Ots brainstorm
This document provides guidance for brainstorming ideas for an opening sequence (OTS) trailer. It instructs the reader to create a mood board representing their trailer idea and includes a guide with questions to consider like the title, characters, locations, and target audience. It then defines what a mood board is and provides examples. The reader is tasked with producing a mood board for their horror trailer conveying key concepts through images, text, and materials related to locations, characters, themes, and other elements. They are to deconstruct their mood board by explaining each item and its meanings and how it relates to these concepts. The homework is to complete the mood board and deconstruction by a deadline and upload it to their blog to present
Ots brainstorm
- 1. OTS Brainstorm To formulate ideas for your opening sequence To create a mood board to represent your trailer idea
- 2. Using this guide brainstorm your OTS idea Title: Synopsis of what happens in OTS What enigma codes will you include? Who will your characters be? What are they like? Which locations will you use? What genre conventions will you use? What kind of editing will you use and when? What production companies will you use? If your own, what will they be called? Who will your target audience be? What rating will you give your film and why? (visit BBFC website)
- 3. Produce a mood board for your OTS What is a mood board? • an arrangement of images, materials, pieces of text, etc. intended to evoke or project a particular style or concept. • "we put together a mood board with key images and words that best convey the essence of the brand”
- 4. Examples
- 5. Produce a mood board to represent your horror trailer’s key concepts • Include images, text and material which connote: – Locations/ settings – Characters – Themes – Sound – MES (colours, lighting, props etc.) – What are the meanings behind these images/ text/materials?
- 6. Deconstruct your mood board • Explain each item/aspect of your mood board. What are the denotations and connotations of each sign and how does it relate to: • Locations/ settings • Characters • Themes • Lighting • Sound • Colour tones • MES • meaning
- 7. Homework • Complete your mood board and the deconstruction by Friday 30/1/15 • Upload it to your blog and be prepared to present it to the class.