Evaluation Part: 7 " Looking back to your preliminary task, what do you feel that you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product? "

For my title sequence i worked with Danny and Tyrell. Danny decided to take the job of Cinematography. Tyrell took the job Editing. Meanwhile i took the job of Soundtrack, Fonts, and Mise en Scene. Throughout the majority of the film we all worked together on cinematography and a bit of editing. Also on some fonts. It mostly started with out giving feedback to each other and deciding what we wanted to do.However, overall all the communication and feedback from ourselves and peers allowed us to improve the title sequence greatly so the the outcome was amazing from the initial planning.

Overall in the process of making this film i have learned quite a lot. I was able to learn new things and greatly expand my knowledge on media and film topics. This is mostly because it was my first time learning about this subject. Although, even though i didn't have editing as my job or cinematography i was till able to learn quite a lot. I leaned how to utilize Final Cut Pro to add real quality to my title sequence. I managed to learn lots of extra things that Final Cut Pro had to offer that would help me improve my film and make it better. This was things such as filters and fonts. Speaking about fonts Tyrell also introduced me to a website called 'Defont' which gave me access to multiply different unique fonts that would improve the quality of my work. This worked well since i found a font called Orion which looked futuristic and helped the mise en scene of our film through typography and using the font to portray the name of the film on the map i found.  I was also able to gain a lot of knowledge on researching different aspects of film. This was things such as Target audiences, which allowed us to specifically choose which audience we were going after.

I personally learned that thinking outside the box will help the most when in any situation as i focused on Soundtracks and mise en scene. I was able to find new soundtrack through a educational audio site called 'audionetwork.lfgt.org'. This helped me get two potential sounds one called vampire kiss the other thunder doom which was eventually chosen. I also had lots of ideas for mise en scene when Danny made his plan for our film. An example our evangelist scene where Tyrell was holding a rosary or our new rebel scene with the guns, bandanna and the fake tattoo drawn on my arm. 

Another thing i learn was time management as we had to use our time wisely even if it meant coming early stay late it was done. I think it was thank to constructive time management and focus that we were able to get our title sequence done. Teamwork also was important because we had to depend on each other for us to get the job done especially on Tyrell since he was our best editor and had to spend alot of time working on editing. 

This proved to be important because as we started there was poor communication and and lack of team work as Danny wasn't around much due to personal circumstances and i was little help since i was new to editing and filming. This forced Tyrell to teach me alot of editing as i hovered him trying to learn from what he would do. There was also confusion with our initial idea for the title sequence. However, after we came together and fortified our schedules we were on the right track and were able to take full control of our work to create something we appropriated and put effort in. After the initial feedback I realized another important thing is to re shoot. this is because it is very important to re film scenes to get the best footage that you need and the more footage you have gives you more options and things to work with. Also after everything i realized that the first work will always look bad in the creators eyes as when we started i was upset with our films performances compared to other films but later realized that it could only get better with more dedication and hardworking. The feedback really helped for our final draft as it allowed s to get the audiences feedback and fix our film

Evaluation Part: 1 " In what ways does your media product use, develop or chalenge forms and conventions of real media products? "

Evaluation Part: 2 " How does your media product represent particular social groups? "

Evaluation Part: 3 " What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? "

Evaluation Part: 4 " Who would be the audience for your media product? "+ 5 " How did you attract/address your audience ? "

For questions 4 + 5, we as a group decided to answer them together due to them being very similar.

Evaluation Part: 6 " What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product ? "

Title Sequence Evaluation

For our title sequence, I made sure that I worked and followed closely to our specification for our title sequence,  'Genesis: The Uprising'. I worked in a group of three consisting of Danny, Tyrell and I.  Initially, for our title sequence and movie, we decided as a group that we wanted to essentially make a movie that would a Dystopian/Sci-Fi movie (however Dystopian is a sub genere). The narrative of our movie consists of a dystopian future with different cults and groups forming who aspire to take down the government of this society, however, the government is in fact one step ahead and are planning to overthrow and eliminate these groups and, they are tracking their every move via CCTV and found footage being sent to them. Our title sequence sets up for the rest of our movie as the plot/narrative is briefly introduced through the beginning of the movie via our title sequence. Purposely, the title sequence creates and sets up enigmas for the audience to question, hopefully making the audience intrigued and wanting to actually stay on and watch the movie in cinemas to see what happens next.

In my opinion, I feel as though the title of our movie 'Genesis: The Uprising' that i came up with fits it well with the narrative of our movie which was as genesis means the beginning or creation of a narrative.This links to the idea of the filming just beginning giving the audience the thought that their could be sequels to the film. It also links with the idea of a dystopian future society beginning to forming and creating cults in order to overthrow the government.  Uprising is also something I found fitting for the narrative of our movie as this links well with the cults rising upwards together in order to overthrow the government and, come out on top successfully. The genre of our movie is action thriller scifi with the sub genre of dystopian.

Title Sequence - The Final Version :D

This is our finished version of our title sequence for our movie, 'Genesis: The Uprising'.

Evaluation Pt 3

We  have decided to begin recording and planning ideas for our evaluation for our title sequence.  We used a tri-pod, a camera, high-key lighting and, a green screen behind us. We decided to use a green screen for the recording process of our evaluation as we thought it would be best to screen our title sequence behind us whilst we provide our answers to the camera. We brainstormed all of our answers for our evaluation the day before and have now gotten around to recording 3 answers to 3 of the evaluation questions. This left Tyrell now to edit the recorded parts of our evaluation and, for the other remaining answers, we will be answering them in another digital and interactive format such as prezi or power point.

2nd Draft of our FIlm

For the screening of the second draft,which was the  improved version of our title sequence, we received again another set of feedback from our class mates and our teacher in terms of what has been improved since the previous screening. This time we  received more  praise on things such as: the lead government man (Kaseem) pointing angrily at the CCTV board and, the re-shoot of our Rebels scene. When it came back to editing, Tyrell  actually found that our original Illuminati sequence that featured a focus pull with Jacob was still on my Apple Mac. He decided to add this version into our improved title sequence. Classmates felt as though the narrative was conveyed much clearer than previously and, that the re-shot version of our Rebels scene looked much more fitting compared to the original Rebel scene. However, some bad feedback that we had received was that people weren't too fond of our font choices and, felt as though the appearances of the text on screen was out of place. Also, some classmates felt as though our Rebels scene should be similar to The Scavengers scene in terms of also including a found footage, handheld camera filter. All feedback on that day has been taken into account and was to be added and improved to our official final version of our title sequence.


Here it is

Preparing for our Evaluation Pt2

For our evaluation, Tyrell, Danny and I have sat down within our own spare time in order to start preparing answers for the 7 evaluation questions. We made a variety of mind maps for 4 of the questions that we decided to answer. We brain stormed ideas for each of the questions that we chose. The 4 questions we chose was:
" What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product ? "
" Looking back to your preliminary task, what do you feel that you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product ? "
" What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why ? "
 " How did you attract/address your audience ? "
After brainstorming our ideas for these 4 questions, we decided to present the answers for these 4 questions in particular through a fun interactive media technique which was to film it in front of a green screen. We decided to play our title sequence continuously on repeat through the duration of our answers. For the remaining 3 other questions, we decided we were going to experiment with other fun interactive techniques by using things such as: PowerPoint, Prezi and actually posting blogs on to Blogger. 

Government Leader CCTV Shoot New One

Tyrell, Danny and I  managed to go to our schools library (the 'iBrary') and shoot an extra scene with the Government Leader our friend Kazeem. As Tyrell had previously created the 4 different pieces of CCTV for each cult and group and put them all together, he put a big red cross over each one to insinuate to the audience that Kazeem wasn't of favor or the cults and simply wants to take them down.The scene we shot today shows Kazeem pointing furiously at the different groups, with over the shoulder shots and close-up shots of him done by Danny. Once the shooting for today was finished, Tyrell  proceeded to go and edit the footage using 'Final Cut Pro'. He incorporated the recently shot scenes into the beginning of each cult members being shown within the title sequence in order to make it clearer for the audience to understand that what is being shown links together with the government scene from the beginning of the sequence.

Government cctv footage from tyrell bibbiani

CCTV Footage Scene

In order to make the Government scene stand out more and be more noticeable in terms of following the plot, Tyrell had decided to create a poster including all 4 CCTV footages from all 4 of the cults/groups. He did this using photoshop. This part of the scene will be used when the leader of the government is delivering his speech for his hatred towards these groups and that he wishes to execute them all and take them all down. The poster includes all 4 of the cults through CCTV and will have big red crosses over them to show that the government will take them all down.

Rebels Scene Re-Shoot And its Amazing

Danny, Tyrell and I have managed to gather a couple of our sixth form friends in order to act for the re-shooting of our 'Rebels' scene for out title sequence. We reshot it because our classmates and teachers shared our opinion on the previous one that we shot, we decided to change the original concept and re-shoot the scene with a different cast and a different locations. However, we kept some of the visual mise en scene such as the graffiti.   Tyrell did the cinematographer since Danny was one of the rebels as was I. He used different camera angles and different camera techniques like focus pulls and close ups  of different characters. This scene consists of the 'Rebels' group going about their daily routine, with their guns and masks at the ready but, they are actually being recorded through CCTV footage that is planted by the Government that they were unaware of at the beginning. We have decided to alter something quite significant within our title sequence and that is that the Government have indeed put in secret CCTV footage in order to view and keep track of each different cults/groups. In terms of miss-en-scene, this will prove most effective because before, we used the original map that we altered  to establish each groups location. But now, we will be using CCTV footage that displays the names of the groups and, we will used props and symbols in order to represent the group/cults in order for the audience to have a clearer understanding of who is who. After watching it over it seemed very effective compared to our previous take and visual mise en scene such as the tattoos seem to also help out .

FeedBack

We screened our rough draft and got pictures of the feed back we got from our class mates and teachers.


 

Feedback for our title sequence from tyrell bibbiani

Feedback on first Rough Draft of the title sequence

Here the 1st draft of our Title Sequence

Refilming

' You have to film, film, film, look at it, re film, re film, re film, then film to finally get the right footage and this is just for the easy ones' words spoken by a wise woman. Miss Mcgrath in loving memories.

Danny, Tyrell and Ia have begun working on editing our title sequence for Media studies. Tyrell, Danny and I  have been staying after school to edit the shots we've recorded for our title sequence over the past week using the applications Final Cut Pro on the Apple iMac. We have done multiple draft versions of our title sequence, ensuring that we can edit and alter what we already have so that it fits what we  envisioned for the genre. We have had to re film a lot of things for example the Illuminati sequence since we couldn't find it.

We then also decided to film the evangelist scene in the same place as the Illuminati, ironic isn't it. We then did the oppose of the demonic scene by bring out bright lights and using special editing effects on Final Cut Pro to make the scene look more holy and divine. We also use a rosary as a mise en scene which had Jesus on its cross.

Picture powerpoint of illuminati from tyrell bibbiani

Our credits in Order

This is the order of credits that Tyrell has done for editing he posted and i thought why not follow suit. This is the order that our subtitles will come up during the title sequence. We decided to add them as something relevant to them in the film came up for example Idris Elba coming on during the evangelist scene

1. " 20th Century Fox Presents "

2. " A Film Directed by Ridley Scott "

3. " Tom Hardy "

4. " Gemma Arterton "

5. " Idris Elba "

6. " Matt Bomer "

7. " Produced by Sam Raimi "

8. " Edited by Tyrell Bibbiani "

9. " Cinematography by Danny Wright "

10. " Executive Producer Elina Roditou "

11. " Soundtrack by Danny Elfman "

12. " Genesis: The Uprising "

Shooting Locations

We now started talking about our Evalution so Tyrell has also brought up our Shooting locations along with Danny of what we have done so far.


"For our title sequence, we as a group have decided long and hard in terms of the variety of different locations in which we are going to shoot our title sequence. Initially, we want to shoot at London's Shard building in order to have an establishing shot for where our Government meeting will be taking place. This proved to be highly effective for out title sequence because it is essentially a very busy place, involving lots of busy people trying to get to their destinations.

For our Illuminati sequence/Evangelist sequence, we decided that we want to shoot these scenes within our school's drama room. This proved to be a very good setting and location for these scenes as the room has many features in terms of lighting that we could mess around with and alter to our likings. We used low-key lighting for the Illuminati scene and we then contrasted using high-key lighting for the Evangelist scene. The drama room essentially provided an essence of eeriness and darkness, which is the route we were looking for for our title sequence.

For the actual government scene, we used our school's main library named the 'iBrary'. This proved to be effective as it had a wide and long table for all of our government/actors to sit on. We also had a projector which displayed the map behind the main government leader.

Finally, for our Scavengers and Rebels scene, we went to Fanny On The Hill park, creating a wooden stick hut and involving our actors climbing upon trees. We then went around the corner to shoot our Rebels scene, which featured a graffiti wall and had a gritty essence around the location, which me and Danny thought was perfect for the theme we were going for for this scene." -Tyrell

Title sequence Fonts

For our font choices for out title sequence, Tyrell has done alot of investigating into which fonts in particular best suits the dystopian theme of our genre for the titles.So this is his findings. "After spending multiple and countless times searching through the website 'Dafont.com', I came across a font in particular that I felt really stood out and fitted very well for the font on our government's map. I used the font style of 'Orion' to achieve this as I felt as though it was bold and eye-catching, which is essentially what I felt was needed." -Tyrell  *News Reporter Jacob voice* And that was Tyrell from the Mac Room.






Tyrell then found another font to use

"For the titles and names that appears during the title sequence, we again investigated and looked into different fonts within 'Dafont'. We finally came across a font in particular in which we again felt fitted the theme of our title sequence, with this font being the 'Dark Underground' font. We chose this font as we felt it appeared to look very gritty yet bold and again, eye-catching. " - Tyrell

Not impressed Re filming needs to be done

After Checking the footage of the previous rebels and scavengers film we decided that the scavengers part came out very good and decided to use it as it seemed very natural. However, we realized that the rebel scene didn't seem good so we decided that we would re film it .  So it back to the drawing boards, or this case the woods *aha*( was I the only one to laugh)

Scavengers and Rebels

Tyrell and Dannys Day out

On Thursday 18th February 2016, Tyrell, Danny and I decided to meet to shoot the scenes for our Rebels and Scavengers for our title sequence. Unfortunately, due to miscommunication, I wasn't able to come and film with film with them and also due to my data/ simless phone *sobs*. So, Tyrell and Danny went on their own with some of our actors. They took the same  tri-pod and the two cameras with we used at the shard. We decided to use the location of Fanny on the Hill park in Welling for both of our scenes. I however found this place but not them. Luckily, we managed to get 3 actors to act the parts. In the park near the woods, they managed to build and create a mini-set of survival things such as: shelters made of twigs, an amateur clothing line and an stack of twigs for a fire. They then shot this and took multiple angles and camera shots to achieve the vision we wanted for this Scavengers scene overall.

For the Rebels scene, they went to a back road near the park in Welling. Down this road, after walking they saw a wall covered in graffiti, with the road looking quite desolate. They went supplied with 4 fake guns for our actors to use for the Rebels scene, along with scarfs and bandannas to create an atmosphere of mystery and, to make them look the part for this particular scene. They also experimented with different camera angles and different camera shots to help achieve the visions we had set originally.

More potential filming

16/02/2016

Danny, Tyrell and I traveled into London in order to capture the two establishing shots that we needed for our title sequence which were the Shard and a church. We equipped ourselves with a tri-pod and two cameras that we borrowed from the school. At the Shard, we were able to film using both the cameras on the tri-pod and, the camera separately to give a hand-held effect. We panned left and right to try and get the full space of the Shard and, we titled the cameras going from top to bottom and from bottom to top. As we traveled deeper into London, we also decided it was necessary to record the outside of a church since it happened to be at a good vantage point, again using the tri-pod and camera together and then the camera separately. These two establishing scenes that we shot were for our government scene and for out evangelist scene in our title sequence. It was a day well spent

Confirmation on The Soundtrack

For the soundtrack for our title sequence, we decided to go on to the un-copyrighted website 'audio'. I managed to find the soundtrack that we wanted from this website and use it as the soundtrack for out title sequence. Personally, I chose this soundtrack because it is a soundtrack that builds, grows and develops as it progressed which went with our title sequence. The soundtrack at the beginning of title sequence begins very dramatically but slowly, but as the sequence progresses further, it becomes more intense and dramatic. Whilst editing, Tyrell purposely ensured that when each cast members names appeared on screen, it fitted well every time the song peaked at particular points.

Storyboards

We have storyboarded our ideas for our title sequence by hand-drawing each different scenes. We have demonstrated roughly our ideas on the basis of what we kind of want each scene to look like. Although this isn't necessarily the final copy/version of the way our title sequence looks, it is a rough idea as to how we want the finished version of our title sequence to look like.  Amazing drawings down by Tyrell and Danny with my input :D

Government Leader security camera Shoot

Yesterday Tyrell, Damn Danny and I decided to go to our schools library and shoot an extra scene with the Government Leader who is being played by my friend Kazeem aka Showa. We didn't original plan it but since we thought that it would be a good addition to our title sequence and add some more time we thought we could do it. It also would make more sense to make the scenes look "CCTV" footage. Tyrell who was very familiar with Final cut pro, added a filter that made the scene look like CCTV footage. We also did this because the iMacs were lagging so it gave us something to do. We then "borrowed" a camera from a group and got a tripod and started our expedition. Tyrell had used Photoshop to make an "X" on all four photos of the scenes to show that the government leader disliked them. The scene we shot showing the government leader pointing furiously at the four groups with an over the shoulder shot suggested by Danny our cinematographer. After the success for filming Tyrell then added the film editing it to put it infront of each scene to make the title sequence more clearer whats going on without a dialogue.

Government cctv footage from tyrell bibbiani

Movies similar to our title sequence genre

03/02/2016



We found these films when making our beta pit

As part of my research and planning into the genre of my title sequence, I have done some looking into and some research into other similar movies that I believe the genre of my dystopian movie/title sequence fits into.

I,Robot (directed by Alex Proyas) was released in 2004 and starred a very successful actor: Will Smith. The movie had a budget of $120million and managed to gather a total of $347.2million on the movies box office. This movie is about a detective who lives in a dystopian future who has a certain view point and stigma upon robots and machines - which has begun to take control over the futuristic city of Chicago. As the movie progresses, we see the robots eventually begin to take over control of themselves and causing anarchy and chaos on the streets.



The Matrix (directed by the then known 'Wachowski Brothers') was released in 1999 by Warner Bros. studios. The movie starred Keanu Reeves and Lawrence Fishbourne. The movie had a budget of $63million and managed to gather a total of $463.5million on the box office. The narrative of the movie is about a future dystopian world being run by machines with humans remaining as the charging power for the machines, remaining alive in a vessel. The humans body's are kept serving for the machines, but their minds are transported to the computer-fake world: The Matrix.





Equilibrium (directed by Kurt Wimmer) is a 2002 movie. The movie had a budget of $20million and managed to gather a total of just $5.3million. This means that the movie heavily underperformed and failed to make back any profit at all due to the very little revenue that the movie managed to generate. The plot of the movie revolves around the year of 2072 after the 3rd World War and we - as the audience - see how a dystopian society recovers from the traumatic experience and, how the world lives through the strong hold and control of the government and their rules.

Audience Profiling For Our Title Sequnece 'Genesis: The Uprising'

What were up to at the moment

01/02/2016

Our title sequence revolves around the idea of the Government (set in a Dystopian futuristic world) opposing and keeping track upon the different cults within the society and observing them, plotting a way to take each cult down one at a time. Our sequence involves shots of the map displaying the whereabouts of the cults. We then cut between different montages of the different cults with the names of the cast, production companies and the title of the movie being displayed throughout.
 This is a basic snopysis of what were doing

planning and Evaluation

29/01/2016

Tyrells Bibbiani's Planning and evaluation


tyrell did some more detailed planning and evalutation of our film. This was put together on the pitch that i made on prezi with some help from Tyrell and input. Its basically some added information to our pitch for example our locations of filming.

"Genesis: The Uprising, title sequence planning and evaluation
For our title sequence, we have decided to go for the theme of a Dystopian-action themed genre. The reasoning behind this is due to our budget (which is set at $156million). With this given budget, this allows our group to go for the route of a more action themed movie.

The narrative for our groups title sequence consists of the idea of a government owned society (set in a dystopian future) that is looking to be overthrown by different and smaller cults/communities. These cults consists of:

The Illuminati

Scavengers

Rebels

The Government

The Evangelists

Our title sequence involves shots of a high tech map, created by the government. This map shows where in the dystopian city these different cults and communities actually live in. The map is shown within a conference room which consists of all of the other government members, almost as if a meeting as to how the government can take out the cults. As the narration goes on, we will be shown the different cults through 10-15 second clips. The casts, production companies and, the title of the movie will be displayed throughout the title sequence.

We will be shooting at locations such as the London's Shard as this will be the location in which the government's meeting will be held. Then, once inside to show 'Tom Hardy' walking towards the conference room, we will shoot these scenes within Welling School. This is also where the map and conference will be held.

The Illuminati scenes will be shot within Welling School inside a drama room. This will consist of the Illuminati members walking along a trail of candles laid on the floor, walking toward the 'Devil's trap' on the floor. The Illuminati members will also be chanting at the camera.

The scavengers group will be shown in a location that appears very desolate and empty (like an abandoned building/factory) with a bin being lit on fire and, the scavengers using the heat from the fire.

The evangelists will be shot within an ancient/traditional church, showing a priest, people praying and, close up shots on the stained glass windows and, religious imagery within the church.

The rebels group will show the characters holding weaponry and, wearing scruffy clothing. The title sequence will essentially end with the title of the movie "Genesis: The Uprising".

Interestingly, when I looked at the other movies that are similar to mine - in terms of genre - their title ``'sequences usually revolve around the style of the typography and, the style of the title sequence being either computer graphics based or, real life acting and gritty. For our title sequence, we have researched 2 other title sequences within the dystopian genre; The Matrix and Children of Men. The Matrix's title sequence is completely CGI based whereas the Children of Men's title sequence is real life acting based. So, for our title sequence, we are looking to essentially combine the two ideas of graphics based (the map) and real life acting. These techniques have both been shown to be useful and effective for them two movies so, we feel it is appropriate to incorporate these ideas in to our title sequence."

20/01/2016 Reseach

20/01/2016

Sorry havent been on for awhile had no sim so i couldnt recovery my account back from gmail.

For my title sequence, me and my group have decided to focus around the sub-genre of 'Dystopia'. For our title sequence, we want to focus on the idea of anarchy, chaos, the idea of the government and specific factions with some that want to take over (rebels) perserve (scavengers) create peace (evangilist) among their society.

I have decided to have a research and a look in to the dystopian sub-genre and find some ideas. First thing i notice was that the dystopian genre of movies are usually built around the idea of a futuristic world that has gone chaotic. The particular genre focuses on the theme of disaster and chaos. The title sequences usually do a quick intro to the back story of the film saving time for the film and bringing everyone up to date. A title sequence which i think represented a perfect example of a dystopian title sequence would be the film 'Children of Men'. The title sequence of the 'Children of Men' provides an essential backstory for the audience through news reports and newspaper articles. We see a futuristic set world that has an issue with infertility levels rising to the point almost no one can give birth to children. We get to see the P.O.V. of different social classes within the dystopian world, from rich to poor.

Diary Log

Title Sequence Diary Log

1st log

29/01/2016

We were suppose to start filming our Illuminati piece but Danny didn’t not get the candles. He said he would yesterday since he had work. He didn’t. … He then said he would get it during break still didn’t… So today we don’t have any filming to do. He says we will do it Monday im not sure I may be busy but mostly if we do it I don’t mind . we start  schedule and decide to shoot Monday. We then start reminiscing (talking about what we have talk about before) Danny then says we should go to London for our government scene which I thing is a good idea and one of them mentions to do it during our half term break. I then bring up the auditions that we will do. We decide it will be the 8^th of February. Tyrell then holds me at gun point(with a toy gun) going james bond. We then go back to the half term thing and tyrell says it should just be on the weekend. I then think I should make a valid paper that shows what the auditions will need.

We were able to assemble who we would want in our title sequence with a cast of potential people.

Rebels – Our friends Harry, Supriya, Tyler, Josh,Leoni, Kati, Molly, myself

Evagilist- get preist from church

Scavenger- Dominic?, myself, Sharda?, GUnshap?, supriya

Government- Danny, Tio, Georgia, libby, james, Frankie, Tyrell, Aflie E, AAflie, Sammy, Amy, Jasmine, James yr12, David, Ben

And get conedl.

The Genre of our film is Action/thriller sub genre dystopian but Our boss Sinead says shes not sure how it’s a thriller and I agree with her so we have to still iron out the plan a bit more. 

Information on task

Task 

Create the opening titles of a new fiction film to last no more than 2 minutes. (NB You must not use copyrighted sound)

My new partners in crime for my new task is Danny Wright and Tyrell Bibbiani.

Marks

Research & Planning (Blog): 20

Title Sequences: 60

Evaluation: 20

Deadline: 24th of March 2016

the first cut will be screened 2 weeks earlier so around 10th of March

22nd of Febuary is the shooting dealine all of our footage needs to be done 

Task 1

- You have to invent a new fiction film, it may be any genere 

- In your groups, brainstorm possible film ideas. When you have 3 come up with a logline(one line summary) for each

- Note: whatever idea you settle on, you will have to make the title sequence and it will have to be conventianal to the genre you've chosen. So unless you've got a space suit at home, a film set in space might nat be a great idea. In the past, action, horror, thriller/ suspense,

Pitch Perfect

Aims: to be able to indicate the conventions of a pictch

and a presentation for your film. 

1st pitch should be breif one short sentence should be perfect.

2nd people should already understand the building blocks of the pitch: buses, bombs, jaws, space, the seven deadly sins

The pitch combines the building blocks by using analogy, synthesis, juxtaposition example 

jaws in space

A bomb on a bus 

Snakes on a plane

1st pitch

2 what is the film really about

3rd 

Research 

- what os the genre of the film?

- what other films in this genre have inspired your film/is your film similar to?

-Who is the targeted audience for your film?

-When will your film be released (summer,spring, autum, winter, awards season)

-How much money will your film cost

-how much money will your film make? demesticly and worldwide

-Who will star in your film?

-Who will direct your film?

Title Sequences Analysis

You need to remember N.I.C.S how do u define genere

N- Narrative story line, make it concrete

I-  Iconography what key figures give u that it’s the

C- Characters whos in it, know the cast 

S- Settings  Where it takes place

Dr.No

the title sequence gives key iconography establishes the genre with clear imagery. It tells the viewer that the film is about spys by seeing a noticeable feature in the top corner which resembles the 007 films which is a franchise with a large fan base. Now spy is a sub genre but immediately they establish spy with action to deem the film a action film. It also shows generic iconography with the point of view of a bullet in the barrel. 

SPLICE

The films title sequence looks like a green like an alien but veins. The visual elements in it are consistent but it is not generic like Dr,No. It is a sc-fi film about genetic modification. the films makes me think nature with green.

The back up plan

It seems like a chick flick but a comedy with the flasher which seems like a hyrbid as you see a couple together. It also has a group of tvs showing babies which make it seem like it has a baby element. The animation style and typography is very feminine which suggest again it is a chick flick.

A series of Unfortunate Events

The film suggests to be a family Gothic film with children as the protagonist as you see a focus of children in one of the pictures. It seems Gothic due to the plague of black on each picture. It appears to be strange and away from normal day life. It also is in animation suggest again it is for children. 

This means War

The film suggest that it is spy once again with the 007 theme of naked woman, It also has explosions which show it is Action with a sub genre of spy.  

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Missions Impossible 4

It has generic spy music and the title sequence shows a fusing moving forward and the title sequences shows Tom cruises names several times and most know he is a action start. They then show generic iconography with the bullet in the barrel while playing fast place jazz and the film, then shows point of views at unconventional times. It also shows the parts of the film. The setting shows the opening screen then the title sequence like in most spy films and they seem to be under ground sneaking into it. They then move to museums to elevator shafts to stair cases and underwater showing the different settings used in the film moving rockets to bullets showing sky scrapers and everything is viewed in the point of data and they show car chases and bad guys. they also show pictures and documents being burnt like burning of evidence. 

Naploeon Dynomite

The film has a weird sound track with upbeat music and a instrument layering it. It then shows the people of the film in unconventional ways while showing things that were iconic to the 70s. They show us a person prepping for school. The setting shows them being in school which makes it seems like the film is a school comedy. It has a interesting way on bring out the title sequences. The grounds in the things are placed seems to be different like the food choices of seating eating and doing in school are different . It seems to be in america the way things look.





Children of men

The film seems to be showing apostolic views of showing the news and different ways people view the world and it all seems to be in first person as if different people experiencing it it shows how the world has seemed to go mad with debris everywhere but no one acting different with it dystopia. the film uses different montages of the film to show the title sequences. The sound track seems nostalgic. It authority figures in different places trying to uphold order. It shows a lot of time on a baby showing the film has something to do with the baby.



Jango

The film seems to show a farm and the colors are only in red and black. It has an old feeling to it with the old soul music. It also shows chains which makes the audience think the film is western with the generic cowboy but with the sub genre of slavery. The film then shows old style guns, horses and cactus which suggest it is about the old west.the iconography and music is good

Film Title Sequences

'Forrest Gump' (1994) - Directed by Robert Zemeckis




The title sequence for 1994's 'Forrest Gump' begins with the logo for the production company 'Paramount' before the actual title sequence began. The title sequence opens with the perspective of a feather falling from the sky and heading towards the main protagonist of the movie, played by Tom Hanks. Interestingly, the title sequence only displays the cast members and the essential crew members. However, towards the end, there is no introduction to the main title of the movie, which is unconventional of a title sequence.

The fonts used throughout the title sequence is very simple, with an old fashioned feel due to the fact that the typography isn't very challenging and very plain. In my opinion, I feel as though this title sequence is very normal because the films putting empathizes on the  main protagonist mental feature of being below average intelligence due to the fact that - unlike the previous title sequence for 'Catch Me If You Can' - it is very simple with no gimmicks of CGI/graphics. Instead it is very plain and old school. Through the sequence, you get to have an insight into the setting and environment in which the movie is placed.

The purpose of this title sequence is to introduce the audience in a simple manner to the environment and scenery in which the movie is place. It introduces the audience to the main protagonist . The audience also gets to see the main protagonist briefly towards the end of title sequence, again giving the audience a brief insight in to the main character of this film however they are unaware of the time in which place of order they are and most would assume this to be the beginning.



Codes and Conventions of Tile Sequences:

Title sequences is the way in which film and movie studios introduce the opening credits of the production and the cast members of a movie. A typical convention of an opening title sequence is the utilization of sound and many different visuals. Typically, title sequences lists the production and cast members in order of most important or famous. The main purpose of a title sequence is to establish either the genre, the character, the environment/setting or the mood and atmosphere of the movie.

Title sequences usually consists of: the name of the production company, the director, the producer(s), other essential and necessary crew members, the actors/cast and most importantly, the title of the movie. It is significant to note that this isn't necessarily the order in which these things appear on a title sequence.

'SEVEN' (1995) - Directed by David Fincher



The opening title sequence for 1995's 'SE7EN' was created by Kyle Cooper. The title sequence begins with the scratchy and gritty writing introducing the film studio 'New Line Cinema' then, briefly afterwards, we are shown the actual title of the film 'SE7EN' appear in flashy, scratchy writing. The fact that the names of the cast that pop up throughout the title sequence is very unkept and childlike suggests to the audience that the character within the sequence is mentally unstable and, with some form of mental disorder. What also makes this title sequence unsettling is the psychotic gestures and things that takes place very quickly throughout the sequence.

 The frames shown throughout the sequence are very glitchy , creating a sense of disorientation for the audience that watches making . There are a variety of very quick and sharp jump cuts to again confuse the audience. The soundtrack throughout begins slowly. However, it begins to drastically pick up speed and, begins to sound sinister and eerie, along with the typography used in the sequence this makes the audiences start to feel uncomfortable as their heart hurts. This title sequence has without a doubt inspired other pieces of media and art due to its iconic and different approach on the genre in which it is set.

The purpose of this title sequence is essentially to make us as the audience feel uncomfortable and awkward. The use of the gritty, scratchy writing and the sinister actions taking place in the sequence is the way to make us feel this way,along with the eerie soundtrack on top.


Vertigo (1958) - Directed by Alfred Hitchcock



tle sequence begins with the official short sequence to the introduction of the production company which created the movie: 'Universal'. This appears just before the title sequence begins.

As the title sequence begins, the soundtrack also begins to play at the same time. The soundtrack is very old fashioned and has a weird,abnormal and suspenseful feel to it. The soundtrack also sounds and feels very hypnotic due to its repetitive texture and its consistency throughout the sequence. There is no dialogue included which again alludes to the idea of the sequence being creepy and suspenseful. The sequence also appears in black and white, which relates to the time period in which this movie was birth. As there wasn't much use of colour used in movies back in the late 50's. There's no real acting involved throughout apart from different shots and angles of a woman's face, then follows CGI illusions, again relating to the theme of hypnotising the audience. The typography used for the title sequence is very old fashioned and dull, with blocky, bold and white fonts. The title sequence then ends in a red effect/filter, with the name of the director kept last due to the director's star power.


The purpose of this title sequence is to make the audience feel almost hypnotized, uncomfortable and create a sense of suspense. The soundtrack, the black and white + red filter and the CGI illusion images evokes feeling. Also, hardly anything information about the movie is shown throughout the sequence, which makes the audience essentially want to continue watching the movie to find out more


Title sequences development over the years:

Title sequences in general have gone through many different stages of development over time. An example is when movies will rely on film stock in order to create their movies. Title sequences were simply just white and black text and background. People would create black cards in order to write the necessary and conventional pieces of information as a title sequence. As film production technology improved, people began to use colour and coloured effects/filters. Also, the title sequence duration began to extend even longer, graphic designers started to add meaning and creativity. The introduction of CGI gave people daring enough to try chances to experiment in creating sequences using solely this technique or, including CGI into the title sequence. Currently, title/opening sequence now can be used as a backstory to a movie or, sometimes there is now action before the introduction of the title sequence (for example the 007 movies).

Art Title Sequences

Titles In Silent Film Link

"Words and lettering played an enormous role in films of the silent era. Film titles made their appearance in the earliest silent films, along with letter cards (or inter-titles), which provided context. These cards were the responsibility of the lettering artist, who collaborated with the scriptwriter and director to create narrative continuity so that audiences could follow what they were seeing. Distinct from these inter-titles was the film’s main title, a vehicle of particular concern to film producers because of the legal, copyright and marketing information this footage had to bear.

Here is the main title from D.W. Griffith’s “Intolerance” (1916), which many reviewers and historians consider the greatest film of the silent era. Note that variations of the director’s name are featured in five ways":

BK Comments- This shows one of the earliest versions of Film Titles. This is how a traditional film title would look like in a silent film. This shows how the mixture of graphical designing and Lettering would be combined to create title sequences that would prepare the audience for the film they would watch.  These title sequences would come along with lettering cards which were the responsibility of the lettering artist. These lettering cards and film titles can bring a sense of uniqueness to a film as its film title differentiates it from others.


"Regardless of the method followed, we see the emergence of typography that seeks to match letterforms with the subject matter and even the zeitgeist — including typefaces inspired by art movements such as art nouveau, art deco and expressionism — as well as the commercial vocabulary of packaging design and advertising."

BK Comments- This shows that title sequences were not only used for films but for advertisment, and marketing. Title sequencing became a packaging of beautiful design and witty advertising in order to pull consumers and audiences in. It evoked curiosity from the artist and then the typography became inspired by art movements such as art nouveau, etc. 

The Silence Is Broken Link

As movies grew more popular, their titles evolved. Movie producers invested considerable sums in film production and sometimes resorted to fixing a dog of a film by rewriting the inter-titles. For a time, “film doctor” Ralph Spence(1890–1949) was the highest-paid title writer in the industry, earning $10,000 a picture for his one-liners.

During the 1920s and ’30s, European cinema was deeply influenced by modernism, and aspects of this visual sensibility were brought to the US by filmmakers who were fleeing the Nazis. Meanwhile, the studio systems operating in Europe and Hollywood also delighted in creating titles that featured vernacular graphic novelties. As much as possible, they liked to convey the tone of a movie through the “dressage” of its main title. Thus, black letter fonts in the opening credits were used to evoke horror, ribbons and flowery lettering suggested love, and typography that would have been used on “Wanted” posters connoted a western flick.

BK Comments- This is simply showing that title sequences evolved to another thing entirely with new technology and ideas forming. People changed from the original and dull simply text and started using different fonts to catch the audiences attention. T|hey used these different fonts on text to foreshadow the genre of the film for example black front for horror and flowery text for love.

The (True) Birth Of The Title Sequence

"Breakthrough ideas in titling, such as timing the typography to interact with metaphorical imagery or to create its own world, were largely innovations that came from outsiders to the Hollywood studio system. Figures such as Saul Bass, Pablo Ferro, Maurice Binder and Richard Williams arrived on the scene in the 1950s, at a time when the studios were starting to flounder in their fight with TV. At that time, independent filmmakers made commercial headway by doing things differently, spreading utterly fresh ideas about the possibilities of title sequences. This is the era in which the discipline of film title sequence design was actually born."

BK Comments- This was the breakthrough age for title sequences as famous graphic designers who reinvented the trade such as "Saul Bass" started to use little words and more art on title sequences and posters to leave an impression on the audience and give them ideas about the film they were about to watch. This was the era where "the discipline of film title sequence design was actually born" and would give birth to future graphic designers who would adopt or be influenced by iconic graphic designers such as "Saul Bass", "Pablo Ferro", and "Richard Williams".

"It could be argued that typography lost importance in this era of title design. The imagery behind the credits received a lot more attention. Still, the interplay of typography and images was by no means ignored. Popular trends of the 1950s were using three-dimensional lettering and embedding type in physical artifacts such as embroidery and signage. In contrast, Saul Bass often approached the lettering of a main title as he would a logo, making it function as the core element in a full marketing campaign. While the variety of solutions increased considerably, their anchor was always the relationship of on-screen typography to the movie itself."

BK Comments- This title sequence "Walk on the wild side" is a perfect example. The first things to catch my eyes are the eyes of the cat which seems to be staring at me. I then notice the typography but still take my attention back tot he cat eyes and assimilate the cat eyes with what i read. This brings more questions about the film intriguing me. With the picture and typography I am able to get a deeper meaning from the title sequence. Designers such as "Saul Bass" would approach these titles sequences with these kind of ideas. He would make the logo the core element in the full marketing campaign.

The Digital Era, And Modern Trends In Film Title Design

"Every sphere of contemporary life — and especially the film business — has been affected by computers. For designers, creating film titles meant participating in the apprenticeship tradition — learning by doing, on the job; that continued unabated into the mid-1990s. At that time, dynamic openers by Kyle Cooper and others showed what the next generation of design-educated, film-literate, tech-savvy creatives could do. That apprenticeship tradition has largely been overshadowed by the rise of popular technology, the Internet-enabled archiving of everything and the plethora of schools that propagate countless design disciplines. Most significantly, we see designers working like filmmakers and filmmakers working like designers."