Thursday 27 January 2011

Our possible title fonts

From the selection we have made we have decided the Top two are the best Selections for the film. we will make more Font ideas/remaster these ideas later on and decide on a final one soon. 

Jobs on project

Pat: I will be the Director,Editor,Special effects designer,making the fonts and writing the music

Michael: I will be the cinematographer, i will also assist in the editing, Locationist and will do the character costumes.
Plus we will have 2 actors. 1 being female and the other male. Pat will potentially play Male role.
Special effect on Production title. Needs re doing.
This is a potential Production font idea.

What we need for our project

Two main characters:

  1. Male character slightly scruffy,beaten down look
  2. Female character quite sophisticated, well dressed, confident
Location
  1. City scene 
  2. alleyway
  3. faint city noises
  4. Rainy day potentially
Costumes:

Male character: Make up of black eye,cuts,so on. Big coat worn out. good shoes/boots (not trainers) 
Female character: high heels, Suit/white dress, Coat, bag, "what ever she stole" 

Cinemotography

  1. Panning Views of city
  2. Wide shot of man slumped against wall
  3. Zoom edit to close up of man
  4. flash back/forward
  5. slow shot of female character walking away from mans location
  6. miscellaneous use of flashes while she's walking
  7. Close up of man as he "wakes up" gasping for air.
  8. Mid shot/long shot of the man standing up
  9. Shot behind of man pulling paper out of pocket
  10. Side shot of mans face looking down at paper,Drastically looks up
  11. Floor shot behind man paper dropping to floor,man starts walking after woman
  12. panning/tracking shot of the man following the female
  13. Title montage starts.

Story board

  1. Scene starts with panning views of scenery(City Alleyway). 
  2. shot of Man propped against building wall. 
  3. close up shot of him not breathing.
  4. miscellaneous flash back/forward of mans life?
  5. woman is walking away from man slowly.could be involved?
  6. while she is walking more flashes appear
  7. shot of man again gasps and gets up
  8. dazed and confused as to where he is
  9. finds piece of paper in pocket
  10. looks at paper surprised look upon face
  11. drops paper
  12. see's female character and follows 
  13. titles appear

Tuesday 18 January 2011

Taken Opening Sequence

In the opening sequence the main character is connected to the genre of a thriller by his apperence of being very dark, he is wearing dark coloured clothes and he is sitting in n a low light room which makes his apperence seam more sinister then if he was sitting in a really bright sun filled room.

Taken opening sequence

how does it fit with genre: no defining genre from opening credits, could become any type of film.
has a very similar opening sequence to 'The Game' directed by David Fincher. opening sequence shows film reels of a small girls birthday (most likely main characters daughter). Sub Genre: we cannot tell there is any sub genres from the opening credits because there is only a short film of a birthday then a face on view of who must be the main character. we cannot see whether it is a Hybrid with other genres either.

Friday 14 January 2011

Montage page

http://www.flickr.com/photos/54827614@N07/5354004143/  This is the montage page we made in media, the pictures are taken from the opening sequence of Six Feet Under. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2nz9d_six-feet-under-main-title-sequence_creation Here is the video link to the Thriller.

Friday 7 January 2011

Thriller Genre

A genuine, standalone thriller is a film that provide thrills and keeps the audience cliff-hanging at the "edge of their seats" as the plot builds towards a climax. The tension usually arises when the character(s) is placed in a menacing situation, a mystery, or a trap from which escaping seems impossible. Life is threatened, usually because the principal character is unsuspectingly or unknowingly involved in a dangerous or potentially deadly situation.

Preliminary Task video

Continuity editing

Continuity editing is the main type/style of editing in cinema and television. The purpose of continuity editing is to smooth over the inherent discontinuity of the editing process and to establish a logical coherence between shots.


180° rule is a basic guideline in film making that states that two characters in the same scene should always have the same left/right relationship to each other.


Matching on action refers to a film editing technique where the editor cuts from one shot to another view that matches the first shot's action.


Shot reverse shot (or shot/countershot) is a film technique where one character is shown looking at another character (often off-screen), and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character.