Monday 13 December 2010

Production Brief

  • Production Brief: To create the titles and opening of a new fiction film
  • Project name: Seized
  • Length: 90 secs - 2 mins
  • Deadline: Friday 11th February
  • Group Members and there rolls: Emily - Actor, editor. Daisy - Director, editor. Sophie - Camera woman, breathing sounds, editor. Sarah - Camera woman, editor.
  • Brief overview of content: Mum and Daughter live alone as Dad left when Daughter was born. Mum finds a new boyfriend who is a police detective, however he is not getting any recognition at work. Because of this he decided to kidnap his girlfriends daughter as the daughter doesnt like him. By doing this he will solve the case himself and get more recognition from work. However, his girlfriend, the daughters mother finds out what is going on and tells the police which leads to the detective loosing his job and being sent to prision.
  • Target audience: Both Genders 15+
  • Possible scheduling publishing suggestions: December 2010
  • How will you test that whether the product is successful? How will you check that it accomplishes the intended effect: We could produce a questionnaire about the ideas we have for our film and see the feedback we get, also we could produce a film trailer to see how much recognition the film gains.
  • What generic codes and conventions will be operating in your text: We plan to use as many codes and conventions we can in our title sequence. We will show the details of all the important cast and crew, being presented in order of importance, the films title, intro to character type, info regarding mood and tone, info on genre, questions that the viewer find intriguing, patterns and type of editing that will be echoed in the remainder of the film andMise-en-Scene and cinematoraphy that will be echoed or elaborated upon later in the film.
  • Identify any resource constrains that might affect your production and your hopes for your product: I think the main thing we have to keep under control is the amount of time we use for our title sequence, this is because there is so much to do in a little time. To gain the equipment that we need shouldnt be a problem because we can get it all from school and all we need to film our title sequence is a video camera and tripod. I also dont think money will be an issue as we dont have to pay any money to use the areas we want to and some of the filming will take place in school.

Research on Film Institutions






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Research of Horror Genre

Analysis of contempory titles/opening vs. older titles/opening.



Part of research im going to compare conrempory title sequences with older opening sequences. I have decided to choose Saul Bass 1958's Vertigo and Kevin Tod Haug's 2002 Panic Room.







With Saul Bass's opening title sequence for Vertigo. The music was written by Bernard Herrmann and is the first thing that we hear when the sequence starts, this music has a eery sound to it and straight away sets a sense of horror and despair to the films theme. The beginning of the title sequence is We then get a close up shot of a girls corner of her face, it then zooms in on her lips. when it zooms up on to her eyes, the audience can tell that she is worried as she looks left and right. it then zoom in to her individual eye which turns the screen red and go's inside her eye. Then colourful swirls on a black background appear with cast and crews names appearing at the side. These swirls suggest a hypnotic, psychotic theme within the film. Before the film starts the camera then zooms back out of the swirls into the eye. This suggest a dreaming element within the film.







Kevin Tod Haug's opening title sequence for panic room starts of with a New York city skyline. This immediately shows were the film is set in. As different views of the New York skyline appears names of cast and crew in the sky and on buildings. The music which is dark and thrilling is played over quite digetic sound such as cars, horns, sirens, wind ect. When the title "Panic Room" appears the music picks up tempo and can almost here a sound of a clock ticking which suggests that time is running out. The change of tempo foreshadows that during the film something will happen for the films tempo to pick up. The film then goes into two women talking along a bust New York Street.


These two title sequences are both very different even though they are from the same genre. For its time Saul Bass's "Vertigo" is very chilling and a great but yet simple effective sequence. Kevin Tod Haug's "Panic Room" is also very simple and yet very dark. What both of these title sequences have is great music which sets the tone and the mood of the film and lets the audience know what this film is about.







13/12/10

In todays lesson we started on our storyboards for our title sequence. We managed to complete half of the storyboard but did not have enough time to finish it all, therefore we have decided to continue it next wednesday as well taking some photos for our surveillance camera shots from the kidnappers journal. :) xx

Wednesday 8 December 2010

8/12/10

 In todays lesson we had time to complete everything that was needed on our blogs, which needed to be completed by 6pm tonight.  In next weeks lesson we have decided that we are going to get all our ideas down and start to produce the storyboard for our title sequence. :) xx

Monday 6 December 2010

26/11/10

In today's lesson we pitched our idea of our film and the title sequence for this film to the rest of the class. We discussed points such as the title of film, Log line, Characters, Narrative, the equilibrium, problem, disequilibrium and action.


During the lesson we were also able to listen to everyone else's ideas, this allowed us to think about what genre of film the other groups were choosing and also get some positive and negative feed back from others in the class. :) x

Sunday 5 December 2010

Seized Film Plan

Seized Film Plan
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This is the presentation of the film that we are making a title sequence for!