BFI Trip

As part of our research, as a year group, we all took a trip to the BFI studios in London. We sat and listened to key speakers and experts to learn more about Media AS. The first trip concentrated on the coursework side of the course whilst the second trip looked at the theory of the course.

During our trip, we had the honour to meet and ask questions to the famous director of Wild Bill, Sunshine on Leith and Eddie the eagle, Dexter Fletcher who gave us tips and tricks in creating the 'perfect' film opening'.

We watched all of the opening scenes to Dexters films, which gave us a sense of how we could create our own opening scenes and what is important to include and also what is not so important. The opening scenes we watched were:

-WILD BILL
-SUNSHINE ON LEITH
-EDDIE THE EAGLE

The trip educated me on the do's and don'ts of film openings. Tom Woodcock (ta key speaker) told us to note down these important points:

• Don't shoot in too many locations
• Control your space
• Limit your colour palette
• Use lighting to set mood and create atmosphere
• Be consistent with your lighting
• Choose 1 or 2 fonts maximum for the credits
• Keep a consistency of size, colours, transitions and spacing also for the credits
• And finally... Don't make the font too big!

10 steps to the best results.
These are very helpful when creating our own opening title sequence and are all shown below:

The 10 steps to the best results:

1. Take stock
2. Set up a Blog
3. Build up skills
4. Investigate 
5. Ideas
6. Planning
7. The shoot 
8. Edit 
9. Evaluation
10. Enjoy yourself !