• Distributor: A film distributor is a company or an individual who is responsible for releasing films to the public by showing them in cinemas or for home viewing

• Producer: Is responsible for creating and overseeing the film for a distributor

• Lead Actor: Usually a famous actor or actress who will play a lead role or key character in the movie. Can be used as a way to gain publicity.

• Secondary Actors: Normally small named or new actors who gain a quite high ranking part.

• Casting: chooses who will play what part in the film. Will audition small named actors and will beg larger parts to star in the movie.

• Costume design: Creates the costumes for the actors to wear. Has to make sure that colour schemes will show the right things to an audience i.e bright clothes means a good guy.

• Composer: Creates the soundtrack to the film. Can add mood and suspense to areas.

• Director of photography: is in control of the Mise-en-Scene. Is responsible for what we see on screen.

• Director: Sets out how the shot is shown and how the actors play the scene.

• Screenplay writer: Wrote the story and script.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMScPVO4rLw&feature=related

opening scene to Love Actually.

watchthetitles.com

http://www.watchthetitles.com/articles/0091-Sweeney_Todd_The_Demon_Barber_of_Fleet_Street


This opening title sequence is able to give us a feel of the whole movie, and give away some facts without ruining the whole piece. Although we will not be able to use animation or computer graphics in our opening sequences I feel that the idea of showing objects or places that relate to what's about to come is a good effective way of starting a film and a technique I could use.


http://www.watchthetitles.com/articles/00177-The_Back_up_Plan


The opening for The Back Up Plan tells us the main goals of the protagonist and what the film will consist of (in this case the conceiving of a baby). The main point of this opening is to create a light-hearted atmosphere for the movie as we see policemen sucking dummies and a supposed flasher actually selling baby products. This is relevant to my work as I would like to try to make a Rom Com opening.

Understanding the difference between a trailer and an opening sequence

A trailer will have to include:


0 The best parts of the film
0 Fast paced editing
0 An idea of a story and genre, without spoilers
0 Interests an audience/ makes them want to see the film
0 Show any big named actors
0 A voice over telling us about the film
0 A website for more information (not a necessity)
0 Fast paced or relevant music





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An opening scene will need to:
0 Set the mood and scene
0 Introduce the characters or ideas
0 Give us some names of the actors/directors/ crew involved
0 An idea of the plot to follow
0 Establish viewers intrigue
0 Uses titles and font to set a mood





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I choose the title scene to 'A Series Of Unfortunate Events' as my second example due to its creative nature and use of a re-occurring motive of the eye. This motive relates to the movie and plays an important role in the film, so making it present in the opening is a good idea.

What we used

In our continuity task we included the use of match on action, eye line match, the 180 degrees rule and a master shot. Match on action is where an object or person is shown in different shots but flows smoothly, with movements not having the shot jitter or skip actions, or when food is eaten in a shot and then is still there. Eye line match is when a person looks at something of shot and the item is then shown. using eye line match makes sure that where the person is looking is where the object is. the 180 degree rule makes sure that shots of two different people are on opposite sides of the screen when cutting between shots to show that they are on opposite sides to each other. a master shot is a wide shot of the scene to let the audience work out where everyone and everything is in a scene so they can understand how they are related to each other

We used match on action when the girl walked through the door and sat down, as we made the actions flow together so it didn’t confuse the audience by cutting randomly. We used eye line match during the conversation between the two people as one person asks a question and is looking in the other persons direction and this shows the audience where ,in the scene, the other person that they were talking to is. We used the 180 degree rule through out the task, but mainly when the people are talking to each other so the shot doesn’t change and confuse the audience. We used the master shot when we showed a mid-long shot of the two girls sitting at the table, setting the scene for the audience.