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I am going to analyse 3 opening titles in detail looking at camera shots, setting, music and dialogue, to take inspiration for my sequence. After this, i will need to take Reccy shots of my location.

Sequence Inspiration - Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

1. The video begins on a street corner, with the cameraman moving in from behind the customers of the stall, as if he were one. We then see a head shot of the thief, before the screen flicks up with a credit, flicking back to a head shot. We then see a mid shot of him with customers on either side. another credit flicks up, we can see another head shot of him as he uses body movements to illustrate the cockney banter he is having.another credit flicks up.
2. We see a head shot of his partner, who is pretending to be a buyer. At this point the onlookers liven up and begin to buy - the camera continues to move around from the customer's perspective. We then see his partner looking out for policemen, before flicking back to the camera looking from the customer's perspective.




3. The partner then shouts something incoherent and they both chuck all the goods in the suitcase and run. The policemen push through the people and head after them. We then see a long shot of them appearing from round a corner and running into a side road, straight past the camera, over a barricade and into a warehouse, with the police lagging behind the. Music starts at this point - ocean colour scene - 100 mile high city.
4. The partner now slides into view at the landing of some stairs - with the camera at the foot of the stairs- in slow motion as he slides into the wall. a narrator informs us that his real talent is in gambling, then the scene speeds up again and we see the seller try to throw the suitcase down the stairs towards him but it come open and all the goods spill everywhere; the narrator tells us that he is basically past it. the goods and suitcase fall on his partners head and they leave the screen, which after a couple of seconds flicks up with the title. The font is basic, and is reminiscent of a typewriting font.

Sequence block

I have decided to make my film a crime film, set on a farm. Firstly, A few teenagers are lounging around in a barn or caravan. Then, a thug turns up, trying to buy something that the lads have - this is not revealed - but the police have followed him there, and the boys and the thug run off. Each character is given a photoshopped frame, introducing each character's name.

MoodBoard

I am looking at creating the opening sequence for a crime thriller film, unfortunately a number of them use animated opening sequences, so i can only use similar visual themes and colours.

These songs would be the sort of tunes i would use for the opening of my film, if i was allowed to use music already created.

Exhibition contrasts

A mainstream institution will aim to exhibit its films at a red carpet event, for example Leicester Square, whereas an independent film will exhibit its films at an independent cinema , the contrast between these institutions is down to the budget they set for the film and therefore mainstream films will be more widely distributed than independent films. Occasionally, ‘Indie’ films will receive a grant which allows them to more widely publicise their films: “This Is England” for example. Also the ‘Digital Screen Network’ ploughs money into digital screening so that indie companies don’t have to produce as many prints – indeed; if digital screening was always done no prints would be needed. This means the exhibition will cost a tenth of the previous price. Also target audience differs, for example an “indie” film will attract a more articulate class of people whereas a mainstream film will look to target the majority of people, this gives it a monopolistic status, meaning that it owns the larger percentage of the film industry as more people in general will look at who is in the film rather than what the film is about.
The UK film council utilises different methods to make film more accessible to a wider audience, this could be down to promotion schemes such as Orange Wednesdays, voucher schemes and discounted tickets, this allows films to be more affordable to a larger amount of people. Another way the UK film council will seek to gain a more accessible audience is through digital screen networking which allows more people to watch the film , an example of this is from the film “ this is England” which got a grant to distribute its films to a wider audience through digital screen networking , thus making it more accessible to a wider audience and cheaper for the institution.