Analyse teen angst title sequence - Clueless

Clueless opening sequence

0:26 Seconds: The title of the film 'Clueless' is displayed on the screen, with a bright and colourful background. The word clueless is in a cartoon font, and this followed by a catchy theme tune that tunes in time with the title.

0:28 Seconds: This is a birds eye view of four teenage girls in a white convertible car, which then goes into a fast past tracking shot. This is gives the audience  feel of how fast the car is traveling.

0:31 Seconds: This shot is a panning shot, meaning the camera moves with the girl, she is captured walking across a high street with lots of shopping bags. The one shopping bag that stands out is the blue one which signifies 'Tiffany & Co' implying she is wealthy.

0:34 Seconds:  This is a scene in a school, where by lots of teenagers are being captured walking In a slow past motion.

0:36 Seconds: A teenager girl sat around the pool, as a pool party is being shot through a tracking shot. As this scene cross cuts in to the  next, the voice of the main character begins.

0:39 Seconds: An over the shoulder shot, captures the main girl getting ready in her mirror. This shows her personality and how her vanity shines through.

0:48 Seconds: A close up of a computer screen, alone with the voice over tells me that this character is very wealthy as she uses a computer to pick her outfits out.

 

0:54 Seconds: This mid shot shows the characters facial expressions, and connotes to the audience that she is very cautious about what she looks like as she did agrees with what her computer has told her what to wear.

0:58 Seconds: The 'perfect' outfit comes up and the song 'oh fashion' starts to play.

1:04 Seconds: The final shot is mid shot of the main character showing off very smug facial expressions.

Preliminary Task

Preliminary Task

Explanation

In order to make my preliminary task I followed a story board, which told me what to film. The illustration on the story board is what I captured on the camera, however I had to include three camera rues; match on action, 180 degree rule and shot reverse shot. In order to do this the first shot I filmed a long shot of someone walking towards a door, I then cut this into a close up of a hand clenching onto the door handle. The third step of this process was to use another long shot of the person walking through the door they have just opened, this shot then smoothly went into the person walking through the door but from the other side of the room. This shot showed match on action, the illusion that the person actually did walk through the door with out the cut happening. The fourth step of the preliminary task was to film two people having a conversation facing one another. This shot included the 180 degree rule, where by the camera wasn't allowed to film past 180 degrees. And then the final step of this task we had to film a shot conversation between the two people but make sure we filmed it with shot reverse shot.

What I have learnt and improvements for next time

In this task I have learnt what shot reverse shot means and how to capture this camera shot. When editing this short film I came across a new programme called Premier Pro, I learnt new editing skills
such as; cutting, merging and how to add in a fade to black edit to the end of our film to make it look more Sharpe.
If I was to re do this task in the future I would be more accurate when filming two people having a conversation using shot reverse shot. In order to do this I would zoom in more on the person who is talking rather then the getting lots of background in, like I did on the task. I feel as though this will allow a clean finish to the shot and will allow anyone who is watching to identify a clear shot reverse shot.

 

 

Analyse teen angst title sequence - Juno

Juno opening sequence

0.01Seconds = "a mandate pictures and Mr . Mould production" is displayed in yellow bubble writing on the left of the screen. The title sequence is also to be displayed in animation fiction.

0.04 Seconds = Quick pace showing a  close up shot of legs walking across the screen in blue jeans and wearing converses. Also displayed on the screen is a cartoon of juice, also shown in animation. "...a Jason Reitmen film"

0.08 Seconds = Lyrics to the song start and the main character and the film title are presented on the screen with a tow background also in animation.

0.17 Seconds = Main character "Ellen Page" with blue sky and clouds in the background

0.21 Seconds = Guitar and chair in the background, a tracking shot is used of the main character walking past and "Michael Cera" is edited to come up on the screen as a walking transition.

0.26 Seconds = Fence and a house in the background with "Jennifer Garner" shown in bubble writing on the screen.

0.36 Seconds = The main girl walks past the fence and the name "Jason Bateman" comes onto the screen. It comes onto the screen letter by letter, as the main girl walks.



Research Title Sequence of Seven

Title Sequence of the film Seven

 

 

2 Seconds = image of book with the pages open

 

6 Seconds = still image of a book with the writing "new line cinema presents" also on the screen

 

10 Seconds = image of a pair of hands, distorted and in black and white

 

14 Seconds = actors name appears on the screen "Brad Pitt". Black background with white creepy writing

 

18 Seconds = close up of finger with blood and mud on them and holding a small silver blade

 

22 Seconds = flashing across the screen an actors name "Morgan Freeman"

 

25 Seconds = title "Se7en" flashes over the black screen with white font, fades to black

 

31 Seconds = shadows flash across the screen as well as another actor's name "Gwyneth Paltrow"

 

34 Seconds = close up of a pen writing on paper, 2 images overlapping, so one looks like a shadow. One more actor's name "Richard Roundtree"

 

41 Seconds = image of scissors cutting up photography films and lots of shadows in the shot

 

46 Seconds = small photograph of a child in black and white, this is over more photographs and pages of writing

 

50 Seconds = close up of a newspaper cutting in a birds eye view, drop of blood splattered on the page

 

56 Seconds =  actor's name "John Cassini, Reginald E. Cathey, Peter Crombie"

 

60 Seconds = extreme close up of a thumb smudging ink on a page of black writing

 

62 Seconds = black marker pen crossing out words on a page, POV shot

 

67 Seconds = writing in the background, blood like smudges in the foreground with black marker pen on top of that

71 Seconds = black background with an image of a boys face (drawing) in the right top hand corner, black marker pen going through his eyes.

74 Seconds = red filter over the camera again, boys face in the same place again but completely crossed out this time with black marker pen and red over the top

77 Seconds = top half of the shot has a red filter, image of photos (darkroom) bottom half of the image is upside down of a pen writing. Writing in the foreground "music by Howard Shore"

87 Seconds = close up of dirty thumbs and a line of tiny hooks, writing in the foreground " Production design..."

90 Seconds = books of writing with a page of handwriting on the top, the page is upside down

94 Seconds = photographs in the background, clear filter over the camera which has black smudges, marks dots all over it. Reminds me of looking through a microscope or splattered blood

99 Seconds = extreme close up of dirty thumbs playing with a needle, black background

103 Seconds = lots of flashing images and quick cuts

Last 15 Seconds = lots more flashing images more writing including "produced by..." and "directed by..."

128 Seconds = film starts, end of title sequence