21 Jump Street Titles

Time	Title/name
7-10 seconds	Directed by Phil Lord & Christopher Miller
10-13 seconds	Screenplay by Michael Bacall
13-16 seconds	Story by Michael Bacall & Jonah Hill
22-24 seconds	Bases on the television series created by Patrick Hasburgh & Stephen J. Cannel
25-28 seconds	Produced by Neal H. Moritz, Stephen J. Cannel
29-32 seconds	Executive producers Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Ezra Swerdlow, Tania Landau
33-35 seconds	Director of photography
39-41 seconds	Production designer
43-45 seconds	Editor
47-49 seconds	Jonah Hill (actors being introduced)
50-53 seconds	Channing Tatum
54-56 seconds	Brie Larson
58-1:00	Dave Franco
1:01-1:03	Rob Riggle
1:05-1:07	DeRay Davis
1:08-1:10	With Ice Cube
1:12-1:15	Ellie Kemper, Chris Parnell, Caroline Aaron
1:16-1:19	Dax Flame, Jake Johnson, Nick Offerman
1:23-1:26	Casting by
1:27-1:29	Music by
1:31-1:34	Costume design

Skyfall Titles

Time	Title/name
Titles start at 15 seconds	Albert Broccoli’s EON Productions LTD presents...
18 seconds	Daniel Craig (main actor introduced)
22 seconds	Ian Fleming’s James Bond 007 (main character)
26 seconds	Film title ‘SKYFALL’
32 -35 seconds	Javier Bardem (actors are listed)
37-40 seconds	Ralph Fiennes
43-45 seconds	Naomie Harris
47-49 seconds	Bérénice Lim Marlohe
50-52 seconds	Ben Whishaw
53-56 seconds	Rory Kinnear and Ola Rapace
58-1:01	Albert Finney
1:03-1:06	‘and Judy Dench as M’
1:11-1:14	Co-producers Andrew Noakes and David Pope
1:22-1:26	script supervisor
1:29-1:33	Makeup designer, Hair designer, Mr Craig’s makeup, wardrobe supervisor, publicity and marketing, promotions
1:38-1:42	Supervising art director, set decorator, property master, construction manager, still photographer, visual effects producer
1:44-1:49	Production supervisor, location production managers, second unit production manager, post production supervisor
1:54-1:57	Visual effects and miniature effects supervisor, Associate producer
2:01-2:03	Unit production managers, first assistant director
2:07-2:10	Casting, main titles designed by
2:13-2:17	Special effects and miniature effects supervisor, stunt coordinator
2:21-2:23	Second unit director
2:26-2:30	Costume designer
2:32-2:37	Editors
2:39-2:44	Director of photography
2:51-2:54	Production designer
2:58-3:01	Music by
3:09-3:14	‘SKYFALL’ performed by Adele, written by Adele and Paul Epworth, produced by Paul Epworth
3:17-3:20	Executive producer Callum McDougall
3:25-3:29	Written by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, John Logan
3:33-3:37	Produced by Michael G. Wilson, Barbara Broccoli
3:43-3:48	Directed by Sam Mendes

All of the names are in bold, large, capitalised lettering making them very easy to see, the titles of the people are in a smaller font and are not in capitals making the names stand out more.

X-Men (2000) film opening

What is the function of a film opening. What does it do?

The opening of the film is used as an introduction to the history of a main protagonist and shows the emotional background to their life to give the viewer some information and knowledge of the character and their life before the events of the film. It also shows the possible traumatic events that could lead to the development of their powers/mutations, for example the long shots of the people walking shows the scale of the event and how many people it affected, which also makes the character seem more unique and special as he is the only one who clearly has different abilities. The colouring of the film is washed out which suggests that it is a different time zone, which gives the film more depth and more exciting for the viewer. Also the diegetic sound of the rain makes the opening more authentic but also create a miserable tone, which could reflect in some elements in the rest of the film and evoke emotion in the viewer. The opening of the film is also used to link to the theme of the entire film, about being different as the Holocaust punished people for being different and the opening is not typical of the genre of the film as the genre is fantasy/sci-fi and so a war themed opening is atypical as it does not seem to relate to the genre.

                                      

Life on Mars exercise

In this exercise, we had to replicate a number of shots from an extract of Life on Mars-these shots included, side angle shots, extreme close-ups, mid shots and a 360° shot. We had to film these shots for the correct amount of time and include the same movements as the clip so we had to do some preliminary work to see how long each shot was and to note the key movements in each shot. Once the filming had been done, I edited the footage using Final Cut Express using the cutting tools and adding transitions. We also had to match the images with the sound clip from the extract and cut them to the same length as the real shots to replicate the scene from Life on Mars.