Friday 28 January 2011

Chosen Production Logo!


"With each of the previous production logo's we used a white background with black imagery and typography; in this design we used a negative effect to vary our possible options. The typography resembles the different strokes of the feather. In this design we were able to incorporate all the different elements we realised from our first few designs. The contrast of the white on the black creates a softness to the image without losing the sharpness on points of the feather. So far this is the design which we are most likely to use in our opening title sequence as it fits in with the whole look of the sequence."

28/01/11

Hiya, We are stillllll editing!! were putting our titles on today and TRYING to find some appropriate music to set the mood of our title sequence. :) xx

Wednesday 26 January 2011

26/01/11

Well, well,well, where does one begin! Well today we continued to edit our title sequence which is now coming on B-e-a-utiful! We now need to add a few finer details and find the music and then we are finished! Peace out!! :) xx

Production Logo


These are various different logos that we are considering to use for our title sequence. 




This is the very first production logo we created, the feather itself has slightly been softened, and the typography we used follows a movement which mirrors the feathers movement. The typography colour has been faded in a way which adds a softness to it again relating make to the feather image. This is not my favourite production logo because it is very basic and there is no dimension to it or fading of colours or graining of the image. 
This was the second production logo we designed; from the first design we realised the different elements we had to consider to create a production logo which was the opposite to the first one we designed. Firstly we began by strengthening the dimensions of the feather making it more darker adding further depth to it- which we did not achieve in the original design. Also we added graining over the entire logo this give's an essence of the silent movie era. I thought it would be a good idea to use a typography which resembled an earlier period therefore I chose a font which looked like it had been hand written with ink; the typography also has a motion to it which follows the feathers shapes. A criticism of this design was that the heavy graining could have a harsh effect on the eyes. 


With each of the previous production logo's we used a white background with black imagery and typography; in this design we used a negative effect to vary our possible options. The typography resembles the different strokes of the feather. In this design we were able to incorporate all the different elements we realised from our first few designs. The contrast of the white on the black creates a softness to the image without losing the sharpness on points of the feather. So far this is the design which we are most likely to use in our opening title sequence as it fits in with the whole look of the sequence.    


This is a design for a possible production logo; in previous designs we had used a dark background with lighter imagery. So, in this design we went back to our original design with the lighter background and then chose a varying grey for the feather and writing. We used a soft effect on the image  of the feather as we thought it created a pleasant effect as it had done on the first and third designs. As for the typography, we juxtaposed the previous idea of having the font mirror the movement of the feather and chose a sharper type of typography; although bearing this in mind throughout the different letters there are breakages which could show some of the strokes in the feather.

 

This was our next attempt at a production logo, we had the idea to relate the logo to the genre of our film, so we used a dark ash grey to create a dark mysterious mood to begin the title sequence. As in previous designs we chose to use a typography which mirrors the movement of the feather, as for the colour of the font we chose a slightly lighter version of the grey we had used for the feather- first we used the same colour but found that the writing could sometimes be lost in the background; but by using the lighter colour we were able to make the production name stand out against the black background. 

Wednesday 19 January 2011

19/01/11

In todays lesson we managed to film all of our footage!! I feel the filming went really well, we had some troubles with passing cars and me now being able to catch up with emily whist filming but overall everything went really well. Its editing time now!! :) xx

Monday 17 January 2011

17/01/11

In todays lesson we decided to film some close up shots of the book as we would like to edit 
these in as a fading effect throughout the title sequence. I believe these shots where very 
successful and think that they worked really well. We now need to start editing! We also 
uploaded the footage to the macs and are going to film more on Wednesday to then be able to 
edit them all together :) xx

Friday 14 January 2011

14/1/11

In todays lesson, emily is at the doctors so when she gets back we are going to look into start Filming!! For the moment were just updating our blogs :) x

Wednesday 12 January 2011

The Book!!!

These are some of the images within the scrapbook of the kidnappers. These Photos will appear at the beginning of our title sequence when the kidnapper is flicking through his book. 






12/1/11

In todays lesson we printed of some of our pictures so that we could stick them in our kidnappers scrapbook ready for filming. We couldn't film today as sarah wasnt here so we are having to postpone the filming :(  I also updated my blog so it was up to date :) x

Typography Idea's


Here are some typography ideas that we came up with. We wanted our typography to have sense of deterioration and decay. We also wanted the typography to have a ransom feel to it.  so here are just a few examples that we chose to look at.





Type of Audience



There are some questions which need to be asked before deciding the audience of our piece these include:
  • What kind of people may be interested in your story?
  • Young people, older people?
  • People from different communities?
  • Specific groups of people?
  • What else might your target audience go and see?
  • What would they watch at the cinema?
  • What would they watch on television?
  • Would you want to watch your film?
  • How would you rate the content of your film?
Q:What kind of people may be interested in your story?
A:I think the type of people who may be interested in our story would be those who enjoy the excitement of the unknown and the constant questioning of what may happen next.

Q:Young people, older people?

A:The age range which we decided to aim our film at was the over 15s, therefore we would expect above 15 year olds onwards. So our film is aimed at both young people and older people.

Q:Specific groups of people?
A:There is not a single specific group which our film is aimed at although we would not recommend it to those who do not enjoy the genre of crime, thriller or drama.

Q:What else might your target audience go and see?
A:Our target audience would most probably go see films within the genre's of horror, crime, realism, drama possibly period drama's and also thriller's. Films such as 'The Stepfather', 'Disturbia' etc.

Q:What would they watch on television?
A:There could be a range of programmes which our audience may go see from documentries on the topic of crime to social realism as our film relates to some issues which arise in society.

Q:Would you want to watch your film?
A:I would watch my film because it falls into the genre of film I enjoy watching, also there are constant climax's and cliff hangers throughout the film enabling the audience to want to know what is going to happen next. Also I would enjoy watching the film because it is the type of film which always keeps its audience on edge.

Monday 10 January 2011

Photos of Various Locations That We Plan to Use

Here are some photos that we plan to use whilst filming our title sequences. There is also various different options if a location is not possible on the day of filming.


The Images below are photos of where we may possible consider filming the desk scene.



The next images are photos of where we may shoot the stalking scene of the title sequences.


These next set f images is where the girl and kidnapper engage in their struggle with the camera on tilt






10/01/11

As i was not in for last lesson due to being ill :( so todays lesson i caught up and added the photos to my blog that the rest of my group took on the friday. We have also decided that we are going to start filming this wednesday. :) xx

Final CCTV Images


Here are some of our images that have been edited into the style of CCTV footage. We looked on Google to see what CCTV images look like so that we could get a realistic look to our images.












Chosen CCTV Images


We have chosen these images to use so that we can edit them so they fit into our kidnappers scrape book. More to come!








Wednesday 5 January 2011

5/1/11

I am officially writing my journal whilst on the new mac's!!!! Today we took some of the photos for our kidnappers scrapbook, we then edited some of the photos on photoshop. We also updated some of our blogs. :)  xx

Storyboard



















Schedule For Filming

Here is the schedule our group is going to try and keep to in order to meet our deadline. We hope this will enable us to create the best possible title sequence we possibly can.
  • Week Beginning: 3rd January 2011 - TAKE PICTURES, EDIT THEM IN PHOTOSHOP AND THEN STICK THEM IN BOOK. START FILMING.
  • Week Beginning: 10th January 2011 - FILMING.
  • Week Beginning: 17th January 2011 - FINISH FILMING AND START EDITING.
  • Week Beginning: 24th January 2011 - EDITING.
  • Week Beginning: 31st January 2011 - FINISH EDITING.
  • Week Beginning: 7th January 2011 - UPDATE BLOGS
  • Week Beginning: 14th January 2011 - MAKE SURE EVERYTHING IS FINISHED READY FOR OUR DEADLINE!! DEADLINE: 18TH JANUARY 2011