Friends Opening Sequence

Mis en scene

fountains
couch
busy
hotel
street lights dim/bright (artificial)
umbrellas

Camera angles

cross cutting
moving
pov
over the shoulder
pan
wide shot

Sound

fast
loud
non-diegetic

Editing

fast motion
jump cut
cutting
soft typography
primary colours

Genre

Comedy
Drama

Info

The Cast dance along to the music to show their true love for one another, it comes through as though nothing can break this friendship. This may be because of the way the set is arranged, from the lighting to props. The fast pace of the video shows the happiness flowing through their veins. The umbrellas convey romance, portraying the true bond they all share.

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Studying Zack King

As I am going to be editing the opening scene for our project, I decided to study up Zack King, in order to grasp a better understanding of editing. This was because I found his editing to be a very soft, and not at all abrupt. the way he clicks his fingers and 'teleport's' to another place is quite fascinating, because it all done within a split second. This mad me wonder how he did it and so I learnt that he edits frame by frame, so that the change is smooth yet quick. So I went away and decided to edit around 15 seconds of a music video, frame by frame. This took quite a while as editing frame by frame is very tedious, and time consuming, but as I got the hang of it, I began to edit much faster and efficiently. Editing the way I did, I was able to achieve a glow around the singer making his stand out more and, quite a lot of the glow was made to fit the music and the dance moves. So as he swings his arm to the right of the screen, I add blue lines ejecting from h...

CUMPULSORY QUESTIONS

CQ 1:How do your product use or challenge conventions? Our production most definitely challenges conventions. Reason behind this is, we have made our opening scene so that it is going against mainstream movies. We did this by portraying bullying through the protagonists point of view. We noticed various movies were showing it through the victims eye, but there is always two sides to a story. 2:How does your product represent social groups or issues? Our product represent bullying in social groups, for example the final scene of our opening is 'Drew' is complaining about Billy to his two best friends. And what makes it worse is his friends indirectly urge him on to do something drastic. This represents a very dangerous group of friends. 3:How does your product engage with audiences? The product engages with certain types of audiences deeply and other not so much. Those who feel it deeply have most likely been a victim to some type of bullying, or have ...

SPITE

As we are unable to upload the Opening on the blog, I have uploaded it to my youtube channel. The following link should redirect you to the video. https://youtu.be/znM_8ngCtzg

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