BFI trip

On the 12th November, me and my media class attended a study day which was held at the British Film Institute based at South Bank in London. This day was based on our AS Media Studies coursework of making an Opening sequence and give us techniques on how our work can be improved or set it to high standards.

Throughout the day, we had a speaker called Pete Fraser (Pete's Media Blog) who lead a talk about our coursework and the 5 key features that our title sequences should have. These 5 key features were: Genre, Narrative (enigma), Character, Atmosphere and Setting.

From this day, I learnt that when creating a opening title sequence that the title of the film should always appear near the beginning and never at the end of the sequence. If I did, then this would look more like a trailer rather than an opening title sequence.
I had also learnt that visual isn't only important and that sound is just as important. It is important that the sequence doesn't have any background noise such as cars and wind. When having this irritating noise in the background, most editors would use Foley so that the sound should sync in within the action.  

We had two visitors, Hannah Rothman and Derek Fletcher,  on the day to give us a talk about their success and their job roll in the media industry. Hannah Rothman is an editor for trailers and an associate director for Create Advertising London. She has edited and made a lot of successful trailers. Dexter Fletcher is an actor and also an director. He told us all about his career in acting and how he found it then he told us about his directing and the movies he has directed.