Thursday, 24 November 2011

Wednesday, 23 November 2011

Mock up Posters for Title Sequence

This is a mock up for our Film, we are trying out different titles and seeing how well they go with our storyline. The typography used is janda swirly girl from Dafont.

7.11.11 Notes Shaun Lesson Saul Bass

Case Study Saul Bass
Saul Bass was born on May 8, 1920 and passed away April 25, 1996. He was a Jewish American, graphic designer and film maker, he is best known for his design on animated motion picture titles. Saul bass studied arts student league in New York, he is a graphic Designer (Commercial Artist).
He Moved to Los Angeles in 1946 . He moved to get away from creative conservants imposed on human New York.

Saul bass is self employed and he opened his own studio, in which he worked on advertising

Saul bass is best known for his simple geometric shapes and their symbolism. Often a single dominant image which stands alone to deliver a powerful message.
Saul bass's posters and titles had an uncanny ability to capture the mood of a film with simple shapes and images. this was his preferred method as opposed to using a boring photograph of a film star.

Bass was heavily influenced by Bauhaus and Russian constructivism.

Groundhog day Emma Watson

This is our Emma Watson character for our title sequence design

Groundhog Day Russel Brand

This is our Russel Brand character for our groundhog day task. And will feature in our title sequence. We had two different ideas on how we wanted this character to look.

Monday, 21 November 2011

Title Sequence Creator Karin Fong

4.11.11 Class Notes Codes And Conventions

Media Studies
G321 Foundation Portfolio In media.
Aim
To be able to indicate the purpose of a title sequence.
To analyse a title sequence.
So why titles?
A title sequence is the method by which cinematic films or television programs present their title, key production and cast members, or both, utilizing conceptual visuals and sound.
First Impressions are everything.
Codes & Conventions
  • Details of cast and crew
  • The films title
  • An introduction to character or character type
  • Indication of place
  • Indication of historical period
  • Information regarding mood and tone
  • Introduction to signature theme tune
  • Information about genre
  • Questions that the viewer finds intriguing (sets up enigmas)
  • Patterns and types of editing that will be echoed in the remainder of the film
  • Mise en scene and cinematography that will be echoed or elaborated upon later in the film


Wednesday, 16 November 2011

Groundhog day Hugh Grant

This is our groundhog day task, we are creating our own title sequence for this film.

Tuesday, 8 November 2011

Full Zombieland Intro [HD]



Kiera Boyle

Media Studies

Zombie Land analysis.

Throughout each shot of this short title sequence, you see the cast and crews names who took part in the film in red. I believe that the text is in red because red related o blood and horror and this could give away the genre of the movie.

During each shot when the title sequence is shown it shows a different zombie attacking different members of the public. This proves that the film will be about zombies, or a zombie attack.

The opening title sequence starts with a car crashing into another car and shows a female getting thrown through the window screen. This Is all done in one shot and it taken from a low angle, it is taken from this angle to show the impact of the fall.

The next shot is when the Metallica music starts to play. This music goes with the scene that is playing in the background where a man has jumped off the side of a building trying to get away from what appears to be zombie. This shot is a worm’s eye view shot this shot is used because it shows the height of which the building is and shows you the actors facial expression where you can clearly see a man in an orange jumpsuit covered in blood. When the man is falling he falls into the production and distribution companies’ text which then scatters around making the viewer believe that he has fallen into this text. This is done in nearly every single shot.

This shot gives the audience an idea of what could be going on. The effects used in these shot are good because the makeup makes the whole scene seem believable.



NEED TO FINISH


Wednesday, 2 November 2011

AS Media Studies Continuity Piece

This is my groups Continuity Piece, i found this task very interesting but also complex. We had to add in specific shots including the match on action shot, and shot reverse shot. Before we could start the task we had to make storyboards, this would help us in the long run when we started to shoot so we knew exactly what we had to do. Coming up with the idea for the continuity piece was easy but drawing the storyboards was tricky because we had to get the shots drawn out on the paper. After the storyboards we started to film. This was a tricky task as when we was doing certain shots we had to look serious and try and give no facial expression but this is a hard task when filming. Starring and filming some of the shots was a fun task as i got to learn how to make my skills in camera work better by setting up the camera in this right position. Editing this piece was fun but also a time consuming job, getting the match on action shot was tricky as i tried to get the shot as perfect as possible.