NEXT STEP!!!

When looking for inspiration there is a no better place than Netflix. My group and i went through film openings today from all of the three genres we are looking at, Drama, Romance, and Comedy. From all of this we hoped we would gain the common characteristics of each genre opening so we know how to start ours when we finally chose our genre. So to start we watched film openings a drama film.

This may be cheesy, and also one of the worst movies ever, but the  Twilight film  isn't so bad. 

Up until the long shot and the tilt from the shinning sun to Bella, the main character, we hated. However we loved the tilt and the voiceover!!! The voiceover in comparison with the shots that follow the moves and topics of the voiceover. With our film we would love to follow that simplistic way of introducing the character and even alluding to a part of the conflict which is that she is moving. However the first half of the opening is terrible with the quick shots and the randomness compared with the voiceover and it simply won't fit our more realistic film ideas. 

We also watched the opening on the film The Switch

This film again features a voiceover which my group is starting to show special interest in. We love the time lapse for this opening especially compared to the voiceover talking about his life and time. We also liked how the show the location of the movie by simply just writing it on a black screen. Its so easy and gets the message across so well. However we do not like the periods of time lapse without much sound or absence of voice over. With such short time for our film we wanted each second to matter. My group saw how cool time lapses can be and how you can introduce your character at the end to match the voice with the face and how straight forward that can be. 

Now the third opening we watched was from the comedy Superbad

The opening credits was perfect for this film because that is something we are really interested in doing. The dance scene was very engaging and got the job done of putting all the opening credits into the opening. This film didn't have a voiceover and instead had actual dialogue, shocker. We loved and shots of the the two main characters on the phone because it does a perfect job in introducing both characters which is a concept we wanted to do in our own opening. The music when introducing the boy in the car is a great way to show character development. WE ALSO LOVED how the sound changed between each character and helps show the difference in location.

So so far we are pretty much stuck on our genre choice but we really like all of these intros but seem to be leaning towards the simplicity of the twilight opening and how we can create a plot around such an opening.

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