Over view

Throughout creating our childrens film begginnig sequence we looked at a variety of different things that helped us to be able to come up with the idea that we decided to choose. we went through a progress of watching some opening sequences from a range of films such as jamanji; which we watched in class. we then did our own research and and looked at opening sequences of childrens film. Our group decided to look at wallace and gromit and the curse of the ware rabbit. Harry Potter and the philosophers stone and wall-e.
we then decided to write about what made them a good opening sequence and what codes and conventions they have within them. This all lead towards how we would decide what our idea is, how it would work and what feautures we would have to include.
  we knew it was vital to introduce the main characters, as the audience want to get to know them as soon as they can so they are not confused. We also decided that in order to have an effect on the audience we had to target a specific genre. As we are a group of girls we decided on a chick flick adventure. This then included sleep-overs with a group of girls who idolise certain celebrities such female teen singers. for example miley cyrus - which is who we decided the celebrity in our opening sequence would be. A catchy theme tune or song in the opening sequence was also a major part that would give life to the production; and create a catchy beginning which would then link to the whole film if it was to be created.
  We also considered cinematography; this includes the props,costume, scenery etc. we thought about each one of these individually and clothed each character in the way a young girl would dress at a friends sleep - over. we decided on pyjamas and then jeans,coats,t-shirts and leggings for the day to day clothes of these young girls. The props we used were cakes and a journal. we thought cakes would be a typical thing for young girls to do in a group as in many girls film that is apart of their routine as friends. The journal was vital as it was the key to the entire story ; this was what would create the journey for the three girls. we decided a simple scenery for when the young girls discuss the journal and begin to eat the cakes as it then was easier for the target audience to concentrate on what the girls are talking about and why they have managed to have miley cyrus's personal journal. We then decided to use a bathroom with mirrors for the 'gettin dressed up' scene as we were able to clearly see all three girls, and get a great effect as you would see at least 2 of the girls within the mirrors.
  Throughout the entire project we thought of different ways in which we could create effects and make the project better. we tried our best to make our opening sequence as interesting ad informative as we could so that the audience were interested and wanted to find out what adventure these girls would go on.