Wednesday 21 October 2009
Saturday 10 October 2009
Analysis Of Similar Opening Title Sequences
Casino Royale
This is the opening title sequence to the 21st James Bond film, Casino Royale. What I like about this title is the use of the cards, hearts, diamonds, aces, clubs and Royale spades. Although this title sequence is an animated version using green screen, this is the sequence that inspired me to use the whole 'poker' and 'card' feel. The song used in this opening title sequence is recorded by Audioslave vocalist Chris Cornell. The song is called You Know My Name. The man who designed the graphics for this title, Daniel Kleinman, he said that he was inspired by the cover of the 1953 British first edition of Casino Royale, which featured Ian Fleming's original design of a playing card bordered by eight red hearts dripping with blood. Kleinman said, "The hearts not only represent cards but the tribulations of Bond's love story. So I took that as inspiration to use playing card graphics in different ways in the titles," like a club representing a puff of gun smoke, and slashed arteries spurting thousands of tiny hearts. The audience would like a title sequence like this for different reasons. One of the reasons is because of the use of animation, how it is different to the movie. Another reasons is because it gives us a clue of what will happen in the film i.e. guns, cards and James Bond fighting various villains. The final reason is because the song is very catchy, and because it is 'Rock', it fits in well with the Action drama.
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
This is the opening title sequence to the crime/dark comedy film 'Kiss Kiss Bang Bang' starring Robert Downey Jr. This is similar to the title my group will do, because they will both be of the crime drama, it starts by showing a person running, and it is a little mysterious. The audience for this film will be the same as the audience that my opening sequence would attract, seeing as that they are both of the similar genres. Although this is sequence is in animation, it is still slightly similar to my one. Audiences would like this because it is using animation instead of normal footage. This makes it different to other opening title sequences.
Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels
Because this title sequence is not an animation, it is probably the closest to the title sequence my group has done. This is because in both of the opening titles, it is an all male cast, they are both running away or leading towards something, and are both mysterious and crime filled. The audience for this film will be the same as the audience that my opening sequence would attract, seeing as that they are both of the similar genres. Audiences would like this opening title sequence because it tells us about the movie, how it is set in working class England, and has its own humour.
This is the opening title sequence to the 21st James Bond film, Casino Royale. What I like about this title is the use of the cards, hearts, diamonds, aces, clubs and Royale spades. Although this title sequence is an animated version using green screen, this is the sequence that inspired me to use the whole 'poker' and 'card' feel. The song used in this opening title sequence is recorded by Audioslave vocalist Chris Cornell. The song is called You Know My Name. The man who designed the graphics for this title, Daniel Kleinman, he said that he was inspired by the cover of the 1953 British first edition of Casino Royale, which featured Ian Fleming's original design of a playing card bordered by eight red hearts dripping with blood. Kleinman said, "The hearts not only represent cards but the tribulations of Bond's love story. So I took that as inspiration to use playing card graphics in different ways in the titles," like a club representing a puff of gun smoke, and slashed arteries spurting thousands of tiny hearts. The audience would like a title sequence like this for different reasons. One of the reasons is because of the use of animation, how it is different to the movie. Another reasons is because it gives us a clue of what will happen in the film i.e. guns, cards and James Bond fighting various villains. The final reason is because the song is very catchy, and because it is 'Rock', it fits in well with the Action drama.
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
This is the opening title sequence to the crime/dark comedy film 'Kiss Kiss Bang Bang' starring Robert Downey Jr. This is similar to the title my group will do, because they will both be of the crime drama, it starts by showing a person running, and it is a little mysterious. The audience for this film will be the same as the audience that my opening sequence would attract, seeing as that they are both of the similar genres. Although this is sequence is in animation, it is still slightly similar to my one. Audiences would like this because it is using animation instead of normal footage. This makes it different to other opening title sequences.
Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels
Because this title sequence is not an animation, it is probably the closest to the title sequence my group has done. This is because in both of the opening titles, it is an all male cast, they are both running away or leading towards something, and are both mysterious and crime filled. The audience for this film will be the same as the audience that my opening sequence would attract, seeing as that they are both of the similar genres. Audiences would like this opening title sequence because it tells us about the movie, how it is set in working class England, and has its own humour.
Monday 5 October 2009
Brief
For our AS Level media coursework, we were told to create the opening title sequence of a film of the genre of our choice. My group which consisted of Max and I, decided to do an opening title sequence similar to the Oceans 11 film, which involves crime and mystery.
Preliminary Task
Final/Second Film
This video is our final film after being edited. My group, Max, sam, Claudia and Me, had to film this task twice. This is because whilst filming the first film, we didn't realize that we had broken the 180 degree rule until we started editing it. Because of making this big mistake, it taught my group that it was easy to make mistakes whilst filming if you do not fully follow your storyboard. When we were filming our second time, we followed our storyboard fully, carefully following the 180 degree rule so no mistakes would occur.
When we were filming the first time, the room we were in was much smaller, so it was much more difficult to fit more shots in, but when we were filming for the second time, the room we used had much more space which made filming much easier and better, as well as the editing. During editing we also realised that we had made no continutiy mistakes, and that our film was creative, continuous and that it ran smoothly.
180 Degree Rule Mistake
This video shows how the 180 degree rule can be broken.
Script
Max: (Walks in)
Ryan: You alright?
Max: Yeah good, you?
Ryan: Yeah not bad. You watch the game on saturday?
Max: Yeah it was awful.
Ryan: Yeah
Animatic
This is my animatic which shows each frame of the story board, in order, which I created for my preliminary task. The first thing I did to make this animatic was to scan it onto the computer. I then opened it in Adobe Image Ready, where I put each frame in a separate layer. When I pressed play one frame followed another, but it was too fast. I then changed the speed of it. After I had created the animatic, I uploaded it to www.photobucket.com which then gave me the embed for the picture, so I could easily upload it onto my blog.
First Plan
This is the plan which followed the first filming, in the smaller room. It shows 'A' (Max) opening the door, walking across the corridor, and coming in the room room in which 'B' (Me) was already sitting down. The plan also shows each camera angle, and the direction where the camera will be facing, and where the camera will be placed. The arrows show the direction of a persons movement. Following this plan, the cameras shown are not breaking the 180 degree rule.
Second Plan
This is the plan for the final film. This shows the much bigger room and the cameras placed further out, because there was much more space. It shows 'A' (Max) opening the door, walking across the corridor, and coming in the room room in which 'B' (Me) was already sitting down. The plan also shows each camera angle, and the direction where the camera will be facing, and where the camera will be placed. The arrows show the direction of a persons movement. Following this plan, the cameras shown are not breaking the 180 degree rule.
This video is our final film after being edited. My group, Max, sam, Claudia and Me, had to film this task twice. This is because whilst filming the first film, we didn't realize that we had broken the 180 degree rule until we started editing it. Because of making this big mistake, it taught my group that it was easy to make mistakes whilst filming if you do not fully follow your storyboard. When we were filming our second time, we followed our storyboard fully, carefully following the 180 degree rule so no mistakes would occur.
When we were filming the first time, the room we were in was much smaller, so it was much more difficult to fit more shots in, but when we were filming for the second time, the room we used had much more space which made filming much easier and better, as well as the editing. During editing we also realised that we had made no continutiy mistakes, and that our film was creative, continuous and that it ran smoothly.
180 Degree Rule Mistake
This video shows how the 180 degree rule can be broken.
Script
Max: (Walks in)
Ryan: You alright?
Max: Yeah good, you?
Ryan: Yeah not bad. You watch the game on saturday?
Max: Yeah it was awful.
Ryan: Yeah
Animatic
This is my animatic which shows each frame of the story board, in order, which I created for my preliminary task. The first thing I did to make this animatic was to scan it onto the computer. I then opened it in Adobe Image Ready, where I put each frame in a separate layer. When I pressed play one frame followed another, but it was too fast. I then changed the speed of it. After I had created the animatic, I uploaded it to www.photobucket.com which then gave me the embed for the picture, so I could easily upload it onto my blog.
First Plan
This is the plan which followed the first filming, in the smaller room. It shows 'A' (Max) opening the door, walking across the corridor, and coming in the room room in which 'B' (Me) was already sitting down. The plan also shows each camera angle, and the direction where the camera will be facing, and where the camera will be placed. The arrows show the direction of a persons movement. Following this plan, the cameras shown are not breaking the 180 degree rule.
Second Plan
This is the plan for the final film. This shows the much bigger room and the cameras placed further out, because there was much more space. It shows 'A' (Max) opening the door, walking across the corridor, and coming in the room room in which 'B' (Me) was already sitting down. The plan also shows each camera angle, and the direction where the camera will be facing, and where the camera will be placed. The arrows show the direction of a persons movement. Following this plan, the cameras shown are not breaking the 180 degree rule.
Thursday 1 October 2009
Media Outside College (Diversity + Shaheen)
As well as doing media within my college, I have also edited and filmed for various entertainment artists. These artists include Diversity, who won Britiain's Got Talent 2009, Shaheen Jafargholi, who finished 5th on Britain's Got Talent and went to on to sing at the Michael Jackson Memorial Service.
I filmed these videos, interviewing them, then edited them using iMovie.
To see my other videos, go to:
www.youtube.com/ryanmedia2009
or
www.doodleproductions.co.uk
The Diversity videos include snippets of various highlights of the past year, put together for business use. I also did all of the music for this one. There are also backstage videos for the Royal Variety Show, T4 Stars of 2009, their tour rehearsal and backstage of a photoshoot, with interviews.
The video's are on the main page of both Diversity's website and Facebook.
This is the link for Diversity's website.
Diversity's Greatest Moments
Diversity's Tour Rehearsal
Backstage at the Royal Variety Performance 2009
Backstage at T4 Stars Of 2009
I filmed these videos, interviewing them, then edited them using iMovie.
To see my other videos, go to:
www.youtube.com/ryanmedia2009
or
www.doodleproductions.co.uk
The Diversity videos include snippets of various highlights of the past year, put together for business use. I also did all of the music for this one. There are also backstage videos for the Royal Variety Show, T4 Stars of 2009, their tour rehearsal and backstage of a photoshoot, with interviews.
The video's are on the main page of both Diversity's website and Facebook.
This is the link for Diversity's website.
Diversity's Greatest Moments
Diversity's Tour Rehearsal
Backstage at the Royal Variety Performance 2009
Backstage at T4 Stars Of 2009
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