Marking Previous Film Openings Examples

The issues we could possibly face while submitting our film opening could be things such as, cuts between shots not being synced for good match on action, poor editing due to small mistakes being unnoticed and a story line that doesn't make sense with too much going on for a two minute opening.
However we have marked a few past examples (using a mark scheme) with a variety of marks so we can look to see what we want to achieve and what we don't, potentially giving us inspiration of different camera angles and locations. This task has also helped us see how and what to do to get the higher marks to benefit our film opening, and things that we should consider to avoid making mistakes.

First example:

Clip: Captive	Level 1 (0-2) Incomplete/minimal creative/technical skills	Level 2 (3-5) Basic creative/technical skills	Level 3 (5-7) Proficient creative/technical skills	Level 4 (8-10) Excellent creative technical skills	Mark
Material appropriate to target audience				Its establishes the genre.	10
Titles conventional/appropriate				Appropriate font and style.	9
Sound/images and technical editing			The music/ background sound fits well within the genre.		8
Camera work/framing/variety of shot types/mise en scene				Good variety of camera shots, establishing location. Appropriate make up and location. Good framing.	9
Editing for meaning/transitions effects			The transitions made were almost trailer like.		7
Overall feel				Good story line, location, makeup, camera shots.	9
				Total:	52

What went well:
This film opening had a variety of different camera shots and made the opening very effective as well as creating the verisimilitude. From the start of the opening you can tell the genre straight away. This is a great example for us to look at as we can see what standard our film opening needs to be at.

Even better if:

The transitions that was put in almost made it feel like it was a trailer. For us to benefit from this we decided not to use a lot of transitions only where they are needed.

Second example:

Clip: They’re Coming	Level 1 (0-2) Incomplete/minimal creative/technical skills	Level 2 (3-5) Basic creative/technical skills	Level 3 (5-7) Proficient creative/technical skills	Level 4 (8-10) Excellent creative technical skills	Mark
Material appropriate to target audience			Establishes genre.		7
Titles conventional/appropriate		Unconventional titles, not many, name we assume to be the actors.			5
Sound/images and technical editing		The music at times was not appropriate.			5
Camera work/framing/variety of shot types/mise en scene			A variety of different camera shots.		6
Editing for meaning/transitions effects		It was quite confusing, transitions didn’t make sense			5
Overall feel		Wasn’t very eye-catching, didn’t make us want to watch on.			5
				Total:	33

What went well:

Again there was a variety of camera shots that help establish the genre

Even better if:

The titles were unconventional, the names that were shown we assume to be the actors however we don't know for sure. The music that was played was not appropriate at some times