mystery leaving the audience to wonder what has happened to these characters, the same in 'London to Brighton' as the audience are left to question what the plot is and why the characters are disrupted. 

Another technique that is used in openings of films is to introduce the characters. Different films introduce characters in particular ways eg in 'Trainspotting' the characters are introduced at the beginning of the film individually in a freeze frame, which tells the audience what the character is like, such as Renton - he is introduced as daring and a rule breaker.

Main Task

The main task is to create a opening to a film lasting a maximum of 2 minutes.

The deadlines are :
Research deadline - 01/12/10
Photo-storyboard deadline-3/12/10
Filming deadline-07/01/11
Production deadline-28/01/11
Evaluation deadline-11/02/11