Monday 27 January 2014

GROUP-analysis

the conjuring.
this is the first scene from the title sequence as you see that it has a very grainy black and white this straight away confides to the codes and conventions for a horror first of all the family picture looks mysterious because of the way it has been taken plus  to add the show it has been edited to look like old film that is being played by a old film camera this shows that the film will have history.

in the last two screen shots they has been two family names this foreshadows the film later on plus this could mean that the family would be involved later on.





this is the start of the film it shows two characters these could be important to the film furthermore whilst in the back ground there is a projection showing the producers of the film.
this effect of the grain is giving the audience the allusion that it has a long and historical event and from this the audience will be intrigued to carry on watching to see who those families are.





these screen shots of the title sequence show that there has been news stories of ''ghostly activity and it has been in a museum'' these have been taken because these scenes might have been in the film and it could be important but they produce a macguffin








in these last screen shot you see pictures of the cast as their characters but for three of the characters its is placed in a grave yard this could foreshadow the deaths of people of the families graves that you see..
the images are very distressing to the audience because seeing death can make images or memories which can be uncomforting.








these scene can produce foreshadows for the future of the film it includes a wegie board a tree with a knot like someones going to hang them selves these are the most distressing because creating these situations can have bad repercussions which will lead to a poor future.












film pitch powerpoint

Friday 24 January 2014

STINCS- research


stincs-
catch me if you can
    title sequence analysis
         

  Setting
 For the first image the audience see of the title sequence we are given a retro themed cartoon
 of a man being animated. To be moving fast through an airport, this sets the story to be around if not  the beginning of the film maybe around an airport. The man is wearing a suit which connotes that the film is set in America in the mid 50's/60's. As all the men and women are smartly dressed in comparison to todays dress code of people boarding planes as people now tend to dress in a more 'relaxed' manor.













  Theme
The theme of this film is shown to be a deceptive crime thriller, maybe involving Tom Hanks as the detective as this next screenshot displays the character of an undercover agent observing the character who has taken the identity. Of what seems to be a pilot mixing in with crowd, this creates the audience to think such things as... Who is he? Is he on the run from the law? Why is he being watched?










Iconography
The title sequence uses iconography of a New York city taxi cab being chased by what seems to be the law. It shows to the audience that the their will be suspenseful chases throughout the film and it will contain the main roll to be running from the law.











Narrative
The narrative of this title sequence scene is that the, main character is being chased by a detective (Tom Hanks) and that the main character is an identity thief.











Character 
The main three characters shown are Amy Adams, Tom Hanks and leonardo DiCaprio as shown below.

                                                                                                                                                                 














Style
The style of this title sequence is from the world famous artist know Saul Bass who used iconic solutes too show icons of a detective and a man running from the law. It works really well as  it shows the iconic style to a fantastic level.

Codes and conventions for our media title sequence genre

Codes and Conventions of a horror film
Shows the film clips in the title sequence
The use of dark settings
Low angle shots
The use of the protagonist in the shots
The use of CGI to show more gory stuff.
Close up on the protagonist
Builds tension
Slow pace
The use of narrative themes
Point of view shot
The use of young teenage characters
The use of handheld cameras
Always a female victim

Thursday 23 January 2014

life of Bob Kurtz researched powerpoint

audience profile research

AUDIENCE PROFILE (primary)

Age 15-30
Gender: male and female
Race: any
Sexuality: heterosexual/gay/bi
Education current (GCSE/ A level)
Occupation: Brand E (Students/ part time workers)
Annual income:



Disposable income:
Lifestyle: Students, student loans, studying, social events, cheap deals, low fashion sense, no car, (public transport), poor, small social group, small tv, no game consoles.

Desired lifestyle:  live in highly expensive home, be athletes, massive tv, unlimited supply of alcohol, fast cars, high fashion sense,

Culture: UK

Media interests: music action/horror/sci-fi /thriller, football news, social media sites (twitter/instagram/Facebook)

Buying habits: Game franchises, high brand trainers (Nike/Addidas/puma)

Ralph Lauren, Topman, Hollister, Super dry  

Monday 20 January 2014

Bob Kurtz presentation to class

for our last lesson with leanne we presented our groups powerpoint on Bob Hurtz. This included me, Jeevan and Liam working to the best of our team work and research abilities. To present our presentation of the life so far of one of the worlds most famous title sequence artists. After presenting i feel that our group had done amazing in telling the story of his life. To the entire class, i feel we excelled our previous presenting performances. As we knew the knowledge off by heart,spoke clearly, had interesting and conclusive information and spent a lot of time on it.

Friday 17 January 2014

Napoleon Dynamite title sequence timeline

Napoleon Dynamite
timeline
Start title sequence
0.00:03-Fox Searchlight Pictures
0.00:09-Paramount Pictures (presents)
0.00:19-(in association with) MTV Films
0.00:26- (starring) Jon Heder
0.00:32-(as) Napoleon Dynamite (title)
0.00:39-Jon Gries
0.00:50-Aaron Ruell
0.00:57-Efren Ramirez
0.01:04-Tina Majorino
0.01:12-Diedrich Bader
0.01:23-(casting by) Jory Weitz
0.01:31-(music by) John Swihart
0.01:39-(edited by) Jeremy Coon
0.01:49-(production design) Cory Lorenzen
0.01:55-(DOP) Munn Powell
0.02:05-(executive producer) Jory Weitz
0.02:13-(produced by) Jeremy Coon
0.02:26-(written by) Jared Hess
0.02:33-(directed by) Jared Hess

0.02:41-end of sequence
0:00:09 - Paramount Pictures (presents)
0:00:19 - (in association with) MTV Films
0:00:26 - (starring) Jon Heder
0:00:32 - (as) Napoleon Dynamite (title)
0:00:39 - Jon Gries
0:00:50 - Aaron Ruell
0:00:57 - Efren Ramirez
0:01:04 - Tina Majorino
0:01:12 - Diedrich Bader
0:01:23 - (casting by) Jory Weitz
0:01:31 - (music by) John Swihart
0:01:39 - (edited by) Jeremy Coon
0:01:49 - (Production design) Cory Lorenzen 
0:01:55 - (DOP) Munn Powell
0:02:05 - (executive producer) Jory Weitz
0:02:13 - (produced by) Jeremy Coon, Chris Wyatt, Sean Covel
0:02:26 - (written by) Jared Hess, Jerusha Hess
0:02:33 - (directed by) Jared Hess
0:02:41 - End of sequence

Napoleon Dynamite title sequence analysis

Napoleon Dynamite
(2004)

cinematography -
The title sequence opens up with a close up of what can be shown as a red carpet inside this shot, we then notice a quickly placed plate, slightly slided into the centre of the screen. Writing is then shown containing production names and titles.

sound-
Non diegetic and diegetic sound is used during the last minutes of the title sequence. Non diegetic sound comes in later on during the title sequence which is used to connote that the country sounding folk music. Suggests that the film will be set in a town in the desert in America.

title sequence viewings in class for analysis

For this lesson we first entered being put into groups around our tables, we then was told that we would be placed into groups to research different conventions of genres. Me, Liam and Jeevan was given the genre Western. We then worked as a team to collect over 50 different types of conventions for Western, including; desert, cowboys and saloons. We then later on in the lesson was individually sent to the common room and put on the Apple Mac's. And told we had to choose and annotate a title sequence, This being for example my title sequence was (James Bond-Casino Royale 2006). During my annotations i found that i had to plot onto a timeline, whenever a piece of text involving the production of the film and plot down its seconds on that timeline. After going back to class we then had gained common knowledge of the film timelines. And how they work and even make them ourselfs, we then went onto watch a selection of title sequences including the title sequence for (Napoleon Dynamite) and (Avengers).

Monday 13 January 2014

5 points on title sequence

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/10/04/the-art-of-the-film-title-throughout-cinema-history/

Here is proof that I have read the article by my five most favourited parts copy and pasted and commented on by me.

(1)
<Titles In Silent Film~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.>

I really like this point as I feel it really gets straight to the point of the history of a title sequence, in this case taking a trip In history to the first types of films to use title sequences. Being "silents" these where films in which the audience didn't have any sound other than a brief piano melody lurking in the background. The only writing would be at the beginning of the sequence and during when the camera would cut to some writing. Mostly the amount of a sentence which would be used to create tension or comedy in places it would without be flawed. 

(2)
   <Other important early filmmakers such as Emil Cohl and Winsor McCay were accomplished draftsmen who dedicated years of their lives to discovering the dramatic potential and practical techniques of animation. Their focus was more on character development and story visualization than on title animation per se. So, while we see innumerable novelties in main titles and inter-titles during this period, the big innovations of title animation and motion typography don’t really emerge until well after the Second World War.>

Again I really like this second point and found it greatly isn't resting as it gives some more insight into how animation became so important during title sequences even during the historic time of world war 2.

(3)
  <If there were a hall of fame for film title design, Stephen Frankfurt’s sequence for the 1962 film “To Kill A Mocking Bird” (below, upper row) would have a seat of honor. Cameron Crowe referenced it in “Almost Famous” (lower row):>

I really like this point because it tells people of the fact that title sequence is infact a major part of a films success in this case "to kill a mocking bird".

(4)
   <ITC Korinna
The Korinna font family has an art nouveau heritage and looks similar to the Pastel font, which was often used for title cards in silent films.>
I like this point because it gives off the information of a type of font familously used in title sequences and I found it a really interesting read.
(5)
 <In his title sequence for the 2005 crime-comedy “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang” (watch on YouTube), designer Danny Yount made use of Saul Bass-style graphics to recreate the atmosphere of 1960s detective stories:>
  
 For my last point I found interesting I found myself reading over this again and again. It tells us the reader of how Danny Youny used his title sequence in a way that actually spoke to the audience indicating that the film was about a detective. It's used so vibrantly and we'll cordinated I found it a real success.


This weeks presentation of our groups film pitch


This week in media-7th/8th jan 2014

On Tuesday period 1/2 we was told the new during the first five minutes that we would be creating our very own title sequence. This would be done by being placed into our told groups and then going onto go out in our own time and planing and shooting this title sequence. For the first hour we was given our groups, mine fourtunatly was with my two friends Jeevan and Liam. Normally working with friends in a working enviroment can be known to be quite distracting and unachieving.

Although I found in this case being place in a group with my friends aided me as it allows our group to have the opitunity to be able be more relaxed and create more advanced and imaginable ideas for our film. After some time of planing various ideas and using a method in which all three of us would think up our own ideas and has a small pitch to the group. We eventually came up with the idea that we woul go with the idea of a horror title sequence. During this it would star a group of 18 something males and females being haunted through a forest. Although this storyline has been milked dry time and time again we hoped to recreate it with modern day relations in which could re invent the storyline for a more rethink able grasp from its audience.

We was then given the task the second hour of actually creating a PowerPoint presentation on our film pitch. We unfourtantly made the mistake of thinking we wouldn't write as much on the PowerPoint as we felt saying it through knowledge would achieve a more professional approach towards our judgers. After pitching to the class and teachers we came out with a lot of constructive critism. Which allows us to be able to take these points and improve our film in ways in which it lacked.

continuity sequence

In media this lesson me and my group were tasked with creating our very own  continuity sequence, we was given this task in the aim of capturing it with various types of camera movement. We spent two hours creating and sketching up and thinking of ideas to go with, in the end we choose to go with the story of having a president and his chief advisor. Walking through a military base corridor  (school corridor) whilst being told the news that a prisoner has escaped. We then used mach on action to show the gravity and serious of the situation as the president (portrayed by Jeevan). Walks calmly into his office to find that the prisoner is waiting behind the door armed to kill him.

The shooting took two lessons and was found difficult as problematic situations arose for example clothes being changed due to it being the following day. Although all of the editing and filming difficulties i feel we overcome our struggles and filmed a decent title sequence for the time we had received it to the production and finish of the sequence.

link bellow-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkKhtaoGkqs&feature=youtu.be&safe=active