Analysis of Opening Sequences

Skyfall 2012

00:00 – 00:09                       James Bond falls into the sea with music lowering in volume

00:09 – 00:16                       Screen fades to black and a new song starts

00:16 – 00:20           Production Company

00:20 – 00:25           Daniel Craig

00:25 – 00.26            Skyfall

00:26 – 01:05           Starring…

01:06 – 01:08           Co-producers

01:09 – 01:14           Visual Effects

01:15 – 01:20           Script, Sound, Electric, Assistant Director

This Is England 2006

00:00 – 00:05           Scene from a TV show (with dialogue)

00:05 – 00:07           FilmFour and the UK Film Council Present, Music Begins

00:07 – 00:10           Clip from the 80’s  (with no sound)

00:10 – 00:12           In Association with EM Media and Screen Yorkshire

00:12 – 00:15           Another silent clip from the 80’s

00:15 – 00:18           A Warp Films Production

00:18 – 00:21           Another silent clip from the 80’s

00:21 – 00:23           In Association with Big Arty Productions

00:23 – 00:27           A Shane Meadows Film

00:27 – 00:41           This Is England over a clip from the 80’s

00:41 – 02:07           Names of Actors appear on screen over various clips from the 80’s

02:07 – 02:12           Script Supervisors, Casting, Hair and Make up The Clips that the names are placed on get more violent

02:14 – 02:19           Costume, Hair and Make up, Production Designer

02:23 – 02:28           Music Supervisor, Original Music

02:34 – 02:39           Director of Photography

02:44 – 02:49           Editor

02:53 – 02:57           Line Producer, Co-Producer

03:00 – 03:08           Executive Producers

03:14 – 03:20           Producer

03:24 – 03:32           Writer and Director

03:32 – End               Screen Fades to Black

Anuvahood 2011

00:00 – 00:10           Two characters walking and a man is playing his guitar

00:10 – 00:21           A woman breaks the guitar and shouts at the singer while hip hop music plays, A Film by Adam Deacon

00:21 – 00:25           Anuvahood on a white background

00:25 – 00:30           Starring Adam Deacon the two characters are walking

00:30 – 00:34           Femi Oyeniran a man is clamping a tyre

00:34 – 00:38           Ollie Barbieri, The man clamping the tyre starts dancing

00:38 – 00:42                       Jazzie Zonzolo The two character are walking

00:42 – 00:46                       Michael Vu An Indian man is opening his shop

Our Media Trip The British Film Institute (BFI)

My media class had a trip to the British Film Institute in Central London which was a seminar about our coursework. The seminar began with Pete (a former media studies teacher at Cambridge University) showing us a few opening sequences from www.artofthetitle.com. The opening sequences we watched were Napoleon Dynamite (2004) and Catch Me If You Can (2002).

• Catch Me If You Can was an example of an animated opening sequence that was maybe too difficult and complex for us to do as our coursework but it was a good example to show how professionals would do it in the industry.

• Napoleon Dynamite was an example of a more simple opening sequence that Pete suggested was a good idea for an opening sequence. It was filmed over a table where the names of all the producers, actors, etc. were written on everyday objects.

On the trip, we also learnt a lot of valuable tips as Pete also showed us some opening sequences other students filmed at A-level. This showed us that we shouldn't show too much action in the opening sequence as other students had done.

Preliminary Task

Me, Mustafa and Ali had grouped together for our preliminary task. It was the first time any of us used the equipment so it was a learning task to allow us to develop our skills.