FILM OPENING BRAINSTORM NOTES

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Watching the sample film openings with my group gave us some good ideas for where we wanted to take our own opening! Particularly "Lost & Found" showed us that making high-quality, well shot footage is not at all outside of our reach, and we brainstormed how to create footage with the same level of quality - coming up with things like using a gimbal or a tripod, making sure to smartly color grade, and using a good camera. We also brainstormed a bit with some of our other influences, citing things from classic noir films, to Phineas & Ferb, to modern music videos as inspirational, and we took notes on aspects that we liked about each piece of media and how we can incorporate them into our own opening.

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