Analysis Of Film Opening- Superbad

Filming:

When filming for my opening sequence i found it very tricky at first to get grips on how to use the camera and making the footage look professional. I felt the first time taking the camera out to have a practice run of the sequence that the footage didn't look that good, and i was not to sure on how to use everything on the camera, however this was good as i wasted less time when coming to shoot the final sequence, for example starting to film, stopping and replaying the footage that had just been filmed.


Before we started to film we looked through the sequence many of time to make sure we knew what we was about to do, also we made a snap shot of photos taken from the opening title sequence of 'superbad' highlighting every main part in the sequence that we needed to remember, for example transitions and dance moves. This helped us to organise the way that we had to do things to not waste as much time. On the other hand we did not finish our whole sequence in colour as we found the application extremely difficult, and we did not expect that everything would take so long. I feel if we didn't plan anything before we began to film then we would have been very behind.


Throughout shooting for our sequence we did not have to worry about weather conditions, or the best location as we only had to record in a studio. However the studio that we used was not ideal as it was a little small, which meant we could not fit in the whole of the actors bodies.


Due to the fact our opening sequence is a dance, the camera had to stay on a fixed stand and be set in the right position, so we did not experience the use of angles and shots thoroughly. Although we did film the same part many of times to get it as close to the real film as possible, due to our actors  that we used not acting entirely professional, for example laughing. However our actors were reliable and was considerably patient.