Preliminary Task
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We began to think about names for our film. We thought about things to do with our film and thought we should base it around the word "Family" in some way as this is the basis of our film. Here is a list of ideas for names we have:
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Last night James, Ryan and Ali went to James's house to do a second shoot for the sequence. This shoot went a lot better than the first one and we managed to get everything we needed. We did have some worries about shooting in the dark but we have found that we can edit this on the Final Cut software so there isn't really a problem. We did all the outside shots first, which made our shoes muddy so we had to be careful not to film feet when we were inside as we weren't wearing any shoes. We would like to thank James's parents for letting us shoot and would like to apologise for making them eat dinner on their bed. We have uploaded the footage to the computer and have began the editing process.
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Labels: ali free, James Heath, michael walker, Ryan Breeze
We had planned to film over half term but unfortunately the opportunity for filming never came up. There was never a time where we could have people filming and also the actors for the sequence. We will now be filming everything on Tuesday 24th at James's house. This is the only time we can get actors for the sequence and enough members of our group for the filming. Unfortunately Michael will not be able to make it to the filming but James, Ryan and Ali will be filming.
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We went filming at James house yesterday to film our footage, from doing this we found that the area when wanted to film in was quite small and difficult to film in so we might use that as test footage of the type of location we want to film in and go to another location. Also we forgot to pick up our storyboard so we couldn't remember all the shot types that we wanted to do.
This is our final animatic it is going to be similar to our final title sequence as the scenes will be approximately this long and the music will be similar to this. However the shots maybe different because once we do our test footage we may decide to change it a bit more.
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We are overall very pleased with the feedback we received about our blog. The positive feedback we received said that our blog was good, in depth and gave a good idea of where we were headed. Negative feedback was also constructive, we were told to go back and look at the micro-elements of the opening sequences we analyzed.
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We have just finished putting our animatic together. We had to completely start from scratch due to the fact that we changed our idea at a late stage. We drew the pictures last lesson and used the camera to get them onto the computer. Ryan then took them into photoshop and cropped them and cleaned them up a bit. James and Michael put the animatic in order on Final Cut Express. We have inserted title cards where we would be having titles and have tried to make it an accurate interpretation of what the final cut will be like once we have filmed it. It doesn't have any sound as of yet but ryan is working on it. We may record some dialogue and add it to the animatic but we haven't decided yet.
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The genre we have chosen to do is a crime caper. So the two main films we are taking influences from are Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (Guy Ritchie, 1998) and Fun With Dick and Jane (Dean Parisot, 2005).
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The original ‘The Italian Job’, directed in 1969 by peter Collinson is a great example of a classic late 60s/ early 70s crime film. The opening sequence starts off with a slow pan from the deep blue sky slowly to the huge vast open stretches of the Italian alp, setting the scene. We hear no sound until the non-diagetic slightly muffle long distance roar of a sports car engine, which builds up and changes to the scene of the car moving across a vast bridge stretching over a large valley, where the sound of the engine turns into a diagetic sound. The shot type changes to a point of view shot, making it seem as if we are now in the car with the driver, and again we are given another non diagetic sound of soft music, slowly replacing the noise of the cars engine. Only after about 45 seconds into the scene are we finally introduced to the character that is driving the car. This technique is used to make it seem as if the rest of the film is based around this character as he is the last apparent person/object we are introduced to.
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Labels: ali free, James Heath, michael walker, Ryan Breeze
Die hard 4.0 is an action crime film starring Bruce Willis it is the fourth of the four films. In the title sequence it doesn’t feature Bruce Willis as it’s not necessary because of the previous sequels. Plus the title sequence doesn’t tell you too much about the film as it doesn’t feature the criminal only his employees. But looking at the mise-en-scene there’s a lot of computer equipment telling us that this Die Hard will be a lot more modern so that it can relate to the audience to make a more thrilling film. Also the titles flicker and make noises like a computer to fit with the narrative plus you also get these flashing images of a computer screen appearing as well.
The title sequence features another main character and it introduces him as a geeky computer hacker, they do this so when he comes into the film later they can skip more to the action without the viewers being too confused on who he is. The end of the title sequence is more action pact as the building where one the hackers is blows up giving the viewer that there will be a lot more action in the film.The way the sequence is delivered is really good as it doesn’t tell you too much of the story but it gives you a slight idea on what is going to happen. There are also a lot of special effects in the sequence making it more modern and appealing to watch. Another point is there sound track, as it fits really well with the sequence because of dramatic percussion instruments and the violins building suspense.
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The title sequence for Kiss Kiss Bang Bang starts of with setting the scene so that it can give the audience a sence of loction. The camera the panes down to the ground where we see a man running away from someone or something, this quickly rayes questions. Who is this man, Who is he running away from and why? Throught this title sequence the sound used is also very affective because it makes the scene seem more mistrious and makes the audience more interested in what is going to unfold.
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This is our production company; Spotlight productions. We made our production logo on Photoshop we then put into final cut so we could edit the layers to delay different layers and to also move them around to create the aspect of a search light. We finally added sound to it that fitted with the search light idea and i think it worked really well as it looks professional and unique. However we encountered numerous problems with the motion of the circle as it was hard to keep it moving at a consistent speed. We also added a screen clipping on the left to show how we made our production logo.
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Ratcatcher (2002, Lynne Ramsay)
We have to choose from one of the 5 following genres to base our sequence on: