Shot List-FIXATION

As you can see we have created a shot list to help us understand what shots we wanted, as seen on my Production Dairy our shot list did not originally look like this, we altered the list multiple times before coming up with the final one (above).

Presentation Feedback- FIXATION

After presenting our first idea for our opening film, we recieved mixed feedback from the class, above is what we were told.

Moodboard for FIXATION

Inspirational films,titles and graphology for FIXATION

Above is the insparational graphology.

Whilst researching for thriller opening scenes, we discovered that most of the title sequences that we found had the titles put on top of the scene in the background and we thought that this is a good idea for us to replicate this idea and include this into our opening scene. The font flickers when they are shown on the screen and this gives a good thriller affect. They are also in handwritten font, but i think this is because throughout the opening scene there is lots of books and writing that looks as through it has been written so this incorporates well within the background scene and the titles themselves.

We also found that the opening sequence of Napoleon Dynamite fitted perfectly to what we wanted to do, although the genre of this film is not a thriller the way the producers etc. titles are put into the scene are what we want to do for the opening of our film.                                                                The link to Napoleon Dynamite is below:

Napoleon Dynamite (2004) — Art of the Title

After researching some more I found that the film 'Taken' is similar to our own so we watched the titles of Taken and believed that these would fit our opening perfectly, so we have taken our final inspiration from the film and will be using them in our own company.

Production  0:08-0:12
Participation of  0:15-0:19
Stars  0:36-0.42
Film By  0:43-0:57
Written by  0:51-0:54
Opening Title  0:57-1:02

Original Film Opening- CHICKS IN WHITE & evaluation.

This is my original film opening idea, I feel that this would be an effective opening because a spoof of this combination has not been done before, it also gives us a basis of how the opening should look, I have a clear image in my head of how this film would look, and how/where it would be filmed.                                                                                                                                                                     In our first lesson as a group (James Braddy, Lara Eardly, Charlotte Gregory and myself) we decided that we would produce Lara's opening sequence, the group decided this because they/we felt that my idea would be too costly, although we agreed that mine was the most original we were afraid that we may be unable to show clearly to the audience what genre this film would be, they also felt that it may be too hard to shoot and produce the opening sequence in the short time we had.       We chose Lara's idea because it was similar and had a clearer outline than my own, we decided that something would need to be altered because the original idea was similar to other films; we want to make ours as original as possible. Below is Lara's original idea.

Film presentation from larapaigeeardley

Art Of The Title

The point of the Title sequence is to show the audience the main characters whether this be in a film or television program.It also sets the scene for the audience,showing the tone for the show/film and presenting the genre within the program.
The films featured in the 'A Brief History of The Art of the Title Sequence' include Lady In the Lake, Anatomy of a Murder and Sherlock Homes.
Anatomy of a Murder uses an image of an old fashion outline of a body unattached from the limbs, by using this it portrays to the audience the genre of this program.

 Vertigo is an extremely effective title sequence. The title is white placed on top of a eye, the whole image is red apart from the title making it more effective and prominent of the screen the typography lifts to showcase a spiral reeling in the eye, the hypnotic sense links to the title 'vertigo' meaning hazed or dizzy.
The redness of the picture foreshadows/suggests murder or a significant event in the program along with the hypnotic sense the program suggests to center around danger- it also suggests that the main character or one of them will have be an unwilling participant to the events that unravel.

Bullitt is also very effective. Bullitt is in black and white suggesting that this film is very old or has been done to show that the characters or the film itself are easy to read and you are able to tell what SIDE they are on. With the title being placed in-front of four men shows that these men will be the main vocal point in the film. With the men in the shadows it shows and the title prominent it shows that the characters may be shady may suggest a gangster film.

BRAZIL

"The optical effects in Brazil have quite a timeless quality to them. I did not consciously set out to create something so lasting. It was more of a serendipitous happening."

The only typography is 'Brazil' in neon lights with a exotic font. The visual imagery is very simple, it looks like your flying or floating above the sky, the 'happy go lucky' feeling along with the relaxing music, the explosions severs that 'happy feeling'.After the explosions occurs the typical horror/thriller music comes in.

SWEENEY TODD

"Animating blood and its movement became the most crucial and challenging element of the sequence. We had to build special platforms within which we imitated blood movement and filmed it. And we had to give it this comical feel, which worked really well."

Typography-By using a font that gives the film an authentic look, it shows the audience it was set in an older period possibly the 1900's, the white text on top of a black background suggests darkness in the film, (death) this could also be supported by the red running throughout the title sequence which represents blood. This portrays the genre to the audience. 

Visual Imagery-Again the dripping of the blood shows that the film will be quite sinister, it almost foreshadows the events in the film, we are already able to tell that people will be hurt/murdered. This wary feel can link to the menacing title Sweeney Todd:The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street.

Elements of Sound- The music is very much like an orchestra  slow, sinister music with an obvious string effect. This type of music is very similar for a horror style feel; it builds the audience up heightening their awareness of the forthcoming events. 

Three Titles

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