Typically, in some ways our film follows the conventional young teen comedy; we used the Inbetweeners as a template and referred to the stereotypical characters such as, the main character which is the geek. Although, in a way our film does challenge many forms of the convention of real media for our characters such as, the 'greasy slob' as usually a man or a boy play this role rather than a women or girl. Initially, we thought of how to include something unique and different about our comedy that would distinguish our film from other comedy films in the first two minutes of our opening sequence, so we decided to focus on this specifically. We decide to make our production logo on photo shop, which was similar to other groups from our school however, the fact that our production logo is a record disk with a DJ-ing sound playing in the background gave our film some uniqueness.
Having looked at other films gave us inspiration to try these things in our film such as, four different personalities meet but we decided to tweak things in a certain way as we didn't want to copy it. For example, we looked at the Inbetweeners fro inspiration on our characters and target group. As the Inbetweeners is aimed at teens and involves a group of geeks but a variety of characters are actually involved in the programme such as, bullies. A convention of a comedy is generally to have a geek in it such as, Nypolean Dynamite. We have used this convention to reflect our genre of comedy.
Frame 1:
This first shot allows us to give an establishing shot of the courtyard/school as this gives more of a variety of shots.Additionally, this adds more to the story as from the geek running in the courtyard the next shot is then with the geek running into the corridor. This is the fourth shot that appears on the screen, except for the production logo, the geek banging on the locker and then geek coming out of the locker.
Frame 2:
This is the second shot where the geek is locked in the locker by the bullies. On this shot we can also see one of the main characters names which is in turquoise to portray the genre of our film which is 'comedy'. This type of font including the colour is used throughout the beginning of our production to give the audience the feel of our movie even if they do not see the rest of the film they know that it is comedy; this is used until the main character actually enters the class room.
Frame 3 This close up also freeze frame of the geeks foot conveys the genre of our film which is comedy as well as creating a humorous atmosphere as the geeks is wearing white socks and sandals. The fact that the title of our opening sequence which is '4faces' as cited in the print screen of the shot, appears on the geeks foot adds to the funny atmosphere.
Frame 4:
This shot fades into another shot of the popular girl applying make up and then conducting cheer practice with her cheer group which she is the captain of, these shots support the voice over. The purpose of this shot is to indicate the elements that defines the characters personality and so on for the purpose of the audiences understanding. It also confirms to the audience who one of the four main characters are which is important so that the audience recognise the relevance of this to the rest of the film.
Frame 5:
This shot is relevant to the previous frames of the popular girl and the voice over, it develops the fact that this is an opening sequence which shows that these continuous frames are a form of introduction to various aspects for instance: characters, location and more. This also gives emphasis on 1 of the four faces.
Frame 6:
Here we see the boy that according to the voice over is the boy that everyone is after, nodding at the geek. This close up reveals to the audience another one of the main characters. Perhaps it possibly interacts with the audience in terms of getting to know the individual characters and their image.
Frame 7:
This particular frame supports the previous frame by adding more to this character as well as the story of this character. Similarly, this scene portrays how this character is treated in school. This sot allows the audience to see the mise en scene which is the lockeroom and helps in portraying this characters popularity in school.
Frame 8:
Here we introduce a new character but still one of the main characters. Through the costume we refer to the stereotypical greasy slob that is usually in most all comedies. However the fact that it is a girl does not necessarily comply with the stereotypical greasy slob as they role is usually played by a male rather than a female.
Frame 9 This is the second to last shot of our opening sequence it is filmed as a close up to indicate that the geek is weird also showing how different she is from the other 3 main characters that she is put into a group with. This also supports the voice over as the fact that she is in a lab all alone at lunch time shows her struggle of how she going to cope of being put into this group of diversity.
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