Thursday 29 January 2009

My Credits

Long Road Pictures Presents
An Epic Lolz Productions
Sarah Day
Kirk Kemp
David Chapel
Tom Warne
Succubus
Tara Smith
Ian Magonson
Casting by Matsushima Miki
Music by Jamie Cate
Film Editors Cean Koepp & Jack Chater
Production Designer Geneve Gurr
Designer of Photography Laura Prime
Produced by Glenn Young Haden Martian
Written by Laurence Smith
Directed by Laurence Smith

Text Thoughts



Black Night:
I like Black Night as it medieval but has a rough look which gives a good effect.
Bondon Bleu: Bondon Bleu is good it has a old look which is very rough.
Decadentia: is  a lot more neater i like the Capitals are more fancy medieval look.

Ruritania: is a lot similar to Decadentia and look very nice.

Teutonic No1: is very neat Medieval writing but maybe had to read surety words

XXII Scratch: is a very cool text it like tit has been scratch in to a wall or quickly written gives a scene of evil and madness

Wednesday 28 January 2009

Sleepy Hollow





I really like Tim Burton film Because how dark he makes film feel even from a still shot. He dosen't need a horror film or mosnters to jump out of every moment to build up tention and a scary feel to the film.

Sleep Hollow is an Standered Opening Sequence for it show Location the Main Character Johnny Deep and Period of the film. Also i like how he uses the text to give the mood of the film as they fade away and at one shot which pases the tree The 'R' falls like a Leaf in Autum which i think is a really good effect.

Build Up to StoryBored

Over the past week i've been looking films and consept art to inspier me any little ideas or technices to use in my final piece.

We Made a ModeBored. Which refecs on the mood of the film and ascpects it covers like location genre and chracters. My main acpects of my mood bored was teh location of my opening sequence which is a fosrest and teh dark era it gives the better. is it is winter it is forests are probaly best palce to get dark scary feeling from the location beacuse teh trees all look dead and the damp from the air make the wood turn a dark brown more like black. which give a really creepy effect. Also looking at old medevil pictures on demons and even the writting to use as the credits as it very easy to read and look good.

From the ModeBored we did 9 Key Frames of our opening sequence. This gave us a chance to look at what we wanted to happen in our opening sequence and in what order every thing happens. Using the 9 key frames and the modebored we made a 3 key fram sequence that told the same story roughly but using key consept Art from our ModeBored

Shot List

1. Black screen with a few titles appearing.
2. A shot of a forest which pans across with more credits appearing and the tittle of the film end panning across to the girl who appears from behind a tree.
3. Close up of the girl as she looks around then she walks of screen
4 over head shot as she walk into the middle of the screen and look up
5. cuts to a shot of the canopy.
6. Reverse shot and then she carries on walking
7. Then goes to a wide shot as she walk looking around wondering were she is.
8. goes to a low shot as she walks past the camera.
9.Goes to a tracking shot as she walks she stops and she hears noise.
10. A behind shot as she then turns to the camera trying to see were the voice is coming from.
11. Then goes to a pan shot were the contrast pluses and the girl keeps  around trying to see were the voice is walks out of shot.
12. wide tracking shot as she looks round a tree then walks across to the next one.
13. shot of the another girl with her head down then after a while slowly look up
14 same shot but the girl walks into the shot and stop in front of the spot were the other girl would stand.
15. Close up of the other girl raising her head.
16 reverse shot the the girls reaction.
17 another reverse shot of the other girl she grins and screms and lunges at the camera
18. Cut to a close up of the girl suddenly  waking up in her bed and the alarm going off in the bottom corner. 

Key Frames of opening Sequence


These three drawing are key frames of my opening sequence but using images from my mood bored




















This is 9 Key Frames that show ruffly the order and what will happen in my opening sequence.









Tuesday 27 January 2009

Open Sequence Idea

The opening sequence starts with a black screen with music or sound effects in the background. With some of the credits.
Open to a Pan Shot in of wood with more craedits and then the Tittle of the film.
Pan Down to a girl walking in the woods.
Cuts to a close up of the girl and more credits appear.
cuts to a tree and the girl walks past it and more credits appear
shots of the trees and more credits. an over head shot and the girl looks up with again more credits.
Wired sound surround with the the Camera blurs as it pan around the girl is looking around worried trying to see what is making the nosie so runs out of shot and she keeps looking around a tracking shot as she walk and turn trying to see what making the noise then a shot of a 'another girl' the girl then walks in to shot jsut truning to see her and stops. close up of the girl looking at the second girl then it reverse shot as the other girl raises her head to see its herself. the girl backs away in shocka nd the other girl the grins and lunges at teh screen trurning into a demon.
Then cuts to a close up of the girl as she wakes up with an alarm clock in the bottom of the shot the girl opens her eyes.

Thursday 22 January 2009

FInal Idea

Girl Possessed by Demon who tern her to a mass murder. But she has no reclamation of what she has done and her best friend a detective is hot on the case.

CSI meets the Exorcist and Saw



Working Title
Succubus (girl dream demon)


Key Essential Elements in a Successful Opening Sequence for a Film

. Eye-catching/ intriguing imagery/ show off production values
. Name of film near beginning of sequence institutional detail-distributor (studio)/ Production company/ named jobs/actors etc. (conventions of order)
. Don't let it DRAG OUT
. Title sequence reflecting the film
. Build-up e.g. tension mystery -audience wants to know
. Intro Character or Location or Theme/Story or Mood or all of these

Wednesday 21 January 2009

Industry Analysis

L'E.S.T is a french Film effects comapny that work on mainly french film but did te opening sequence for 2005 Lord Of War i really like this opening sequence because its more like a short film by its self then a opening credits. 'The Life of A Bullet'












http://www.prologue.com
Prologue live action a graphic design have done lots of big films. Like Spiderman 2 and 3 iron man Dawn of the dead re-make and many more.
Alot of there opening sequences are graphic based but some use live action like dawn of the dead. which is like a montarge of what is happening to the world as a zombie infection is apone humaity. Like iorn man and spiderman it all grphic based with some live action.




Scarface intro is a great example of live action crossed with graphics it jsut such and intence film the intro gives u a taste of what the film is all about.

Comparative Analysis

my opening sequence is going to be based on Brief 2 so i had a look at some supernatural thrilers. Made both by the US and other film makers from all over the world. I looked at Hideo Nakatas 1998 Ringu in japan which in 2002 was remade in the states as The Ring. I also looked at David Fincher's 2002 Panic Room which is an American film.






The opeing sequence to Ringu is a very slow opening sequnce it takes time to biuld up atmosphere. the opeing 1:35 minutes bulids up quite a bit of testion from the non diegetic music it has that erey scary tone to it so it makes people know what kind of opening it is. teh tension is cut then the two girls are talking. but what they talk about keep people interested a video taht kill people when they watch it 'wired stuff ' whne the girl in blue starts to tell her friend taht she had seen it the tension bulds back up this is keeping the audience intersted as they don't know if its real or just amade up story when teh girl then starts laughing the testion is killed once again till the phone rings and the tesion is back again even more intences then times before. jsut the silence there is apart from the phone ringing makes the audience feel something is going to happen. but when it turn out to be the girls mum the tention is killed until the ther girl goes away and the tv in the room tern on the tention is back and this feel to be teh lsat time after she turn teh tv off there is still some tention like that not all there is going to be. how the girls movment help to build tention because she know something is there till she turn round and it switches to negative. The opening sequence is 7 minutes and 57 seconds and consists of 30 shots. I like this very much because it keeps killing the tetion taht the movie makes and keep the audience on there toes as there die of atisapation then fear.



Credits:
Azmik-Ace Entertainment
Omega Production
Kadokawa, Pony Canyon, Toho, Imagica, Asmik-Ace & Omega Project Present:
Executive Producer Hara Masato
Producers Kawai Shinya, Ichise Takashige, Sento Takenori
RING
Matsushima Nanako
Nakatani Miki
Sanada Hiroyuki
From the Novel by Suzki Koji (Kadokawa Shoten)
Screenplay Takahashi Hiroshi
Directed by Nakada Hideo






Panic Room Opening Sequence is 1:50 minutes long and contains 20 diffrent shots around the city. with the tittles either in the air or against buildings you have diegetic sound but you have non diegetic that give it the dark feeling even though the sequence is in broad day light in a busy city. i like it beause i dosen't give much away of the film and its nice shots if u like scenery.

Credits:
Columbia Pictures Presents
A Hofflund/Polone Production
An Indelible Picture
Jodie Foster
Forest Whitaker
Dwight Yoakam
Jared Leto
Panic Room
Kristen Stewart
Ann Magunson
Ian Buchanam
Patrick Bauchau
Paul Schulze
Casting By Laray Yayfield
Costume Designer Michael Kaplan
Music by Howard Shore
Film Editors James Haygood.A.C.E
Angus Wall
Production Designer Arthur Max
Designer of Photography Conraod W. Hall
Darus Khondjt A.S.C.A.F.C
Produced by Gavin Polone
Judy Hofflund
David Koepp
Cean Chaffin
Written by David Koepp
Directed by David Fincher


With the Opening Credits they show the most important people in the film project like the director, main actors, Editors, film writters and produsers and the companys that funded the film.

Tuesday 20 January 2009

Epic Lolz Production




This is my film Production logo 'Epic Lolz' i have used this name in all my other work so i deiced to make a logo for it in after effect. i found a the character i use in my logo. i then used motion in after effect make it look like it is walking then i use rotation to use a cheesy spin and the name dissolves in.  I used a light source to get a spot light that gave the image a shadow when it rotated. I then went in to garageband and found  random sound i chose a sheep noise to add a little of humor to the logo

Monday 19 January 2009

brief 4- animation Ideas and Feedback

idea 1-all quite on the eastern front world war 2 germans against the russian. we follow a young officer as his men are at the brink of massacre by the ruthless russian.

idea 2- nuclear war brakes out and every corner of the world is bombed. 30 year later u follow a group of people trying to survive as every other living thing want to kill them survival of the fittest.
Feedback- Philippa: Planned Well good adult movie idea
Tara: Bassed on the WW2 good hook/ Nuclear war remines me of war of the world mutaints etc.

brief 3 independent Ideas and Feedback

idea 1- young girl point of view in a family thats filled with drugs crime and sex and this young girl trying to live a normal life.


idea 2- A young drug addict trying to get live in a gang ruled town where little children commit the most crimes as they can not be convicted.
Feedback- Tara: very good idea, serious very intresting ,based on real life.
Philippa:quite good- seems very thought out and planned well.

Brief 2 Supernatural Ideas and Feedback

idea 1- girl get possessed by a demon and becomes a brutal mass murder and doesn't realize what she is doing her friend. detective try to find out who is been killing these people

idea 2- girl go to Europe and find a quite town and find out it is plague by vampires and monsters and when every you come to 'Serkstian' it becomes your home.
Feedback- Philippa: Creepy in a good way, gothic but intresting
Tara: 2 creative ideas- reminds me of film by simon peqq.
Matt:prefer idea 1 friends one bad one person good makes intresting story

Brief 1 Action Ideas and Feedback

idea 1- Brink of civil war motorbike gangs rule the street one of the members is in a accident and starts to get physic and want to find out how it happen.

idea 2- 2219 space bounty hunter how is great at his job. but a gang lead put a bounty on his head and he has to try get out of it somehow.
Fredback- Tara: Very creative idea, seemed to plan it well and knows hot to create it. 2 very well planned idea you have used manga as you have a good knowledge.
Matt H: prefer 2nd Idea. Bounty Hunters is a cool idea extra Violence to make it sweet!
Philippa: Detailed- very interesting

Friday 16 January 2009

Long Road Logo


This is the college logo that we animated to make this sequence. We got the logo in photoshop and broke them up into layer we then export the layers to after effect and we were able to animated them separately. I used movement and shrink image. then i used mostion to move the Long Road title across.

Thursday 15 January 2009

Logo info

http://sergeantstan.deviantart.com/art/Rawr-I-m-a-Dinosaur-18557713

Hush

I found this sequence done by Long Road Media students doing a triller opening tittle sequence. I found this intresting because it very quick pase and not much is said or awnsered within the few minutes. The Non Diagetic Sound unforunatly fits the pase of the sequence but does not set a very good triller kind of mood. I find the one light sourse very good gives the felling of restriction and presure because you don't know waht hiding in the dark corners. The quick cut shots between writting, eye movment and the chair spinning. The ripping of the tape from the mouth then rewinding it is a good effect also the fish eye/ twister effect gives a sence of maddness and insacuraty. In the end i really like how he takes of the tape and puts his finger to his lips and the word Hush appreas. I like how the text is presented very gitary making more neverasy and insacurty but mabye harder to read at some points.

Two Minds

http://50thrillerproject08.blogspot.com/ this is a link to a the thriller opening project that we looked at and eveluated how well they have done.



The Clip its self is what some people could say is a good attempt. some of it is really well edited and the idea of the clip is good. but some shots are unesasery or do not work like the flikering bit in the first few seconds on the sequence it is edited to slow so it jsut look like there is a tehcnical problem and ruenes the mood. In the rough cut as the sequencs has been spead up i think the flickering effect work alot more effectively beaucse it has more pase. A very good seuqnce is the quick shot between beer bottles, pill, the spead up clock, hand writting, fire which they got the isparation from 'Usual Suspects' which is good they are refering back to there reaserch. I also like the shot of were the person looks in the mirror and the camera moves across to see a diffrent person there using the mirror to represent a parale world. finaly i like how iwth the new person they copy shots to the audience relize he is the same person. Over all it a good sequence but some stuff could of been left out and it didn't really grab the audience that they wanted to know more. Also they didn't really set teh scene in the clip all u saw was little thing that could be anywhere in the world.

The Reaserch was minnimal even thought they had 16 post filled with infomation they were in a group of four and that ment they all did four post each and they could of done more. with a few more visual items like videos. They could of look at more films for insparation then jsut the couple. For theres hundereds of Thriller movies and they only could look at one. What they did write was good it was very detailed and they knew what they where doing. They coverd all the need catagories like Story, Shot List, Props, Editing, progress diary, infomation that using in the film, developing film titles. So over all there reserch was good but there just wasn't enough to get them the mark they would of hoped

Tuesday 13 January 2009

Legendary Pictures

The Logo For Legendary Pictures start with a a light shinning through the light is made lighting effects or over explosing surten shapes. Also the light shines down a black plane taht has been but on an angle. Suddenly rips in the back apperas this could be done by slowly moving the light across the screen. Then it start to out line the logo this could be done by a effect that makes the image apperas but it is draw up not jsut apearing. The logo slowly back away from the screen rotating in to position. It then gets smaller and the colour changes from a burning ember to a gold. With the name of the comapny paning back from the bottom half also terning gold from a dark colour. The final image uses a light that shines on the bottom left of the logo.

Monday 12 January 2009

The Makers of 300







Warner Bros. was founded in Hollywood in 1918 it is a film promoter and has done film like Harry Potter, Batman, Terminator, Gremlins, Lethal Weapon, The Matrix Series, Superman, Free Willy, Lonney Tunes and many more














Legendary Pictures is the Production company behind 300. The company has a 5year, 25 picture agreement to co-produce and co-finance with Warner Bros. starting in 2005. this contract ends in 2010 Legendary Pictuers first full length film with Warner Bros. was Batman Begins and there second was Superman Returns. other film thet have made are Lady in the Water, The Ant Bully, The Dark Night and more in Production they are making a World Of Warcraft film set to be relasese some time in 2009 and in development a Gear Of War film Date TBA.


Directed by Zack Snyder is a US director and writer he ahs done Dawn Of The Dead reamke and Watchmen as well as 300

Produced by Frank Miller, Zack Synder, Gianni Nunnari, Jeffery Silver, Mark Canton

Continuity Task



This is our Continuity Task. This shows the 180 degree rule, shot reverse shot and match on action.

Sunday 11 January 2009

Opening Titles 300



I looked at many diffrent opening credits and could really make my mind up but i chose to go with 300

I chose this sequence because i find it a change from normal opening credits it a combination of still image and 3D animation. I perticualy like the contrasting colours the sequences uses it uses black alot but uses red as blood and the titles. red as u know stands out very well with balck and jsut efisizes the effect of blood. Another good point is that it converts one still image or animation in to another it moves around one aniamtion but makes loads more. the sound is greek so it set the place and time this film is set also the imagry of spears sword and arrows.


This Opening sequence gives me idea of contrast and maybe atempting animation/ cartoonification. also that the music should set the mood and the type of film back ground noises helps alot ive find in many more sequences like final destination 3 i starts in a fair ground thats shut it has teh happy fair music but you hear the odd screem that make things not seem right.

Anther opening sequences that uses cartoonification taht i find good is the james bond opening credits they all seem to keep to the same prinsable of black outlines of everything which opens the floor to inrutprating and making it your own.

Thursday 8 January 2009

New York

In this quckly made opening sequence i used alot of fades in the operning shots and through out the sequence. I started with the the satue of liberty then a fade in to some clouds. I used animation markers to move my text. With the text i used the animation markers to move the text around and i gave an effect that the new titles would push the old on out of the way. After the cloud shot i faded in to a skyscraper shot and i then changed the music from a slow jazz tunes to a more upbeat riff as it now in the heart of new york. I held shot for only a few second and quickly flicked between diffrent scenes. After a few city shot i did a shot of a airplane which pushes the title away and replaces it with another. After a few more city shots. idavidaly made each letter of the word new york and moved them up to the top of the screen (off screeen). Then one by one using the animation botton moved them down to spell new york. After that shots are simular to past shots. Untill the last few shot which start at a pan shot up in the sky looking down at a inportant buliding its slowly pan around and lower down. While this happen it quickly cuts to more shots of other things and switchs back to the pan shot. When the pan shot end it fades in to a pan down shot of another inportant buliding.