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With a general greeting, + explanation of what the blog is about, what it features. SELL the range + depth of content: multimedia content including vodcasts; lifting the curtain behind the scenes of pre-production, the shoots themselves, and reflecting on what we did...with a healthy dollop of theory thrown in!

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Hello! This blog charts my progress through my AS Media course, specifically my research into the media language of film openings (and the wider film industry), and the application of this insight into producing my own film opening! You'll find multimedia (vodcast, PowerPoint etc) analyses of multiple film openings, anything from the idents to narrative structure; dollops of applied theory (see below for example!); what I/we did for pre-production and the shoots themselves - and, of course, the post-production, with multiple edits and experiments with soundtracking, all exposed to sample audience feedback...

"The white hero’s journey here (Campbell), the quest for the Proppian archetype of the hero to achieve, is to topple the black producer (Ice Cube). So, some positives on gender, but not so ‘woke’ on race, with a disappointing racial stereotype?" [sample quote from my analysis of The High Note!]

FILMS I ANALYSED

Throughout the process, starting off looking for very general conventions (eg the use of narrative enigma within the opening sequence), I've been examining a wide range of film openings...

The playlist below contains (where available) the opening or (more frequently!) the trailer of each movie I have looked at for this work!

SOURCES I USED

You can find RSS feeds on the right for some of these ... I used a wide range of sites, e-zines and books to develop my knowledge and understanding of the film industry and the media language of film openings (including the genre I/we worked in) ... the following list gives you a flavour of this!

The FINAL CUT!

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Below you can find the final cut of my/our opening sequence for the film genre film Film Title ... and after that, a playlist of the sample scenes and rough cuts I/we tried out before completing post-production!

If you want to see even more, I/we have also embedded a playlist of audience feedback - though all of this content is also featured in themed posts!

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THE FINAL CUT OF GENRE OPENING FILM TITLE

Say something briefly about the use of music + (downloaded?) title fonts, maybe idents (identify company names + 'ownership')

PLAYLIST OF SAMPLE SCENES/ROUGH CUTS

Before I/we got to this stage we tried out a range of edits, reflected in the playlist below. You can find more detail on each in my Rough Cuts and Sample Scenes posts! Here's a few examples of how my/our vision changed and evolved over time...

(Comment briefly on some major changes you made + the examiner/reader will see from this playlist: provide a bulleted list of significant changes between each version)

AUDIENCE FEEDBACK

I/we've also blogged separately on audience; below you can find a playlist of some of the videos I/we shot to help us gain a clear picture of what sample viewers thought about each cut or sample scene. Some key points that came up, and I/we responded to, include: [again, a bulleted list]