My Groups Film Opening

My Groups Film Opening

My groups film opening is about a girl that is at school dancing while she is waiting for her friends, as her and her friends are leaving the school throught the main gate, they walk down towards the place were she meets her mum and she has to wait for her mum to pick her up. As her friends apart ways she is left waiting by her self at the wall. A few hours later she gets a text from her mum saying 'Sorry running late, start making you own way home xx' and as you see her walking down the road she slowly fades away.

Our film is about a girl that gets kidnapped on her way home from school. In our film opening it shows her and her friends at school. As they walk to the place where she meets her mum they all part ways but she has to wait for her mum, but her mum is running late and tells her to walk home. As she walks off down the road she fades away this is because it is a good way of showing that she goes missing. We are going to be using Lionsgate film company, as when we was researching in to other film about abduction this was the institution they used. The shots we are going to use are:- match on action and shot revers shot. The people in our film are going to be Sophie bagley as Gemma, Ashleigh Prichard as Jess and Courtney Gill as Lucy. The mise-en-scene is at a school in a dance studio, walking down the path towards the gate and the wall she sts on to wait for her mum. The mise-en-scene is important so that the audience knows that she is a school girl not just a dancer. The first shot of the film will be a close up on the school logo on the girls dance top and as we zoom out she starts to dance and the music starts to play. Other shots that we are also going to us are birds eye view as she is reading the text from her mum.

Target Audience

What is a target audience...
A target audience is a particular group of people that a company has decided to point there product at e.g. disney films are aimed at young children.  The more that a company finds out about their target audience, the more they can produce and sell to them.

My groups target audience...
The target audience of our film opening is female and males aged between 12A+ and anyone that likes thrillers.

My Groups Film Schedule

This is my groups filming schedule

More Camera Angles

Bird’s-eye view

A birds’-eye view shot is were the camera is looking straight down on to the scene that is being filmed. 

High angle

This camera angle is similar to bird’s- eye view but is closer. The high angle shot is used to make a character look powerless and vulnerable. This angle is normally used in a film to make the scene more dramatic or if there are two characters are having a convention and one of the characters are up high e.g. in a tree house.

Eye level

An eye level shot is where the camera is placed at the eye level of the characters in the scene. If they are standing the cameraman can get the shot easier but if they are sitting down it is harder as the cameraman has to blend slightly. 

Low angle

A low level shot is where the camera is place looking up at a character. This shot shows that a character has power over the characters looking up at them.

Worm’s eye view

A worm’s eye view is a shot taken from below. It is the opposite of bird’s-eye view. It is used in filming to make something look taller, stronger and mighty. 

Film Opening Ideas

Film Opening

Film Openings

'The Dark Knight' film opening

‘The Dark Knight’ is a Warner Bros. picture, which is an action/adventure. It was released in July 16, 2012 it was directed by Christopher Nolan. In this opening scene all the logos and titles are in black and blue which shows horror and the fonts are bold this makes them stand out which then the viewer will take notice. They use an extra long shot on the first shot of the film so that you know where the scene is being shot and as they zoom in it make the viewer wonder what is going to happen next. As the window smashes you see a man with a clown mask on and as they are breaking into the bank they start describing on of the main characters the ‘Joker’. When the show the man standing at the end of the road holding a clown mask and standing with he back to the camera this makes me wonder what does he look like? And why hasn’t he got his mark on? As they zoom in on the mark it builds up the tension on what is going to happen next. After that it goes back to the two men in the office window, as they zip wirer down to the roof of the bank they use a Birdseye view shot, this is where they shoot a scene from above looking down on the actors.

Camera Angles

Match on action

Match on action is where you film a scene but when you cut the same action is going on at the start of the next scene but at a different angle. This type of filming is done to help the viewers constantly recognize what is happening.

Shot reverse shot

Shot reverse shot is where there are two people sitting down at a table having a conversation. The first shot is of both characters and then the camera switches to a different camera looking over character 1s shoulder, then it switches to a camera that is looking over character 2s shoulder.

180⁰ rule

The 180⁰ rule is where you have two people having a conversation and if the camera starts behind one character the when it goes around it cannot go past character two.

Here is my groups final example of these camera angles edited together:-