Opening Sequence

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ8iLBSI-Po&feature=related

About a Boy (3:20)

The universal studies logo starts off the film. As the producer logos are coming up a voice over starts of the TV program 'Who Want To Be A Millionaire'. This starts as off screen sound but then as the picture comes up, you see that a man 'Hugh Grant' walks around his flat and the TV shows Chris Tarrent. The credits appear over the picture and they are in a very rounded relaxed font which makes you assume that the film is going to be a relaxing enjoyable film. They appear randomly over the screen and just fade in and out with again makes you think the film is going to be an easy feel good film to watch. The Titles are in white but when the actual title of the film appears it is in the centre screen and in black to make it stand out more. You don't see the characters head until the end of his monologue which creates enigma. the camera rarely stops moving which grabs the audiences attention as it makes them feel like they are moving with it. The non diagetic sound is a sound track and has a very happy tone. When the camera cuts to a boy laying in bed the happy music becomes slower and sounds more sad and the lighting is dark which makes you think this boy isn't very happy, again it creates enigma. the camera does not move as much which sets the tone that the emotions of this boy are slow and so are the camera. the music then fades and stops. This is so you can tell that the film is about to really start.

Things learnt from Preliminary Exercise.

After filming our preliminary excercise i now know how to use the camera, tripod and editing software (iMovie). Before this i new roughly how to work all of these things but now i feel as if i would be able to use them very easily. The tripod is very easy to use this will make things easier for when we come to film our real product we won't be wasting time trying to work out how to set it up. The camera again is very easy when you know how. As we are using school cameras and some of them are different it makes it a bit more confusing on how to use them but after doing this excercise i feel that i will be able to use them easily in the future. Finally we learnt how to use the editing software. At first this was very confusing with all the different buttons i didn't have a clue which ones to press to make it do what i wanted. But as i got the hang of it i realised that actually it is quite easy to use.

Preliminary Exercise