Ideas for our Youth drama title sequence

In today's lesson we watched a collaboration of different opening sequences of popular youth drama movies. From watching 'the Guvnors' we analysed various types of mise en scene, for example; this movie gave us many ideas for the type of atmosphere we would open our scene with. The Guvnors portray young adults as being violent and troublesome and we see conflict between them and authority, including adults. This conforms to the stereotype and the representation of male youths.

The mise en scene (sound) used eventually speeds up as more action begins. It was dark at the beginning which sets the mood for the opening sequence and then speeds up to show that there will be action too.

Some of the shots used in the Guvnors, such as the close ups, showed their facial expressions clearly which helped us understand their attitudes throughout the film. Further more, high angle shots were also used to show dominance and weakness between characters. These helped us come up with ideas to use in our own title sequence.