We want to present the evaluation of our opening in a creative manner. We have considered creating a short animation for parts of our evaluation in the style of The Ricky Gervais Showand Spill.com (a film review website with flash animated presenters). We also want to create something along the lines of a director's commentry in which we talk about our opening in a small "box" at a corner of the video. These could be challenging to do so as a back up we could just do a casual inteview/ chat session evaluation like Schmoes Know (internet based film reviewers).
Sunday, 20 March 2011
Sunday, 6 March 2011
The Replacement with music by Bill Hundley
A friend who does a music course was interrested in making some music for our porject, we worked with him to make an original score to our opening. This is a rough edit with his music.
We like the first and last song, their subtle and eery-ness work well with the film. But it was hard to make song for the montage and seems a bit innapropriate. We will probably use either the first or last songs in our final cut.
We like the first and last song, their subtle and eery-ness work well with the film. But it was hard to make song for the montage and seems a bit innapropriate. We will probably use either the first or last songs in our final cut.
Montage
We're going to use a montage of the protagonist's daily activities to give the audience an impression of who he is quickly and efficiently. We want to portray him as a standard teenage boy so that they can relate to him. Montages tend to use fast paced shots.
Monday, 17 January 2011
The Replacement
This is our first construction of our film opening. We already know that we are missing some requirements like a film studio. From our feed back from our classmates it is clear what needs to be done or re-done which was really helpful. We plan to have another filming session plus an extra research session to add in the bits and bobs we missed or need to be re-done. Overall we are happy with our progress and look forward to our next filming of our final draft.
Sunday, 9 January 2011
Story Line 'The Replacement'
We all agreed that we wanted a moral question added in our story apart from that we are very experimental with our story line as this is our first film opening and we don't have any experience into what people like. So when we finish our drafts we will ask what our audience likes and dislikes about the opening.
This is our basic Idea....
A 17 year old boy called Kevin finds himself in a dilemma when he is in a situation to choose whether to risk what very well could be his life to save his best friend. The moral question being 'would you risk your life for another?'. We hope to include the character Kevin finding a laptop or mobile phone which would somehow show and lead Kevin to his best friend being tortured and being asked the question. Also we would like to link the fact that Kevin is tortured therefore giving the assumption that he has replaced his best friend. But whether he has saved his best friend or escapes will not be revealed as its only a film opening. We plan to show this in a flashback so as the story unfolds the audience will begin to understand what the flashback is about.
This is our basic Idea....
A 17 year old boy called Kevin finds himself in a dilemma when he is in a situation to choose whether to risk what very well could be his life to save his best friend. The moral question being 'would you risk your life for another?'. We hope to include the character Kevin finding a laptop or mobile phone which would somehow show and lead Kevin to his best friend being tortured and being asked the question. Also we would like to link the fact that Kevin is tortured therefore giving the assumption that he has replaced his best friend. But whether he has saved his best friend or escapes will not be revealed as its only a film opening. We plan to show this in a flashback so as the story unfolds the audience will begin to understand what the flashback is about.
Wednesday, 29 December 2010
Art of Title Design
People remember films from opening title sequences, this is how many people describe and recognize films.
Titles in silent films
Words and letters were the biggest part of this type of film, they had to provide essential information for the viewer because of such things as ease of production. This was usually provided by white letters on black backgrounds. In addition to hiring lettering artists, the biggest film studios began to employ typesetters in the production of title cards.
Titles with music
Movies got more popular and producer started to invest more money into sounds with the titles. For example the dog they liked to convey the tone of a movie through the dressage of its main title. For example black and red letters conveyed horror. Hollywood animation studios, including Warner Brothers and MGM, did give some license to their artists to indulge in title antics. Disney took it upon themselves to put the characters into the title sequence.
The birth of title sequences
In 1950 Saul Bass, Pablo Ferro, Maurice Binder and Richard Williams At that time, independent filmmakers made commercial headway by doing things differently, spreading utterly fresh ideas about the possibilities of title sequences. This is the era in which the discipline of film title sequence design was actually born. Experimentation on the fringes, where title sequences really thrive, have led to all kinds of innovation.
The Modern era of film titling
Every film title has been effected in some way by computers this is excellent for designers. Creating film titles means participating in the apprenticeship tradition continued The revolutionary title sequence for “Se7en” (1995) by Kyle Cooper was named by New York Times Magazine as “one of the most important design innovations of the 1990s”: The potential of digital graphics and typography has attracted some of the most creative minds to motion design. Pixar and Disney have reserved crucial parts in the branding of their films for the title sequences, using animated character to represent the film.
Conclusion
Over the years the titles for movies has changed due to the fact that fashion has changed, however the value of the title has stayed the same as it has always been used for the same reasons. The only difference that you can see clearly is that titles get more creative over the years.
Titles in silent films
Words and letters were the biggest part of this type of film, they had to provide essential information for the viewer because of such things as ease of production. This was usually provided by white letters on black backgrounds. In addition to hiring lettering artists, the biggest film studios began to employ typesetters in the production of title cards.
Titles with music
Movies got more popular and producer started to invest more money into sounds with the titles. For example the dog they liked to convey the tone of a movie through the dressage of its main title. For example black and red letters conveyed horror. Hollywood animation studios, including Warner Brothers and MGM, did give some license to their artists to indulge in title antics. Disney took it upon themselves to put the characters into the title sequence.
The birth of title sequences
In 1950 Saul Bass, Pablo Ferro, Maurice Binder and Richard Williams At that time, independent filmmakers made commercial headway by doing things differently, spreading utterly fresh ideas about the possibilities of title sequences. This is the era in which the discipline of film title sequence design was actually born. Experimentation on the fringes, where title sequences really thrive, have led to all kinds of innovation.
The Modern era of film titling
Every film title has been effected in some way by computers this is excellent for designers. Creating film titles means participating in the apprenticeship tradition continued The revolutionary title sequence for “Se7en” (1995) by Kyle Cooper was named by New York Times Magazine as “one of the most important design innovations of the 1990s”: The potential of digital graphics and typography has attracted some of the most creative minds to motion design. Pixar and Disney have reserved crucial parts in the branding of their films for the title sequences, using animated character to represent the film.
Conclusion
Over the years the titles for movies has changed due to the fact that fashion has changed, however the value of the title has stayed the same as it has always been used for the same reasons. The only difference that you can see clearly is that titles get more creative over the years.
Tuesday, 14 December 2010
Pete Fraser's Blog Planning and Ideas.
Ideas
Planning is the biggest stage of the production, its best to have a record for all the planning that happens. Story boards are the best way of getting the planning easily across. We need to do a visual plan also. With the storyboard, we need to do get across the location of the camera, how long it last and any music. Feedback on the storyboard and ideas can be vital and can bring about lots of improvements.
Planning
Keep the ideas simple. If the idea gets to complex then there is more likely to be more problems, recently The Film Council awarded cash to four young scriptwriters who pitched their thriller, horror or comedy movie ideas in 25 words or less. This 25word approach was raised last year. Research for this kind of project really means getting a full understanding of what the task involves by looking properly at real examples and at examples done by previous media students.
Evaluation
If you keep your Idea simple and focus on how you shoot the film, you will find the whole project easier hence Peter saying 'keep it simple'. If you plan well than your less likely to encounter problems when you are filming, 'Planning is the biggest stage of the production'.
Planning is the biggest stage of the production, its best to have a record for all the planning that happens. Story boards are the best way of getting the planning easily across. We need to do a visual plan also. With the storyboard, we need to do get across the location of the camera, how long it last and any music. Feedback on the storyboard and ideas can be vital and can bring about lots of improvements.
Planning
Keep the ideas simple. If the idea gets to complex then there is more likely to be more problems, recently The Film Council awarded cash to four young scriptwriters who pitched their thriller, horror or comedy movie ideas in 25 words or less. This 25word approach was raised last year. Research for this kind of project really means getting a full understanding of what the task involves by looking properly at real examples and at examples done by previous media students.
Evaluation
If you keep your Idea simple and focus on how you shoot the film, you will find the whole project easier hence Peter saying 'keep it simple'. If you plan well than your less likely to encounter problems when you are filming, 'Planning is the biggest stage of the production'.
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