film institutions

Walt Disney institution is one of the five biggest conglomerate companies in the world. This type of company is where one main company owns all different types of smaller companies. For example Walt Disney is the main company and it owns touchstone pictures, holly wood pictures, ABC.com, ESPN and many more. They own more companies then you would ever imagine.

Walt Disney owns touchstone pictures this type of company makes films that contains violent scenes and adult behaviour, but when watching the titles you don’t see the Walt Disney logo, this is because they don’t want to be associated with violent behaviour in film because they are a family orientated company. 

other institutions 

The other four conglomerate companies are Sony corparation of America who owns 'Columbia pictures', News corparation who owns '20th Century fox', Time Warner who owns 'Waner Brothers' and Viacom who owns 'Paramount'

film opening shots

Shots:

My partner and me had to think about the different types of shots we should use in our film opening

Finally after had spoken about it and discussed the different shots we had chosen the ones that we wanted to include.

Close up: we used this shot because we felt that it was quite effective because you can see the characters facial expression clearly and how they are feeling.

Long shot: we used this type of shot because we felt that it was effective because it shows where the shot is being taken.

Match on action: we used this shot because it effective because it shows two people having a conversation in one shot

Extreme close up: we used this shot because we felt as1 if this was dramatic and also you can see their emotions even clear than a close up.    

over the shoulder: we used this type of shot because we felt that it was very dramatic and would leave the audience wanting to know who the person was and why he/she was there 

film ratings

When researching what target audience me and my partner was going to be making our film for. We researched information about different ages and what the age rating meant and if it was appropriate.

U stands for Universal. When a film is rated U this means it is suited for any age. This can be animated or a film with normal actor’s. They don’t contain any violence or scene that are inappropriate to viewers of a young age.

PG stands for parent guardian. This means that children under 13 have to be supervised by an adult or someone over the age of 18.  PG films mainly contain bad language, violence and brief nudity. 

12A means if you are over the age of 12 you are aloud to watch this film without being with an adult. 12 rated films may contain strong language and sexual references.

Rated 15 mean that you have to be at least 15 years of age to watch this film without an adult. Rated 15 films may contain strong language, sexual references and mature themes.

Rated 18 means that you have to be 18 or over to view this film. Rated 18 films mainly contain very strong language, violence senses and sexual senses.

My partner and me have chosen to rate our film 15 because it may contain some strong language and mature features.

Final Film

This is mine and my partners opening for our film, it's called the Social Stalker

brain storms

here are some images on our opening ideas, we narrowed it down to 2 different types of genres. 

genres

Research..

For our research we watched the opening to different films. We decided to go with ever thriller or Rom-Com for our genre. We started off watching a range of thrillers and made notes whilst me watched. The first film we watched was The butterfly effect.

The butterfly effect...

In the butterfly effect we noticed at the beginning the outline of the main male actor was blurred at his was on the other side of the window. You could see this figure moving down the corridor slowly, this added tension as you want to know where he is going and who he is, also there is a sound of high pitch noises being played in the background. Then he comes crashing though the door fairly fast and the music has change to drum noises which are low pitched. The actor is franticly running around then office sense and pushing tables in front of the door, he then goes and gets under the desk and starts to write a letter. When he is writing the words “Save Her” it creates an extreme close up on those two words, this makes us think what does he mean by save her and who is she? The title of the film come up after then then it breaks to an establishing shot.

The dark knight...

In the dark knight the first sense is an establishing shot of the city. It then does to a bank. We could hear that there was a noise of helicopters flying over, it then turns into a loud low/medium pitch sound. Then you see a man standing on the corner of the street holding a clown mask you, this makes us wonder why he has that and what he plans to do with it. We never see his face only the back of his head, he then puts the mask on and walks into the bank with others wearing the same masks. There are a lot of gun shots and shouting. There are other clowns all over the city doing things with this same bank job, they all end up killing each other because its part of a plan. One of the sense that is exciting is when the bus comes though the wall and then just drives off like nothings happened. There are a lot of closes ups and mid shots as there are conversations being made. At the end of the sense you just see and hear police turning up to the crime sense. We liked this film because it has a lot of action and we wanted to know what was going to happen next.

Rom-Com

Rom-com are romantic comedies, these mainly have a light hearted feel to them and don’t really have any major bad things happen. They have dilemmas that are soon sorted out. They mainly have only two main characters that end up falling in love or breaking up. They are funny with some sad or serious elements.

target audience

Me and my partner have decided that for our opening the genre would be a Thriller. So there for we thought that the most suitable target audience would be between 15 and 24 year olds. we felt that the types of things that they would want us to include in our opening would be dramatic music, voice overs,  sharp cutting scenes, loud sounds, sharp movements, title of film. casrting listing.