This document summarizes an opening film sequence about a sports drama. It discusses the genre, other inspirational films, characters, narrative elements, tone and atmosphere, cinematography, editing, sound, mise-en-scene, the impact on audiences, fonts used in titles, and conventions around stereotypes. The sequence focuses on details in a stadium through insert shots to set the theme of a struggling football team. It aims to make the audience feel the mood and disappointment of the team's poor season through a melodramatic soundtrack and facial expressions of the manager.

1. Conventions and
Representations
By Oska Dean
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2. Genre
- Our opening film genre was a Sports
Drama.
- The key iconography in this opening
sequence was the stadium and our
manager.
- The majority of our shots
were focusing on the details within the
stadium which was to signify the
theme of the story.
- We also had a small amount of insert
shots of the manager to show that he
was the owner of this club and
stadium.
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3. Other Products
For our products we looked
at for ideas we came across
a few films that gave us
some inspiration.
We looked at:
- Moneyball (2011)
Bennet Miller – following
Baseball coach Billy
Beane (Brad Pitt).
- Coach Carter (2005)
Thomas Carter –
following Coach Ken
Carter (Samuel L.
Jackson).
- Million Dollar Arm (2014)
Craig Gillespie -
following J.B (Jon
Hamm).
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(shot from our
sequence
similar with
the others).

4. Characters
What we found similar
about characters were the
storylines behind them, this
is because all of the
characters we found came
from the bottom to the top.
Our manager's story was
told through the sound,
which would give the
audience the idea that our
team had a bad season.
We also attempted to
convey the emotion through
the mise En scene facial
expressions which would
connote an idea and give
the audience a good image
of disappointment
Facial
expression
conveying
disappointment
Dialogue in
Moneyball
portraying themes
of constant losses
and poor form,
similar with ours.
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5. Narrative
We focused largely on our narrative as we did not do
much storytelling through shots.
We had different narratives such as phone-in calls, post
match reports and in-game commentary.
'I don’t believe that, that
is terrible'.
'an absolute shambles and
embarrassment'.
'but this manager has come to
the end of the line'.
'every week, we get stiffed by
the refs decision'.
'I feel physically sick to be
honest'.
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6. Tone/Atmosphere
Our atmosphere we tried to create made the audience
picture what the team was going through.
We tried to make the tone quite moody to match the
team's poor season, therefore it would give the
audience a good idea of the storyline and what would
come after the opening sequence.
We matched the dialogue with a melodramatic
soundtrack which would exaggerate the dialogue to
make it more noticeable.
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- Editing – slow paced long takes
with a still camera shot.
- Camera – mainly insert shots and
close ups to focus on small
details
- Sound- non diegetic, however
small ambience towards the end
when focusing on manager
- Mise-En-scene – costumes
mainly manager stereotypes
(tracksuits) located at a stadium
and bright lighting, facial
expressions of the manager

7. The impact
 Why – We used this CSEM because we thought
that it matched the theme very well, slow editing
paced combined with a slow soundtrack goes hand
in hand.
 What – The impact on the audience makes it more
appealing for them to watch, as the insert shots
show small details about the club, they can also
listen to the soundtrack at the same time which
keeps them engaged.

8. Fonts
- In our sequence we chose the font that reinforced
the ideologies of a masculine football theme, we
wanted a thick blocky font which connoted
masculinity.
- Our original colour was black as it is more
masculine but we changed it to white as it fit better
with the shots and colouring
- We used an animation of fade-in with the shots as
it made our overall sequence look better.
Our original font before
the changes
Our new font, which was the
result of our change.
The font was also made bold
to stand out even more.
OUR FONT AFTER
THE CHANGE

9. Stereotypes/Conventions In our opening sequence we did not
really challenge any conventions,
our sequence had strong themes of
masculinity in a male dominated
industry.
This reinforced the stereotypes to
familiarise the audience with similar
pieces that have been produced.
This was mainly shown through the
soundtrack and all of the voices being
male, furthermore the only time there
was onscreen presence we showed a
man.
Only onscreen character shown as a man,
reinforces stereotypes as football is
stereotyped to be a male dominated industry.