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. 

Genre research task

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) - horror 

The editing flickers on the title of "from new line cinema", that title fades out. Then cuts to a window on the screen where the action is taking place while title continue to play. The sound is a static noise, with interruption of the items being moved such as the knife as well as a breathing noises and growling. These sounds are already unsetting for the audience, as they are seeing rather odd things happen with no clue how is doing it and uncomfortable sounds. This automatically makes the audience think whoever is doing this is up to something out of the ordinary. The static noise becomes louder as the editing of the title comes on. Then following that there is screaming, as the shot changes to knife like hands tear through a sheet. We see a mid-shot of a teenage girl the first character we have seen their face.  There is creepy music layer over the static noise along with the sound of rain drop from the water along side the teenager's foot steps as she runs. A gunshot sound take place as the women takes a sharp intake of breath as the camera cuts to a sheep that screams and is running away from the direction to which the teenager was running. The sheep which is rather odd to have, make the sequence even more unsettling,  The music changes into a taunting, as the women is running around what seems to be some warehouse, away from the thudding sounds. The warehouse as steams and dim lighting which makes the area seem dingy and adds to the creepy atmosphere. The last see is the same knife like hands that through the sheet from just before we saw the girl,  and the sequence ends. The knife hands going through the sheet is almost like it going through and bed cover, and my seeing this imagine twice is almost like it's the beginning and end of this teenage girls dream.  

From the just the sequence, we expect the rest of the narrative to be from the person who has the knife hands to carry on haunting the teenage girl or other people and eventually see the persons face. 

The genre of the film for the sequence seems to be a horror, from the creepy music and atmosphere and the random screams and the knife like hands.

The target audience is for young adults, and a white American audience as it made as an old American film. Also made for a male audience as it a horror and slasher which are typically made for males due to computer game such Grand Theft Auto being popular in males teens and young adults which have a lot of gore and blood in them. 

I think the opening title was successful for when it was made, as the movie is around 40 years old the editing and quality of the sequence is a little out of not date and not as clean as films today. Also the knife hands are that scary compare to modern film such as Annabelle with has a lot of SFX.  But the sound of the sequence would unsettle any audience, and put the audience on edge and builds tension. By being able to create and hold tension and engage the audience i think this is a good opening title sequence and it makes the audience attach an interest.

opening sequence ideas

Cliff fall cuts off part of Jurassic Coast beach

The sequence would start with the establishing shot of a bird eye shot of the cliff edge and panning up and around. While being panned have it on a held hand camera, and then a hand (parent) grabbing the camera. So the shot is a pov from a low angle. (low angle as the kid) Then have a crime scene tape set up. 

The social dilemma - Netflix 

A news channel comes on,  an announcement has come on that everything you ever has been sent has been leaked to a website. And then have different households reacting 

Belstone pictures research

Belstones website which keep hold of their products and what's next - https://www.belstonepictures.com/

As the budget was small there was not a lot to be spent on marketing. There was a trailer made and release on different YouTube channels such as "Movieclips India" which has got 49.918 views for the trailer and 2,279,901 views on New Trailer Buzz. Although the trailer was released on November 16th 2016, so past the UK release date and 10 days before the US release dates. This would mean that the trailer didn't release for their UK target audience and maybe why more of that an Americas audience who the film was not made for saw the film and could be a reason why the overall reviews where bad.  

The film is on Netflix, Amazon prime and on smaller streaming platforms. This is where a lot of the money would of been made.

There was only one trailer made and this was released on different youtube channels. On one channel 'Bulldog Film Distributions'. 
 

Their was a trailer was released in 2020 on the YouTube channel '1091 Pictures'  with over 18,000 views

 

There has been no trailer made yet but all over YouTube are the reviews on the film.