The Clues of Storytelling

I found this clip by Andrew Stanton on a website called www.ted.com

I thought it might be useful and utilise it for the group film opening. The clip is centred on story telling. Stanton makes the point that the audience "wants to work for their meal", meaning, the audience wants to deduce and become a detective for the film.

The clip also stresses the importance of the writers "liking" their characters and the whole journey a characters, meaning there must be a change from the starting point and the ending point.

Even in the opening sequence, if Fatima, Tanisha, Indiya and I are able to to start a story where the opening scene presents enigma codes as to what the films about or relate ourselves with the audience. To communicate with them.







 

Introduction to the Brief

Today we had an introduction to the brief of our main coursework task. We went through what our coursework entails.

Main Coursework Task: Create a title and opening sequence for an upcoming fictional film. The film must not last longer than two minutes.

Since hearing the news, my imagination has been running wild. But, despite my eagerness, I am curious to find out the key features of an opening sequence and how to bring my thoughts onto screen. I have to control myself and think realistically and understand the restrictions I face; such as budgetary restrictions.

I'm watching films and studying certain techniques to incorporate in my opening sequence, problem is, I don't know which genre I want to film. I essentially have no start, no beginning. 
I need actors as well, professional actors. 

Anyway...

Preliminary Task

For our preliminary task we had to create a scene for a fictional film that lasts for a maximum of two minutes.  We had to follow a set of requirements that the film must conform to: 

• The film must have Shot, reverse Shot.
• A minimum of five lines of dialogue.
• Must include Match on action.
• A character must walk through the door, sit down at a table and a conversation to ensue.
• Must abide by the 180 degree rule.
• Must last no longer than two minutes.

The Break Up Scene

Title Worksheet Analysis - Opening Sequence

Title Sequence Work Sheet

In this lesson, Mujo and I took a child's bedtime story (Tidy up, Ted) and adapted the story into a screenplay.
Tidy up