what is the diffrenece between a film opening and a film trailer?

Film openings

• Enigma codes (hook) - Barthes theory
• Focus on hero/main character (Propps theory)
• Establishing shot for setting - action shots character in role/doing something
• hint towards disequilibrium (Todorov) but not necessary for 2 minutes
• variety of shots
• titles
• makes the audience want to continue watching
• everything works together (music fits genre)

Film Trailer

• provides a summary of film plot (outline - without ending)
• character roles are more defined
• short varied clips from the entire film
• clear idea about equilibrium and disequilibrium
• music as a selling tool

storyboard edit, new shots

i couldn't do the shots in school because the people i wanted to be in it weren't free when i was free and i couldn't organize time after school because they work and having things to do, but they are free on Sundays and as I'm already doing shots at church i decided to do some other shots at church as well. the good thing about changing where I'm filming means that i have a lot more freedom to what i want without disturbing anyone, if i was filming in school it would probably be during lesson times so few classrooms would be free and filming might disturb lessons and there are a lot more people to get in the way.

i wanted to keep the fade in fade out transition between the doors closing and opening in so i had to work out how i could do that without changing the plot or setting to much,

Editing

I've done the first 29 seconds of my film opening and realy happy with how it looks, the first part is easy to do, but im having problems organizing people to the next section, the scene set in the church can only be filmed on a sunday so i have very limited times to do it in,

11 of my shots are set in the church so the vast majority of my filming needs to be done on a sunday the rest can all be done in school, but most people dont have free's the same time as me so i will have to organize some time after school quickly.

Pitch

Pitch

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My pitch for my orginal idea :D

prop changes

in my new storyboard, the idea was that there was a mysterious book, that was worth a lot of money, because of time limits and everything i've changed it to a laptop bag, this also means i can add a lot more shots in because i can do shots of people taking the laptop out of the bag even though im sure that all the shots i've already done will fill up the two minutes easily

Opening test

testing out my idea for the opening the full audio track is actually exactly 2:01 minutes long so i could do the whole opening with no other audio, but i think that'd be boring so around 1 minute the song fades out and theres some conversation and a different track starts up.

Titles test and new script

Credits test first! this was kind of the image that i had in mind, its just a basic mock-up of what I'm going to do and testing out transitions and the best effects to use, it still needs tweaking slightly i don't think the "CCTV camera effect" is right i think it needs to be in black and white and maybe slightly jumpy, also the text isn't right i think I'll look for some different texts to use.

Script

i mainly changed my project so i could base it around music rather then speech, dialogue tends to let people down so I'm using as little as possible.

Shot 16: Close up on student sat in front of mysterious person - "I hear they play drums during services"

Shot 17: Close up on the mysterious person - "Only to those who can hear them"

this is the sign to let the student know he/she has got the right person.

Shot 20: high angled point of view shot on mysterious person, who looks up at the student and takes the book - "Pleasure doing business."