[RG] Mood Board

Preliminary Task

Just finished the editing of ther camera work and we were both surprised at the quality of the overall piece so far, just need to add the naration and then the sound then the task will be completed :)

[RG] Opening Analysis

Trainspotting

-The film opens with a steady cam shot of two characters running away from security in a busy street. At first, the audience doesn't know why they are running.
-The camera cuts to ground level and you can see the feet of the main character as he runs and objects falling to the ground from his pockets. The audience can then deduce that the man has just robbed somewhere.
-There is a low angled shot as the man runs down a small set of stairs which snaps to a point of view angle of him running down the road.
-This point of view switches to another point of view shot of a driver as he hits the man in his car.
-A name title pops up and then there is the first cut to a new scene of him smoking.
-This cuts to a scene of characters playing football where their name titles are shown.
-There are then continuous cuts between the smoking scene and the football scene as the main character falls down.

-The whole opening is accompanied by narration as there is no other dialogue and the tone and words used set the theme of the movie. The song Lust for Life by Iggy Pop is also constantly accompanying the opening and gives the footage an upbeat, late 80s/90s feel, that is effective at fitting the theme and running sequence.

RO - The preliminay task

planning the storyboard today was very hard as the idea wasnt a collabarate contribution to it, will be fun to see how it will look like after shooting though

[RG] Group - Discussion 28/01/10

Richard and I had a group discussion in class regarding the first few opening shots. We have started to storyboard the camera angles and shots we are going to use create a running scene and have discussed where to fit in the correct music, narration and diagetic sounds during the sequence. We have also been looking at fonts for the films title as we have planned how we will incorporate the title into a freeze frame during the opening running sequence.

RO - Theme music for opening

As The opening of trainspotting is the male running, we could do that but have the song "Keep on running" by Spencer Davis group, (I think that's the right song name as the computer in the 6Th form library didn't have sound), as this state running away from something which could be a theme for the opening as well, create a plot of someone running away from someone or something, then we could leave a cliffhanger before the end of the scene to hook the audience in, for example he catches up with someone or something and the camera is shown from that point of view at the main characters face to show the disbelief and fear in his eyes. Just a thought but thought it could really well with the theme music. :)

Group - Discussion 26/01/10

We had a discussion in class yesterday and started basing an idea on the trainspotting video and a teen thriller as the video has an effecftive yet simple opening. i'll have to search around the teen thriller to find more films along the lines of trainspotting and find out different techniques used.