Studying Diffrent Film Genre Openings and The Use Of Cinematography

Today, we watched 5 diffrent film openings and studied them by watching the openings twice and the commenting on genre,mis-en-scene,sound,cinematography,camera movement/shots/compisition and editing, i think it was a good thing to do because even if no one in the group chooses to do any of the genres shown we can grasp a feel for the common points of each genre and include a discriptive detail of all of the features like horror genre will always use harrowing and disturbing music to set the tone for the rest of the film.

Creating Ideas For My 2 Minute Film Opening Part 2

Well today i spent the first 40 minutes of the lesson studying the opening 10 minutes of the Mr. Bean's holiday film for ideas for the certain camera angles i'd like to include movie-wise

I also remembered that i would have to include shot-reverse-shot, meaning i'm most likely going to need extras in my film, the best thing i can think to do at the moment is use some of my friends in the film opening.

From what i noticed studying the opening part there was a lot of crane shots used to portray establishing shots of locations, the majority of the time subjects were filmed in mid or long shots with rare close ups.

I have a link to the extract i studied for ideas below
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVyz3uEOnpY

Creating Ideas For My 2 Minute Film Opening Part 1

Today i began looking at some ideas for what i'd like my film opening to be like.

Firstly i looked a monty python but it didn't really have what i was looking for, so next i tried Jackass the movie apart from 30 seconds in the beginning the clip wasn't what i hoped for but it did give me some ideas for things i might like to include like slow motion shots, i then thought of some comedic films and thought of Mr.Bean's Holiday, and watched the opening sequence, which was more the sort of opening i had wanted.

So i decided to look at some other similar films to see if there were any common trends between them, i could find anything majorly obivious besides the comedy aspect, so i decided that i'm going to possibly emulate the style of filming used.