Screen Shots

The Key features for an opening sequence

The first key feature would be titles as the audience know what they are watching and what type of film they are watching. the audience can tell a lot from the title which makes start to think about what is going to happen in the film. The titles can be right at the start of the film or just after a clip of the film which can make the audience think about the title. 

From this title we can tell that the film will be childish but fun from colours and font used. the background shows that the film will be light hearted and happy. the font is bold which draw our attention and make us wonder what might happen in the film.

Credits

Credits can be shown at the start or end of the movie. Some films like to shown the actors/ actresses from the start to show who is playing who and excited about who is going to be in it. it draws the audience in because we want to watch a certain actor or actress.  other films have them at the end as they want to create suspense so that the audience watch the whole film to find out the name of the certain actor/ actress. it makes the audience think about who the actor or actress is in the film.

As we can see from this film Rango unless you are interested in animated movies you are not likely to want to watch this film but knowing that Johnny Depp is included in the cast we are more likely to watch it even if we did not like animated movies. E.g some people watch moves because of the actors or actresses in the film rather than the actual film and story line.

Opening music

In every film there is music during the opening titles/ sequence which gives an in sight to the genre and type of film you will be watching. the type of music used would be related to the the type of film.

E.g The opening sequence to Cinderella has  fairytale music which shows to the audience that it will be a happy film .

Justifying which classifaction our film is.

By looking at the BBFC website we decided that our opening sequence would be classified as a 'U' this means that it is impossible to predict what might upset any particular child. But a ‘U’ film should be suitable for audiences aged four years and over.‘U’ films should be set within a positive moral framework and should offer reassuring counterbalances to any violence, threat or horror.

We chose this classification as our childrens opening sequence doesn't involve any bad influence language no imitable behaviour no sign of horror or drugs. Our film is particularly suitable for a pre-school child to view alone.

Comparing our film with a professional film.

The film we are comparing our characters from our children's opening is toy story.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGe4HEgtscQ 

The characters in our opening are an ensemble. they have no specific names where as Toy story has main characters which we as an audience know and then they have ensemble characters which we may or may not know. 

Lego man 1 - Red stripe on top

Lego man 2 - Blue hat

Lego man 3 - Green hat

Lego man 4 - Cream soldier outfit

The main character in our opening is lego man 1 as we show a close up of his shocked face. from this we can immediately guess who the main character is even if we do not know the name. this is seen in Toy Story when we as an audience realise that Woody is the main character as he in introduced from the start of the film. the other characters are just as important as Lego man 1 but we do not realise from the start whether they play a big part in the film , this is shown in Toy Story when we meet the other toys which we do not know who they are from the very start.

From the film opening Children can learn who the main characters are and symbolises young children with their friends and the things they like to do as a group of friends. In this case it would be an adventure which many young boys and girls find that this is the sort of game they would play in the garden which is significant to them as they can relate to what is happening. 

Children may think that it is okay to be told what to do all the time even when it is someone they do not know which in a way is not a good thing but children can start to realise that when they are told to do something in school or at home that has good consequences it is for the right reasons.

Our intended audience

We intended that our audience would be for young children especially young boys that are interested in Lego and adventure films. the age range would be 5-12. We tried to influence the audience to watch our film by focusing in on face expressions of the characters. We also added music from garage band that has created tension that draws the audience in. We added a rhetorical question and left it on a cliff hanger at the end of the opening sequence to makes the audience want to watch more and it has left then thinking what is going to happen next.

final childrens film opening - legoland the adventure

In the process of making our opening sequence of our film we fell that using stop motion was challenging. the thing we found the easiest was editing as it didn't need much. to improve next time we would use a different method of filming.