1. Assignment 15
Amy cleary - Green
Monae Minors-Gibbs - Orange
Jodie Foster-Pilia - Blue
Pamela Younes - Red

2. Who am I?
• Name: Amy Cleary
• Candidate number:
• Colour code: green

3. Who am I?
• Name: Monae
• Candidate number:
7413
• Colour code: Orange

4. Candidate number:7362
Colour code: Blue

5. Who am I?
Name: Pamela Younes
Candidate number :
 7488
My Colour is
• Red

6. Se7en
• This particular opening sequence is
inspirational because it has a mysterious
opening and leaves enigma.
Inspiration from opening sequences.
Leaves enigma as you don’t know
who the hand is and why they have
drawings of it.

7. • Lemony Snicket’s Series of Unfortunate events
Inspiration from opening sequences.
This is inspirational as the
opening has the storyline
of the three children and
their facial expressions.

8. Inspiration from film opening sequences
Establishing
characters
Establishing setting
(on a airplane)
Good sized
credits on the
side in clear font
Mission Impossible-
http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/mission-
impossible/

9. Inspiration from film opening sequences
Establishes setting
Establishes
character
Why is he in a red
car? (represents
danger)
Enigmas? i.e. why
he didn’t U Turn
or go the other
way
Natural
lightning
Credits
are big
and in a
weird
font
U Turn -
http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/u-turn/

10. Inspiration from film opening sequences
• My Sisters Keeper - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX0dxizzjME
Opening
sequence of the
memories
Small but
viewable
credits

11. Inspirational opening sequences
Film: Almost famous (2000)
I very much like the idea of the font
being hand written as it almost
makes the font seem personalised.
This is the kind of font that I feel
would look best in our opening
sequencehttp://www.artofthetitle.com/title/almost-famous/
There are a variety of close up
and extreme close up camera
shots which immediately capture
the emotions and feelings of the
character
Film: Boardwalk Empire (2010)
http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/boardwalk-empire/
The use of the overlapping
transition is quite effective, I like
the idea of being able to see two
images at the same time. I would
like to use this in our opening
sequence.
Film: Donnie Brasco 1997
http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/donnie-brasco/

12. Inspiration from real films opening sequences
• Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
 The style of this opening sequence
is that they would have the titles on
the actual image
 The style of the opening sequence
is images and its black and white
there is no footage
 The enigma would be who is the
dead person on the screen and who
would be the murderer

13. • Oceans 11 – (1960)
• The style of this title opening sequence is based on
graphical images
• The font is when most important informTION
WOULD STAND OUT SUCH AS THE NUKBERS
• The fonts are colourful
Inspiration from real films opening sequences

14. Inspiration from films
This particular scene
inspired me because it
showed a sense of
freedom and that she’s
released from the pain.
This could relate to ours because at the end if she
does commit suicide it will be her way of ending
the pain.

15. Inspiration from films
This lighting of this scene inspired
me as it links in well with the scene
as it is romantic.
Also, his character
representation is that he loves
her very much and is a good
guy.

16. Inspiration from films
This is a daylight tragedy
with a train
A lot of panning
shots was used
Unstoppable

17. Inspiration from films
Boys Don’t Cry
Plot is about a
transgendered teen
born as a female Comfortable as
a boy and looks
like one

18. Inspiration from films
PreciousShe has flashback of
a better/different
life
Red clothing
representing
love and passion
Her clothes
look
expensive
and her hair
is done
Artificial
lighting

19. Inspiration from real films
Film: Creep
Isolated train station, this would be
good for out suicide scene
I like the use of the wide shot to
establish where exactly the scene is
The use of artificial lighting, sets a mysterious
moodFilm: Slumdog millionaire
The use of the yellow tint,
to make the scene feel
uncomfortable
I like his Fearful and afraid facial expression, I want
the character in my opening sequence to have a
feel of fear
Film: premonition
Change of colour for flashback, very bright,
this would be good to use for the flashbacks
in my opening sequence

20. Inspiration from real films
• In Time
in this movie it has suicide
included and it can show us
why people would commit
suicide and the
consequence of it. And how
people have a limit to how
long they would live, the
rich live forever and the
poor die young

21. In Time
The convention is, people always intend to
commit suicide from a bridge. And that’s
what this guy is doing by sitting on the edge
of the bridge. I can tell as it zooms into the
time he has left in life, as he gave all his time
away, which shows that he wasn’t happy
and wants to die.
He is wearing a suit,
which immediately
presents that he is a rich
guy that can afford
expensive clothing
Its in the morning or
becoming the afternoon
as it isn't that bright.
You can tell it’s a
peaceful place as there
isn't anyone on the
bridge and no cars going
up and down the road.
This shot would be an establishing
shot of showing that the guy just
fell of the bridge and it makes it
clear that it is a bridge by showing
us the whole setting, and shows
the audience enough information
for the audience to get it.

22. Chat Room
• Chat Room
This is about
mainly killing
them selves and it
all started online

23. Chat Room
The convention of
committing suicide can be
jumping of a building or
self harm, self harming
isn't killing but can prove
that, that the person
doesn’t like them selves
which can lead to suicide
This is set in a bedroom and
jumping from her window, and
she is video calling someone, we
can tell this is a video call as
there’s a computer screen and
earphones
She is wearing shorts and
a jumper, and her gesture
as if she is ready as her
arms are side by side on
her hips, and cannot see
her facial expression.
This would be a
close up to see
the previous
scars and self
harming again.
This story is
about how
people
committing
suicide

24. 4 3 2 1
• 4 3 2 1
 Shows what the 4 girls
would do on the same
part of the days and how
they would meet up and
how the diamond brings
them together at the end
of the scene wen one off
the girls wanted to kill
her self by jumping of the
bridge

25. 4 3 2 1
The convention of this
picture is that there's
always one person in the
friendship groups that
needs their support more
than others
This is set in London Westfield
shopping centre, and the second
picture is at night just next to the
bridge where they just stopped one of
the girls by committing suicide
because of family problems
She has a Louis Vuitton bag
which is obvious that she
has more money than the
rest of the friendship
group, and she is dressing
very smartly as she has a
sport looking blazer, full
makeup and curled hair
This would be a long shot
as it establishes there
whole body and can see
the background a bit,
however its on focus pulls
as it blurs out the people
and objects behind them
and the main 4 characters
are clearer

26. Mind map on SimpleMind

27. Conventions
Convention Explanation Example from film
Climax point The high climax within the
film where something
dramatic happens.
Crash
Social status Cant be friends/lovers
because of their different
social classes and status’.
The boy in the striped
pyjamas
Characters Journey The story follows the
characters journey/s to
see how they have
progressed.
Freedom writers
Emotional themes When a character either
has cancer or leukaemia
and they are on recovery
or going to die.
My sisters keeper

28. Genre & conventions
Conventions Explanation Example from real film
Realistic struggles or pain •Abused
•Bullied
•Poverty
•Racism
•Suicide attempts
Seven Pounds
Cyber bully
This was a
suicide
attempt
She gets bullied No one ends
up liking her
Seven pounds Cyber bully
The scene of suicide-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPweErG45XI
&safe=active

29. Genre & conventions
Conventions Explanation Example from real film
Friendship •Barely any friends Mean Girls
Dreams of a peaceful place •Being alone, happy & free
•Out of misery
Precious
My Sisters Keeper
Emotionally attached •Keeps the audience
engaged
Pursuit of Happiness
The outsider
coming to a
new school
Fake girls that no
one likes
Dreams of calm
places
Audience keeps
attached

30. Genre and conventions of drama
Many drama films have some sort
of argument/fight that stems
from a particular problem for
example cheating, divorce
Addiction is quite popular with
drama films where by drug,
alcohol, sex addictions are
expressed. Many people have
some kind of addiction and can
therefore relate to addiction
dramas.
Convention Explanation Example from real film
1)Conflict and argument
2) Addiction
3)Abuse
4) Problem/dilema
Film: why did I get married 2
In this scene a couple
are having a heated
argument based on
divorce
Film: Half nelson
In this film the
teacher suffers from a
serious drug addition
and his found by his
student
Some sort of problem which we
as individuals face during out day
to day lives, such as cheating,
bullying, illnesses.
Film: million dollar baby
Her boxing
profession has been
ruined by a death
threatening injury
Some sort of domestic dilemma
revolving abuse
Film: This boys life
In this film a boy
is constantly
abused by his
aggressive step
father

31. Genre & Conventions
Conventions Explanation Example from films
Crime There's death in drama
films which when the
drama happens to find
what happened and why
In time, when the man
committed suicide and
chases the wrong person
Hero There's always a less
unfortunate character
and there's always a hero
to help that character
For example in spider
man, peter would be the
hero
Psychological Drama

32. Genre & Convention
Conventions Explanation Example from films
The problem would
always be fixed at the
end
It would make the
audience feel happy
when they watched it as
its all fixed
Such as parent trap and
both twin would be back
together and so are the
parents
Addiction It would show how
people would be
addicted to specific
things such as smoking,
drugs and alcohol
Orphan, when the mum
was an alcaholic

33. Research themes/topics.
• My research is on transgender. Transgender
people are individuals that feel like they are the
wrong sex. E.g. a male that feels he should be
female.
• These individuals usually get surgery to change
them to the gender they desire to be.
• A transgender individual may have characteristics
that are normally associated with a particular
gender, identify elsewhere on the traditional
gender range, or exist outside of it as other,
genderqueer, third gender or agender

34. Research on transgender
Transgender is the state of one’s gender identity
(self-identification as woman, man, neither or
both0 not matching one’s assigned sex
(identification by others as male, female or
intersex based on physical/genetic sex.
Transgender does not imply any specific form of
sexual orientation. The precise definition for
transgender includes:
“people who were assigned a sex, usually at birth
and based on their genitals, but who feel that this
is a false or incomplete description of
themselves.”

35. Research
• http://Kidshealth.org/teen/your_mind/body_image/tr
ansgender.html# - good site
• Are transgender people gay?
• Being transgender is not the same thing as being gay.
Being transgender is about gender identity- the way
you see yourself and the gender you identify with.
• Being gay or lesbian is about sexual orientation -
gender you are attracted to. Sexual orientation is a
different thing from gender identity, a transgender
person can be straight, gay, or bisexual.

36. Research
There are two videos of transgender people
• http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RDJXR1wXof
A&feature=related
• http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BSUFtLD1Md
s

38. Research on transgender
What is transgender? •Transgender is the state of one's gender identity not
matching one's assigned sex
i.e. someone born as a man yet desires to be a woman,
and therefore may act and dress in a certain way.
Is being transgender a mental
illness?
•No, but this remains a stereotype about transgender
people. Transgender identity is not a mental illness that
can be cured with treatment.
•Transgender people experience a persistent difference
between our assigned sex and our understanding of our
own gender. For some people, this leads to emotional
distress.
How is gender identity different
from sexual orientation?
•Gender identity refers to the way you understand
yourself and your gender. It is about the internal sense of
masculinity or femininity that a person feels.
•Sexual orientation is our attraction to someone else of
the same or different gender or both.
How do transsexual people change
genders?
•Counselling with a mental health professional
treatments
• Communication between the person’s therapist and
physician indicating
• Undergoing hormone therapy
• Having various surgeries to alter the face, chest and
genitals to be more

39. Research on sexuality
Sexuality is diverse, and deeply personal. Understanding our
sexuality is about the sexual feelings and attractions we feel
towards other people, not about who we have sex with. There
are different types of sexuality, and it can take time to figure out
what fits right with you
Lesbian is a term to describe sexual
and romantic attraction between
females
Lesbianism can be caused by both
mental and physical reasons. Many a
times a person develops lesbian traits
at the early childhood itself.
Homosexuality is romantic attraction,
sexual attraction, or sexual activity
between members of the same sex or
gender
some people are gay because of their
biology, including brain development
differences. Some gay males have
brain development more like straight
females
Heterosexuality is romantic
attraction, sexual attraction or
behaviour between persons of
opposite sex
Much human behaviour such as
heterosexuality is considered to be
ultimately explainable in terms of
natural selection and variation.
These are people who do not fit
neatly into the categories of
heterosexual and homosexual,
because they experience sexual and
emotional attractions and feelings for
people of different genders at some
point during their lives
Compared to heterosexuality and
homosexuality, very little scientific
study has been conducted on
bisexuality. Based on the studies that
have been done, it appears that
bisexuals are not people whose
orientation is fundamentally
homosexual but who have some
heterosexual sex on the side
Lesbian
Homosexual
Heterosexual
Bisexual

40. Research on Peer pressure & how it influences your identity
Teen peer pressure is the influence a teen's social group has on him or
her. Peer pressure is a part of life for everyone, but it can be an especially
strong influence during the teen years when peers are very important to
a teen's identity
The desire to fit in with peers can be a very strong influence on teens.
Peers influence most aspects of a teen's life, including how teens dress,
what music they listen to, and what kind of activities they are involved in.
Negative peer pressure is when teens feel pressured to do something
they know is wrong, such as smoking, drinking, doing drugs, or stealing, or
something they don't want to do such as cutting class or having sex.
Which then influences their identity
Learning to handle peer pressure helps a teen mature, grow and learn
positive ways to get along with others.

41. Research on Identity
• Bulling
• This can be because they have a disability, or
being different than everyone else such as
being more cleverer

42. • Peer pressure
• There friends would peer pressure of doing
something such as forcing and telling them
what would be good about smoking for
example
Research on Identity

43. Inspirational characters
• The mother from “The Impossible”
• This is because she tries her best to protect her children even though she
is badly injured herself.
• Her body language is that she is scared but trying to put on a brave face so
her son is okay.
She is still holding onto and
protecting her son like a typical
mother would.

44. Inspirational characters
• An inspirational character “Chris Gardner” from the Pursuit of Happiness
because he is a father struggle to keep custody of his son.
• He is a strong role model as he won’t give up because he loves his child
too much.
He puts on a brave face in front of
his son however cries when the
son is asleep.

45. Inspirational character
Boys Don’t Cry
Boyish costume
i.e. jeans etc, with
the haircut
matching a male
characters look
Transgender –
female to a
male
Body language
is showing he
is confident in
himself

46. Inspirational character
A character
that gets
bullied
Cyber Bully
Bullying starts to really
interfere with her life
She over comes
the bullying

47. Inspirational characters from films
Film: Fish tank
The costume is quite inspirational, as it is not at
all feminine, in fact it is quite boyish. This
tracksuit would be a great choice of costume in
our opening sequence, as it is representative of a
girl who wants to be a boy.
Film: Precious
This characters facial expression and body
language is inspiring as she appears to be fed
up and tired of the life in which she lives,
which is exactly what our opening sequence
is about.
Film:Kidulthood
The way in which the girl in staring into
the mirror and is unhappy and
devastated with the refection looking
back at her. I like this idea, it may be
used in our opening sequence.

48. Inspirational characters
• Justin Timberlake
The most thing I like
about him is the way he
acts and the way he
would react towards
different things, such as
the police
He's wearing a suit
which represents that
he’s a wealthy man
His body language is
very manly by the way
he’s trying to grab the
woman so he can
protect her and to run as
fast as possible
His facial expression
seems shocks / worried
this can be because he’s
running from someone
trying to survive by
running and saving the
woman beside him

49. Actors
• The actors are Jodie, Amy, and Monae.
• They are good for the role because they can sometimes relate to the characters.
For example Amy and Monae are both students and they are playing students for
the role.
• Also, they are available often and when needed.
Actors Strengths Weaknesses
Jodie Hardworking and
sensible.
Find hard to meet
deadlines sometimes.
Amy Hard working and will
put all effort in.
Sometimes fall behind
on work and have to
catch up.
Monae Will work hard and
meet deadlines.
Find difficult to meet
deadlines.

50. Costume/props
Plain dark t-shirt to
enforce the darkness
within the character
Shoes that
represent
danger
A prop- to be
holding
something in
her hand

51. Costume/props
Men straight legged jeans to
emphasis the dress code of a
male and for the character to
feel comfortable.
Comfortable hoodie- red
giving a representation a
danger to themselves.

52. Titles and Credits
Film: almost famous (2000)
The style of the font is hand
written, this makes the writing
seem personalised and
individual, we would possibly
want to use this style on our
opening sequence
The size of the writing is
medium/small which allows the
audience to concentrate and
understand the story which is
also occurring behind, the
writing
Film: The Borgias (2011)
Film: Mentiras Piadosas (2008) The placement of these
credits are in the middle of
the screen which highlight
its importance, and the
colour is black makes it
appear as bold and
noticeable
Person 3 & 4

53. Music/Sounds
• http://freeplaymusic.com – this is where we
get our non-copy right sounds
This is the website where it would
give us a range of sound effects, then
we would download it so we would
be able to use it in our opening
sequence.
Peron 3&4

54. Mainstream or independent
Independent
 The issue of transsexuals isn’t hugely expressed in our
society it is almost a hidden truth
 Transsexuals are a minority group, which anent really
accepted by the public
 The mass audience wouldn’t necessarily enjoy a film to
do with transsexuals, they may find it slight
uncomfortable

55. Target audience
Audience Explanation
Age 15+
- You begin to find yourself, at early teenage stages, i.e.
discovering what sexuality you may be which tends to take place
in puberty.
Social class Any class
- Anyone can experience the dilemma of seeking their identity.
Gender Female and male
- All the people that are going through stages of finding who they
are or whom they may like.
Ethnicity Any
- It can relate to anyone
Sexuality Transgender
People that are Transsexual or thinking about changing their
gender are a minority group and are the only people who can
truly relate to the issues raised in our film.

56. BBFC
 BBFC stands for British Board of
Film Classification
 The British Board of Film
Classification is an independent,
non-governmental body which has
classified cinema films since it was
set up in 1912 and videos/ DVDs
since the Video Recordings Act was
passed in 1984.
Here is the site

57. Distribution companies
• A distribution company we could use is
“Hannover house” this is because they are a
popular independent distribution company.
• They have released films such as toys in the
attack, racing dreams and Chelsea on the
rocks.

58. Distribution company

59. Distribution company
• Fox Searchlight Pictures, established in 1994, is an
American film division of Fox Entertainment
Group alongside the larger Fox studio 20th Century Fox. It
specializes in independent and British films,
alongside dramedy and horror, and is variously involved
with the production and/or distribution of these films.
• Fox Searchlight's Slum dog Millionaire won the Academy
Award for Best Picture at the 81st Academy Awards as well
as a further 7 academy awards. Other Fox Searchlight films
receiving Best Picture nominations include The Full Monty,
Sideway, Little Miss Sunshine, Juno, Black Swan, 127
Hours, The Tree of Life, The Descendants and Beasts of the
Southern Wild.

60. Distribution companies
The Weinstein Company
This is an independent film distributor
which I think will be suitable for our film, as
it makes films based on issues raised from
transgender.
Sony Pictures Classics
This is another possible independent film
distributor which could be used for our film,
it also makes films to do with transgender
This film tells the story
of, a child who is seen
by her family and
community as a boy,
but consistently insists
that she is a girl.
The film tells the story a
transsexual woman
who goes on a road trip
with her long-lost son
Toby

61. Film4 Production Company
• Film4 did not originally focus
on broadcasting blockbusters,
but nowadays broadcasts many
mainstream Hollywood movies
• Film4 is a free digital television
channel available in the United
Kingdom, Republic of Ireland and
Switzerland, owned and operated
by Channel Four Television
Corporation, that screens films

62. Film4 Production Company
• This would be a great
production company as it has
produced niche audience
films before such as
trainspotting.
• So I thought this would be
great for our opening
sequence as our opening
sequence would also be
based on a niche audience

63. Pathe Distribution Company
• Pathe is the name of
various French businesses fo
unded and originally run by
the Pathé Brothers
of France from 1896
• Pathé became the world's
largest film equipment and
production company, as well
as a major producer
of phonograph records

64. Pathe Distribution Company
• Pathe would be great for our
opening sequence, as it has
distributed transgender in
the past, which is called
‘breakfast on Pluto’
• It would be good to have a
distribution company that
has distributed transgender
films on our transgender
opening sequence.