Friday 30 January 2009

ANIMATIC


This is my animatic of my storyboard, I think that it reflects what I am going to film quite well. Although there are parts of it that I am probably going to change when making my actual film opening sequence and main part that I am going to change is where the film title is, in this animatic the title is not in a very interesting part of the sequence and when I make the actual opening I will put it in and more important and interesting part.

Thursday 29 January 2009

Production Logo



my production company logo.
SEXUAL LLAMA PRODUCTIONS

Monday 26 January 2009

Mood-Board



This is my mood-board for my film opening sequence. 
The pictures at the beginning of the mood-board are picture of film in which my film is based around. It then shows two pictures of random streets that look like the kind of street I will be looking for to film my opening. 
The majority of pictures I used for my mood-board are used mainly to show that the character in my film is a boy who is very bored and lonely. The are quite a few picture that are also used to show that the movie involves a window and that there is a scary twist.
The music I used is music off of garageband called 'Jaracanda', I really like this piece of music and think it goes well with the pictures and the theme of the film opening.

Thursday 22 January 2009

ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS FOR A SUCCESSFUL OPENING SEQUENCE

-eye-catching
-name of film near beginning of the sequence
-institutional detail - distribution/production company (studio), named jobs/actor (convetions of order)
-show off production values
-taste of the rest of the film/makes you want to watch
-good soundtrack, relating to film
-don't let it drag out
-don't introduce too many characters/too much story
-'unique' storyline
-build-up (tension/mystery)/audience want to know
-introduce character or location or theme/story or mood or ALL
-title (minimalist or 'logo' style ) - appropriate to the film
-title sequence reflecting the film

Wednesday 21 January 2009

Comparative Analysis - Brief 3

SON OF RAMBOW & RUSHMORE

Son of Rambow and Rushmore have two very different types of opening sequences, although both films are based around the theme of young protagonist.

The opening sequence to Son of Rambow is very fast paced, therefore this immediately gives the audience the sense that it is an up-beat film with quite a lot of action. The opening sequence is also used to show the differences between both boys in the film; one of the boys seems very shy and religious, the other is illegally filming in a cinema and smoking, this indicates that the boys are complete opposites. Another thing that makes this opening sequence more action filled is the fact that the film that the boy is recording in the cinema, this could possibly have some significants to the duration of the film.

Rushmore's opening sequence is the complete opposite to Son of Rambow, it is a lot slower tempo and does not have hardly any action. Instead of a lot of quick cuts and several settings, this has only one location and not a lot of shot variations. This opening sequence also has no music which makes it appear less intense than Son of Rambow. During the beginning of this sequence it shows the young protagonist to be a very brainy and intellectual student, but then you find out that it was just a dream, this makes the audience want to continue watching to find out why he had this dream and if he is actually as smart as he appears to be in his dream.

Although both of the opening title sequences seem to be quite different, they both show a lot of similarities; both show the differences between two characters, Son of Rambow being the difference between both boys and Rushmore shows the difference between the boy in his dream and in real life. Another similarity is that neither of these opening title sequence have titles showing the names of the actors, directors etc. they both just show the names of the companies who made the films.




RUSHMORE


Credits
-Touchstone Pictures
-An American Imperical Picture




SON OF RAMBOW
Credits
-Paramount Vantage
-Celluloid Dreams Productions
-Good
-Arte France Cinema
-Network Movie
-Soficinema 2 & 3
-Hammer & Tongs Film

Monday 19 January 2009

Brief Feedback

Matt
...likes the unexpected plot in brief three. it was nice.

Alex
...popular ideas in brief one & two.

Mike
...like two & three, thinks three is the best. brief 1 will be to difficult with the lightning.

James
...likes brief two

Tim
...likes brief one

Sunday 18 January 2009

Brief 1
A ordinary man is struck by lightning on the way home from work, he then discovers that he now has the power to control everything electrical.
(I'm not really sure what else happens yet.)


Brief 2
A teenage girl, sharing her body with the spirit of a dead teenage girl. The girl has no control over when the spirit takes over her body, but the spirit can only use her body for short periods of time. The girl must stop the spirit from finding true love, if she doesn't the spirit takes complete control of her body.


Brief 3
A young boy sees the man who has committing a lot of robberies in his town, the young boy gets together a team of kids from the town to try and catch him. They have a lot of adventures and discover true friendship.


Brief 4
I have not got an idea for brief 4 yet.

Friday 16 January 2009

Practice footage opening sequence.



Using some practice footage & music i created an opening title sequence to a film. I did not finish putting on all of the titles.

llama long road logo



I animated the Long Road Logo using After Effects.

Unsound Mind. Thriller opening sequence.



I really like unsound mind because they used a lot of good effects and made it appear very abstract. I also really like that the whole video is in black and white.
I think that having the title not be on the video parts of the sequence is a good idea, having the white titles on and almost all black background makes them stand out a lot more. Also if the titles were to have been on the video it would have distracted the audience away from it. I really also like the effect they chose to have the videos more off screen with, it fits in very well with the abstract feel of the video.
What I liked most about this video is that it makes the audience want to what more, to find out why its very abstract and how all these video clips link up with each other.

S2-55

I think that they could have done quite a bit more planning and research. They didn't really do a lot of research about the genre of thrillers or thillers title sequences. They also only spoke about one thriller open sequence on their blog, they could have put several and compared them.
Some parts of their planning were good such as they put everything thing like props into a list. Although things like mise en scene and location they wrote lists but didn't go into enough detail, that could have explained why they had chosen that things and places that chose.
The actually video I thought was good, although not very original, some parts of the video seemed to be a lot like the opening title sequence from the movie 'seven', which is the video that they chose to write about as an opening title sequence that they liked. There storyboard was not very well drawn, but they appear to have stuck to the storyboard, all of their shot resemble the storyboard very well.

Tuesday 13 January 2009

Disney Pictures & Pixar Logo



The main layer of this logo is the castle in the centre of it. This castle is
 the outline of the structure of Disney's castle at Disneyland and Disney World theme parks.
Another main layer is the text saying 'Walt Disney Pictures'. Both the picture and the text seem to be designed to relate with the young target audience. The background layer is just plain blue which works well with the white as it makes the picture and writing stand out.


The Pixar logo is just a plain bluey/grey background with the words 'Pixar Animation Studios' but instead of the 'i' in Pixar it is the lamp from Pixar's second short film 'Luxo Jr.' which involves two of those lamps.

Walt Disney Pictures & Pixar Animation Studios







WALT DISNEY PICTURES



Walt Disney Pictures refers to several entities associated with The Walt Disney Company; 'Walt Disney Pictures' was established in 1983, prior to that they were named under a parent company then named 'Walt Disney Productions' . 'Touchstone Pictures' was created by Disney in 1984 to enable Disney to release more mature films than the regular content associated with Disney. Walt Disney Pictures and Television, a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studio Entertainment and the main production company for live-action
 feature films within the Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group. Animated features produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar Animation Studios, and DisneyToon Studios are usually released by Walt Disney Pictures.

Walt Disney Pictures has hundreds of films dating back to the 1930s.
In 2008 alone Walt Disney Pictures released 11 films including;
College Road TripThe Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
WALL-E
Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Morning Light
High School Musical 3
Roadside Romeo
Bolt
Bedtime Stories





PIXAR ANIMATION STUDIOS

Pixar Animation Studios is a CGI animation production company. Pixar began in 1979 and To date, the studio has earned twenty-one Academy Awards, four Golden Globes, and one Grammy, among many other awards, acknowledgments and achievements. It is best known for its CGI-animated feature films which are created with PhotoRealistic RenderMan

All of Pixar's feature films;
Toy Story
A Bug's Life
Toy Story 2
Monsters, Inc.
Finding Nemo
The Incredibles
Cars
Ratatouille
WALL-E
...as well as these Pixar have many short films.

The Walt Disney Company bought Pixar in 2006 through an all-stock transaction worth US$7.4 billion.

Monsters, Inc. Opening Sequence.



I find the opening title sequence to Monsters Inc very interesting.
I think the title sequence relates very well with the movie and help establish themes from the movie. The sequence begins with a lot of shapes which moves around to form a door, the door open and it is the inside of a closet, the second time the door is opened there is the inside of a monsters mouth. Immediatly this shows that the movie is based around monsters and closet doors. The sequence then continues along the lines of monsters and door.
The music in this opening sequence fits well, it is very upbeat jazz, which goes well with the speed of the sequence.
The sequence is very colourful and has interesting, easy to read fonts, which goes well with the sequence as it is an animation with children as its main audience.

Monday 12 January 2009

Continuity Task


Continuity Task by Me, Tara & Matt.

We did a continuity task, where we had to have a person walking in a room and have a conversation with another person. We chose to have Matt walk into a room and talk to Tara about borrowing her phone to ring his mum.