Saul Bass

Saul Bass was a designer who pioneered the opening title sequence. He is a good source of inspiration for opening titles but tended to create stand alone title sequences, rather than title sequences within the action, which is what we are looking to create with our film opening. An example of his work is below.

BFI Day

Yesterday we went to the British Film Institute to an AS Media study day during which we were able to analyse the content of film openings such as 'Casino Royale', 'Napoleon Dynamite' and 'Donnie Brasco'. We also took part in a Q&A with the director of horror film 'The Hallow', Corin Hardy. The whole day was very useful in highlighting what we needed to focus on from now on in terms of our film openings. All of the content from the day can be found on this website.

Location Scouting

A vlog from today when we went location scouting in central London.

Filming Dates

We have established which days we will be filming on and they are as follows:

• Saturday 14th November- we will film some establishing shots of Central London
• Saturday 21st November- we will film all external Central London shots such as by St. Paul's Cathedral, Parliament, the Millenium Bridge, the London Eye and the Shard as well as the shot on the train into London. 
• Sunday 22nd November- we will film all internal shots from the start of the film opening as our protagonist gets ready for her job interview, the location for this will be my house.
• Monday 23rd November- we will film the final few shots including an external of Enfield Civic Centre to establish that the location of the interview is a professional building. We will also film inside our school on Monday for the final few internal shots.

Shot Ideas

Last week we were thinking about the shots we would use in our film opening and wrote them down, which is shown here:

Some of these need refining but this is our initial list. The next step will be to storyboard these ideas. 

Gogglebox Task

Here is a version of Gogglebox that we made, which has helped to improve our editing skills.

Update Vlog

Here's an update on our film opening and locations we are thinking of using.