Completion

We have finally completed our opening sequence!! Today we worked on getting the credits done and I think they are really nice because the fonts are all different colours which suit our genre of a coming of age/ romantic movie. The music is also very effective as it creates a sense of exciting and happy atmosphere which is exactly what we wanted. Overall I am pleased with the finishing opening sequence and am glad we have completed it after all the hard work we put in :)

The Avengers- title sequence

Representation: Gender- Girl

In our opening sequence, we are going to be using representation of a stereotypical boy and girl. For the girl, I think we need to show that she fits into our genre of a typical 'girl', and so by showing her doing her make-up, hair, put on girly shoes and a dress, these are typically these we would expect when watching a coming-of-age/ romantic film. The room she is in is also very important and so by using colours (i.e.. purple, pink) that would typically be associated to a girl, this would represent the girl as stereotypically character and the audience can clearly see that she is a teenager. As this is a film aimed at a young adult audience of 14-25 years old, therefore we wanted to create issues that would be realistic to our target audience. Therefore, as the girl enters the room, she immediately becomes the 'love interest' for the boy, who sees her and finds instant attraction in her. This represents the girl as a typical coming-of-age/ romantic girl as the pretty girls in these movies nearly always appear to get the guys, making her appear as popular. Her use of products are also very girly, such as the gold glittery shoes makes her stand out and add to the aspects of presenting her as a stereotypical 'girly' girl. By the use of many close-up shots of her doing her make-up and her products, this gives more close detail of the main girl character and so the audience begin to connect with her as they follow her getting ready and going to the party.
 

Title for our opening sequence

As we have completed editing the sequence for our opening sequence, in today's lesson we looked at creating music for the party scene and finding the perfect title for our movie. We looked at many different examples of movie titles in romantic and coming of age film genres in order to get inspired and get an idea of the types of titles that would be most appropriate. 
We didn't want anything that was too cheesy and by looking at titles which other movies had, most of them were cheesy and included the word 'Love', and so we wanted to be more original in creating our title. Here are some movie titles I found of romantic/ coming of age genres: 

  

The title we have decided to give our movie is 'Snakes and Ladders' as we thought this would be appropriate for our genre and it wasn't something too cheesy. We decided to call this because in our movie the couple would go through ups and downs in their relationship, such as go through phases which may knock their relationship down, but then they might get back together and result in an equilibrium, climbing up the ladder again. I think this is an appropriate movie title because it suits our target audience well because it is aimed at young adults, and so they may be able to relate with these realistic situations in our movie.

Titles and Credits

In our group, we still haven't decided where it would be best to put the credits in our opening sequence. I have done some research into movies with our genre of coming-of-age  and romantic films in order to get some inspiration of where we should place our credits.

 The Wild Child:

In this movie, they have the opening title for their movie as soon as the girl wakes up and gets out of her bed. This is effective because we are immediately aware who the main character is and perhaps who the 'wild child' actually is so it may be also good if we have our title at the beginning rather than near the end. 

For the film the opening title appears along with the credits and before we see any of the character's. The pink makes it appear girly and so matches the coming-of age/ chick flick film. Therefore, in our opening sequence we will try to use colours that represent our genre of movie. As ours is a coming of age and romantic movie, using light colours can represent this genre rather than using darker colours, which makes it more like a horror movie.