Divine Decree Opening Sequence

Royalty Free websites

Incompetech
Royalty-Free Music
Pond5 -
Freeplay Music
The Music Bakery
Partners in Rhyme
NEO Sounds
Audio Micro
The Beat Suite




These sites all helped me to find appropriate music to suit the genre and style of my film opening (all linked to websites)

Shots

Continuity Shot Example 








The 'Jaws' Shot 

Key Media Words

Composition - Composition is the complete arrangement of the scene by the director. It includes the Camera angles, Editing, Footage, movement, lighting and also the characters used. Its the plan, place and arrangement of the scene. 

Framing- Framing referes to the camera work of a video media, it referes to the size and the proportion of the objects, characters and props within the whole frame.

 "It is an inevitable process of selective influence over the individual's perception of the meanings attributed to words or phrases. A frame defines the packaging of an element of rhetoric in such a way as to encourage certain interpretations and to discourage others."

Rule of Thirds - the rule of thirds is a media term which referes too how things are presented and proportionalised within the frame. 'The theory is that if you place points of interest in the intersections or along the lines that your photo becomes more balanced and will enable a viewer of the image to interact with it more naturally' 

Rule of Third Example 

Connotation - connotation within media relates to the associated or secondary meaning of a word orexpression in addition to its explicit or primary meaning: Apossible connotation of “home” is “a place of warmth,comfort, and affection. For example within my film the title - Divine Decree is another way of saying karma, this then relates to the frase what goes around comes around. The title suggests horror and also alot of revenge although it is not directly addressed. The use of dark colours within the opening 'connotes' the film is going to be quite scary. 

Denotation - Denotation referes to the explicit or direct meaning or set of meanings of a wordor expression, as distinguished from the ideas or meaningsassociated with it or suggested by it. It is the litereal description of what something is. 

Mise-en-Scene -

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hat is placed in a scene, or more specifically how individual shots in a film are composed. The content of a shot may include setting, lighting, spatial relationships etc. The term originally referred to the scenery and setting of a play, or the visible surroundings of an event. The assembly of objects within a space e.g. lights, dress, costume, gesture, make-up, behaviour etc

Genre -  

A specific type of film, newspaper, radio or television production. Examples of genre in film are action films, musicals, love stories, westerns, Sci fi, horror, documentary and T.V soaps. In audio examples are drive time, news, music radio and radio soaps. In print examples are comics, broadsheets, tabloids and magazines.

How opening fonts have evolved over time...

One very important convention used in all film opening is the font style used to introduce the producers, directors, music directors and also some of the actors staring within the film. Over time the text used within the openings of the horror genre has evolved and made the openings of horror films today much more effective, not by exaggerating the font style but by simplifying it however still in relation to the film. By doing this it promotes a sense of realism about the film, the over exaggerated font styles almost makes the film seem a joke or a comedy - so much so the scary movie films (a sequence of films made which mimic/take the mickey out of previous horror films made) have used an exaggerated font style.

1927 - The 13th Hour 

1931 - Dracula 

1931- Frankenstein

1944 - dead mans eyes

1958 - Monster on the campus

1960 - Psycho

1968 - Night of the Living Dead 

1978 - halloween

1996 - Scream 

2005- An american Haunting

2010 -  A nightmare on Elm St 

2011 - 11- 11 - 11 

2011 - The Task 

As you can see the titles and fonts of films has changed drastically over time, the common conventions of red, blacks and dark dull colours are now used within horror films in opposition to the blues, yellows, greens etc which were used many years ago. The names of films has also become much more simpler and effective. 

Evaluation - Question 7

At the beginning of this project i had a brief knowledge on camera angle's, camera shots and the different aspects of filming etc however I was not experienced with using the filming equipment or some of the software such as Premiere Pr. However after much practise throughout the project I feel I have gained lots of knowledge on both the technological software/hardware used and now feel very confident using the software. 

After re watching and evaluating the preliminary task i feel i have progressed alot mainly concerning the camera angles and the editing because I have obviously become more confident using the equipment. I have been able to use the prelim task as guidence on what i did well and also to learn from my mistakes and what went wrong.

Obviously in comparision to my final film opening my preliminary  task was reasonably short meaning that there was a limit of angles, shots and editing techniques i could use, however there was still many more shots/angles I could have used when filming to make it more intresting, but i did stil use quite a variety of shots such as: 

• an over the sholder shot 
• 180 degree rule
• continuity shot 
• match on action 
• And many more

by using these shots in my prelim task I was able to use them well within my film opening due to the fact that i had practised. 

I have learnt how to use a range of shots and camera angles to make the footage look more effective and scary. Within my opening sequence I used shots varying from: wide establishing shots, Close Ups, Extreme Close Ups, Tilt Shots, continuity shots, following shots, mid shots, medium close ups, Two Shots, match on action, panning shots and I did attempt a vertigo shot however it did not go as expected and the finished piece did look better without it ! 

As well as using the abouve shots effectivley I also used a variety of camera angles to make the filming look more interesting and also to again add tension and eeriness into the opening. For example i used a low angle shot to appear as if some one was creeping up on the person and watchin them from below - however the character was totally oblivious to this still. I also used a high angle shots to represent some one watching from abouve and also again to make the shot more interesting. I used eyelevel shots also and POV shots so the audience would feel in the characters shoes. 

Prelim Shots 

Following Shot

Continuity shots  

 

Over the Sholder shot 

180 degree rule 

Opening Sequence shots 

 Close Up

Extreme Close Up  

 Following Wide shot 

 Mid shot/ 180 degree rule 

 Establishing Shot 

 Panning Shot

 POV shot 

 Two shot 

 High Angle shot 

 Medium close up/ Low angle 

 Continuity Shot 

As you can see throughout my project I have learnt many new camera angles and shots and have applied them well to my film opening!