Research - Holiday Homework

I watched the opening for Murder By Death and the opening for An Education

Murder By Death

In this opening you see titles in capital letters in a large white plain font.
Sound

The clip starts with the slow playing of a piano which slowly gets faster as the clip goes on. The music plays throughout the whole clip and gets faster and louder all the time. Different instruments join in as it goes along and it begins to sound like an orchestra. Although i would class this as a discreet opening, the tense mucic makes the person watching have a small insight as to what the film will be about by the sounds that are used. The sound is non - diegetic.

Mise - En - Scene

 The first thing you can see on camera is a big brown box with a padlock on it, then you see a persons hand take the padlock off and open the box. After that you see inanimate paper people until the end of the opening, The paper people are not colored in but the actions they are stuck in gives the audience an insight as to what the film will be about.

Camera

At the start the camera is facing the box from a high angle. When the box is opened it then tilts up so the audience can see the contents of the box. It then zooms in so you get a clearer view of the miniture paper people. From then the camera tilts and pans so you can see the faces and expressions of the paper people. Finally at the end it zooms into the paper door and the film starts from there.

Editing

Finally for editing the scene fades in at the very start, after that there are just cuts when you see the miniture paper characters.


An Education
http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/an-education/#

Sound
At the start you can hear a light cheerful piano playing this also caries on throughout te whole opening and gives the audience the feeling that it is going to be a nice film.


Mise - En - Scene
For the first 43 seconds of this opening you can see titles over a black screen and animated effects. After that you see the narrative side of this opening with the girls in uniform walking with books on their heads .


Camera
Some of the camera angles in this used are...

• Tilting
• Tracking
• Panning
• Extreme High angle