Title Sequence shot by shot

Below is the list of every shot we will use to create the title sequence for our media project. We each had 6 storyboards to draw over the weekend of 7th January. This will be scanned when completed and made into an animatic

1. Universal studios credit

2. Star Productions credit

3. JFK Archive Footage – 10 seconds max

4. Leonardo Dicaprio credit (black screen behind)

5. Shot from behind man – Tracking Shot – Down Corridor

6. Shoes c/u shot

7. Suit c/u

8. Gloves c/u

9. Back of head c/u

10. Mouth c/u

11. Black screen credit (Co starring Colin Hanks and Rosie Huntington)

12. Boss looking out of window drinking – shot from behind

13. Shot approaching the door

14. Midshot of door

15. c/u of door handle opening

16. P.O.V shot – entering room, shooting man – split storyboard shot in half to show both actions (same shot

17. Shot of dead man with briefcase in shot (significant) (mid shot) also showing man leaving with briefcase

18. Edited by credit/ cinematography/music all in one shot

19. Leaves through the door shot

20. Close up of window man – door out of focus

21. Man enters through door – producer credit

22. Cut to window man – mid shot – other man enters shot

23. c/u of briefcase being handed over

24. Midshot of window man with briefcase (directed by credit)

25. Fades into the iron curtain

26. Iron Curtain Credit

January week 1

This week we had a group meeting and settled any disputes and concerns, which had arisen from, group members. We were given an ultimatum from our teach either sort out the group and work as a 4 or split the group into 2. We chose to stick as a 4 and put all of our differences aside and focussed on a common purpose our project.

After this was dealt with we got focused and finalised each shot we are going to need, this was a lengthy process and took the full two hours to complete. We decided to split the shots between the four of us and finish them over the weekend; we had the role of completing 6-7 storyboards shots each.

December Journal

In December as a recap the main decisions regarding our titles sequence were made. We had to create a concept for a full-length feature film with no limitations in terms of budget and stars. As a group of strong opinions we had several different ideas we had the following concepts

· Horror Film

· Kids Style film

· War film

· Action Film

The decision as what we were going to do caused some conflict as some members had strong causes for their film concept to be made. Eventually as a group we decided to create a film based around the cold war and Russia and America. We then in the following lessons proceeded to create a film idea involving this topic. We pitched our film in lesson and received some positive feedback and lots of ideas, which helped us finalise the idea for our film.

We decided as a group and because of the lack of time we had we would finalise the plot for our title sequence so we could start filming straight after half term and storyboarding. After finalising the story we decided that the typography of the sequence of having two languages incorporated into our sequence would be good to show both sides of America and Russia which are shown in out film

When the video of our film pitch is available, it will be posted on this blog

Designing of our production title

We decided as a group that in order to meet and complete all of our set objectives it would be wise to split the group in order to complete two separate tasks. Sam and Ryan would finalise the plot and deeper meaning behind our title sequence from which we as a group had already decided of having a cold war theme to it. Tolga and me would design and come up with our own production company for our film.

We had a vast in depth brainstorm as to what our production company could be and liked the idea of in cooperating out names into it. Our teacher names our group “RAST” when we were pitching our film and this gave me an idea if we rearrange the letters of our first names being, Sam, Tolga, Alex and Ryan. This would produce “STA

R”. As a group we decided tat this should be the name of our production studio.

We came up with this (below) as our original production title design, but did not feel the typography was what we needed for our film. We also asked others what film this production company would make and the response was comedy/spoof, when it should be a spy/thriller response.

This is another design (above) we created which does not show the letter "A" in the title because we felt this would show its a mystery, but we realize that the audience would not recognize our company as STAR but STR, so instead of the use of an A we have used an actual star in our final and chosen design (below)

This title design (below) is our chosen production title design and we feel this would be the type of styled company who would produce our film. We felt this typography portrays the genre of our film as a mystery, thriller well with the use of the top secret lettering as font.

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