Production Log Week 3

What have you learnt about the narrative structures & devices?
In terms of narrative & structure, I have learnt this week that the credits and titles are very important to any opening sequence as it tells us the main cast (giving us an idea of what kind of film it may be as we associate certain actors with certain genres) and who took part in actually creating the film (producers, editors, director of photography etc.) The credits are used as a final hook for the audience as they will reconise the names fo the actors,actresses or directors of previous films they may like ergo the audience may have soem sort of idea what kind of film they are about to watch e.g. Jason Statham is associated with high energy, high intensity and quite violent films.
  

The non-diegetic sound (theme tune/soundtrack) is also important in an opening sequence, as it again, helps tell us what genre/style the film may be. For example, Kidulthood chose to use and underground music track that only youth from lond would reconise before seeing the film which automatically tells us its aimed toward a younger audience, more specifically youth of London.