The trip to the British Film Institute today was extremely useful in providing tips for creating and planning our film opening as well as an interesting talk from actor and director Dexter Fletcher giving an overview of the industry and challenges he faced when working on his own films. One of the key pieces of advice I took away from today in regard to the media coursework, is to pay attention to the use of sound both diegetic and non diegetic which I will do a separate blog post on. For our own film opening, the concept of continuity will be even more crucial with the continuous frantic changing of shots to convey the state of mind of the protagonist. To enhance the effect of this, our lighting will need to be of a similar hue and intensity throughout. In spite of this, as mentioned in my previous blog post, the use of black screens interjected between the action to display our title sequence will heighten the desired emotional intensity of our opening. Fletcher said that he gave much less concentration to the titles themselves as he wanted the focus to be with the establishing narrative and character introductions. This is a conclusion we have also come to in the sense that though we have made a conscious decision with the placing of our titles in relevance to the style and genre of the opening, our two minutes are heavily character driven.
One of the three film openings shown by Fletcher was Wild Bill, which after looking into further I think draws similarities to the vision we have of setting and style of our film opening in particular. The film, made in 2011, opens following the protagonist Wild Bill but then cuts to two brothers in an East London flat. This is demonstrated in the still below with the main character and his youngest son.
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