Defiance title sequence

For this homework task, i had to research two films of the same genre film of our type and try and gain inspiration of how we could create the title sequence for our films title sequence

Defiance (2008)

After studying the opening title credits for Defiance, I found the style on how this has been done to be very interesting and an intriguing concept, in regards to how we could do our opening credits, due to the way that the use of archived footage from the war suddenly transforms into the historical and current period the film is set. Obviously this film is set in the style of Germany, we could adapt this style to suit our film, which is set during the cold war. This title sequence is different to ones I have seen before due to its shows allot of footage and then only shows two credits in the initial sequence; these are the Production Company and the title of the film. Rather than showing who the star performer is straight away as an important piece of information about the film, after seeing the film and full sequence the remaining essential credits are shown such as the star performer (Daniel Craig), then the smaller credits such as editor. The reason for why the star is not showcased whilst the audience take notice of the credits is because of the star performance the films story is more important than the stars status.). Upon watching the sequence a second time I realise that I like the style this has been done in, with the use of archive footage the type font, which is the same style as a typewriter. Which shows the historical period of the film, and the genre of the film is clear because of the footage of the war and death the audience know what genre the film is. The credits such as the smaller names (editor) are shown after the footage when the film transforms into present footage and appear over the footage. I particularly like the style this has been done in and am definitely considering using this style for our film.

Film Pitch lesson

This is our film pitch we presented in front of the class, this was also filmed the video of the pitch will be up on the blog shortly

We decided to pitch as a team instead of only one member presenting out pitch, we read out two slides each and explained to the class about our films concept and its real meaning and we received some positive feedback. The idea of this task was that we could not design a title sequence with knowing a complete film pitch, which we could shape our title sequence around. We had a number of questions we needed to address in our film these were

Media Pitch

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· In the pitch we needed the following information:

• What our films about
• The inspiration we have had behind our film
• What genre our film would come under
• The target audience (primary, secondary) our film will be aimed at
• The release date of our film
• Regard issue of the films budget and profit
• The stars of our film, why these have been chosen
• Who we want to direct our film
• What’s the films subtext?
• What production studio we want to make our film

Upon receiving feedback from sir and the class we realized that we had met all specifications to the task and that our film sounded interesting.

Film Pitch Brief summary

For this lesson as a group me Tolga, Sam and Ryan discussed our chosen film in great detail and answered the following questions

What Genre is your film? – Thriller/Action/War/Political
What other films in this genre have inspired your film – Inglorious Bastards/ Defiance/ Mr. Smith goes to Washington
Who is the target audience for you film? – 15-30 male dominated
When will your film be released?– Awards Season
How much money will your film cost to make? - $30 million
How much money will your film make? - $150 million Profit
Who will star in your film? – Leonardo Dicaprio, Stanislav Ianevski (Victor Krum, HP)

This is just a quick brainstorm on the film we intend to create, and these vague answers will be address in much more detail when we present our film pitch in lesson on Friday