EVALUATION - Activity one

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (i.e. of film openings)

Here is a 9 frame grid for my film opening 'Something Wicked'.



The nine frame grid shows shots I feel best repersents what I was trying to achieve.

Frame 1
This is the first shot that appears on screen (excluding the production logos). It is the establishing shot which sets the scene and builds up the atmosphere, as the audience may be wondering where the location is and what relevance it has.

Frame 2
Frame 2 is shot through a green house window, and shows leg shots of a girl walking along the garden path. I particularly like this shot as its unusual and makes it look like the girl is being watched.

Frame 3

This shot is a close up of the shed door, I think the rusty pad lock adds to the effect of the film opening and creates an uncertainty of what might be inside. It also has a contrast of the colours used in the rest of the opening, as later shots become darker.

Frame 4

This frame shows where the Main title comes in. I used decorative/eroded/old styled font called Kingjola, from dafont.com. This is a common font type to have in supernatural thrillers, as I found out whilst planning and looking at exsisting film openings such as Rosemary's baby,where such font is used. In Final Cut Express I added effects to the main title which included, Gaussian Blur, Earthquake and Directional which makes it shake about on the screen, which I feel really adds to the atmosphere.

Frame 5

A tracking shot is used here, moving from left to right showing close up of props.

Frame 6

I used this frame as it is a good example of the font style used and it also shows how we gave credit to the composer of our soundtrack (which was in the terms of use). The font is called Kingjola and can be found on dafont.com. However in Photoshop I edited it a bit to fit more with what I wanted it to look like.

Frame 7

This shot has been included in the grid as its the shot where 'action' comes in. The 'action' is hand shots of hands rummaging around and finding the significant item - the book.

Frame 8

This shot shows the significant item being found, which is important to the rest of the plot in the film.

Frame 9

This is the very last shot in the sequence. It is also the last title that appears in the opening which reads 'Directed by ...' this title along with 'Produced by ...' (seen in frame 7) come in last as they are the more important titles in an opening. Directors such as Tim Burton also places these two titles last in their film openings.