29th Jan

Tuesday the 29th: On tuesday Alfie was in charge of the music and today he put the music in the title sequence and then we both edited the rest and moved it the clips around to put the title sequence in the right order. Today me and Alfie found out that its hard to get the music clip onto final cut pro. We had a lot of difficulties.

Thursday 24th jan

Thursday 24th jan
Today i left Alfie to decide on the music while i was editing the green screen and other editing that needs to be done. I also have to make the titles and add them to the sequence. I had some troubles making the titles where as we had an effect on them which made the shake and it was hard to maintain the same shake throughout the whole of titles. Then i found out that you could copy the titles then past them and just change the text.

Green Screen editing

This the green screen editing that im doing for the news scene. I've had some difficulties with this as when Alfie walks on to the white coat his wearing doesn't work with the background as some of the green background is reflecting of the coat. i had to cut up the scenes because it works more in some areas than it does in others.

Green screen background

These are the backgrounds i chose for the green screen. Ones for a news effect and the other is for a live broadcast. 

Tuesday 22nd jan

On Tuesday i put on all the clips we had so far and i chose the background were going to have for our green screen clip. For one our my clip its meant to be a news setting background and the other one is meant to be in a laboratory.

Changed name

At first we decided to name our film civil dead. We decided this because the film was about a zombie civilization and where they are zombies they're dead. We liked this name as we thought it had a nice sound to it and sound spooky. Like what horror films are normally like.
We changed our name to Civilized instead because in the end we didn't like the sound of Civil dead because it wasn't that creative and were going to publish the name with the 'z' a capital so it would be like CiviliZed.

Mindmap Civildead/ Civilized

This is a mind map off the ideas for our title sequence and what we was going to do. These the ideas that we had at first. At first we was going to film people dressed up as zombies living a normal life. As our film is about a zombie civilization. We changed our idea on this because it would be hard to film it and the money to buy the make-up to make the people look like zombies. 

Audience profile

This the the audience profile we made and we decided that the audience that would like our film would like zombie game and spooky places like London tombs and London dungeons. The target gender for our film is male, as our film is a very brutal bloody film. Also as the film is simulacra to these game that are also targeted to  the male gender that they would enjoy this film as well.

We said that the age range for this film is 15-28 as we thought it was be teenagers/young men who would enjoy this film.

Production companies

This is the production companies that our group decided to pick as they made films such as zombie land. Where as this film is similar to the film that were doing. The films that inspired our film are films like 'Dog house' and 'Shaun of the dead'. As these are similar to our film. 

Newspaper props

These are the newspaper props that i'm going to be using in my title sequence. I decided that these newspapers are going to spin onto the page so that the audience that is watching this title sequence can see whats happen previously in the film. So that they understand whats happening.

Week 14-18th Jan

On Monday
We went over exam key words in the first lesson. For the second half of the lesson we carried on working on our title sequence. But we was putting our work onto Fex computer and it got lost sadly but were going to be starting it again on my user.

On Tuesday
On Tuesday we put our titles into the sequence again as we lost our work before and made sure the editing was done as well. Today we decided to split the group up as the communication skills weren't working between us and it was better than Fex went on to do editing on her own and Me and Alfie done the editing by ourselves.

On Thursday
Today we recorded most of the shots so all that's left  is the tea making recording which im going to be doing at my house. I put everything in to final cut pro now I've just got to edit it all.

On Friday
Friday Me and Alfie have a free double lesson so were going to hopefully get the rest of our recording done. So that most of the title sequence is done and we just need do finish the editing and the first scene.

Film Studios

                                             Film Studios 

Key words

A film studios is a company that producers and/or distributes motion pictures.

Niche films- a small group of people with a particular showed interest.

The 6 main studios operating today

- Walt Disney
- Paramount
- Universal
- Warner brothers
- Sony/ Columbia
- Fox

For our film we chose to do Columbia studio productions.

The distribution company is in charge of getting the film out to audiences, this involves organizing for the film to receive an age certificate by regulation bodies such as the BBFC and MPAA; arranging exhibition outlet globally and DVD/ television rights. Arranging for prints of the film and marketing publicity and promotion of the film

The Game analysis

How are we able to tell that ' The Game' is a thriller?

Settings
- Big house
- Country
- His birthday

Themes
- Loneliness
- Family
- Father figure
- Identity

Narrative
- Flashback
- Family life when younger
- Childhood regret
- Revenge

Style
- Old film
- Puzzle graphic ( enigma )
- Music classic- lonely place
- Film burns- fire, evil

i couldn't find the video for this film as it wasn't on youtube and it i couldn't find the embed code for it but on the art of titles website there is a video of the title sequence.

http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/the-game/

Analysis catch me if you can

What do the typography, design and way in which the titles appear in catch me if you can communicate to the audiences?
consider connotations of the films

- Genre
- Style/mood
- Possible narratives
- Production values
- Themes

The titles are integrated into the sequence.

- Sequence- stylized (jazz music)
- Influenced by Saul Bass by the geometric patterns.
- Move smoothly, Fluid movement through out the sequence
- 60's style, gives setting for the film.
- elegant/sophisticated mood
- High syphilis production values

Saul Bass.

                                                                 Saul Bass

Saul Bass lived in America and was famous for graphic design and the film posters he made. He was also best known for the title sequences he made. Which were motion pictures. Saul Bass used lots of simple shapes in his title sequences, which creates meaning to the film.  Saul Bass was a student at Art Students League. He then got a apprenticeship with Manhattan design firms. Then after this he worked as a freelance graphic designer. With the images and shapes Saul Bass used on his title sequences he captured the mood of the film. Saul Bass hand drew the shapes. Which gives it a good effect and a normal appearance.

Saul Bass worked with a lot of star directors such as Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kurbrick and Alfred Hitchcock. 

Check list

Year 12 Media Studies Blog Checklist


1. Continuity sequence and evaluation of it
2. 'The Art of the Title' homework task (Leanne)
3. Saul Bass write-up and independent titles analysis
4. Presentation on a title sequence designer of your choosing
5. Pitch video, presentation, feedback sheets and summary of feedback/comments on what you think of it
6. Zombieland analysis
7. Analysis of a title sequence of your choosing
8. Genre notes and analysis of a sequence of your genre
9. Class notes written up, including codes conventions of title sequences and Sound
10. Video of your fight sequence and explanation of what you did and evaluation of what you learnt through the process
11. Audience profile for your film
12. The order of the titles & importance of typography, to include analysis of Se7en/Catch Me if You Can/Lord of War covered in lesson.
13. Write-up of film industry work completed with Shaun.
14. Video feedback from Leanne/Shaun with your comments as to how you are going to address the feedback for improvements.

This is the check list of what we need to have on our blogs.
what have left to do is:
- Presentation on a title sequence designer of your choosing.
-i have to finish the Saul Bass write-up and do the independent titles analysis.
- i also need to keep document our work on the title sequence.

Making the titles

These are print screens of the making of the typography of our title sequence. The top ones are of making the studio title and the other one at the bottom is one of the cast members. We decided to use the ‘cold night for alligators’ font and colored it red to indicate danger also the horror genre to the film. The film is about zombies to we did the font also because it hand prints on it so it can link to the film.

This the the font I've picked for the title sequence, which is called cold night for alligators.

Civilized title sequence

This is the title of our sequence; we’ve made the background look like a lost signalled television. This is because in our title sequence a girl is doing a video and I’ve made it look like its broke because you hear zombies  in the back ground and then its made to think that they attack her which you don’t see because were the video shuts off. We also changed our title of our film as we thought that civilized look much better than what civil dead did.

Order of credits

        Production company presents
        Film title 
        Actors names :
Lauren German 
Shane West 
Michel Cera
Taylor Kinney 
Craig Sheffer
Meryl Streep 
Madea
woody Harrdson 
Fex Orumwense 
           Costume and make-up
           Editing
           Sound 
           Music
           Producer
           Editor
           Director
           Written by 


This is in the order we will putting our credits in.

Diary of week monday 7th

Monday- On Monday we just got the titles done and other little things that need to be improving. For our title which is 'civilized' and we've chose the font ‘cold night for alligators’. Which the names of the actors are in but the directors

Tuesday – On Tuesday Fex carried on with the other titles, while me and Alfie were trying to get the title of the film done so that we could add it to the video after.

Thursday- Today we Started to edit the typography and put it on to our title sequence. Fex and Me chose to make our typography shaky so we used a editing technique that was called bad film.  Me, Alfie and Fex decided to change our title sequence and to cut out bits out of the title sequence. We had an interview in our title sequence but we cut it out and change it because we didn’t like the idea no more.