The analysis we completed today will aid me as it clearly identified what a opening sequence of any film features and more specifically the genre Western. Researching the genre and looking closely at the detail involved in it e.g. the conventions, showed me that within an opening sequence there are many expectations that an audience will have. These expectations included mise-en-scene, camerawork and more generally the characters involved. All of these conventions show the audience the type of genre that it is and what the narrative structure will be like. Knowing this we researched the Western genre and found out typical conventions involved in it, some of these included a typical narrative structure, a typical isolated setting, costumes and sound that relates to the western theme. Following this we looked at the film Stagecoach directed by John Ford. This film included many conventions at we already researched, therefore this was useful as it put what we have researched into place. Doing this also helped as when we come to select the film genre, we will know how to research the film genre and how to look up films that will aid us when producing the actual film. In doing this task we used many websites such as www.youtube.com we used this site to look up films to help with reference to the genre conventions
Overall this task therefore helped me to have a better idea and understanding of conventions of different film genres, how to research them and relate them certain film opening sequences.
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