Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
We did a preliminary task we did at the start of the year. We were put into groups of 3 to create a short continuity film edit which we had to film and edit a character opening a door and crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character adding some type of dialogue. We had to demonstrate Match on action, Shot reverse shot and the 180 degree rule. My group did our continuity sequence on a boy and a girl who are in a relationship. they have problems and she slaps him and leaves him. My job was to film the footage while the other members of my group acted which was half of my job in our title sequence coursework. At first i was a bit scared to record the footage as i wasn't sure if my recording skills were good. However as the hours went along, i found myself enjoying recording more and more. I learned how to film on a basic level. After we did our recording we took our footage to go and edit. In our title sequence i helped Lucy with the editing process of our footage. I learned how to cut and slide in our footage to make the story line flow. We made the continuity sequence on Final Cut Pro. We used Final Cut Pro to do our title sequence so i was a bit familiar with some of the tools needed to create the sequence. In my GCSEs, i took Illustration and Communication so i already knew how to use Photoshop. I was in charge of creating the text which i got the text form 'dafont' which i selected a font type and transferred the font to Photoshop and created the titles for the title sequence. The voice over was created in Logic Pro by Christian as he is the most familiar with it as he does Music A-Level. The production company was also created using Photoshop.
I think that our group worked really well with the production of the title sequence, working together, agreeing with each other to make the title sequence better. I have improved my skills of the elements on the Mac computers but practicing more on it and doing more things like the multiple text i produced.
Thursday 3 April 2014
EvaluationQ6.
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
In lesson we looked at flip cameras and Cannon camera, However the media technology that we used first, was my Nikon camera which i got for my birthday. We decided to use my camera so we wouldn't have to go through the trouble of getting one from the school that we would need to return, instead we just used mine as at the end of our shooting, i can take it home. I was excited to start to film as we needed to start so that we can finish and edit on time for the deadline. The first thing we did was go to and empty meeting room at school to film the Doctors bit where he is writing in his notebook. We used the camera at Megan's house to film all of the inside bits. Then the next day since we needed another day to film, we did all of the outside bits of the Doctor and the girl (Maria) walking. With my camera i also bought a mini tripod which is quite small but it can hold up the camera so that it is steady when we film. On the second day i transferred all of our footage onto Lucy's computer when we went to her house.
The second media technology that we used was the Mac computers. The Mac computers are a high technology computer that can make beats of a song which i thought was very interesting. We used Final Cut Pro elements on the Mac's to actually make our title sequence which we included the black and white effect and all of the transitions that we used. We used Logic Pro elements to make our voice over, we had one snippet from Christian being the Doctor and the other snippet of myself being Maria's voice. The last thing we used on the Mac's was Photoshop elements which i was in charge for making the title text for the title sequence as i was a bit familiar with the program.
We used the internet to look up what title goes after what title which was Megan's job. I looked on 'dafont' for the font of the text. We did our research about Thriller title sequences in the internet.
Overall i think i have learned a lot about technologies during making this title sequence. My group overall agreed on most thing but on some things like figuring out who should do what regarding the technologies took some time sorting out. I feel like if i was to do a title sequence again i would be able to do it more successfully using more professional technologies.
In lesson we looked at flip cameras and Cannon camera, However the media technology that we used first, was my Nikon camera which i got for my birthday. We decided to use my camera so we wouldn't have to go through the trouble of getting one from the school that we would need to return, instead we just used mine as at the end of our shooting, i can take it home. I was excited to start to film as we needed to start so that we can finish and edit on time for the deadline. The first thing we did was go to and empty meeting room at school to film the Doctors bit where he is writing in his notebook. We used the camera at Megan's house to film all of the inside bits. Then the next day since we needed another day to film, we did all of the outside bits of the Doctor and the girl (Maria) walking. With my camera i also bought a mini tripod which is quite small but it can hold up the camera so that it is steady when we film. On the second day i transferred all of our footage onto Lucy's computer when we went to her house.
The second media technology that we used was the Mac computers. The Mac computers are a high technology computer that can make beats of a song which i thought was very interesting. We used Final Cut Pro elements on the Mac's to actually make our title sequence which we included the black and white effect and all of the transitions that we used. We used Logic Pro elements to make our voice over, we had one snippet from Christian being the Doctor and the other snippet of myself being Maria's voice. The last thing we used on the Mac's was Photoshop elements which i was in charge for making the title text for the title sequence as i was a bit familiar with the program.
We used the internet to look up what title goes after what title which was Megan's job. I looked on 'dafont' for the font of the text. We did our research about Thriller title sequences in the internet.
Overall i think i have learned a lot about technologies during making this title sequence. My group overall agreed on most thing but on some things like figuring out who should do what regarding the technologies took some time sorting out. I feel like if i was to do a title sequence again i would be able to do it more successfully using more professional technologies.
EvaluationQ5.
How would you attract/address your audience?
I would attract my audience by portraying the title sequence as a stereotypical Thriller title sequence. for example make sure that the audience thinks that the girl is the one who is the vulnerable one instead of the man. I would make sure that the title sequence is interesting enough so that the film is successful. For example i would make sure that the title sequence is captivating in the sense that it doesn't give any thing away but tells the story. The stars (actors) of our title sequence we decided to have Leonardo DiCaprio which the title sequence would be seen by his fans that have seen him in other films like Romeo and Juliet which would attract a female young and old audience. Similarly, the other star is Emma Watson which the title sequence would be seen by her fans that have seen her in the Harry Potter series which would attract male young and old audience. Our budget would need to be in the range of £500,00+. Our final product would attract a 14+ male and female audience of every circumstance. I would attract them as our title sequence is a suspense and confusion title sequence, so this will create a buzz of what will happen. It would whet the audiences appetite. A reason why thrillers are so popular is because it provides a thrill which keeps the audience interested and in suspense as the title sequence builds a climax at the end. Some of the audience may have personal experiences to the story line for example they mat know someone who has a mental illness and is struggling to know what is real and what is not real. Thrillers are so popular. They provide suspense as we intended.
EvaluationQ3.
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
An institution is an organisation or company, public or privately owned that produces or/and distributes media products.
A Media institution that might distribute our media product (title sequence Captive) could be a convergence of Loinsgate and Universal Pictures. This can help our film be published and advertised world wide to all types of people whatever their profession, income, status, gender, ethnicity, disability. Universal Pictures is an American institution so our title sequence could become very successful.
Our film Captive might be distributed by a major company because it follows most of the forms and conventions of a Thriller genre film. Our film is a psychological thriller. This film will appeal the most to people who like mind game films.
If our title sequence was distributed by a independent distribute then the film probably wouldn't have a lot of publicity and it would be on Film4 as they only play independent film e.g. A Field In England and Slumdog Millionaire.
They would first put the film in cinemas internationally or normally depending on how big the distribution company is.
The film will then go out in supermarkets in the form of DVDs, Magazines, Games and other types of medias that can reach the audience.
The Internet can promote films as well. For example, online newspapers, social networks, magazines, blogs and the radio can help our film be advertised to that it is successful.
Or target audience starts at 14 as not all thrillers are scary for example. Final Destionation and Abduction. Our film is not scary at all, its just confusing due to the sterotypical gender roles switched which is one of a convention (mind games).
Tuesday 1 April 2014
EvaluationQ1.
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Evaluation Questions
As we come to the end of our AS Media Studies Coursework, we are to evaluate our production of our Title Sequence Captive. These are our evaluation questions that we are to answer.
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
Who would be the audience for your media product?
How did you attract/address your audience?
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
Who would be the audience for your media product?
How did you attract/address your audience?
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
Final Title Sequence
After several weeks, this is our final title sequence that we successfully made:
We have completed it after several weeks of planning and producing. It took a lot of work but i believe that we couldn't do a better job as we all tried to make it better by suggestions. We took on the teacher/peer feedback and produced this title sequence. This is the final title sequence for Captive:
This title sequence reminds me of the title sequence of Sin City as they are both black and white. We changed the transition on the actual title as we asked our teacher if it looked right and she said no.
Overall i think my group worked well as a team and we all co-operated well with each other with no arguments.
We have completed it after several weeks of planning and producing. It took a lot of work but i believe that we couldn't do a better job as we all tried to make it better by suggestions. We took on the teacher/peer feedback and produced this title sequence. This is the final title sequence for Captive:
This title sequence reminds me of the title sequence of Sin City as they are both black and white. We changed the transition on the actual title as we asked our teacher if it looked right and she said no.
Overall i think my group worked well as a team and we all co-operated well with each other with no arguments.
Last Changes
After watching our title sequence a couple of times, we decided that we need to play around with our editing a bit more.
We added a few more shots to our title sequence to show more hints of Christian playing a Doctor
We used Bad Film which is a type of filter that we liked. The hints were the Doctor doing an experiment which they do naturally. This filter works well because it gives an old vibe to the title sequence.
The other thing that we did was edit the bit where Christian is walking along the road after Maria. Lucy used a dissolve transition which repeated his walk slightly. Some of us in the group didn't really understand why we put it in there because it make his character look ghostly which is not what we want the character to come across as. As we couldn't change the transition we just decided to make the pace a bit faster to give that bit of the title sequence a fast paced feel.
We were able as a group to say that we didn't necessarily like a bit in the title sequence and we changed it so that everyone in the group felt comfortable moving on with the title sequence.
Monday 24 March 2014
Voiceover
This is our final voice over that we made for our title sequence. This voice over had the girls voice (Maria)
and the mans voice (Dr. Thompson). Merging both of our voices one after the other on its own sounded amazing. However after our teacher feedback had our group thinking if we should keep the voice over or not as the feedback says that the voice over doesn't fit in with the title sequence. It is not that the quality is bad because we did with a Mac computer with all the necessary equipment needed so that the quality is good.
For our title sequence, it wasn't giving the whole the creepy confusing vibe we wanted to give an audience, so we decided to not include it in our final title sequence.
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Thriller Title Sequence
Thriller title sequence: Outbreak
Sound
On of the first things you hear in this title sequence is an explosion noise. This gives off that this is a war film and people are getting hurt. As the explosion sound goes on we hear the background track of fast drums, drumming at a beat starting. We are starting to become intrigued with what the title sequence is about. As the title sequence goes into present day, the sound is of little shakers shaking fast. This sound creates suspense as we want to know what is happening. We start to hear people talking and beeping like when a door is locked and you need a special code to unlock the door. Level 2 in the title sequence, the music changes to a low drumming sound. At level 3 the music drops to a light flowy sound. As soon as someone in the title sequence goes into a place that is important the music changes. We hear a lot of diegetic sound e.g. the beepers and the doors opening. We only hear one piece of dialogue 3/4 of the title sequence which suggests that the title sequence is not about people talking a lot. NEar the end of the title sequence when the camera is in the house, there is no music but dialogue from a mans voice. Lastly non-diagetic sound as the man is washing the dog.
Editing
One of the first edit i see in this title sequence is cuts between the explosion scene.
Cinematography
We see wide shots and an areal shot at the start of the title sequence so that we can see that we are in a jungle away from civilization. The camera fast tracks forward outside of the building creating long shots. In this title sequence the camera movements through out are stand stills, tracking forward or backward to give a continuous feel to the title sequence. As the tracking goes on, we see some mid shots but they are quick as the camera movement is moving. We get a semi close op of the authorization gadget the man has to put his finger prints on to enter past a door. Over the shoulder shot is done as we follow closely behind the man that went through the authorized door. A two shot is shown when the man and woman are about to go and see what the unknown diseases are. Lastly a mid shot to show the man bonding and washing his dog.
Mise-en-scene
At the beginning of the title sequence we see a man in a soilders attire on so we assume that this title sequence is about war. Then we see a plan fly past to let us know what maybe someone is on the way to helping all of the people that were in the explosion. We think danger as we see fire and monkeys running away. Guards are shown to tell us that we may be going into a secure building with something valuable kept inside it. everyone in the building is wearing some sort of uniform (like navy wear). People in lab coats are shown to tell us that this title sequence may be set in this lab. The text on the screen tells us where they are and what each room is about. We briefly see some of the equipment that they are using to maybe try and fins a cure for all these diseases. All of the equipment looks advanced and expensive so we get the feel that everything is legit and serious. People in the space suits like, are perhaps in contact with an unknown disease. Lastly at the end of the title sequence we see we are in a house which looks like the person has just moved in due tot he boxes around the place. Two dogs and a man are in his bathroom.
Sound
On of the first things you hear in this title sequence is an explosion noise. This gives off that this is a war film and people are getting hurt. As the explosion sound goes on we hear the background track of fast drums, drumming at a beat starting. We are starting to become intrigued with what the title sequence is about. As the title sequence goes into present day, the sound is of little shakers shaking fast. This sound creates suspense as we want to know what is happening. We start to hear people talking and beeping like when a door is locked and you need a special code to unlock the door. Level 2 in the title sequence, the music changes to a low drumming sound. At level 3 the music drops to a light flowy sound. As soon as someone in the title sequence goes into a place that is important the music changes. We hear a lot of diegetic sound e.g. the beepers and the doors opening. We only hear one piece of dialogue 3/4 of the title sequence which suggests that the title sequence is not about people talking a lot. NEar the end of the title sequence when the camera is in the house, there is no music but dialogue from a mans voice. Lastly non-diagetic sound as the man is washing the dog.
Editing
One of the first edit i see in this title sequence is cuts between the explosion scene.
Cinematography
We see wide shots and an areal shot at the start of the title sequence so that we can see that we are in a jungle away from civilization. The camera fast tracks forward outside of the building creating long shots. In this title sequence the camera movements through out are stand stills, tracking forward or backward to give a continuous feel to the title sequence. As the tracking goes on, we see some mid shots but they are quick as the camera movement is moving. We get a semi close op of the authorization gadget the man has to put his finger prints on to enter past a door. Over the shoulder shot is done as we follow closely behind the man that went through the authorized door. A two shot is shown when the man and woman are about to go and see what the unknown diseases are. Lastly a mid shot to show the man bonding and washing his dog.
Mise-en-scene
At the beginning of the title sequence we see a man in a soilders attire on so we assume that this title sequence is about war. Then we see a plan fly past to let us know what maybe someone is on the way to helping all of the people that were in the explosion. We think danger as we see fire and monkeys running away. Guards are shown to tell us that we may be going into a secure building with something valuable kept inside it. everyone in the building is wearing some sort of uniform (like navy wear). People in lab coats are shown to tell us that this title sequence may be set in this lab. The text on the screen tells us where they are and what each room is about. We briefly see some of the equipment that they are using to maybe try and fins a cure for all these diseases. All of the equipment looks advanced and expensive so we get the feel that everything is legit and serious. People in the space suits like, are perhaps in contact with an unknown disease. Lastly at the end of the title sequence we see we are in a house which looks like the person has just moved in due tot he boxes around the place. Two dogs and a man are in his bathroom.
Sunday 23 March 2014
Title Sequence Update
This is the title sequence after our feedback. There was some problems to this title sequence as we realised that some of the names have too many people featuring in it. I redid the text so that it is only one person so that the shots can be seen clearly without writing on top of it. Also i realised that when i was doing the text for 'Photography By' i forgot to put the 'h' in, so i went to remake that as well.
It was suggested that we make some additions to the start of the title sequence, so we added some more doctor suggestions in the begining of the title sequence.
Friday 21 March 2014
Teacher/Peer Feedback
In this lesson, we had teacher/peer feedback. Everyone had one of these pieces of papers to give some feedback to the other two groups like what we liked and what they could have done better. In order to do this feedback sheet we had to show the whole class and our teacher our different title sequences. These are our feedback sheets:
I think this feedback was very helpful to our group regarding out title sequence as we got the opinion of how a small fraction of our audience would react to this title sequence. We read off the feedback sheet that the person was confused with what our voice over was trying to reveal/say. Also that they didn't like the effects we put in our title. We were told to add more suggestions that the man is a Doctor to create a more psychological feel to the title sequence. I felt that the feedback was very useful as we as a group made some changes to our title sequence. We took out our voice over as after the feedback none of us felt comfortable to keep it in the title sequence, we shot more footage of the man being a Doctor (him doing some experiments in a lab) My group felt like the feedback that other group said was valid and made sence. In all our feedback was positive with a few things we improved or changed completely.
Fist Draft of Final Title Sequence
This week, we had to preview the first draft of our title sequence. We had to make sure that the title sequence is presentable to show the rest of the class and our teacher. Me and Megan realised that the photography on our text was spelt wrong. Since the text is my job, i will fix it by our final draft. We had a year 13 boy and our teacher in our lesson to give us some advice on how to improve our title sequence.
We got some feedback and we will take that into consideration.
Thursday 20 March 2014
Over the Holidays
We filmed and then a week after we filmed in our half term holiday in 2 days, we got over a hundred clips altogether. On our first day we went to Megan's house to film. We filmed all the indoor shots that we needed. On the second day we went to Lucy's house to film the rest of the indoor shots and the outside shots.
Feedback Title sequence
Teacher Feedback
Emily (our teacher) didn't like the first part of our title sequence she said that the lighting was bad that that there are a lot of shadows. She suggested for us to re-shoot. We decided to re-shoot one day after school for the girl getting ready. We changed her from putting on her necklace to putting on some lipstick to make her look more innocent and feminine.
Our other teacher Sinead liked our idea of a girl getting taken for Captive. She liked the pace of it and she thought that the music fitted well with the footage. She also thought that we needed to re-shoot.
Both teachers were a bit confused about the differences we were trying to create so they both suggested that we make more hints of the two characters and what we are trying to accomplish.
We needed to get that feedback so that we know what to improve so that our title sequence can be successful.
Production Plan Update
These are all of the date of the time spent and what we have done for our title sequence more or less. 
Mise-en-scene
Another brainstorm was created on Bubbl.us for what we will need to get or have for our title sequence. We made a not of what we may need but we might not be able to get all of the stuff. We all contributed to what we can bring and what we wont be able to bring.
Start of Editing
When we came back to school, Lucy put all of the footage on her Mac account form my cameras memory stick. She is the one mainly doing the editing with the help of myself and occationally Megan and Christian. We decided to put Lucy in charge of the editing because she did graphics for her GCSE's and is more familiar our software whaich is Final Cut Pro.
To create the dark black and white, Lucy used the filters 'saturation' and levels' secttion. Lucy put the saturation on -1 so there is no colour and to brighten up the black and white effect Lucy played around with the levels. The levels of the clips are:
- Input: 50
- Input Tolerance: 100
- Gamma: 1.41
- Output: 43
- Output Tolerance: 68
Lucy added transitions to a few more of the clips so that it has that natural flow between scenes. The transition which was used was a 'cross dissolve', I believe this creates a slow peaceful atmosphere when at start when the contrasting shots are shown of Maria and the Doctor, compared to stalking, following second half of the title sequence. Transitions like dissolve and cross dissolve were used.
Start of Making Text
As Lucy was starting to edit our footage, i began to start to create out text for the title sequence. I wanted to do the text as i did Illustration and Communication at GCSE and i know a lot about composition and where the text should go to get the audiences attention.
the first thing i did was go on the website 'dafont' as it is a copyright free website and as we all liked the font on our test creation of making the text, i decided to go with the font called Old Newspaper types. I used the software Photoshop Elements. I tried diffrent font sizes and different positioning of the text to see how it would look as a png. document which i could see where the positioning of the text will go.
On Photoshop Elements, i put grid boxes to help me position my text properly and neatly. I made 16 different text with all the different titles that appear on the screen of title sequences. The order of the titles are inspired by the title sequence Se7en.
The only thing that was a problem was that we transferred the text onto be edited and the text was black and we thought it would be better if it was white so that it stands out and also so it can be seen as our title sequence is in black and white. Me and Lucy figured out how to change the colour of the text form black to white without starting from scratch. The composition of the text in the title sequence is coming along and i think it is going to look really good at the end.
The composition is to the bottom left of the screen so that the text is not in the way of the footage.
As you can see, i made the endings of the text in line with each other so that everything looks neater and more professional.
I am happy that i can use my previous skills to help make this title sequence.
Sound Effects
Lucy and Christian decided to look at some sound effect that we can use for our title sequence and i continued to do our text edit as Megan was on a school trip.
Chris found the Jump sound on a copyright free website. They played it to me and i liked the creepy mystery effect that it gave. We are planning for the sound to be played throughout the title sequence. I especially like how they found a piece of music that had a perfect ending which is a high pitched bang where the girl gets taken.
I used Lucy's Soundcloud because it was shared for us all to used from our online group chat on Facebook.
Chris found the Jump sound on a copyright free website. They played it to me and i liked the creepy mystery effect that it gave. We are planning for the sound to be played throughout the title sequence. I especially like how they found a piece of music that had a perfect ending which is a high pitched bang where the girl gets taken.
I used Lucy's Soundcloud because it was shared for us all to used from our online group chat on Facebook.
Crew List
Megan made a cast and crew list as i needed it to create the text for the title sequence and posted it on our
Facebook group chat. She took the list of the titles from the Thriller title sequence Se7en. Although the titles are the same as Se7en, she looked at some other Thriller title sequences and took some names from there.
The order of the titles:
> Production companies – Lionsgate and Silent Studios
> Star Cast – Emma Watson and Leonardo DiCaprio
> Title of the film - Captive
> Casting by – all of us
> Music by – Clint Mansell ( Black Swan)
> Costumes designed by – Trish Summerville (the girl with the dragon tattoo)
> Edited by – Lee Smith ( Inception)
> Production designed by – Dante Ferretti (Shutter Island)
> Title sequence designers – all of us
> Director of Photography – Derek Vanlint (Alien)
> Co-producers – Amy Herman , Joseph Reidy (Shutter Island)
> Co executive producer – Richard Saperstein (Se7en)
> Executive producers – Stacey Testro and Peter Block( Saw)
> Written by – Ari Schlossberg (Hide and Seek)
> Produced by – Barry Josephson (Hide and Seek)
> Directed by – John Polson (Hide and Seek)
Megan didn't have to look for a directer as we as a group already decided that the directer would be John Polson who is the directer of Hide and Seek.
Facebook group chat. She took the list of the titles from the Thriller title sequence Se7en. Although the titles are the same as Se7en, she looked at some other Thriller title sequences and took some names from there.
The order of the titles:
> Production companies – Lionsgate and Silent Studios
> Star Cast – Emma Watson and Leonardo DiCaprio
> Title of the film - Captive
> Casting by – all of us
> Music by – Clint Mansell ( Black Swan)
> Costumes designed by – Trish Summerville (the girl with the dragon tattoo)
> Edited by – Lee Smith ( Inception)
> Production designed by – Dante Ferretti (Shutter Island)
> Title sequence designers – all of us
> Director of Photography – Derek Vanlint (Alien)
> Co-producers – Amy Herman , Joseph Reidy (Shutter Island)
> Co executive producer – Richard Saperstein (Se7en)
> Executive producers – Stacey Testro and Peter Block( Saw)
> Written by – Ari Schlossberg (Hide and Seek)
> Produced by – Barry Josephson (Hide and Seek)
> Directed by – John Polson (Hide and Seek)
Megan didn't have to look for a directer as we as a group already decided that the directer would be John Polson who is the directer of Hide and Seek.
Production of Voiceover
In Wednesday's lesson we made a start with our voice over which we all created by writing a script of what would be said. We decided for the girl and the Doctor to speak. I did the girls (Maria) voice as my group said that i have a soothing voice as we wanted the girls voice to sound nostalgic.
The software we used to create our voice over is Logic Pro on a Mac Computer. We played around with our sound, we tried to distort and change the pitch of the voices. In the end we just decided to give the voices an echo for the girls voice for nostalgia.
In the production of the voice over, at first we couldn't get the voice over to play on a normal computer so we had to go back and figure out how to do that. We realised that the levels of the two voices were not the same when it was played from a normal computer and the files had to be bounced before all of the sound can be saved. When we got that situation sorted out by just redoing the voice over so the levels were the same. I feel like our voice over sounds really natural for the type of genre we are trying to produce.
Creator of Se7en
Kyle Cooper
We based our title sequence on the ideas of Se7en. He has done a few other title sequences such as:
- The Mummy (1999)
- Dawn of the Dead (2004)
- Superman Returns (2006)
- Sherlock Holmes (2009)
- Ironman (2008)
- Spiderman (2002)
Wednesday 19 March 2014
Typography Research
Typography
- Zombieland (2009)
- Forrest Gump (1994)
- Lord Of War (2005)
- Catch Me If You Can (2002)
As we are looking to make our title sequence point of view-ish, the title sequence that relates to our group idea is 'Lord Of War' because it also does point of view but as an object instead of a person.
We then looked at the term Serif and Sans Serif during the lesson and we now know the differences between them.
Serif: a slight projection finishing off a stroke of a letter in certain typefaces
Sans Serif: a style of type without serifs.
The typography in Zombieland is in contrast of the killings to become a zombie. The color red connotes and foreshadows death and blood being somewhere in the title sequence. This text does not have any Serif text which would make it Sans Serif. Saturday 15 March 2014
Practice Pan
Practice Pan Shot For Title Sequence
We thought that we should get a feel of what filming a part of our title sequence would be like so we practiced a part of our title sequence that our group is going to begin filming the shots for the title sequence next week during half term now the locations and props have been decided and the storyboard is finished. We decided to practice shots using the Steadicam which I found difficult and frustrating.
We decided to take a demo shot of our first shot of our title sequence, I think she worked well for a first attempt and when we film next week it will be better because we took this shot in a cramped area which made it hard to move with the camera.
I'm glad our group did some practicing with the pan shots because I have realised how difficult it is due to the weight of the Steadicam. We decided that we can't change the Steadicam for a Dolly because a lot of our scenes are quite closed in and low and the Steadicam is more ideal for that. We also found tightening the Steadicams for the different shots quite difficult aswell as there is many different places where you can loosen and tighten parts.
We decided to take a demo shot of our first shot of our title sequence, I think she worked well for a first attempt and when we film next week it will be better because we took this shot in a cramped area which made it hard to move with the camera.
I'm glad our group did some practicing with the pan shots because I have realised how difficult it is due to the weight of the Steadicam. We decided that we can't change the Steadicam for a Dolly because a lot of our scenes are quite closed in and low and the Steadicam is more ideal for that. We also found tightening the Steadicams for the different shots quite difficult aswell as there is many different places where you can loosen and tighten parts.
This is our first practice shot of our first scene of a pan-shot of the girl's legs underneath her desk. When filming this for the title sequence, the setting will be better dressed, darker and the actress (Megan) will be dressed to fit to the theme of our film.
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