My group's film opening uses many adaptations of the common conventions of film openings. Firstly, our media product begins with various establishing shots, which give the audience a sense of what time period our film opening is base upon and also time of day. A sense of time period is established though the fact in the opening shot a car is shown, therefore it must be present day. This conforms to the usual conventions of a film opening because it uses Mise-en-scène to present the time period of the sequence. The time of day is established because we filmed part of our opening outside and it was daytime, therefore telling the audience what time of day it is, conforming to usual conventions of a film opening.
We also created an aspect of character throughout the opening. Our use of Mise-en-scène has helped us create a link with a stereotypical teenage girl. Posters, wall colour, objects within the room (e.g. a dream catcher) normally relate to a girl of the younger generation. Character is also established through all of the characters' clothing. The two main characters (Phoebe and Daniel) both wear stereotypical teenager clothing, e.g. jeans, T-shirts and jumpers etc.
A sense of enigma has also been created in the last few second of the film opening. The mystery girl, who Daniel is supposedly cheating on Phoebe with, does not show her face at all and there is no way of knowing who she is. The audience face many questions to do with the girl, whose identity is yet to be revealed, which in turn makes the last section of the clip an enigma and creates many questions about the film opening. This also helps make the opening of the film memorable because people will want to know who the girl is.
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