Friday, 27 November 2015
Wednesday, 25 November 2015
Fonts for Titles
Fonts for Titles
1. The 7:39
2. The Boy Next Door
1. The 7:39
The 7:39 title is simplistic and uses the word 'The' as a substitution for a colon (:). This makes the title seem as though it is a time (7:39), linking with the theme of trains in the movie.
2. The Boy Next Door
The Boy Next Door title uses simple font and a basic colour of white. However, the plain text is distorted by a diagonal line, creating a broken effect. This gives subtext to the title, implying that the genre is perhaps a horror or a mystery.
Production Diary
Day One - 09/11/2015
Today we found out who was in our group for our AS Media film opening. Our group consists of Alicia, Chloe, Tez and Evan. We assigned the roles within our group and they are as follows:
Alicia - Team Leader/Actor
Chloe - Director
Tez - Actor
Evan - Camera Man
Today, we also created individual film pitches that we would pitch to the rest of our team the next day.
Day Two - 10/11/2015
(Tez and Chloe were absent on this day)
(Tez and Chloe were absent on this day)
Today we pitched our individual ideas to the rest of our team. Evan and Alicia looked at Tez and Chloe's pitches and created an idea that incorporated elements from each of the individual pitches.
The idea is:
There are two opposing lives (a 20-something business woman and a homeless, 20-something man) that come together on a train and develop a romantic relationship over a period of time.
Day Three - 12/11/2015
Evan and Alicia pitched their collaborative idea to Tez and Chloe. The response was positive and more ideas were included. We spent the rest of the lesson creating an Emaze presentation to show to the class and receive feedback from.
Day Four - 13/11/2015
Today we pitched our film opening idea to the rest of our peers and teachers. We received feedback on the title of our film, the story line, location and things to improve on.
Day Five - 16/11/2015
Today we received the feedback sheets from our peers and teachers and took all of the comments into consideration and developed our film opening idea. We improved our characters and story line by changing the characters to the following:
The woman = a 20-something business woman and mother
The man = a homeless, teenage boy
By changing the ages of the characters, we have created a more enticing and unique film opening idea. We have decided to take influences from the films The 7:39 and _________.
We also allocated roles within the group and decided who would do what in the production of our film opening.
Day Six - 17/11/2015
Today, we began our individual roles within the group.
Evan started to look at Representation.
Tez looked at the camera shots that we should include in our film opening and the effects that they will create.
Chloe and Alicia updated the production diary and took Recce images to create a mood-board of our film opening in the near future.
Day Seven - 18/11/2015
(Alicia was absent on this day)
The rest of the group started adapting the idea to make it easier to film or more exciting. The group decided to adapt the character of the homeless boy and make him a teenage "thug" with a twist - he's actually a nice guy, not the stereotypical gangster. By making this alteration, we have allowed ourselves more room to be creative with our music choices and shots.
Day Eight - 19/11/2015
(Alicia was absent on this day)
The rest of the group videoed a draft version of the new film opening in order to be able to see the product and analyse the physical video. By doing this, it made the ideas come to life and allowed the group to get a visual product to base the real opening on.
Day Nine - 20/11/2015
(Chloe and Tez were absent on this day)
Alicia created a storyboard for the film opening. This included an image of the shot and a brief description about it. They also researched upon film production companies that could be used for our film. In addition, Alicia and Evan decided upon the production company of Film 4 and chose a production opening and merged the visuals together with a soundtrack that fits the setting of the teenage "thug". The music track is: Skepta - ?????
Day Ten - 23/11/2015
Evan and Tez wrote up the risk assessment onto the risk assessment sheet whilst Alicia completed the production diary. The production diary states that the group's filming starts on Wednesday 25th November and continues over to Thursday 26th November.
Day Eleven - 24/11/2015
Alicia uploaded images of the risk assessment and shooting schedule onto her blog. She also finished her research into film fonts and titles and uploaded that to her blog. Chloe, Evan and Tez filmed the storyboard, put it onto Adobe Premier Pro and started to recording the voiceover of it.
Day Seven - 18/11/2015
(Alicia was absent on this day)
The rest of the group started adapting the idea to make it easier to film or more exciting. The group decided to adapt the character of the homeless boy and make him a teenage "thug" with a twist - he's actually a nice guy, not the stereotypical gangster. By making this alteration, we have allowed ourselves more room to be creative with our music choices and shots.
Day Eight - 19/11/2015
(Alicia was absent on this day)
The rest of the group videoed a draft version of the new film opening in order to be able to see the product and analyse the physical video. By doing this, it made the ideas come to life and allowed the group to get a visual product to base the real opening on.
Day Nine - 20/11/2015
(Chloe and Tez were absent on this day)
Alicia created a storyboard for the film opening. This included an image of the shot and a brief description about it. They also researched upon film production companies that could be used for our film. In addition, Alicia and Evan decided upon the production company of Film 4 and chose a production opening and merged the visuals together with a soundtrack that fits the setting of the teenage "thug". The music track is: Skepta - ?????
Day Ten - 23/11/2015
Evan and Tez wrote up the risk assessment onto the risk assessment sheet whilst Alicia completed the production diary. The production diary states that the group's filming starts on Wednesday 25th November and continues over to Thursday 26th November.
Day Eleven - 24/11/2015
Alicia uploaded images of the risk assessment and shooting schedule onto her blog. She also finished her research into film fonts and titles and uploaded that to her blog. Chloe, Evan and Tez filmed the storyboard, put it onto Adobe Premier Pro and started to recording the voiceover of it.
Monday, 9 November 2015
Sunday, 8 November 2015
Analysis of three videos
In class we watched the opening scenes of other students from either our school or others. We were then set work to choose three that we liked and give them a grade between level 1 and level 4.
This is the film opening mark criteria
'Blitz'
This is the first film opening I have chosen to analyse. I thought that this was very good because the set design was exceptional. It highlighted the genre, the music fitted perfectly, the sound quality was good and the lighting made it sinister leaving me us the audience with a hook. It also was creating narrated enigma for the audience, wanting us to watch more. However, a negative of mine would be that in the end, it became more of a trailer, due to overly edited children's laughing in the background, also it answers the questions at the end. During the film opening your trying to figure out who the bad character is, and this shouldn't be found out straight away, this makes the film opening a little bit worse, but overall I would give this film opening a level 4.
'Poscig'
In the film opening 'Poscig' there is a lot of enigma we get from the title as the film is done in foreign, due to the film being foreign this makes the film more original overall making the film more interesting for us the viewers and different to other film opening. The Foley sound used was also good, therefore I would score this this film opening a level 4.
'Alone'
In the film opening 'Alone' there is a establishing and disappearing shot, there is variety of effects and a lot of variety of editing used. Alone using the enigma code to get the target audience interested in the film opening. A downfall perhaps could be that there isn't much dialogue used in this opening sequence. The sound was good as it was eerie and fitted well with the opening scene. Although I think it would have been better if it was set at a darker time as it would create a more tense and creepier atmosphere for the viewer of the film opening. Overall however I think this film opening would score a level 4.
This is the film opening mark criteria
Level 1 0–23 marks The work for the main task is possibly incomplete. There is minimal evidence in the work of the creative use of any relevant technical skills such as:• Producing material appropriate for the target audience and task; • using titles appropriately according to institutional conventions; • using sound with images and editing appropriately for the task set;• shooting material appropriate to the task set; including controlled use of the camera, attention to framing, variety of shot distance and close attention to mise-en-scene; • using editing so that meaning is apparent to the viewer and making selective and appropriate use of shot transitions and other effects. Level 2 24–35 marks There is evidence of a basic level of ability in the creative use of some of the following technical skills:• Producing material appropriate for the target audience and task; • using titles appropriately according to institutional conventions; • using sound with images and editing appropriately for the task set;• shooting material appropriate to the task set;, including controlled use of the camera, attention to framing, variety of shot distance and close attention to mise-en-scene; • using editing so that meaning is apparent to the viewer and making selective and appropriate use of shot transitions and other effects. Level 3 36–47 marks There is evidence of proficiency in the creative use of many of the following technical skills:• Producing material appropriate for the target audience and task; • using titles appropriately according to institutional conventions; • using sound with images and editing appropriately for the task set;• shooting material appropriate to the task set; including controlled use of the camera, attention to framing, variety of shot distance and close attention to mise-en-scene; • using editing so that meaning is apparent to the viewer and making selective and appropriate use of shot transitions and other effects.Level 4 48–60 marks There is evidence of excellence in the creative use of most of the following technical skills:• material appropriate for the target audience and task;• using titles appropriately according to institutional conventions;• using sound with images and editing appropriately for the task set;• shooting material appropriate to the task set;including controlled use of the camera, attention to framing, variety of shot distance and close attention to mise-en-scene;• using editing so that meaning is apparent to the viewer and making selective and appropriate use of shot transitions and other effects.
'Blitz' This is the first film opening I have chosen to analyse. I thought that this was very good because the set design was exceptional. It highlighted the genre, the music fitted perfectly, the sound quality was good and the lighting made it sinister leaving me us the audience with a hook. It also was creating narrated enigma for the audience, wanting us to watch more. However, a negative of mine would be that in the end, it became more of a trailer, due to overly edited children's laughing in the background, also it answers the questions at the end. During the film opening your trying to figure out who the bad character is, and this shouldn't be found out straight away, this makes the film opening a little bit worse, but overall I would give this film opening a level 4.
'Poscig'
In the film opening 'Poscig' there is a lot of enigma we get from the title as the film is done in foreign, due to the film being foreign this makes the film more original overall making the film more interesting for us the viewers and different to other film opening. The Foley sound used was also good, therefore I would score this this film opening a level 4.
'Alone'
In the film opening 'Alone' there is a establishing and disappearing shot, there is variety of effects and a lot of variety of editing used. Alone using the enigma code to get the target audience interested in the film opening. A downfall perhaps could be that there isn't much dialogue used in this opening sequence. The sound was good as it was eerie and fitted well with the opening scene. Although I think it would have been better if it was set at a darker time as it would create a more tense and creepier atmosphere for the viewer of the film opening. Overall however I think this film opening would score a level 4.
Saturday, 7 November 2015
Friday, 6 November 2015
Opening film titles
Notes from Richard Morrisons interview:
-You don't have to overcomplicate the idea to begin with.
-Make a rough copy to begin with.
-Constantly build on your rough copy gradually making it more complex and better.
Example:
Superbad opening credits:
This is the first shot of the opening credits 0.03-0.13 seconds.
This is the second production company in the opening credits they go from 0.13-0.23 seconds.
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| This is showing the production company from the scene before but this time doesn't show the logo, this goes from 0.24-0.27 |
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| This then showing a different production company from 0.27-0.30 seconds |
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| Add caption |
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