Comparison of Sweded Films

Definition: A sweded film is a summarised recreation of a film that has only used a limited budget to create it. The process is called sweding. Upon completion the film has been sweded.
Example:
This is a sweded film of E.T and it manages to succeed in fulfilling the conventions of a sweded film.
Due to my swede film not being finished because of several reasons when we watched other class members in a lesson I learnt that:

• They don't have to be perfect
• Title and credits are needed
• That stating what all the struggles are in the making, editing etc is good to do

Now that I have taken these things on board I am feeling more confident about putting up the half filmed/edited swede film that me and my group have made.

We are hopefully going to be able to finish it soon and if not the 100% finished cut the half that is done will be going up.

In class we looked at each others sweded films. One was Sam S, Sam B, Chris and Georgia's - I think theirs conformed to all of the conventions of a sweded film, as for example they summarised it down to the key scenes. They seemed to have some challenges along the way, such as editing but the overall even though they had problems I think the product is good.

21 Jump Street Trailer Sweded

Media AS swede from Sophie Mace on Vimeo.
I have uploaded the video on Vimeo so other members in my group can also embed/hyperlink it to their blogs.

• I edited this short piece together even though it is yet to be finished. We haven't managed to finish it due to difficulty finding time to film and other problems we came across.
• For the planning of our sweded film we did it all in lessons and did the filming in our free periods at school. Our planning wasn't brilliant which made it difficult, the lesson I learnt from that was too make sure everything is organised prior to filming etc.
•  We didn't storyboard our sweded film due to not having enough time so we wrote what we had to do in a list. I would add the picture for evidence but I'm not sure if one of my fellow group members took it. 

Camera Angles & Shot Types

We spent the lesson out filming and practicing these techniques in order to be familiar with them when it come to filming our continuity task and OTS.

Health & Saftey

We looked into health and safety of using VDUs. Due to not filming at another location I have yet to look at the health and safety of that but when the time comes I will research it as I have using VDUs.

Analysis of Dexter's Opening Sequence - Homework

I previously hyperlinked this but after playing around at home I figured out how to embed videos/presentations on my blog which has made it much more visually appealing.

Analysis of Se7en

Se7en
Here is the opening sequence for Se7en:

 

In the opening sequence of Se7en I think that many common conventions were met and these included, the genre of the film; Se7en is categorised  in Film Noir/Thriller etc and this is made clear from the opening sequence, them letting the audience know what kind of film it is early on is good as it kind of teases you about it. Them showing the actors who play main roles in the film also were evident, a lot of cinematography was present in this opening sequence which is fairly common among opening sequences. The film title was also shown. So overall, practically all of the core conventions were met in this OS (opening sequence), the difference to this OS was that it also partly challenged conventions as it was kind of disjointed and was very original.

 "the opening sequence is considered one of the most innovative of its era"

I agree with this statement and I also kind of disagree. Firstly, I think it's true because they wanted to capture peoples attention with that opening sequence - "Wanting people to listen, you can’t just tap them on the shoulder anymore. You have to hit them with a sledgehammer, and then you'll notice you've got their strict attention.” - and I feel that with both the original idea and the way it was all edited together it was and is extremely innovative and with it being something no one had done before only made it even more unique. I also disagree with this statement because all though it was new and innovative the fact that it did stick with the core conventions of an opening sequence it didn't make it the "most innovative of its era". 

The Codes and Conventions of a film Opening Sequence

An opening sequence is the method in which production and cast members are presented to an audience using sounds like a theme tune and visuals such as cinematography.
All of the presentations that I looked at were successful at identifying the conventions of an opening sequence. The first one and the second one were my preferred ones because they had the right amount of information to keep me interested. The third and fourth one whilst still being good aren't what I would look for because the previous two are accurate and clear. The third ones format makes it hard to read and it focuses on just one movie and the fourth one I wouldn't because it focuses just on the thriller genre. The audience for all of them could be students, teachers and generally anyone interested.
The purpose of the presentations is to let you know the key conventions of an opening sequence to a film.

I think that the formatting was successful with the first, second and fourth ones are good but the format of the third one isn't that great, I think it should have more pictures which would make it more interesting. 

I think that they did all identify the conventions accurately.

What I think are the core conventions of an opening sequence to a film:

• Opening Credits
• Film Director
• Film Title
• Distribution Company
• Top Billing Actors
• Brief Scene 
• Cinematography 
• Sound