Opening film settings

For our film opening the characters of Rosie and Alice will meet at a field where they will be having a picnic. We have took inspiration from the film The Time Traveller's Wife of where they meet at a picnic spot in a field. I have attached below the image that shows this.

Our individual idea's for the film opening

These are the initial ideas that we came up with individually. By doing this we were able to put different aspects of everyone's ideas together to start to come up with out first idea as a group. 

My idea - My idea for the film opening is that it should be a Thriller Fantasy genre but includes supernatural events of a person's life experience. An added idea to this is that the films ending actually starts at the beginning. The beginning which is actually the ending is a person walking around with a camera following over their life whilst they tell a story of what has happened. The scene from them walking will fade into the past to show you the event that had occurred. 

Laura's idea - About a girl who discovers she's not alone (didn’t have any friends) as she meets a girl, but later on its revealed she's ghost. The opening will be start of the story with a voice over. The genre will be thriller/fantasy.

Mollie's idea - What I would want to happen in my film opening is to have narration all the way through it but to have the opening of the story playing in the background also, so the narration is explaining what is happening but not giving to much away, just getting us hooked into it. Then when the narration has finished the screen fades into a bright light and then the actual film would start.

Sky's idea - What I would want to happen in my film opening is to have narration all the way through it but to have the opening of the story playing in the background also, so the narration is explaining what is happening but not giving to much away, just getting us hooked into it. Then when the narration has finished the screen fades into a bright light and then the actual film would start.

Collage of 50's dresses

Through further research I have put together a collage of actual 50's wear, this could be used or at least considered for our opening scene fashion. 

Research for Film Opening

For our film opening one of our groups idea's is for the scene to be set in the year of 1950. For this I have researched into the fashion, and have drawn out some of what I had found, which could help us for when we think about the fashion we will need for our film opening. 

First of all I had looked into the colours of what they had used which were mostly quite bright and pale colours like reds, violets, blues, greens and oranges, and as I looked further into it I came across a lot of these type of outfits that are in the picture below. 

Secondly, I had found that all the shoes were very similar for young girls, they were all usually plain black or brown dolly shoes complimented by a bright white pair of frilled socks, these were usually worn to add the nice, cute and innocent affect, which in our film we are going for with the main characters being young and emphasising the innocence of her. 

 Both before and after I had looked into the clothes I kept coming across the same patterns over and over with this being mainly polka dot and stripes, main red followed by black, pink, blue and green. I had also come across checkered patterns which were either striped checks or filled checked material.

Mood Board - Font

This is a mood board we have created to show some of the fonts used in other films in the genre we are doing, these are some ideas we can keep in mind for our own.

Mood Board

Here we have created a mood board showing some pictures from films to do with our genre. 

Questionnaire Results - Female

                                                           

When asked ‘Do you skip the title of a film depending on how they are presented?’ this was the females responses:

§  ‘I don’t really pay any attention’

§  ‘No’

§  ‘Sometimes’

When asked ‘Would you watch a film based on other people’s opinions?’ this was the females responses:

§  ‘Yes’

§  ‘Depends on the opinion’

§  ‘If someone recommended a film, then I would watch it’

When asked ‘ Does the opening titles affect your decision to carry on watching the film?’ this was the females responses:

§  ‘No’

§  ‘Not really’

§  ‘Yes’

When asked ‘What interests you in the opening titles?’ this was the females responses:

§  ‘Sound, credits’

§  ‘Colours, images and what’s going on’

§  ‘The music and how the characters are presented’

§  ‘How its presented – the link with the film’

§  ‘Nothing’

Questionnaire Results - Males

These are the results we got from the males who filled out our questionnaire.

Questionnaire

This is the questionnaire that we handed out for our research.