Tuesday 13 December 2011

School trip to the BMI

We had the opportunity to go to the British Film Institute in London. We went there to meet guess speakers and watch opening sequences of different film. We got advice on what to do and what not to do when making our own thriller.
We got told to take this things in consideration when filming our openings:
- Genre
- Narrative
- Character
- Atmosphere
- Setting
A website we looked at was 
http://www.artofthetitle.com/. They title sequences we watched were: catch me if you can, Nepolian Dynamite, Dawn of the Dead and Scott Pilgrim vs the world. They each had interesting ways of presenting the titles.
One of our guess speakers was Dexter Fletcher, he talked about how to make a successful film because he had just finished directing his own film.
One of our other guess speakers told us that we shouldn’t use these things in our opening because they have been used before and get used regularly
- Saw: victim tied up
- Scream: hooded stalker follows victim
- Waking up: clean teeth, brushing your hair, leave house
- Se7en: killer stabs Polaroid pictures
- Lock Stock: gangsters play cards
- Flashback or flash-forwards

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