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.