storyboard for "The Waking Hour"

Our film pitch feedback sheets

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.

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).

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