Film openings research analysis

The elements that make a film opening sequence are: 

-Production Company

- Logo

- Titles

- Location

 -Genre

-Themes & Topics 

-Action

 -Mise-en-Scene

 -Narration

 -Dialogues

 -Sound

 -Style of Font

 -Flashback

Film openings typically include (or begin) the text of the opening credits, and helps establish the setting and tone of the program. It may consist of live action, animation, music, still i99iimages, and/or graphics. In some films, the title sequence is preceded by a cold open.

 

In the film genres such as horror and horror comedy  even though they still have similar shot and open in ways that are the same. which is presenting what is so horrific in that period time, in horror films an eerie feeling will continue but the in horror comedies that eerie feeling would be replaced with a joke that makes all terror reside

Film Opening

Cruella

Cruella is about a young girl who was an outcast her whole life  causing trouble every chance she got and how she was bullied just for the color of her hair (white and black). Because of her mother being a designer Estella had a huge eye for fashion. The principle at her school got tired of her causing trouble everyday so she got kicked out of school, which then caused her mom to want to move, but during the journey her got murdered. she then met her best two friends Jasper who put her on a path to become the notorious fashion designer her alter ego Cruella but not with some challenges on the way there.

The opening is of when she is born and the trouble she went through this is important to the film because it where her alter ego may come from since it shows why she is the way that she is. the opening scene is a narration montage

the genre of this film is comedy/crime

https://browardschools.instructuremedia.com/embed/15cbb8a1-22a9-436c-9456-a5427b7d91f4

F9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jojHiQAcNXI

This fast n furious is basically about how Dominic and his brother Jakob are having this kind of family feud because Jakob helped their father kill himself because he was under to much stress but Dominic thought it was because Jakob was jealous of him an wanted to kill the dad because of favoritism. Jakob now wants to prove that he's better then Dominic and take over by stealing a Cipher that cities and the world. he soon realizes its not worth it and switches sides right before anything but doesn't realize his partner is doesn't with his decision so Dominic and his friends help take him out.
The genre of this film is action/adventure 
The film opening relates to the plot because it shows where Dominic pain comes from and why he's so big on protecting and also why hes so upset with his brother to the point where he asked him to never come back to their family.

Aladdin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i66VKBLKdxw

Aladdin is about a poor thief who fall in love with a princesses  but believes he cant be with her since shes rich and hes poor. In order to become rich  makes a deal with Jafar (who wants to become the ruler of their kingdom) to go in the cave and bring him back a genie lamp but doesn't tell him that if he touches anything the cave will get an earthquake. when Aladdin goes in the cave he finds the lamp but Jafar thinks hes dead and leaves him after cleaning in which unleashes a powerful, wisecracking, larger-than-life genie. As Aladdin and the genie start to become friends, they must soon embark on a dangerous mission to stop the evil sorcerer, Jafar, from overthrowing young Jasmine's kingdom.

The genre is musical/family

The opening of this movie helps build the plot because it basically starts from the end and the genie which you then realize was released from he hold of his rings tells he story of Aladdin through a song.

Genre research

 Hello!

 I love movies we all do whether its action, comedy, horror, etc.. genres that I cant seem to stop watching, In my media studies class we are learning about genre which was first used in 1770. when I first started learning about genre I was like okay I know what each genre is but I soon realized that was the case at all  I didn't know as much as I thought I did.Genre was first used in Greek literature for Aristotle's Poetry but the earliest actual film genre ever use was action.

Action- is where the leading characters go into some kind of series where violence, extended fights, chases, and rescues.

Drama- movies with high stakes and lots of conflicts

Horror- a fiction intend to scare or disgust viewers 

Comedy- fiction that is intended to be humorous 

Crime-fiction crime stories that uses detective and criminals 

They way that we used drama in our class is that we made presentations and a poster there’s two other people in my group and each person had a slide they would I did crime analysis which to me was challenging but at same time easy to do there was many different sections of the one thing part and some parts were really discouraging but I go through it. For the poster we were suppose to put everything we learned on there in summarized which was easy since the presentation had all thaw information was already  there.

Below is the poster and my slide in presentation 

Cinematography

 Cinematography the art and technology of motion picture photography. learning about cinematography was the most fun I’ve had in my media studies class we learn about different angles and conventional uses of them.1800s was when cinematography first started being used when people began combing multiple consecutive photos to create an illusion of an motion picture. The earliest surviving picture is “Roundhay garden scene” which was created in 1888 and was only 2.11 seconds long.I learned about different angles such as long angle shots. Medium shots, close up shot, wide shot, extreme shots, and many more.

I learned about different ways camera shots/angles are used to make feeling come through to the viewer as they are watching the films and how some shots can be used together which can create a whole new shot. When learning about these things I found my self amazed of the different kind of things that  seem to fly over my head but now  more ware of and have knowledge about to understand what the directors are trying tell us.

In class we used these angles doing an assignment about different angles and how they look like. Our teacher allowed to go into the hallways of school to take different pictures that correspond with different camera angles. When finished taking pictures we uploaded them to a document and found other camera angles of the same kind which  are shown below 

file:///var/mobile/Library/SMS/Attachments/56/06/24105F7A-85BB-4774-8C2A-E8051720F4DE/7691B9BD-4E26-440D-9345-78F64C728D6B.pdf

Mis en scène

 You ever looked at a movie poster or any picture and wonder how they perfected each part of Mis en scène in those photographs. Last week we learned about Mis en scène which is the staging or putting on an action or scene. Mis en scène  term use originated from stage drama where it refers to the way actors or scenery props are placed and .The earliest correct use of Mis en scène was in the film “ Citizen Kane” using all the components Composition, design,  lights, setting, and costuming.

What I learned about Mis en scène is that to be able to create such artistic things in film and photographs there’s a lot that goes into it like the set up of lights, props, location, positioning etc… can really make a difference on how the viewer sees it. What I want to learn about if it’s how to better use so that when I’m taking photograph the illusion that I’m wanting to show is recognizable and not the illusion itself .When I first started learning about it I was in awe of how such little details could make a difference.in whatever you’re trying to show to the audience or viewers in movie or scene.

The way that we used Mis en scene in class is we did mini photography. me and my project partner decided that we were going to make an illusion monster truck show with her little brothers, kinetic sand, and a small storage box. We took pictures at certain angles and used our phone flash lights to create more of that stadium type feeling. We put the kinetic sand down to make the dirt look like a little hill that it is going over, we also positioned the truck certain ways so it could look more realistic. though the pictures didn’t turn out as realistic as we wanted we still thought some of them Looked good as you can see below.