On Tuesday of this week me and the rest of my classmates traveled up to London to have a seminar/question time about our final piece for media. Our final piece must be a 2 minute opening for a film and must included titles. Pete (The man who took the seminar) spoke to us about many aspects on how to make our film better than previous candidates and make them stand out to the examiners as better films. First we watched the opening sequences of films that were put into the cinema and made with millions of pounds worth of investment. All of the group perfectly identified the genre of the film whether it was a horror/slasher film or a comedy. What the group found difficult was identifying the narrative and atmosphere of the film from the openings. However after Pete gave us a few things to focus on eg The music used, The colours used or the noises used. We all started identifying and even explaining why they were used. After this we had a Q&A with a specialist in CGI and animations. He told about the work he has done everything from 'Hornblower' an old ITV series to recently the 'Game of Thrones' series on sky. He told us about the camera shots and photos they have to use to build up details on buildings.
I think that this workshop really helped me figure out how I am going to go about planing and filming my final piece. I would strongly recommend anyone to go and do this even if you're not a media student and just interested in film. You can find Pete's blog here---->http://petesmediablog.blogspot.co.uk/
