Troughout this whole project i feel as though a have done my best and had learnt many things in the process.
one thing that i improved on was im team working skill, honestly im someone who prefers to work on thier on and hate reling on others, however as i was in a group of three members, i have learnt the more ideas you have the better your opening title sequence can be by involving everyones ideas however not everything goes to plan and you cant always get your own way.
another thing i have learnt is that making a opening itle sequence isn't as easy as it sounds, and that quite often you have to go back out and reshoot once more or perhaps many times untill you are fully satified with what you've got, but not only you, your whole group has to be pleased with it.
Tuesday, 9 March 2010
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
I had done Media Studies in GCSE's and throughout that course of two years a had gained much knowledge on Media and Film technolgies such as using a camera and putting up a tripod etc, as had another member of my group Jade Mitton, however Kathryn Powell, another member of our group, has not had as much knowledge as a result of only doing Media in A-Level.
During the course of making our Opening title sequence i have relearnt the shortcuts on the keyboard, that makes the editing time quicker and much easier, and more knowledge of how to use imovie on the Apple Mac computers and how to connect the camera to the tripod correctly.
One thing is have learnt also is that you have to relie on your group and exceeding amount, you have to take everyone's idea and views into content and make sure everyone is pleased with the outcome and storyline.
When one mentions 'making an opening title sequence' many think it will be easy and does not releise that it take much work involved with filming, then refilming, editing then finding out you have to refilm again and the amount of time this process includes.
During the course of making our Opening title sequence i have relearnt the shortcuts on the keyboard, that makes the editing time quicker and much easier, and more knowledge of how to use imovie on the Apple Mac computers and how to connect the camera to the tripod correctly.
One thing is have learnt also is that you have to relie on your group and exceeding amount, you have to take everyone's idea and views into content and make sure everyone is pleased with the outcome and storyline.
When one mentions 'making an opening title sequence' many think it will be easy and does not releise that it take much work involved with filming, then refilming, editing then finding out you have to refilm again and the amount of time this process includes.
How did you attract/address your audience?
From looking back to my reasearch i had looked at pervious ghost films, such as 'The Exorcist' and 'Paranormal Activity', then we tried to discover what we will need in our film to attract an audience, however it was awfully difficult bacuse different people like different things and subjects, but we also had to try and make our film a lttle different from others and studied the way those other films did to get there audience's attantion.
With our Opening, it doesn't have anything leading up to the main scene except the credits, of which is essential, then it goes straight onto the Ouija board, we hope that when the audience see the opening, they would think to themselve 'why are they doing this' and 'whats going to happen after' which would make them want to watch on and discover the rest of the film and what happens to the 3 students.
With our Opening, it doesn't have anything leading up to the main scene except the credits, of which is essential, then it goes straight onto the Ouija board, we hope that when the audience see the opening, they would think to themselve 'why are they doing this' and 'whats going to happen after' which would make them want to watch on and discover the rest of the film and what happens to the 3 students.
Who would be the audience for your media product?
As a group, we all decided that it would be appropiate to rate our opening title sequence an 18 therefore out auidience would be anyone at the age of 18 or above. Tihs decision was made under the circumstance of the use with the Ouija board; there are many dangers involved when an Ouija board is in use, and we did not want to make younger children to beleive that it is safe and just a game or something to muck around with.Also because it one of those types of horror film where it is unsuitable for anybody under the age of 18 to watch.
Our opening title sequence and appeal to any gendre to whom wants to watch it, females or males, there is no direct gendre towards either.
Previously i had researched film ratings and which each age specify, i had discovered that 18's has violence, drugs, heavy swearing (unappriote language) and more, we had decided that it was appropiate that our film should be rated in 18 as a result of this.
Our opening title sequence and appeal to any gendre to whom wants to watch it, females or males, there is no direct gendre towards either.
Previously i had researched film ratings and which each age specify, i had discovered that 18's has violence, drugs, heavy swearing (unappriote language) and more, we had decided that it was appropiate that our film should be rated in 18 as a result of this.
What kinds of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
personally I think that the media institution that might distribute our media product would maybe be something Hollywood, as i feel that a British institution wouldn't really be interested in the film, but also i beleive that an american horror film relates to our film more than a british one and that our film may be more alike an american horror.
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Personally our opening title sequence deasn't really represents any particular social group, we don’t have that type of film which is overly stereotyped like some films are. For example chick flicks are mainly for women and teenage girls as most chick flick films are about falling in love in one way or another. Whereas our 'big picture' of the fim is about contacting the dead, you could say that it could be for people who are interested in the dead such as Mediums for example, however many people likes different types of horror films as there is such a a huge range. The characters in the film are just ordinary students that are looking for something strange and out the ordinary; personally i dont think there is a certain type of “Click” in our film, sometimes in films you have the certain "clicks" take 'Mean Girls' for example; you have the 'plastics', 'jocks', 'geeks' etc.
In our Opening Title Sequence, the colours are very dark, gloomy and lacks any sunlight to get across to the audience that something bad may accur, also having these types of colours could attract some viewers that are sometimes called 'Emo's, Grundgers' as they are sometimes into horror and dark, evil stuff.
In our Opening Title Sequence, the colours are very dark, gloomy and lacks any sunlight to get across to the audience that something bad may accur, also having these types of colours could attract some viewers that are sometimes called 'Emo's, Grundgers' as they are sometimes into horror and dark, evil stuff.
Tuesday, 2 March 2010
Evaluation- In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
My media product used, developed and challenged the forms and conventions of a real media product by firstly looking at a opening title sequence producers and their work; such a Kyle Cooper, who had produced the openings to 'Se7en' and 'Seven Pounds' and also a huge range of many other different films and the genres, varying from 'Detective' to 'Chick Flick'. Whilst going through the Research process we had decided to aim towards 'Horror' and 'Thriller'. Once this choice was made we came up with out 'Bigger Picture' (the story line throughout the film that is in the process of being made) and thought of ideas of what our product should look like.
The title of film:
We had decided to call our film 'child's play' because the story line is about three people summoning a child sprit in a fit of lashing out that had died there with her parents, the 'child' starts to killing them one by one, however not straight away, she plays games with them, graduary getting to the point of murder, however one does manage to survive which leads to an sequal.
The title is displayed within the first fame; written on the cover of a book in red paint, the 'red paint' conotes blood and danger however the group had decided to make intertextual reference to another film e.g '6th Sence' by using a particular colour throughout the whole film to conote a particular emotion or something in particular, this will also add to the suspence the audience is held in, while , hopfully, they are wondering what is happening with the oujia board and wants to keep watching, this suspense is also supported by the music, the atmosphere should have a suspense to keep the audience on the edge of their chairs.
Settings and locations used:
One reason why we have made our setting dark and bare with only candles as the lighting is to help create the atmosphere and tension. The setting is suppose to be set in a Victorian house, quite old fashioned, however we had difficulties making the setting quite Victorian, so we had decided to make the setting bare except for the table and the contents upon it (oujia board, candles, and insent burner) this is very popular in horror/thriller films as it make the audience feel tense and in this dark empty space as well, once this setting is shown on the opening title sequence, instantly the genre is set in place with the audience and atmosphere. I had came up with the idea of using a black room, my group had agreed and i went to ask if it was possible to use my drama teachers room and he said yes.
Constumes and props used:
In ours fames, there are only three people present (a male and two femals), and their costums arn't exceedingly great, as a result of our idea had been changed from them being paraphycologists to school children, their costums were casual looking as if they have been to school then straight to this 'haunted' house. In many film of a verity of genre's 'casual' clothing is used particulary however certain clothing such as 'suits' is also used to inform the audience their working class, adding to this, costumes could provide the audience with clues of the characters and their personality by making assumptions or comparing them to 'real life'.
Title font and style used:
when the group was looking at the other opening title sequences, one main thing is the credits, that tells you who is in the film and who directed/edited etc. One of the thing that our group didn't want to do was to just insert credits straight from imovie, so the idea of using a book as a diary was created. Because of the era the ghost is from we had to make a diary look old, so we stained the pages with coffee and tea to give it that aged look and feel. then i wrote the credits in the book in neat cursive writing, we included who was staring in the film and who edited and directed. This is how our film will start, with the book opening on its own.
How the characters are introduced:
The characters in our film isn't really introduced properly in the opening of it as there is no dialogue other than the voice over on the 'dear diary..', straight after the credits, the lights come up on the three children with the oujia board, personally i think not introducing the characters within the first few minutes can be quite powerful and would make the audience want to watch on and see who these three youngsters ae and why they are doing an ouijia board.
My media product used, developed and challenged the forms and conventions of a real media product by firstly looking at a opening title sequence producers and their work; such a Kyle Cooper, who had produced the openings to 'Se7en' and 'Seven Pounds' and also a huge range of many other different films and the genres, varying from 'Detective' to 'Chick Flick'. Whilst going through the Research process we had decided to aim towards 'Horror' and 'Thriller'. Once this choice was made we came up with out 'Bigger Picture' (the story line throughout the film that is in the process of being made) and thought of ideas of what our product should look like.
The title of film:
We had decided to call our film 'child's play' because the story line is about three people summoning a child sprit in a fit of lashing out that had died there with her parents, the 'child' starts to killing them one by one, however not straight away, she plays games with them, graduary getting to the point of murder, however one does manage to survive which leads to an sequal.
The title is displayed within the first fame; written on the cover of a book in red paint, the 'red paint' conotes blood and danger however the group had decided to make intertextual reference to another film e.g '6th Sence' by using a particular colour throughout the whole film to conote a particular emotion or something in particular, this will also add to the suspence the audience is held in, while , hopfully, they are wondering what is happening with the oujia board and wants to keep watching, this suspense is also supported by the music, the atmosphere should have a suspense to keep the audience on the edge of their chairs.
Settings and locations used:
One reason why we have made our setting dark and bare with only candles as the lighting is to help create the atmosphere and tension. The setting is suppose to be set in a Victorian house, quite old fashioned, however we had difficulties making the setting quite Victorian, so we had decided to make the setting bare except for the table and the contents upon it (oujia board, candles, and insent burner) this is very popular in horror/thriller films as it make the audience feel tense and in this dark empty space as well, once this setting is shown on the opening title sequence, instantly the genre is set in place with the audience and atmosphere. I had came up with the idea of using a black room, my group had agreed and i went to ask if it was possible to use my drama teachers room and he said yes.
Constumes and props used:
In ours fames, there are only three people present (a male and two femals), and their costums arn't exceedingly great, as a result of our idea had been changed from them being paraphycologists to school children, their costums were casual looking as if they have been to school then straight to this 'haunted' house. In many film of a verity of genre's 'casual' clothing is used particulary however certain clothing such as 'suits' is also used to inform the audience their working class, adding to this, costumes could provide the audience with clues of the characters and their personality by making assumptions or comparing them to 'real life'.
Title font and style used:
when the group was looking at the other opening title sequences, one main thing is the credits, that tells you who is in the film and who directed/edited etc. One of the thing that our group didn't want to do was to just insert credits straight from imovie, so the idea of using a book as a diary was created. Because of the era the ghost is from we had to make a diary look old, so we stained the pages with coffee and tea to give it that aged look and feel. then i wrote the credits in the book in neat cursive writing, we included who was staring in the film and who edited and directed. This is how our film will start, with the book opening on its own.
How the characters are introduced:
The characters in our film isn't really introduced properly in the opening of it as there is no dialogue other than the voice over on the 'dear diary..', straight after the credits, the lights come up on the three children with the oujia board, personally i think not introducing the characters within the first few minutes can be quite powerful and would make the audience want to watch on and see who these three youngsters ae and why they are doing an ouijia board.
Monday, 1 March 2010
Thursday, 25 February 2010
Music part 2
The background music for our opening title sequence was found on a copyright free website called:
audio.lgfl.org.uk
audio.lgfl.org.uk
Thursday, 4 February 2010
Inprovments
After the lesson on Thursday, where the class previewed what we have already done. We got back constructive criticism as to what we need to improve. Some of the things our group needs to improve are;
- To use a tripod on the book scene.
- To maybe do a voice over for the diary entry.
- To sort the ring a ring o roses out to only play it once .
- To do some fade ions and fade outs
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
Sunday, 24 January 2010
Music
As a group we all have decided for the music, we're going to record someone to sing the nursery ryme 'Ring O Roses' as we thought that would connect with the opening title sequence quite nicley.
As its a little girl that is summond and lashes out in a fit of trumatised, we thought 'Ring O Roses' will go as that is one of the main popular rymes known buh it also will go lovley with the 360 degrees shot of the ouija board.
As its a little girl that is summond and lashes out in a fit of trumatised, we thought 'Ring O Roses' will go as that is one of the main popular rymes known buh it also will go lovley with the 360 degrees shot of the ouija board.
Story-board change
As a result of changing the title sequence a little with the credits, we have choosen to draw a second story board that will fit our new opening title sequences and its changes:
re-shooting and location shots
As a result of the lack of our camera shots and angles we have decided to re-shoot. This will take place after school on Tuesday 26th, in our Drama Studio, however one disadvantage is that the dead line for this course work is on the 29th and we're all showing our opening title sequence in lesson on the 28th, and this doesn't give us alot of time to edit so we're all decided to use all spare lessons and will be staying after school Wednesday 27th for as long as need to get this project finished for the deadline.
We have decided to film in our Drama hall because the room is painted black which we thought would not only connot dark and scary but would also be great to have the lite candles against so you'll have that nice contrast and also the lighting of the candles on the vidoe camera would shoe up lovey and would have that 'glow' effect.
We have decided to film in our Drama hall because the room is painted black which we thought would not only connot dark and scary but would also be great to have the lite candles against so you'll have that nice contrast and also the lighting of the candles on the vidoe camera would shoe up lovey and would have that 'glow' effect.
Thought processes throughout the project
This is my reflective thought processes throughout the whole project where i will explain whats has happened and my thoughts on my Opening Title Sequence.
Wednesday 13th January;
As my group was in an exam, i had loaded our footage and start cutting up and deleteing thing which are not needed for example laughing, and i was really getting quite worried and 'stressed' because i had notice the lack of Camera angles and shot and personally i felt it really had brought down the whole footage as i and others thought the lighting was lite perfect. Others in my group agreed with me, so now we all have decided as a group to re-shot our footage. And also i had noticed we didn't stick to our original plan; 'The Big Picture' because in our storyboards, we had 4 people doing the Ouija board and in out first shooting we only had two, so now we going to try and stick with that original plan
Wednesday 20th January;
Today in lesson, the whole group sat down and discussed our opening title sequence about reshooting and our ideas. Then came up with this new idea for the showing of the Credits, instead of having the pan across, we're going to make this prop; a old looking book witch somehows flys open onto the credits written inside in black ink, firstly we thought this would look much better but also it would fit into our opening title sequence much better, as the writing will be written 'childish' of which would be the child that is summoned through the ouija bored book.
Tuesday 26th January;
Today the group decided to make our prop for the credit, a book, and written a Diary Entry in it as an extra feature along side of the credit i wrote in a joined handwriting atalic, also we decided to write the title 'Childs Play' on the cover of the book instead of on the tags as we thought it would relate more.
Also i came up with this idea that we could use perhaps with the Diary Entry; we could have an over voice of someone (Girl) to say the Entry and said to the group and we might add in, not sure yet.
so i had wrote all the information that needed to be in the book and we also painted the title on the font of the book. This is a much more better approach to the credits as the way we were originally going to do the credits look really bad and fake, as there were on tea stained labels that were going to hang off old poison bottles, but that never happened as we couldn't get the bottles.
We are refilming today after school and hopefully everything goes to plan, may have to stay a little late buh luckely everyone is willing to. So lets see how it goes...
Thursday 28th January;
Today is the showing day to the rest of the class and im abit nervous, not completely finished however this is just a practise one so that groups can get feed back and be informed on how others think the sequence could be inproved and why they like it, soon will make a new post on our feed backs and will appear above.
Filming on the 26th went according to plan and the footage, personally, i think was better than the first time we shot, then the editing yesturday after school went okay too.
Today we also agreed to have an extra piece of sound in the background throughout the whole thing of a piano peice, of which my drama teacher Mr Elmslie will compose for us once we shown him our title sequence, we will be keeping the "ring o ring o roses" and that will appear a quarter way through on the 360 degrees. Showing time...
Monday 22nd Febuary;
before half term we had reshot the book scene using a tripod, which personaly i thought went okay, and also attempted the voice over however the rediculas lesson hours in our school had made it quite annoying, as we started the voice over the bell had went and as aresult of that it was hard to find a room quiet enough, the group was also discussing weather we should make the 'killer' a boy as well as the voice over as it could be more powerful, however im not sure weather we are or not, so better go talk to the group...
also before half term, when i looked st the opening title sequence, i was pleased yet not, i think our footage is good and went to plan, however, the group thinks not much editing is needed and i disagree a little because i think some shots need tightening and somehow change the order order of scene/shots as personality i think they drag on; too much ouija board and perhaps way too much book, i think once the music is composed and uploaded it would look better.
i also came up with this other idea during this half term whilst thinking about this project, that we could have had the setting in and broken down house of somesort, i had came up with this location at; Lesnes abby in Abbywood and thought it would be quite a effective place, as you had the tree's and the wind would have made the candles look nice, and if this idea was to be made, the candles and the lighting would look nice at the time of day that it starts to get dark. however it may be too late to change the idea...
Wednesday 13th January;
As my group was in an exam, i had loaded our footage and start cutting up and deleteing thing which are not needed for example laughing, and i was really getting quite worried and 'stressed' because i had notice the lack of Camera angles and shot and personally i felt it really had brought down the whole footage as i and others thought the lighting was lite perfect. Others in my group agreed with me, so now we all have decided as a group to re-shot our footage. And also i had noticed we didn't stick to our original plan; 'The Big Picture' because in our storyboards, we had 4 people doing the Ouija board and in out first shooting we only had two, so now we going to try and stick with that original plan
Wednesday 20th January;
Today in lesson, the whole group sat down and discussed our opening title sequence about reshooting and our ideas. Then came up with this new idea for the showing of the Credits, instead of having the pan across, we're going to make this prop; a old looking book witch somehows flys open onto the credits written inside in black ink, firstly we thought this would look much better but also it would fit into our opening title sequence much better, as the writing will be written 'childish' of which would be the child that is summoned through the ouija bored book.
Tuesday 26th January;
Today the group decided to make our prop for the credit, a book, and written a Diary Entry in it as an extra feature along side of the credit i wrote in a joined handwriting atalic, also we decided to write the title 'Childs Play' on the cover of the book instead of on the tags as we thought it would relate more.
Also i came up with this idea that we could use perhaps with the Diary Entry; we could have an over voice of someone (Girl) to say the Entry and said to the group and we might add in, not sure yet.
so i had wrote all the information that needed to be in the book and we also painted the title on the font of the book. This is a much more better approach to the credits as the way we were originally going to do the credits look really bad and fake, as there were on tea stained labels that were going to hang off old poison bottles, but that never happened as we couldn't get the bottles.
We are refilming today after school and hopefully everything goes to plan, may have to stay a little late buh luckely everyone is willing to. So lets see how it goes...
Thursday 28th January;
Today is the showing day to the rest of the class and im abit nervous, not completely finished however this is just a practise one so that groups can get feed back and be informed on how others think the sequence could be inproved and why they like it, soon will make a new post on our feed backs and will appear above.
Filming on the 26th went according to plan and the footage, personally, i think was better than the first time we shot, then the editing yesturday after school went okay too.
Today we also agreed to have an extra piece of sound in the background throughout the whole thing of a piano peice, of which my drama teacher Mr Elmslie will compose for us once we shown him our title sequence, we will be keeping the "ring o ring o roses" and that will appear a quarter way through on the 360 degrees. Showing time...
Monday 22nd Febuary;
before half term we had reshot the book scene using a tripod, which personaly i thought went okay, and also attempted the voice over however the rediculas lesson hours in our school had made it quite annoying, as we started the voice over the bell had went and as aresult of that it was hard to find a room quiet enough, the group was also discussing weather we should make the 'killer' a boy as well as the voice over as it could be more powerful, however im not sure weather we are or not, so better go talk to the group...
also before half term, when i looked st the opening title sequence, i was pleased yet not, i think our footage is good and went to plan, however, the group thinks not much editing is needed and i disagree a little because i think some shots need tightening and somehow change the order order of scene/shots as personality i think they drag on; too much ouija board and perhaps way too much book, i think once the music is composed and uploaded it would look better.
i also came up with this other idea during this half term whilst thinking about this project, that we could have had the setting in and broken down house of somesort, i had came up with this location at; Lesnes abby in Abbywood and thought it would be quite a effective place, as you had the tree's and the wind would have made the candles look nice, and if this idea was to be made, the candles and the lighting would look nice at the time of day that it starts to get dark. however it may be too late to change the idea...
Wednesday, 20 January 2010
Sunday, 17 January 2010
Saul Bass
Saul Bass was born on May 8 1920 and died April 25, 1996.
Saul was an American graphic designer and Academy Award-winning filmmaker, however he is best known for his design on animated motion picture title sequences. He worked for some of Hollywood's greatest filmmakers for roughly 40 years, of which included Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger, Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese. His most famous title sequences are the animated paper cut-out of a heroin addict's arm for Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm, the text racing up and down what eventually becomes a high-angle shot of the United Nations building in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest, and the disjointed text that raced together and was pulled apart for Psycho (1960).
Saul was an American graphic designer and Academy Award-winning filmmaker, however he is best known for his design on animated motion picture title sequences. He worked for some of Hollywood's greatest filmmakers for roughly 40 years, of which included Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger, Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese. His most famous title sequences are the animated paper cut-out of a heroin addict's arm for Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm, the text racing up and down what eventually becomes a high-angle shot of the United Nations building in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest, and the disjointed text that raced together and was pulled apart for Psycho (1960).
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