Opening Scene Ranking

1. 12B2 Snakes & Ladders: Despite looking to me as if it was a spin off from the BBC daytime soap, Doctors, this was the best in my books. It was so corny but working so well cohesively. The two perspectives worked so well and were full of a different range of camera shots. Above all the ending was the best, it really felt like an opening sequence.

2. 12E10 The Slayer: Poor music overshadowed performance - Good setting

3. 12E8 Deception: The metaphor of waking step by step and switching to abuse worked well

4. 12B6 The Resistance: I thought it was amazing, I was dazzled by the red subtitles to tell you the target and let you know what is going on. UNTIL the opening scene turned into an interview of a slumber party in a shed, I was so confused. Then I had to deal with a seven second black out to which I threw my papers up high, folded my arms and gave up. It did not cause tension, it merely wasted seven seconds of my life. I know now that pauses do not cause tension, especially if they are a ridiculous length.

Unfortunately, Chris and I were so heavily into the opening scenes we were watching didn't get to complete them all. However from what we did watch we can rank best to worst

9. 1962: An abysmal attempt to say the least. It didn't veer away from any cliches from girls screaming in the woods and the whole horror genre. The script was ridiculous and the story line was in no way clear. However, I refuse to let it be the worst as they did in fact use the camera and certain shots to foreshadow and give information.

10. Chroniker: It felt as if the opening scene was shouting at me. Credits rolled from start to finish and blurred the whole video, my attention was on the spinning fancy credits instead of the actual opening scene at hand. There was about two moments where there weren't any unnecessary spilt screen effects. The music was a complete contradiction to the story and above all monotonous. The storyline was not clear at all.

11. Bacterium: Seeing them all together I can see why this isn't officially the worst, however to me this is. The nuclear green titles frustrated me, the tracking of him walking for what seemed so long made me want to scratch my face. I guess there were some ups, the set up of The Boss' office was good and believable.

I have learned: I must steer clear of any unnecessary editing and putting in effects that confuse the story. Try to make elements revolving around guns as less cliche as possible. Don't get too involved with the story, focus on what picks up marks. Let the action come to the Intricate details accounts for a lot, don't try to be sloppy and remember to set our filming time and editing time out so we don't have to cram at the end.