Feedback

                                 

This is the feedback I got from Leanne for my blog. In this Leanne mentions that I need to go over my spellings and grammar. She also said that u need to work on my capital letters. I went over my spellings and make sure that they were correct. Leanne said that I had to make sure that I’m up to date with my work, which I’m going to make sure I am.

I’m also going to make sure that I keep a diary on what were doing and when were going to do it.

Fight Scene

For our homework we had to film a fight scene. For our fight me and Alfie played a couple that just broke up and we end up having a fight. We made it into a comedy fight scene as if is a really stupid fight were it looks like were playing around. We also had to add foley sound to the fight scene.

Civildead presentation

This is a presentation that Me, Fex and Alfie done in lesson on the film we made called civildead. The film is about a twist on a zombie apocalypse. Where the zombies have there own town and lifestyle and the humans try to change them back to humans. There are eight main characters in our film four that are zombies and four that are humans. The ones that are humans are Carl Leverson who is going to be played by Taylor Kinney, Cathy Hunt who is going to be played by Lauren German. Also Paul Leverson who is going to be played by Woody Herrelson then the last human is Aiden Mccallister who is going to be played by Shane West. The Zombies are Jane Foster who is going to be played by Meryl street. The second zombie is Benjamin hunt who is played by Michael Cera. Theres also Brian who is going to be played by Craig Sheffer. The last zombie is Madea who is going to be played by Madea.

Civildead feedback

These are the feedback we got from our presentation about our film from everyone in the class. From most of the feedback you could see that most of the class apart from one thought that our film had potential. One of the things that also need developing was the budget because it was to low.

Civildead Prezi

Untitled Prezi on Prezi
This is the Prezi of our film which we presented in class.

CODES AND CONVENTIONS- media notes

SEVEN.

Lesson notes-
- Dark lighting    - Screaming                          - Nails
- Ticking noise   - Blade                                  - Pictures of people with their faces crossed out
- Dark colours    - Messy hand writing front   - Mastermind
- Thunder            - Picture of a dead person    - Planning something
- Creepy hands   - The colour red                   - Ideas


The film makers choose this track to make people feel scared, they also have it to let the viewer know that it is a horror/thriller film. This effect the film  has on the audience will get emotionally attached to the film. i would describe the music as past paced, high pitch screeching also a cold feeling to it.


WHAT ARE THE CODES AND CONVENTIONS OF A TITLE SEQUENCES?
- Details of cast and crew
- The films title
- On introduction to character or character types.

STINCS- media notes

S ETTING- Where and when is this film set.

T HEME- Mood of the film and whats its really about. E.g love, jealousy and voyeurism (desire to look at something)

I CONOGRAPHY- Costumes, make-up and only props relevent to the genre.

N ARRATIVE- Whats the story about.

C HARACTERS- Who are they? What they like? ( Principle, antagonist- bad, protagonist- good)

S TYLE- Cinematography, sound, editing. What the film will look and feel like.

Title sequences notes

A title sequence is the method by which cinematic films or television programs present their title, key production and cast members, or both, titillating conceptual visuals and sound.

This is important because it gives information on the film, gives insight on the characters, give credit to people, about cast, age range, make first impression. FIRST IMPRESSIONS ARE EVERYTHING.

The opening title sequence of a film is that film's opportunity to make a good first impression on you, the viewer a well crafted title sequence introduces the audience to the tone and theme of the film as well as the cast and crew.

Codes and convention
typically on opening sequences will contain;
-Details of cast and crew.
-the film's title.
-An introduction to character or character type
-Indication on place.
-Indication of historical period.
-Information regarding mood and tone.
-Introduction to signature them tune.
-Information about genre.
-Questions that the viewer finds intriguing( sets up enigmas).
-Patterns and types of editing that will changed in the remainder of the film.
-Mise en scene and cinematography that will be echoed or elaborated upon later in the film.

The Art Of film Title Design throughout cinema history

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


Words and lettering played an enormous role in films of the silent era.
Word and lettering would had played enormous role in the film era as they didn't have sound to connect the audience. So they would of used letter and words to the viewer would understand whats going on in the film. This was a big thing for the silent films because without it the viewers wouldn't be able to follow it and have an insight on whats going to happen. they also wouldn't know who had written, directed or starred in the film.

The studio systems operating in Europe and Hollywood also delighted in creating titles that featured vernacular graphic novelties.
Film titles soon developed as when it got to the 1920's and 30's they moved on from silent films and words and lettering films. They also used graphic's in there films titles. They also began to use the title lettering a bit more better as they make sure it had meaning to the font and colour. for example when it came to horror they used black letter front and then for love they would use flowery lettering.

This is the era in which the discipline of film title sequence design was actually born.
Some directors gave the viewers a shock as they started to open there title sequence with a opening scene. Theses were in the bonds films and also the pink panther series. Saul Bass used montage, live action also cut-out paper animation in his title sequences.In the 1950's using three-dimensional lettering for there title sequences was really popluar as people enjoyed watching it.

Every sphere of contemporary life — and especially the film business — has been affected by computers.
when it came to the 1990's and techology developed the film business changed alot as they could do loads of work on the computers. the title sequences improved and also the special effects they do in the films improved as they had the more improved equipment to do this. disney and pixar were known for making title sequences and also with animated characters to introduce the viewer to the film.


Throughout the history of cinema, film titles have evolved with the film industry, as well as with social trends and fashion movements.
Title sequences has always been a big part in the movies from the 1910's up until today and they have improved more and more over the years. the title sequences shows the viewer about the film and what genre of film it is as well without telling the viewer the whole story of the film. The title sequence can also make the film what it is and be known for that. they title sequence are very important and always have been throughtout history. They have changed over the years but always had the same meaning to them.

Coraline title sequence

http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/coraline/

Coraline

The genre of the film is children horror this is constructed by the music in the background and the noise of a deep piano, which give the title sequence a thrilling aspect. The scenes are very dark which normally indicates that’s the films going to be a horror. With the film being cartoon shows that it’s a children horror also with the humming and singing in the background. Which are normally in children films as if they’re trying to get a child to sleep.

Opening titles normally gives an insight on the film and tells the viewer what it about before they watch it. It also makes the viewer more attracted to the film once they’ve watched the beginning. The enigmas created in the title sequence are the doll. It will get the viewer thinking why is that doll getting changed into a different person, why is it getting changed to a different person and also who is changing the doll.

The shots in the title sequence are close up most of the time when the doll is getting made. It also has a shot where you see the doll fly out of the window. All the shots are from the person who is making the doll, so the viewer feels like there looking through those person’s eyes.

The genre of music that has been chosen is twisted fairy tale. As it has fairy tale music but its been twisted to give it the horror side of the film. The filmmakers put this track into the film to give it the twisted feel to the film and to make the viewers understand that it is also a children horror film. You can also hear children voices, which again show that the film is targeted for children.

 The effects this track has on the title sequence is that it gives the viewer what the film is about and what type of film is going to be. It also makes the title sequence what it is because if the music weren’t there it would have been hard to understand that it is a children’s horror. I would describe it as a twisted fairy tale theme tune as it has the fairy tale sound but it’s just darker and has more twisted sound.

The sequence has been edited to look like your viewing it from the person eyes. In the beginning of the sequence there is an elliptical editing where it shows time going by. There’s also a match on action where you see the button on the side with loads of different ones then it moves to the side where its just on its own.

There’s also another match on action where you see the metal hand spin the wheel on the sewing machine then you see the hands again on the fabric sewing it together.

The transitions on the title sequence is that it shows the step by step of the doll getting made but in a shorter amount of time as if times going by. Like elliptical editing where it shows the viewer what’s happening in a shorter amount of time so it does get boring with the viewer see the doll get completely made.

The pace of the edit is quick as it shows what happens over a short amount of time. It doesn’t really changes it maintains on the doll and how that’s getting made.  It doesn’t really shows any more to keep it secret for the film so people will have to find out in the end who the person is making the doll and also why there making it. 

Zombieland Title sequence

Zombieland title sequence

In the title sequence there's a lot of red and black which is normally linked to death,danger or the devil; there's bloods spats in the video which also foreshadows that something bad is going to happen which causes death. It also tells us as the viewers that the film is going to be in the genre of horror or thriller. With the title zombie lands also leads the viewer to think that this is a thriller or horror as zombie films are normally in the category of thrillers or horrors. the title is also bold and is in capitals which also shows that its a horror or thriller film.

The music in the background also tells the viewer that its not a peaceful and calm film, it shows us that its a loud, fast and noisy film with the music that there playing in the background. the music is rock music. also with all the different tones of instruments in it,sometimes the tones are very sharp and high pitched which can relate to screaming. this also shows the viewer that this is going to be a horror or thriller film. This shows the viewer what kind of people the characters are in the film and what there going to be like.

One of the characters name 'Emma Stone' was on a gun which can indicates that she might be a character which does a lot of killings and uses the gun a lot through out the film. There's also hand prints which also links to horror or thriller films with blood hand prints. which will also show the viewer that the film genre is.

The way the names are presented is very quick and sharp by how its just comes onto the screen. Also with the different patterns and the shapes come together shows that there a lot going on. The way it moves goes along with the music so it all links together and shows the genre of the film.

Continuity sequence.

Continuity sequence.

We made a continuity sequence video where we obeyed the 180-degree rule, shot reverse shot and done a match on action.

I found this task easy as I didn’t have to do the camera work and I was doing the acting. The thing I found the hardest with it was to make sure I stayed in the same place when the camera left me and then went back on to me.

I found the acting easy as I knew what I was doing and we had a good normal sequence it wasn’t too confusing and had a lot going on.

I thought that we did really well as it was filmed really good and we didn’t have to cut much out, we only had to cut one little bit out and that’s because Nicola pulled the chair out in the scene she did before to the one she done after. I was really pleased on the work me Nicola and Daisy produced.