Create your own 9 frame analysis of an opening from a similar film to the one you are intending to make (Evaluation Q1 - conventions).

Your analysis should show the forms and conventions of: the titles (including style, typefaces, positioning, timing, how they appear and what they say), setting and locations, costumes and props, camerawork, the 'setup' of the story, the creation of genre, how characters are introduced, editing and effects, music, sound and dialogue. You should use each frame to write about a different aspect of the opening; e.g. one frame could be about the title of the film and the next frame could be about how genre is created.

My influential film is the Italian Job, purely because of the films ending.



This is when they have swerved off the road and all the gold has slid to the back of the van and Charlie Croker (Michael Caine) tries to retrieve as much of the gold as he can so he slowly clambers to the back of the coach edging his way to it.



Here he lowers himself down to the ground and with his eye line in the direction of the loot. The director chose this because it would create suspense and as well as comedy material.


I enlarged this picture slightly so you can see more of the detail. This image shows Croker on his hands and knees crawling towards his haul. I feel the director chose this type of shot because it’s a medium long shot or full body shot because though it shows most of the set it also shows almost all of the actor body.

This is seen from the opposite direction to better show the gold sliding down the floor.


In this shot we see him edge closer to the gold but can’t keep it up lest he tips over the van and sends him and his crew over the cliff this is a canted angle most likely chosen because it resembles the way the van is leaning.


This shows Charlie on his front reaching out for the gold. The shot used is the same as before.

Here Croker jolts back as the van teeters dangerously on the edge of the crevice. By my count this angle is slightly higher than the last one to see the action more clearly. 

 This is arguably the most famous part of the movie. Croker says to his team “I have a great idea” but no one knows what it is as the credits start after he says it. This is a point of view shot so we can see what the gang are seeing.

This is the last shot before the credits and the picture is fading out. It is the same as the last one.