reviewing "Welcome Home"

'Welcome Home' starts with the establishing shot is a pull focus shot, of a wire to fence to a house. There is an non-diegtic music playing in the background. Then cut to midshot of a road, the camera is most likely hand held camera as the shot was bobbing up and down and could view a little part of the dash board like the audience was in the car.  Then cut to the side like a person was looking out the window. Then it cuts to low angle shot in the back seats, postioned like a kid looking up. The creepy music is lower as the sound of the car is loud

reviewing what i like in opening sequences

 From the opening sequences i have watched already, the thrillers and horrors work better, because there is something happening and actually shooting it would be interesting. While the ones that are just panning over object and set are rather dull and repetitive. 

I would like there to be some dialogue but only a couple of lines. It's easier to not have anybody speak, as in some videos the dialogue falls a little flat and the sequence would have been better of with no dialogue. I prefer there to have some non-diegtic music, but not for the whole sequence as for me i like when the music build onto the tension for whatever is happening.

I prefer the sequences with characters in them and learning something small about them, it's only a couple of minutes. This is  why i don't think too much needs to be told about the character/s but enough to keep the audience interested. 

For shots, i like a range of different lengths and angles. I think i would have most the shot mid while when a character is showing distress or an emotion to have a close up. I would prefer to also shot on a location rather in a studio, just because in the studios it's still a set, rather on location it makes the sequence for me seem more authentic. 

Developing Ideas

In class today we named 10 thing from our childhood that were significant to us(text/media) and then if any of those relate to see if we like a certain type of thing and if any had things in common.

significant texts 

- the lion, the witch and the wardrobe film/book

- les miserable 

- chicago 

- power rangers 

- Mario Kart on the wiil

- the water horse 

- winx club 

- high school musical

Overall all of give me nostogaic - hate feeling of growing up 

Some were Musicals - les miserable, chicago, high school musical 

a few were kid tv shows - winxs club, power ranger 

A few were make believe/fanstry land - the lion, witch and the wardrobe, the water horse, winx club, power ranger

Kyle Cooper Research

 Kyle Cooper Research 

Kyle Cooper has directed over 350 of main title and visual effects sequences across a wide range of broadcast media and film. He mainly works on main sequences but he is also a graphic designer and works on adverts & TV title cards.  He received his MFA from Yale School of Art, he independently studied with Paul Rand (American modernist). He has 7 Emmy nominations and two wins. He was born on Friday 13th in 1962. 

I find watching this reel a lot of his work has text that turns into something else or edited so its fly to the front of the screen for example 'Bewitched' arrives through sparkles or the logo of superman shines out colours and travel forwards. The title tend to 'jump' to your attention. A lot of he work is rather fast pace, which keeps me interested in whats to come next. This is rather important because it's the first thing that is saw to keep an audience interested in the film.

Iron Man opening sequence, Kyle was the executive producer. In this sequence it start with a close up shot of Robert Downey JR then the editing comes on filter then transforms into a lot of graphic images of iron man and gun which rather fits the sequence as the title appear every time a new part of the design is shown. Such as there is a gun that part rotates, when the image rotates a new title would appear.