13) Analysing 3 title sequences.

Se7en:

There aren't many macro elements in this title sequence as we don't really learn anything about the characters or plot. However we do find out that the movie is more or less about a murder.

Micro elements: The only shot type in the title sequence is extreme close up of objects or hands, the music was eerie and the lighting was dark.

Order of Titles: 

New line cinema presents

Arnold Kopelson production

film by David Fincher

Brad Pitt

Morgan Freeman

SE7EN

Gwyneth Paltrow

Richard Roundtree

R. Lee Ermey

John C.McGinley

Julie Araskog, Mark Boone Jr

John Cassini, Reginald E. Cathey, Peter Crombie

Hawthorne James, Michael Massee, Leland Orser

Richard Partnow, Richard Schiff, Pamala Tyson

Casting By

Music By

Costume by

Edited

Production Design

Direcor of photography 

Co-Porducers

Co-Executive Producers

Executive Producers

Written By

Produced By

Directed By.

Gone Girl:

Macro elements: We are introduced to 2 characters, a man and his wife. From the beginning of the title sequence we find out that the man is evil as he thinks about cracking his wife's skull open. We also see that the movie is set in the suburbs.

Micro elements: Many establishing shots of buildings and other landscapes. There are some long shots of the man, this shows us more about the area he lives in. The music in the background is quite calm and soothing.

Order of titles:

Twentieth Century Fox & Regency Enterprises

David Fincher film

Ben Affleck

Rosamund Pike

Gone Girl

Niel Pattrick Harris

Tyler Perry

Carrie Coon

Kim Dickens, Patrick Fugit

David Clennon, Lisa Banes

Casting by

Sound Design by

Music by

Costume by

Editor

Production Designer

Director of photography

Executive Producers

Produced by

Screenplay by

Directed 

Skyfall:

Macro elements: in this title sequence you subliminally find out everything that happens in the movie. We are obviously introduced to James Bond.

Micro elements: There are many long shots of James Bond within an animated realm. the shots blend into one another as the camera zooms in on something, revealing the next shot. In the background you hear a song by Adele, this is quite a slow and relaxing song.

Order of titles: 

Daniel Craig

Skyfall

Javier Bardem

Ralph fiennes

Naomie Harris

Berenice Lim Marlohe

Ben Whishaw

Ror Kinnear, Ola Rapace

Albert Finney

Judi Dench

Co-Producers

Script Supervisor

Sound Recordist

Electrical Supervisor

Sound unit assisstant director

Unit Production Manager

First Assisstent Director

Casting by

Titles by

Special Effects

Stunt Coordinator

Second unit Director

Costume by

Edited by

Director of photography

Production Designer

Music by

Executive Producer

Written by

Produced by

Directed by

12c) What film genres do audiences prefer?

From my survey, I found out that the top 3 preferred genres are Action, Comedy and science fiction. However people didn't know why they preferred that particular genre of film, apart from comedy.

Most under 17 males preferred Action or Comedy, whereas most 25-35 year old males preferred science fiction, this is probably due to them growing up around the same time as the star wars series.

I would prefer to make a Comedy film as it has a wide target audience which includes men and women. Comedy movies typically don't need as high of a budget as an Action or Sci-Fi Movie as there aren't as many special effects.

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12a) What is a target audience?

TASK 30 - Half Term Homework - Planning Costume Ideas

Task 1

Example 1

Character Name: Effy

TV Series: Skins

Costume/Makeup: Effy wears very dark makeup and clothing at times which reflects her mood. Dark, heavily applied eyeliner around her eyes accompanied by her usual cold stare. Throughout the series she takes less care of appearance, appearing tired and fatigued. These factors hint at the development of Effy's depression

Example 2

Character Name: Jenny Humphrey

Tv Series: Gossip Girl

Costume/Makeup: Jenny is firstly introduced as a typical pretty and girly teenage girl. Wearing cute little outfits, simple makeup and beautiful natural hair. Later on, when Jenny becomes mischievous and rebellious, her makeup and appearance also starts to change. She starts wearing heavy eyeliner and a shorter hair look with a whole different fashion sense. From pretty skirts to grunge outfits.

Example 3

Character Name: Regina George

Movie: Mean Girls

Costume/Makeup: Regina is your typical high school mean girl. She is a very dark and mean character who comes across as emotionless. But instead of dressing like her personality would suggest - dark colours, she dresses in mostly girly colours like pink and always has the latest clothing. Pink lip gloss is one of her main everyday essentials.

Task 2

Name: Cruella Asten

This is the main character in the title sequence who appears as the psycho ex girlfriend. She's very sincere when first met but get on her bad side and it's a whole different person. She was in a long relationship for 3 years when she found out that he'd been seeing other women on the side. Cruella doesn't take this well and turns absolutely insane. She plots against everyone who's ever hurt her and the outcome is shocking.

TASK 27 - Audience Profile

AUDIENCE PROFILE

Name: Amy Hall
Location: London

Age: 18
Class: Middle Class

Gender: Female (females are more attracted to psychological thrillers)

Occupation: Works at her local Tesco's

Hobbies: Watching Netflix, going clubbing on weekends and speed dating regularly

Personality:Bubbly, out going, caring and bitchy
Brands: Sony, Tesco, Harrods, Superdrug
Media: Guardian, Pretty Little Liars, Facebook, Twitter

TASK 26 - Target Audience

Since our genre is basically psychological thriller, I decided that our target audience being 16-25 year olds would be very suitable. This is because they involve violence and graphic images but ours won't be that explicit therefor will suit the younger audience who love thrillers. 

HUNGER GAMES

BLACK SWAN

Planning Mise-En-Scene Ideas (task 30)

The Brief

Film Idea: Psycho stalker girl is planning to ruin her 3 latest ex boyfriends lives. You soon see that the extensive planning to do so has been on going for months. Rose, who shows no remorse, plans to cause trauma and heartbreak

Key Props: A black leather notebook/diary (where she plans/writes about her victims), Red lipstick (representing femininity and blood), a candle (fire showing danger) and a single rose (symbolizing her name, along with love or death)

Location: Home in the suburbs

Setting: An office or small room

Costume: Black, sleek, feminine clothing. Red nail polish and red lipstick.

Lighting: Dull/dark with candle light

My target audience (task 27)

These are two profiles of people who watch films in the same genre or similar to what i'd like to make.

An audience member for my Thriller.

Name: Christina

Lives in: London

Age: 19

Class: Middle class

Occupation: Marketing Student

Personality type: Clever, Kind, Sometimes Bitchy and Emotional

Hobbies & interests: Going to the cinema, Skiing and Drama

Brands they consume: M&S, Netflix and Amazon.

Media they consume: Guardian news paper, Empire magazine and OK.

Watches CSI, New girl and Goggle box 

Who is our target audience (task 26)

I think the best target audience for either of our thriller would be between the age of 15 and 25 as there could be aspects of violence, death and physiological issues that maybe disturbing for younger viewers. The film would be suitable for male and females, even though the main character is female it revolves around multiple male characters. Films that have similar audiences are, The loft, Gone Girl and Black Swan.

For the action/adventure film the best target audience would be over the age of 15 as it wouldn't be as explicit. I think this film would appeal more to males as the genre is more suitable for a male audience due to the characters and conventions such as conflict, persuasion, fear and danger. Films similar to this would be, 2012, San Andreas and The impossible.

TASK 25 - Mood Board for our title sequence

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An idea (task 23)

In class we used Wikipedia random article generator to find a name for a film, ours was an article about a solar eclipse. we then had to choose randomly, a location and prop. we was given a bus stop and a pair of glasses.  

We had an idea that there could be a man waiting at the bus stop, when he see's a pair of glasses. The man picks them up and puts them on and he see's a huge solar eclipse through them. The man realizes that he's seen it before in a dream, there is then a flash back showing the dream where he see's the world ending on the night of the solar eclipse, he then goes on a journey to save the world and convince others he is telling the truth.

TASK 24 - Idea For Title Sequence

The genre for the title sequence is romance/thriller. The story-line is that the main character is heart broken and plots revenge- how typical! But this story has a twist to it. It's all in her head. She hasn't actually dated the guy they were friends but she imagined them as a couple so much that she generally started to believe it.

Name: Charlotte Rose-Mary
Age:23
Occupation: Secretary
Personality: Loud, funny, secretive, over the top and violent.
Hobbies: Shopping, Netflix, Feminist

The title sequence would be set in an ordinary suburban area,but it will be very dark and grungy. Lots of blood will be involved,knives, violent images and tears. 

TASK 23 - Brainstorming for our title sequence

Ideas for our title sequence

TASK 22 - Blogging Health Check 1

Progress review (task 22)

My progress grade is not as good as it should be as i found blogging quite difficult initially, however I am happy with my grade as i know that i have a lot more room for improvement.

 

            

TASK 21 - Evaluation Of Practical Remake Activity

Overall our remake was successful. Our camera shots were accurate and precise and the shots were extremely similar to the actual "Collateral" film opening.
The acting could've been improved and the costume could be thought about in the future. But in the small amount of time that we did have, we did the best we could and it came out decently. There weren't as many people in the streets as there were in the original film and we didn't have time to hire extras so it doesn't look exactly the same as "Collateral".

 

TASK 20 - Our remake - the final cut

We edited our remake using Premiere pro and After effects

This is our final cut

TASK 19 - Our remake- Filming bloopers

We had an hour to film our remakes, we had a lot of fun but it was quite difficult to get the timing right, we didn't have a busy airport so we went by our nearest tube station instead.

TASK 18 - Our Remake: Planning

This is our story board, These are the shots we decided to film for our remake of Collateral.

This is our shot list

As a group we chose to remake Collateral because of the shot types as it was a bit more difficult than the others and we wanted to challenge ourselves.

TASK 17: GENRE SHORTLIST

The 3 genres that we may chose from to produce our own title sequence are:
Thriller
Horror
Mystery

Genre conventions: Thrillers (task 14)

A thriller is a novel, play, or movie with an exciting plot. It often revolves around anticipation and suspense, with the aim being to keep the audience alert and on the edge of their seats. Tension and excitement are often used as the main elements of thriller films.

In crime thrillers you usually see, ransoms, heists or revenge. In physiological thrillers there are mind games, stalking and obsession. Spies, espionage, conspiracies and assassins are most common in spy thrillers.

Primary features of a thriller:

• The protagonist faces death

• The protagonist's main story line is a quest

• The main plot line focuses on a mystery that must be solved

• Dominated by the protagonists perspective 

Black Swan

Characters that are usually seen are criminals, stalkers, psychotic individuals, killers, sociopaths and innocent individuals.

The Loft

Analyzing title sequences (task 13)

The Stepfather

Title credits: 

1. Screen Gems presents
2. Mavericks Films
3. Title: Stepfather
4. Dylan Walsh (Main actor)
5. Sela Ward (Actress)
6. Penn Badgley
7. Amber Heard (Actress)
8. Sherry Stringfield (Actress)
9. Paige Turco (Actress)
10. Jon Tenny (Actor)
11. 4+ actors
12. Casting directors
13. Costume designers 
14. Music supervisor 
15. Music composer 
16. Editor 
17. Production designer
18. Director of photography 
19. Executive producers
20. More producers

Micro Analysis:

Camera:

• Close ups
• Over shoulder shots
• Panning upwards/right
• Wide shots
• Over head
• Low establishing shot
• Tracking
• Canted angle

Mise-en-scene:

• Suburbs
• Shaving accessories
• Bloody weapons
• Grey/Blue lighting 
• Shadows
• Christmas tree
• Presents/Cards

Sound:

• Eerie music
• Heart beats
• Christmas music
• Dog bark
• Minor key
• Sound bridges  

Editing: 

• Editing from perspective 
• Match cuts
• Flash back
• Simple editing
• Slow pace

Macro Analysis

The key plot idea is about a man, the stepfather, who becomes apart of a family and kills them at Christmas time and then moves on to his next victims.

The story line is in chronological order.

The first character introduced is the Stepfather and then the dead family.

A white american, stereotypical, middle class family are represented.

TASK 15 - Importance Of Sound

TASK 14 - GENRE CONVENTIONS

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TASK 13 - Analysing Title Sequences

THE STEPFATHER

MICRO ANALYSIS

Camera (shot distance/angles/movement/framing)

During the title sequence, there is a lot of camera tracking going on which shows you a wider view of the location. Low establishing shots of houses which shows the typical suburban area. Loads of medium close ups, close ups, over the shoulder and low angle shots are used with a mix of birds eye view and diagonal shots.

Editing(cuts/speed/special effects/transitions)

The title sequence involved lots of editing from perspective. There was a really good use of a match cut where you see the character on the stairs then instantly the shot is cut to where the character starts walking down the stairs which was very effective. A flashback was also included where you suddenly just see a flash of white.

Mise-en-scene

In the title sequence you can clearly see that the location is in the suburbs, in what appears to be a normal,ordinary everyday family house. Outside the lighting is bright to show that it's daylight but it's not too intense. As the character, enters the house the lighting dimmed down and appeared darker - darkness usually shows danger so this could show how the family home isn't as safe as it looks from the outside. In the bathroom the lighting was very dull and instead of a natural colour it was blue/green tinted. The man's clothes were very basic and realistic. He wore a coat, trousers and was carrying a brief case which could hint that he was coming back from work. The props which appeared were mostly weapons such as hammers and knives. There were holly and other Christmas decorations around the house including a Christmas tree which tells us that it's Christmas.

Sound

Throughout the title sequence there was eerie tense music was playing. You could also hear heart beats at certain times. In one part the dog starts barking which tells you that there's danger approaching. Minor key, low pitch - the notes aren't right causing the music to sound off and not matching the scenes.

MACRO ANALYSIS

The key plot idea introduced in the title sequence is that what appears to be a normal and ordinary family man, ends up killing his family. From this I got the idea that there may be a huge story behind all of this. The storyline starts from the end of another situation which makes the viewer want to watch on in hopes of finding out what previously happened. At the start we are introduced to a man that appears to be the main character. When the shot turns to his point of view, we see dead bodies laying all around which seem to be a family. The social group represented isa middle class white  american suburban family.

Title Conventions

In the title sequence, the titles appear in the following order

1. Company Eye Dent
2. Distribution Company
3. Movie Title
4.  Actors and Actresses
5. Casting Directors
6. Costume Designer
7. Music Supervisor
8. Music Creator
9. Editor
10. Production Designer
11. Director Of Photography
12. Executive Producers

Audience Research (task 12)

11) BFI Statistics yearbook.

Genre:

According to the BFI, Action, Comedy and Animation were the most successful at the UK box office. Whereas Documentary, War and Romance were the least successful. The Comedy genre had the most releases between 2013-2014 with 153 releases, with Animation only releasing 33 and Action 47.

Audiences:



The age group of the most cinema admissions in the UK was 15-24 year olds with the hangover part 3 being the most popular.







Quartet was the most popular film with the over 55 year olds, the genre for this film is Drama and Comedy.




 Action, Comedy and Adventure were the genres most popular with men whereas Romance, Documentary and Animation were the genres most popular with women. UK films were popular across all audiences, mostly for those aged 45 and above.
One Direction: This Is Us, Wreck It Ralph and Despicable Me 2 were the 3 films most popular with the 7-14 age group, this tells us they prefer animated movies as well as movies about their favourite music artists. The 3 most popular movies with the 35-44 age group were Frozen, The Croods and Jack and The Giant Slayer. This tells us that animation appeals to all types of people, this is the main reason for the genre of Animation being so successful.


 Django Unchained, Fast & Furious 6 and Rush were most popular with the 25-34 age group. Whereas the films most popular with middle class audiences were Rush, Captain Phillips, Gravity, Fast & Furious 6, Despicable Me 2 and Oz The Great & Powerful.