Title Analysis

In this lesson, we were told to analyse the film openings from other students and to note down the timings of the titles.
Psycho

1. Starring- Vince Vaughn
2. Julianne Moore
3. Viggo Mortensen
4. William H.Macy
5. (shared screen)- With Chad Everett, Philip Baker Hall, Anne Haney, Rance Howard, James Legros, james Remar, Rita Wilson.
6. and Anne Heche as Manon Crane
7. Casting by Howard Feuer
8. Music by Bernard Herrmann
9. Music produced and adapted by Danny Elfman & Steve Bartek
10. Costume designer Beatrix Aruna Pasztor
11. Editor Amy E. Duddleston
12. Production Designer Tom Foden
13. Director of Photography Christopher Doyle.

Titles in a large budget action film Deadpool. 

Film Opening pitch

In todays lesson we were assigned the task to produce a film pitch presentation on our chosen film opening genre. This task involved us having to outline a basic story line, actors, plots and props. As well as this we had to present our film pitch to the class, with which we received feedback on how our film opening appeared to our target audience.

Film pitch from Jess Prentice

Shot Diary

In todays lesson we were given the task to produce a shooting diary for our chosen film opening genre, to do this we came up with a plan of what shot types we wanted to include and the scenes we were wishing to use.
Shot diary
·         Outside still shot of the garage door opening, members wait for the whole door to open (slow).
·         Cut to close ups of each person to give actor name and nickname.
·         Shot from inside the van (open doors).
·         Cuts to outside shot of the van, loading the van, pass the camera in (object).
·         Panoramic of van driving away.
·         shot of inside the van, corner shot (awkward silence).
·         Low shot of jumping out the van.
·         First person view of running into bank.
·         Pan across the bank
·         Close up of someone’s face.

Costume reseach

In todays lesson we were given the task to do some costume research and planning for our film opening. For this we have looked in to suitable costumes to suit our genre as well as finding and preparing our costumes so they are ready for filming.

Film Pitch Feedback

Our feedback from the class was both positive and negative. The majority of our feedback involved constructive feedback, this was aimed at improving the story line of our film opening to ensure there is a strong relation with our target audience as well as the genre of our film opening being clear. However there was a repetition of positive feedback outlining our originality and variety of shots


 

Film opening mood board

During todays lesson we were given the task of creating a mood board for our film opening. This mood board had to include costume, prop and setting research, therefore it had to show links and reflect the genre and plot of our chosen film opening.
                                  

Production diary

production diary:

11/11/16: In our first day our planning our film opening we were put into groups of 3, my group consists of myself, Jordan Carter and Jess Prentice. In these groups we had to come up and brainstorm a few strong ideas for film genres and plots, in which we would eventually choose our strongest genre depending on feedback and availability. Today we came up with three main genres, these were; action/comedy, mockumentary and crime thriller. We now need to further develop these ideas and produce a pitch to receive constructive feedback.

14/11/16: After deciding on three genres today we were given the task of developing these ideas and producing a film pitch of our main ideas to the other class groups. As a group we assigned each individual with a task to complete a selected amount of PowerPoint slides on genre related topic (props, plot and practicalities). The next step for our group is now to present our film pitch.

15/11/16:  After creating our PowerPoint we as a group presented our film pitch to the class groups, this allowed us to receive feedback on our strongest idea. With this we was then able to go and produce and develop a main genre idea, as well as this we blogged our feedback and gave an evaluation of what we can improve following our feedback. We now need to produce a storyboard, shot diary and shooting schedule for our final film opening idea.

17/11/16: Todays lesson consisted of each individual in the group creating either a shot diary, story board or a shooting schedule. Following our decided plot we created a story board for each shot with a brief description, shooting schedule of the shot type, time and setting and finally a shot diary of the order of shots. We now need to produce a talking story board and plan when we will be filming our final film opening.

21/11/16:  Following the final stages of planning, today we are completing any fine details in planning before we begin filming . This included producing an audio guide of our story board and beginning our script and final research.
22/11/16:  today we were researching our film openings backing music, finishing our script and researching out title font. To do this we each produced a word document on our research and took a vote in order to get the final outcome of the title font and music.
23/11/16: We then begun filming our film opening, we done this by as a group going to our final settings and filming the final shots for our opening. This was done at our second location (HSBC Chelmsford city centre), We filmed these shots in the afternoon to get the effect of time passing through out our opening.

25/11/16:  Today we uploaded our finishing shots and began to sequence them together as well as cutting and editing the footage we had. As well as this we continued to add music research in order to find the best suited music to our genre.
27/11/16:  We then continued to complete filming, for this we went to our second location (green close). These shots we took were to complete any retakes or opening shots in our film opening.
28/11/16:  After getting all our rough film footage we now uploaded our new shots to our existing footage, before sequencing and editing the timings and durations of each shot. We also begun our institution research.
29/11/16: We then continued to edit our footage as well as changing some sequences and the variety of shots we were including. Also whilst Harry and Jess were editing I continued to do music research and develop our institution choice.
30/11/16:  Now we have got our sequencing complete we began adding our credit titles to each individual shot, we have also started to add transitions to each title. As well as this I begun our representation and completed our institutions research.
05/12/16:  Today we gave each individual group member an individual task. My task was to produce a presentation of our location shots and a brief description of what they included, Jess was completing any editing that was outstanding and Harry was producing a film poster using Photoshop.

06/12/16:  Today we were giving feedback on each individual film opening draft, we gave our feedback individually, this was done in categories of positives, negatives and what we would change.

Video story board

Today we were given the task of producing a audio guide through our story board. To do this we filmed our story board shot by shot whilst talking over what each shot will include.

Film opening titles research

Todays task was to complete any fine details of our film opening research. This included researching suitable fonts for our titles. We decided to produce a vote to decide which title font was the most suitable to our theme and genre.

Film opening story board

Our final film opening planning included our production of our visual story board. To do this we used a story board template to separate each individual camera shot before adding a visual image and brief description for guidance.

Film Opening music research

Today we were completing our planning for our film opening, this included researching our backing music, the aim for this is that is will reflect our genre in a strong light. We done our research by ensuring that the music we was using was at least 50 years old before taking a vote on which music was the best. The sound tracks we found were:

            

            

            

            

Marketing campaine

Todays task included us producing a plan and research of our marketing campaign for our film opening. For this i have created a emaze presentation to show how we brainstormed each marketing method and how it will be done and how it will benefit our film opening. 

Title Research

Our title research included us taking a variety of possible film names and taking a vote from our class, this is because our target audience is of the age of 15+, so we will receive a suitable outcome.

Triple Vengeance - 7

Hardcast Bullets -  2

Not So Die Hard - 10

The outcome of our film title vote has revealed that 'not so die hard' is the most popular for our genre and target audience. We have also decided to go with the final outcome for our film name as we also believe that the genre is accurately reflected in our film title, so will allow our audience to relate and understand the film from our film opening.

Fill opening Audience

The target audience for our film opening is bbfc 15, the reason for this is due to the language and violent references. However we have also used comedy references to suit a more mature audience. With bbfc 15 being our primary audience, our secondary audience would therefore would be an adult audience that would go with there children, This would be down to our genre and plot being suitable for both age groups whilst creating interest from multiple types of social backgrounds of young and mature adults.

Risk Assessment

Today as part of our film planning we were creating a risk assessment for the shooting of our film opening. The risk assessment will be put into place at our shooting settings, these are: HSBC bank in the Chelmsford City Centre and Green close in Springfield     

Institution Logo

Film Pitch

Film pitch from Harry Foord, Jess Prentice and Jordan Carter.

Exam Board Mark scheme and film opening evaluation

The Edge



This film shows excellent use of titles, as they are uniquely placed and positioned in places that correspond to the setting. The high speed action of the film allows quick loud music to be played. When the action of the film increases the music gets louder. This film opening scored 57/60 which is very high, to improve i would suggest that more text should have been used. 

Preliminary Task- School Musical High

Film Pitch and Evaluation

Here is my Film Pitch

Student marketing 

A lot of feedback we received was the movie title was catchy and easy to remember.  However the title would be even better if it was slightly shorter. A lot of students also believed that the cast seemed appropriate but could include more teenagers.However on the problems with the film is that it sounds like it would only appeal to younger children and will will unlikely attract teenagers or adults. Another postive aspect is that the plot is interesting but could be too complicated for younger children to follow, however it is different. Also the marketing is good for example not using social media is a good idea as our young audience will not see it.

Teacher marking

The good parts of the film pitch are the title good and clear. However the cast is not well known and do no need all of them and could need more description on some of them. Enigma code was intriguing but still not sure about it however it is well throughout however needed to be more original idea.The narrative fits genre but would like to hear more and marketing interesting but no well enough developed.

My evaluation of the film pitch

I believe that overall the film pitch went well.However I believe  that it could have been more organised about who was saying what about the film. We could have improved the order of the powerpoint and add how we would avtise  the film as we only spoke about it. We should have also written the first scene in more detail and not just the overall plot. However I think we made a good mood board about the film and used a lot of different films for ideas. 

Student film opening marking

In our lesson, we watched a several previous film openings and were told to look at the mark scheme to ensure we knew what we should look out for. Here are several film openings I reviewed.

A schools nightmare

• Smooth pan throughout the entire film.
• Music helped with tension and linked with the editing.
• There is enigma code.
• Lighting was relevant to the theme portrayed.
• Props help build up the clues shown and questions asked.
• Doesn't give much away to the audience.

Luna

• Music corresponds with the theme of the film opening.
• Variety of shots used.
• Camera shakes during the pans.
• Bad lighting on the beach, couldn't see clearly what was happening.
• There is no background noise which takes the attention away from the main focus. 
• The main title is after the film. 

Poscig

• Title at the start.
• It hasn't got creative text or font which links with the theme. 
• Transition between two shots which links all events together.
• Different shot from  the car which shows variety.
• Music helps with tension.

Michael

• Camera angles and pans were used throughout the whole film. 
• Music corresponds with the theme of the opening.
• Shots were relevant to the story.
• It doesn't give clues or make you ask questions. There are no enigma codes.
• In the beginning you can hear the background noise over the music which makes it seems cheap.