Babyscissors opening credits practice

This part shows hair falling onto the words

This is blood spots

Opening credits for two films!

In class we watched two opening credits for two films. We had to draw a time line to show when a certain name was mentioned and how they contributed to the movie, also we had to write the time it was shown. After doing these two time lines, I noticed that some people like the director were mentioned twice, this shows the significant role the director took to make the film as they are very important. A lot of the main actors and actresses were mentioned, our teacher explained that the highest paid actors and actresses get their name mentioned at the start as they want to show how important they are, an example was when we saw Brad Pitt mentioned right at the start to show that he is an A Lister!

I also learnt that opening credits take a long time, I never really noticed that when I go to watch movies because of the distraction of getting comfortable while finishing all my nibbles before the actual movie starts!but now I'm sure i will be paying attention to that now.

       

This is my time line for the two films.

Editing my horror movie opening for the first time!

After a weekend of hard shooting (filming) with my partner Faban, we returned to class to do the editing. I feel that me and my partner were very organised and therefore, editing was not that hard for us, the only thing we found hard was to make the shots sequence to make sure there was no pauses and then the next shot comes in. Also we wrote down the things that were to be added into our opening and what we needed our teacher to help us with after school. Overall I believe that our first editing session went well and I hope it continues to be this smooth!

Two more effective marketing techniques for BabyScissors!

To add to one of my last posts, I have chosen two more ways to help market my horror movie opening

to reach to wider audience and make it more successful.

Print:

Putting my my horror movie in a magazine and newspaper can reach across to various audiences, young people and older more mature people. Many people read a lot of magazines and I would love to advertise my film in magazines such as OK! or STUFF magazine for men as they are the main ones that are read by men and women, also in the METRO and the EVENING STANDARD as people can see the advert on their way to work/school when they are reading them.

Website:

A website is one of the best ways to reach a wider audience as mostly everyone uses the Internet. Creating a website is a great way to connect with the fans of the movie and also to gain more profit as there will be tabs where people can buy merchandise and also download games, screen savers, music from the movie or the actual sound track. The website also helps build up the excitement of the audience by giving sneak previews, cast interviews, back stage footage and much much more! One more advantage could be that many people might see it from all around the world and gain interest therefore, resulting in the movie being distributed world wide and also a huge amount of profit.

Sherlock homes: A game of shadows will be opening on the 16th of December 2011 alongside with:

• Alvin and the Chipmunks: chip wrecked (U)
• Dreams of a life (12A)
• Meet me in St Louis (U)
• Wreckers (15)

The films that open at Christmas are:

• Girl with the dragon tattoo 2
• Mission impossible 2
• Hannah and her sisters

http://www.launchingfilms.com/release-schedule/schedule.php?sort=date