LocationImmediately when analysing set from dystopian films such as The Hunger Games I can see that there is a wide open space establishing surroundings such as The Glade in Maze Runner and in contrast a small space where the focus is directly on the characters such as the cage in Maze Runner. I can use this contrast of set in my film opening to establish setting then to focus on establishing my characters.

Another feature I will consider in my opening is establishing the futuristic society, in these images they have an ordinary surrounding yet place futuristic abnormal objects within it, for example The Glade is surrounded by The Maze, and the field of workers in underground, although this will be difficult for me to achieve I can use smaller objects or dialogue to establish the futuristic surroundings.

Props

Within the sci-fi genre the producers have ways to establish to the audience that certain characters are not a human such as Lucy and The Host. One way to do so is contact lenses, this will be a prop I may use as it will allow me to have human actors but make them appear super natural.

Some movies use markings/tattoos to indicate that they are super natural, this may be something I consider to link my characters to each other. However Having a tattoo or symbol may be used to symbolise the main character to make them recognisable to the audience but also to have that as a marketing strategy, for example Katniss in The Hunger Games processes the symbol of the mocking jay pin.

Costume within the genre includes simplistic/dull coloured clothing that is not weather specific or job specific but can be easily lives in and washed. Such as Maze Runner, ‘The Gladers’ must live in there costume the whole time so it looks dirty and worn, I may use this same affect to indicate their living conditions.

Another idea for costume in the dystopian genre is futuristic, with simple block colours that are extremely clean indicating their advance in living conditions, I may not use this type of costume as my characters are not so advanced.

This title forms on screen from metal and ‘transforms’ into the wording. This is effective as it is in keeping with the theme of the movie and se5ts up the audience for what they are expected to see. I may use this idea of linking the wording to the theme to create and effective, bold introduction to my opening scene.

Similarly in ‘Divergent’ the wording is simple and bold yet it there is a cut through the wording so the words don’t quit align which is symbolic of the idea of ‘divergent’ this simple design is effective as it gives a direct message to the audience and links with the science fiction genre as the bright light contrasts with the metallic colour of the wording and the bold, shark font.

‘The Maze Runner’ the style of font is similar to the first two as it sharp and straight with no curves and futuristic because of this. They also use a metallic colour and the wording is in capital adding to how bold it appears. This use of the font colour reoccurs through many of the films within this genre especially if the film narrative links to a futuristic society that is dominated by technology as the colour gives connotations of this. I feel this may not fit with my film opening as there is no link to advanced technology.

‘Twilight’ takes a different approach as the narrative does not involve an advance in technology so they do not use a metallic colour or futuristic font style, instead they have a delicate font with no capitals over a scenery. This is effective as it establishes the locations and theme of the forest within the movie. The swirl under the ‘g’ and the shark fading lines out from the title add to the detail and create a style that can be associated with the film. The choice of harsh lines and then curved effectively links with aspects of the film such as the dangerous vampires in contrasts to and innocent, beautiful girl. I may use this idea of designing the font within mine as it gives it individuality and links cleverly to the themes of the movie.