Research on openings!

In my final group for media it is Avril West and Eva Giorgini. I chose to work with Avril and Eva because they are both good friends of mine and also work as a good team, and I know that we will produce a good piece of work in the end. I also feel very comfortable around these girls, which I feel is important as I can suggest all my ideas without feeling stupid. 

As a group we have been researching different genres including Action and Adventure, Horror and Comedy. We have all decided that we are going to research one genre, to one person to make things easier. Avril will be researching Horrors. Eva has decided to do Action and Adventure. I have then decided to research Comedy.

I mainly used YouTube to research Comedy and how they are portrayed and similar in certain ways. I researched many movies, such as Superbad, Big momma’s house, Stepbrothers, The hangover, American Pie. Some films were recent others were old.

I researched a few classics including Big momma’s house and American Pie. I think researching classics will help my group think more about whether we would want to make the film opening more modern with modern techniques or going for a more classic opening. I feel that we should try and mix the classic with modern so we can make something new and interesting, and different, something not seen before.

The sound used in Comedy films are a mixture of non-diegetic and diegetic sounds. I found that often comedy films tend to open with a song playing, usually an upbeat, well known theme tune. The length it is usually played for is until something happens. Till a conversation is started or something to open the story happens.

The I found that the openings of comedy films were all very similar, they all opened with bright colours, bright clothing, backgrounds etc., often with white, large, bold font displaying the directors and actors names.