Journal post week 3/4

Journal
In week 3/4 we had to brain storm all the different Mise-en-scene we would use in our title sequence, we then to the best ideas that suit out film and put them in our story board which I have shown in another post.

We also had a lesson on foley sound this was to help us learn about sound design and how sound is very important to get your story across to the audience.

The foley sound will play a big part in our title sequence, we have already start planning some sound design now.

Making of Props

Making of Money

 

For our title sequence we had to create money, as that is our main theme behind our film. We will be buring the money in a briefcase which signifies all the money that Luther has been wasting all his life. We used £50 notes and got the the specific measurements of the a website that I have shown below. We then had to cut up plain paper to the size of the notes and to make them realistic we died them in tea this made it look like the notes were real.

 

 

 

 

This is how we created the money

Story Boards

Story Boarding

Before shooting we had to prepare our story board in order for us to know and visualise what we need to shoot for our title sequence. The story boards will consist of the different shots and mini clips which will in the end make our title sequence. Although we have drawn ideas down these ideas may change at any time if we see it fit to change. 

These are the diagrams from our Story Boards.

Sound Track Research

Sound Track Research 

Audio network was the website which helped our group find the best sound track for our title sequence it exceeded our expectations, as the sound track fits in very well with our sequence. We also had to make sure that our sound track copy right free, this was convenient as Audio network is a copy right free website

Typography/Font Research

Typography research

To research what type of font we would use for our titles I used www.dafont.com. As a group we chose two fonts each and are going to do a survey to see what font is the best for our film.


These are some of my suggestions to our title fonts, I chose a more basic look towards the font as our movie comes across as simple and straight forward, and there isn't that much style, however I wanted to find a gangsta type of font which I fialed to find one that would suit our title sequence.

As a group we decided that we would use the font that Harry found as it was the best.

 

This was Harry’s suggestions

Harry thought that this font is good for our film because it is in uppercase and this shows professionalism, which our film represents. Our film is a thriller/gangster genre; this typography fits it because it is bold and undistorted which is popular for gangster movies such as Goodfellas, which is shown in the picture below. 



Inherited Emipre Media Pitch Presentation

Inherited Emipre Media Pitch Presentation

Here is our presentation which we made on powerpoint, this was the presentation we showed to the class in our pitch. In this presentation we have included all of the main information about our movie including costs , casting and the plot to our film.

Production Deadline

In today’s lesson our teacher gave us a list of things we need to have completed by the 28^th of January 2013, this gives us just over a month to complete productions editing and audience research which will be continuous throughout the production.

List

• Finish Storyboard (make it animatic)

• Write shooting Schedule/plan

• Plan some audience research to be conducted before/whilst/ after shooting. Could be questionnaires, interviews or focus groups. Equally you could use secondary research (Already gathered by someone else) if appropriate.

• Do location recce, test shots, props/costume planning etc.

• Design a production company logo for your group (Optional)

• Shoot the Sequence

• Research sound track options brainstorm and decided on a soundtrack (it has to be copy right free)  

• Look at typography/title, design, brainstorm/research options and decided on final design.

Film

Film Studio Introduction 

For the opening of our Title we had to research what film  studio we would be using and we decided to use LIONSGATE  as they had produced films that are similar to ours. We got the clip of the opening from youtube, we then had to download it to add it onto our title sequence. 

As a group we decided to choose 'Lionsgate' to be the studio our film. We was asked to research into different studios and then to put their titles into our title sequence. These will feature at the beginning of our title sequence. We chose Lionsgate because they have worked with actors who star in our film for example Jason Statham (Transporter 3) , Tom Hardy (Warrior) , Tamer Hassan (Blood Out) , Ray Winstone (Tracker) , Idris Elba (Daddy's Little Girl). Therefore this shows that the actors we have chosen may have a good relationship with the studio and like the way that they work as a studio. Lionsgate are also well known for being a very successful studio due to films such as Hunger Games which made $408,010,692 and the 'Expendables which made $103,068,524.

Lionsgate also distributed 'Harry Brown' which is a famous British crime film which in some aspects is similar to ours due to the setting and also the violence used within the movie.

Also Lionsgate tend to focus mainly on foreign and independent films, and is perhaps best known for distributing films that are too controversial for the large American companies. Therefore we felt that due to the storyline it may appeal to 'Lionsgate' the most out of the well known studios.


This is the clip we downloaded and added to our title sequence. 

Blog Checklists

Blog Checklist

This is my checklist of what i have and haven't done at this point of time. 

1. Continuity sequence and evaluation of it
2. 'The Art of the Title' homework task (Leanne)
3. Saul Bass write-up and independent titles analysis
4. Presentation on a title sequence designer of your choosing
5. Pitch video, presentation, feedback sheets and summary of feedback/comments on what you think of it
6. Zombieland analysis
7. Analysis of a title sequence of your choosing
8. Genre notes and analysis of a sequence of your genre
9. Class notes written up, including codes conventions of title sequences and Sound
10. Video of your fight sequence and explanation of what you did and evaluation of what you learnt through the process
11. Audience profile for your film
12. The order of the titles & importance of typography, to include analysis of Se7en/Catch Me if You Can/Lord of War covered in lesson.
13. Write-up of film industry work completed with Shaun.
14. Video feedback from Leanne/Shaun with your comments as to how you are going to address the feedback for improvements.

The Green for work that is has been done, the Red is for work that hasn't been done then the Yellow is for work that is in progress 

Feedback

Feedback of My Blog
Video Feedback
Received feedback from Mr Grimsley on my blog. Firstly he gave me positive feedback on the presentation of my Blog, however he wasn’t very impressed with the quantity of work I had done at this point and time. He then asked me to catch up and keep myself to speed, and add more detail to my work that was already produced. I will be adding more depth and content to my work and also catching up with bits I have missed to ensure I get better feedback next time Sir views my blog.

Typography and Design

The importance of Typography and Design

The importance of Typography and design

In today’s lesson we learnt about the importance of typography and how it can totally change how a title sequence looks and how the audience can interpret it. The fonts used have to fit the genre specifically otherwise it will not look right and may give a different impression to the audience about the movie.

When analysing a title sequence there are five Things to consider:

•  Genre

• Style/mood

• Possible narratives

• Production values

• Themes

Journal post week 2

Journal 
As our second task we had to produce a power point, following our film, the power point consisted of a Log line, characters, plot, producer and the budget which we would need for this film to be a success.

After delivering our pitch the class then took time to give us some feed back on what works and what doesn't, I have shown this in the post showing all feed back from the class.

Planning of Title Sequence

Planning of Title Sequence 

Today we started our story boarding, and planning of our title sequence. We looked at different ideas and editing we could use for our title sequence. We could possible have two of our main characters in our  title sequence, Anton and Terry Jones. The credits are likely to be place on plain playing cards, this potteries a gangster film. 

We listed a number of ideas 

Editing: 

• Fading into Shots 
• Black and White (Right or Wrong)
• Close up of Anton hands on head
• Voices in his head 
• Beeping Hospital sound

Ideas:

• Exchanging money 
• Map of London 
• Pin pointing (plotting) 
• Club Cards 
• Ticking clock (sound) 
• Cooking books
• Letter of death 
• Burning Money 
• Police flashing Lights 
• London street signs 
• Home with crime sign 
• Voice over (poem)
• Hospital setting 

We also had to consider the order of our Credits, which will be 

1. Studio Logos 
2. Production company presents 
3. Film Title 
4. Actors Names 
5. Any of the following, Casting, Production designer, Costume, Make-up, Special effects,Music and Sound editor
6. Line Producer
7. Exec Producer
8. Producer
9. Editor
10. Director of Photography 
11. Writer(s)
12. Director

Film Studios

Film Studios 

Aims: To be able to indicate how Films are produced and distributed.

        : To research and decide, on the film studio that will produce/distribute our film.

A Film Studio is a company that produces and or distributes motion pictures. 

As a class we listed around 30 Film Studios.

 

• Fox 
• Pixar 
• Paramount 
• Dream works 
• Lions gate 
• Miramax 
• Touchstone 
• MGM
• Sony 
• Studio C
• Film Four 
• Disney 
• Universal 
• Orion 
• Fox searchlight 
• Marvel
• Nickelodeon 
• Columbia

 

 

There are Six main Studios operating today.

1. Walt Disney 
2. Universal 
3. Warner Bros 
4. Sony/Columbia 
5. Fox  
6. Paramount 

Each of these will own Subdivisions which specialise in niche films. This is based on genre and budget.

This is the order in which the money is spilt in. 

 

A distribution company is in charge of getting the film out to audiences, this involves organising for the film to receive an age certificate by regulation bodies such as the BBFC and MPPA arranging exhibitions. 

In the second part of our lesson we the went away in a groups to research which film studio would produce/distribute our films. In our group we decided that Lionsgate would produce/distribute Inherited Empire because 

Journal week 1

Journal
Our first task as a group was to create film ideas to come and share with our group and the class and then make a decision on which film idea was the best.

In our group we thought Charlie's idea had the most potential, we then as a group expanded the idea to create a British thriller which will involve big stars and a big producer.

The film will be based in London and our sequence will indicate just what our film is about.

Fight Scene

Foley Sound 

Fight Scene 
After shooting our short fight scene we went away and created our foley sound and edited the clip. I think that the we created a comedy fight scene, we learnt that sound can make a big difference to any clip as it can change and set tension or make people laugh. Originally our scene was meant to be a tense  one but during the edit we discovered that it was funny more than a serious clip. This is suggested through out the whole clip.

What we used?
We used nuts, carrots and meat to replicate sounds of breaking bones and someone being punched in the face. We also had to record some sounds from body parts such as beating my chest and slapping our hands on our thighs. This will help us when we make our Title Sequence, as it will make sure that our target audience understands just from the sound what our title is trying to communicate to them. 

Sound Design

Sound Design

Aims:

1.       To be able to indicate what the three different types of Sound Design are.

2.       To create a Foley Track for the fight sequence that we have filmed.

What is Sound Design?

The creation and layering of dialogue, background noise and other sound effects to create a sophisticated aural environment. An example, in a scene where the setting is a rainforest, the sounds of various birds and animals would be dubbed in after recording to enhance the scene and make it look real.

There are 3 types of sound creation

1.        Realism
2.        Hyper Realism
3.        Unrealism/ Surrealism

After the lesson on sound, we went off in our groups to create our own sounds, using the film we had produced we had meat, carrots, nuts and kick a door. We then used the sounds in our film for example the meat being punched helped us enhance the punching sound from our actual film. This was a good lesson and learnt a lot about Foley Sound, this will defiantly help us when making our title sequences.   

  

Dan Perri

Dan Perri

About Dan Perri Dan Perri has been a film and television title sequence designer for over 30 years and has created main titles for more than 400 film and television projects.

Dan Perri’s most famous work includes Star Wars, Taxi Driver, The Warriors, Raging Bull, Airplane! ,The Aviator, The Player , Nightmare on Elm street , Robocop 2 and Gangs of New York.

Dan Perri has also created many screen logos such as Orion pictures , ABC Circle films, Miramax/Touchstone.

Style

Dan perri style of title sequences is to make sure the audience understands the setting and context of the film. He also introduces characters such as in ‘The Warriors’ title sequence he shows all gangs that are featured in the film. Dan perri also signifies the setting in ‘The Warriors’ by showing the subway were the movie will be set.

Dan Perri- Raging Bull Angles & Sound

Dan Perri uses lots of close up shots to identify key factors. His title sequences also build up tension by using slow paced effects and long cuts. In ‘Raging Bull’ Dan perri uses sound to represent Jake la Motta’s personality. As Jake la Motta’s aggressive and quick tempered personality this music shows that when he is in the ring he is at peace, and the only way he can express himself is through the poetic motion of fighting hence the music being played is poetic and peaceful. The fog in this particular sequence could show that in La Motta’s mind he has blocked the world out and is concentrating on his fight.

Research-Saul Bass

Saul Bass

Saul Bass  was an American graphic designer and filmmaker, perhaps best known for his design of film posters and motion picture title sequences. Amongst his most famous title sequences are the animated paper cut-out of a heroin addict's arm for Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm, the credits racing up and down what eventually becomes a high-angle shot of the C.I.T. Financial Building in Hitchcock's North by Northwest, and the disjointed text that races together and apart in Psycho.

Bass designed the sixth AT&T Bell System logo, as well as AT&T's "globe" logo after the breakup of the Bell System. He also designed Continental Airlines' 1968 "jetstream" logo which became one of the most recognized airline industry logos of the 1970s. Here are some of Saul bass's work in pre title sequence design;

Ocean's 11 Title Sequence

Target Audience- Inherited Empire

Target Audience

 Primary Target: 18-35 years old (men)

Secondary Target: 35-50 years old (men)

The target audience for our film, Inherited Empire, will be mainstreamers who tend to be domesticated and conformist type of people. However, we recognize that our age rating is an 18 certificate, which indicates to us that we are focusing on a niche audience. This is because it is a specific audience and we need to provide content that the audience will like.

The audience that we are aiming at would like action films, beer, sports and socializing. Their dislikes would be things that females would usually like such as shopping and romantic films. Also the races that our film will appeal to are black, white and mixed race as these feature in our film.

The targeted viewer would not have strong beliefs in church or religion as our film may cross boundaries that may offend them. Therefore, the target audience would only go to church for a wedding or funeral.

The target audience’s main occupation would be a practical job such a builder, electrician or plumber, as these typically like gangster movies, as it is there interest. However, another target would be people interested in media such as graphic designers and media technicians as they will be more obliged to go to the cinema, through their shared interest in the arts.

El Don- Title Sequence Research

El Don

How it satisfies codes and conventions and purpose?

El don satisfies codes and conventions, firstly by by setting the scene, and establishing what type of a film its going to be, the is also a brief shot showing a man wearing a suit, and standing up tall suggesting that he is a leader or has an important part in the film. The sequence then follows with a long shot showing the streets this makes the audience aware that the film will be on the streets. The Camera angles in El Don are generally the same all being basic side shots of the different events that could occur during the film. 

Inherited Empire Planning, Research and Analysis

Inherited Empire

As part of our course work we were grouped up, in my group is Charlie L, Charlie N, Harry M. To begin with we had to plan a film individually, things we had to consider for the film are the Film name, Characters and Actors most likely to play the roles, we then had to come up with 3 film ideas of which one would be on the shortlist, then as a group we would choose the best idea to carry through. 

When then all agreed that Harry M had the best idea, which we then pitched to our class mate and teacher. The pitch consisted of a log line, a plot, the actors that would star in the film, a budget and the target audience. Below is the presentation we pitched to the class. 

During our pitch our class mates had to give us some feedback on what they thought of our film idea. Of the four feedback sheets only one gave us three star rating, the rest were two star, this may have been because we didn't give the whole film away which left them with some questions to ask. Another factor that we found out was the budget we set a lot of people didn't  understand that why our budget was so high from the similar film we had researched, however they didn't understand that we have a very demanding cast with the likes of Tom Hardy and Jason Statham. Which is why our budget was set so high to accommodate these high demanding actors. We also didn't make our target audience very clear in the pitch however we explained to the class that our target audience would be 15-35 year men. 

Improvements- 

• We need to include a release date 
• Specific target audience

Title Sequence Research

How it satisfies codes and conventions and purpose?

Quantum of Solace satisfies codes and conventions firstly by introducing the main character and the type of character what role he will play in the film.  This is done through the character dress sense wearing a smart suit suggesting he’s a smart clean person, he is also holding a gun which he fires through an open space suggesting that there will be lots of shooting from the character himself.

The bullet that has been fired is travelling through open space and disappears during the sequence and comes back to the character, this suggest that the main character will be search for something or someone that will carry on disappearing this may occur numerous times during the film, however at the same time the we are introduced to the setting of the film, which is very key for the audience to know, the film is suggested to be set in a hot place this is shown through the first shot of the sequence which shows the character standing in front of the sun, this also continues to grow throughout the next hint is the desert back ground this is an even bigger clue as to where its set, this may also allow us to gather up some views on what the theme of the film will be, perhaps a rich in oil country and the movie has something to do with this?

We are then introduced to this female character but we aren’t to sure what role she will play in the film whether she is what our main character is looking for or this character is close to the main character, at this point we are left questioning and find it intriguing this sets up enigmas.  This is also a main Convention to any James Bond films however during the sequence there is suggestion that James Bond will fall at the hands of females as it shows him falling through a number of women, this may suggest that James Bond affection for women will finally stitch him up.