Today, our media class all decided to ignore the horrific weather conditions, which consisted of A LOT of snow and an extreme risk of catching hypothermia..
We took the train to Southbank where we visited the British Film Institute for a course on Film Openings. The first half of the course introduced to us the basics of what is reflected from a film opening about the film as a whole - whether that be by its narrative, genre, setting or sound. Speilberg's Catch Me If You Can was one of the openings we watched, it is a very clever opening - created purely from the magic of graphics.
A little unrealistic as we need to incorporate a variety of shots in our project, not just animation.
Soon after being shown a couple more openings using a very useful website: http://www.artofthetitle.com, we were then able to listen to Daniel Kleinman, a commercials director. He shared his experiences during the making of titles for the Bond series - including, GoldenEye and Casino Royale. Heres one of Kleinman's commericials - this one is for planestupid.com
The animated polar bears are quite shocking, as well as the realistics of global warming. The hard hitting polar bears are effective in allowing the audience to sympathise with these statistics.
The last part of the course involved us viewing some previous AS media work. The first couple gave us an extremely clear idea of how to not film. The best one had to be The Premonition, which simply involved a teenage boy calling out "Is Anyone Out There?" in a strong Bristol accent.. I can safely say it should have come under the category of Comedy.
Heather was our film archiver for the day and put together this small film for us, which rounds up the day - managed to capture snowballs unexpectedly hitting Ms. Routledge's head..
Good start to the post Yasemin... love the film! So THAT'S what you get up to when I leave you for ONE minute...
ReplyDeleteWell done to Heather for archiving.