Dexter Fletcher interview-BFI

On Friday 11th November 2016 we went to the British Film Institute in London for a talk on film opening sequences and an interview with Dexter Fletcher, an English actor and director. During the talk we looked specifically at opening film titles and how to create the perfect film title which gets the viewers attention but doesn't tell them the full story of the film.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexter_Fletcher




During the interview I learnt a variety of different things on how to make a good film opening sequence including;

• don't give away too much about the film but don't not give anything away
• don't use too many different locations when shooting
• keep a simple colour palette

We were also shown some of Dexter's opening sequences these included, Wild Bill, Sunshine on Leath and Eddie the Eagle. Throughout all of these we saw a number of different ways Dexter intrigued the audience, he used the same colour pallets and also set up the story line of the film whilst not going into detail about what the film is about.