After having two attempts at filming the material we needed for our final idea, we have decided to reconsider and come up with a totally new concept. We have ruled out our last idea because the footage we could get was not of a high enough quality and therefore would not have gotten us the grade my group and I are aiming for.
So, our new idea for an opening sequence is a Christmas themed coming of age film called "Lonely This Christmas"
This plot is about a lady protagonist who is organising her Christmas party for family and friends and one by one the people she has invited call her to make excuses why they can't make it. In relation to the main narrative, the opening sequence will only show the part that I have just mentioned, and the reason for this is that she made a terrible mistake in her childhood which caused her to fall out with everyone, and has left her with no friends now. The film itself will show the audience the mistakes she has made in her childhood which leave her in this situation she is in now, and how she deals with the errors she makes and leads to her isolation from society.
Some of our inspirations for this opening title sequence are Home Alone and Almost Famous, which are both very famous and successful coming of age films. The style of the sequence is what we liked from the latter film, and the Christmas theme and typography from the Home Alone film will also influence our decisions when it comes to production.
The opening sequence will be composed of a collection of cross-cuts to lots of different things associated with Christmas such as:
~ Candles
~ Christmas tags
~ Napkins
~ Baubles
~ Stockings
~ Bucks Fizz
~ Radio Times Christmas Edition
~ Christmas tree
~ Tables settings
~ Presents
However in between these momentary cuts will be close ups of the protagonist writing Christmas cards quite formally, so to people she isn't very close to, and also snippets of phone conversations where you can only see the bottom half of her face and hear her half of the phone calls with the people who are cancelling.
The credits will be placed among the ambient shots of Christmas things, and we will edit royalty free Christmas music lightly over the top of the scenes, along with a narrative of dialogue for the phone conversations.
Furthermore, the opening sequence will end with a bit of footage of her writing a diary entry with notes such as " I regret it all " and " I wish I hadn't done that " and then end with a clip that starts to go into a flashback, indicating to the audience that the opening sequence will then be explained.
Learning Comment:
After a discussion with the rest of my group, classmates and teacher, we have decided to come up with a new idea for our opening sequence. The planning we have now done for this new idea appeals to me, and I hope will appeal to our audience a lot more. This piece of planning is just a guide as to how we are going to put our opening titles together, and has made me realise where we were going wrong in our last idea. For example, unrealistic shots and camera angles, and also the themes that would be highlighted in the sequence are quite bleak rather than intriguing.
Target Audience = Demographic E
Secondary Audience = Demographic D & E
Produced by Vertigo films (UK)
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
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