The document analyzes and summarizes a student's film opening sequence project for a fantasy/adventure genre film. It provides feedback on the strengths and weaknesses in different elements of the opening, including camera work, soundtrack, characters, and editing. Overall, the sequence is deemed of high quality and professional standard, though there is still room for improvement, such as incorporating more shots and special effects. The student effectively set up key characters and settings to capture audience attention.

1. Stacey Hubbard
12Q1-09

3. Professional film
 Title sequence
 Credits/media company
 Introduction of main
characters
 Establishment of location
 Theme tune/ soundtrack
 Introduction of film
narrative
 Introduction of film genre
 Title sequence
 Credits/media company
 Introduction of main
characters
 Establishment of location
 Theme tune/ soundtrack
 Introduction of film
narrative
 Introduction of film genre
Our film

4.  A good film opening sequence needs to be short but
also introduce the key settings and characters as this
helps capture the audience’s attention.

5.  Our film is a adventure fantasy
 It is similar to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as the
credits are done in a similar way.
 The soundtrack fits with the genre as with fantasy
films it needs to be emotional as is the same with our
film and this can be compared to the Harry Potter
films.

6.  By using a soundtrack we are able to build suspense
and make the audience use their emotions all through
the sense of sound.
 With a fantasy film this should happen all the more as
it has factors that wouldn’t happen in real life and the
characteristics of a fantasy sound track are that it
should convey all different emotions such as danger,
excitement, anger, etc. Which ours does quite
effectively.

7.  Overall our camera work is quite good although we
didn’t use a wide variety of shots which is one area we
could improve as within the fantasy/ adventure genre
usually there are many shots used.
 However the shots and quality of our camera work is of
a high standard which would compare very highly to a
professional film as we kept the main characters a
mystery which in a fantasy/adventure opening
sequence it is key to do.

8.  Our mise-en-scene was limited as we didn’t use many
props or very drastic costumes although those that we
did use was effective and suited the genre.
 Our main set locations were the library and the woods
as these represent the characters, the geeky school boy
in the library and the magician in the woods.

9.  Geeky school boy set
location: Library
 This gives the
impression the boy likes
to read and study

10.  Wizard set location:
The woods
 This shows the area is
mysterious and
magical

11.  Our editing was of a high standard and we used
transitions that were effective and suited the genre,
although we didn’t use an special effects as we didn’t
feel this would be appropriate to the content of our
footage.
 Compared to a professional film our opening sequence
was of a very high standard although it could still be
improved to give it an even better finish.

13.  Our film was aimed at families with children
 Many children have a very vivid imagination hence
why we used the fantasy/adventure genre.
 By using a school boy the audience are able to relate to
the character in the film.
 Our film uses the stereotype of a ‘geeky school boy’ to
do this we used the library as the
character’s main setting and used
typical clothing and glasses.
 We used the character as we felt
they were under represented.

15.  Narnia ‘The Lion The Witch
and The Wardrobe’ was
distributed by Walt Disney
Pictures
 Similar to our production
through the fantasy and
adventure genres.
 This distributer could be
interested in our production as
it is similar to their current
products and productions.

17.  The main audience we were working with was children
 We decided that the most appropriate classification for
our film would be PG as it was what most
fantasy/adventure films were classified with that are
suitable for children.
 I think this film is both appropriate for children and is
also appealing to children as it fits into the market of
fantasy/ adventure films available today.

19.  We attracted our audience by using a child friendly
and fantasy appropriate font.

20.  We also used characters that the audience could relate to, school
boy. To make the character more real we used realistic clothing.
 We used a small number of characters so that it is easy for the
audience to follow.

21.  We used a basic plot as this would be easy for the
audience to follow.
 This helps the audience as they are unable to
understand in depth plots.

23.  Was used to capture the footage in a professional
manner as we used a high quality camera and a tripod.
These helped to give a good quality finish to our final
product.

24.  Is a video editing software that allows us to edit the
footage we captured and insert effects and transitions.
 As we captured the footage in a different order to what
we want it in the final product it enabled us to cut the
footage and rearrange it. We were also able to delete
the footage we didn’t need.
An example
screenshot of
Final Cut
Express

25.  By using various transitions it makes the final product
smoother
 They also make the continuity a lot better as the final
footage is easier for the audience to watch as it doesn’t
jump between cuts

26.  In the opening sequence it is important to keep the
shot length short to keep the audiences interest.
 However in our production our shots where probably
slightly too long as we wanted to keep the characters
face’s unknown until right at the end of the opening
sequence.
 Although keeping the identity of the character’s
hidden for the opening sequence fits in with the
mystery element of the fantasy genre.

27.  Is a music editing piece of software which we used to
edit our soundtrack. The software is already loaded
with loops that you can edit which is really good if you
aren’t able to compose your own music.
An example
screenshot of
Garageband

28.  To create a professional finish.
 Different pieces of software have different purposes eg.
film editing, music editing etc.

30. Preliminary
 Low quality
 Bad sound quality
 Bad acting
 Better continuity
 Better transitions
 Better sound quality
 Better acting
 Higher quality of camera
work
Final Product

31.  We were able to understand how to work the camera
and software properly so our final product was of a
higher quality
 The acting was better as the actors were more
comfortable in front of the camera