Tuesday 8 February 2011

G321 Preparation for Comedy Opening

After creating our openings for Juno, The Strangers and Vertigo, we decided on the genre of comedy for our opening. We felt this would be the most enjoyable to do, like the Juno opening, and thought it would challenge us and allow us to produce an original opening.

As a creative way to prepare for making of our film, we used jelly babies to produce a basic opening of a comedy film, creating characters and a shot list as practice. We had to decide on sound, titles, camera angles, the characters and the duration. 


These are the characters we created:


The 3 main protagonists
Female Protagonist


Male Antagonist

The use of the stereotypical teenagers is common amongst the comedy genre and we used them as easy characters to create a basic storyline with. In the opening, the female approaches the three protagonists before moving past them and stepping into the house of the male antagonist. The titles would appear as throughout the shots of the various characters and the title of "Her" would be shown in the first shot of the woman to distinguish that it was the title and related to that character.

These are the notes we used to help create the shot list: