Les Bleus De Ramville

Les Bleus de Ramville is a Canadian television series focused on the around the members of a fan club of a local hockey team. The opening sequence for this show is award winning and we are going to try and analyse different parts of it a think of different ways we could incorporate these different very affective techniques on to the opening of our movie.

 The opening shot constrains the frame making the viewer focus on the player and his pre-match preparations. The mid-shot of the player helps the audience become part of the world of the players in the locker room; it also enables us to feel the nerves and intensity of the players whilst they prepare to go onto the ice and go face to face with their opponents. I think it would be an interesting and skilled shot that I want to incorporate into my opening sequence.

This shot is an extreme close up of one of the players tying the laces on their boots. I like this shot because like the opening shot it helps the audience to really dive into the locker room and fell what the players feel.

 In this tracking shot the lights switch on one at a time revealing the mask. The sound and video editing in this shot are excellent because as the first light turns on you hear the sound of a slap-shot coming from the rink. The shot is tracking from the left to the right very slowly and steadily to show the audience the whole of the mask. I really like slow tracking shots because I thinks it creates a feeling of extreme tension and suspense because anything could suddenly happen to change the speed entirely.

This is a very low-angle shot of a spectator walking up the stadium stairs to get to their seat. This helps to build the tension because the beginning of this opening sequence is all about building up tension before the game; having a fan walking to their seats means that the game is almost ready to start and the build up of tension is coming to a climax.
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 One of the best things about this opening sequence is that they include very legible credits. Every single credit that is shown, no matter, the background is legible and easy to read. This makes for a fantastic opening sequence because without the credits the audience won't know who stars in the show, who designed the costumes, write the scripts etc. In this opening sequence it only shows the actors that star in the show. This is the main thing that I want to achieve when making the opening sequence to my own movie. I want to make sure that my audience can easily read the credits and know all the details about the opening sequence that they need to know.

This tilt-pan shot shows the the lights of the scoreboard showing the time ticking down. The changing from the number 14 to 13 is fantastically matched with the music. In the soundtrack there is an underlying beat that sounds like a ticking clock and this beat matches up perfectly with the changing of time.