Thursday, 15 December 2011

Jelly Baby Opening Credits

During my lesson using the research from other films and there opening credits i was able to create my own. Myself and partner created four scenes that willl be included in our film credits. We used jelly babis to represent the actors within our film, we used other resources around us to create the actual scenes.

In this scene the main character is walking through a dark alley way. As she panics because she feels she is being watched or followed, the camera fllows behind her and that is when the directors name appears on screen. 

In this scene the camera will be close up in the main characters face to show her destress. This is the point where her name appears at the side of her fac.


I decided to mention the directors again to show their importance. Also i repeated their names because they also act in this particular scene. When creating my actual opening credits i am going to make changes to this and put the less important actors.



This scene is going to be an establishing shot of a church and this is when the title will appear acroos the screen. This would illistrate to the audience that this is well all events will be taking place, this is the main setting and this is when Espiridion begins.


Wednesday, 14 December 2011

The Opening Credits

The opening credits of a film are shown at the very beginning and list the most important members of the production.  They are now usually shown as text superimposed on a blank screen or static pictures, or sometimes on top of action in the show. There may or may not be accompanying music. To gain more knowledge and understanding on what credits really are and how they work, I have recently been doing some research. I have been looking at a number of films, so that I could analyse various techniques which have been included. I decided to do research on the films 'Se7en' and 'Vertigo', so that i could compare there opening credits.

I discovered that most films include the following:
  • NAME OF THE PRODUCTION COMPANY
  • STARRING
  • FILM'S TITLE
  • CASTING 
  • MUSIC COMPOSED BY 
  • PRODUCTION DESIGNER
  • EDITED BY
  • DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
  • PRODUCER
  • FROM A PLAY/BOOK BY 
  • WRITTEN BY
  • DIRECTOR 



The film Se7en  is a modern film which is a lot more lengthy and faster than the old film Vertigo. The opening sequence of Se7en included credits on the production, director, actors, title, cast, editor composer and many more. The sequence was playing at a constant pace that allowed the viewer to read everything on screen in time. The writing was clear and easy to understand because it was placed on a darker screen. I found it very strange that the title of the film did not appear first on screen. The production company, director and various important actors appeared before the title. The actors were shown before the titles to suggest that they are the most important ones, or the ones with the marquee names that cost them a lot of money to hire. After the title 'Se7en' came on the screen two actors appeared on the same screen, then it increased to three and so on. This was done to portray the less important characters as they were not on screen for long and had to share their time. Before analysing this film and how credits work, I was not aware that the costume designer and composer would get mentioned. It is very difficult to spot, but in the opening sequence the Director has been mentioned twice, this may be to stress that they done the most work or are very important. When creating my opening sequence for my film I am going to use this technique or repeating important people more than once to make it clear the most important people. Repeating names allows the audience to remember as it stays in their minds.


BELOW IS MY TIMELINE FOR THE FILM SE7EN:



Similarly, the film Vertigo also repeats the Director to show great importance. This film includes most of the credits used in Se7en but in different ways. Vertigo is a hold fashioned film so many of the techniques and credits used may not be modern. Vertigo used very bright colour to make it clear to the audience, however the music being played in the background may be somewhat disturbing to some people. This film also included the most important characters to open the sequence to attract attention. If the audience notices a particular marquee name in the opening of a film, they are most likely going to watch it. Unlike Se7en, Vertigo includes a lot more writing on screen. This may be a problem because usually at the beginning of a film the audience is not going to want to read a lot. In my film, when doing the credit I will learn from this mistake and put the least amount of writing i can on screen, so it does not bore my audience. 

BELOW IS MY TIMELINE FOR THE FILM VERTIGO:

Wednesday, 7 December 2011

My first experience of editing my horror film


Editing my final horror film was not as easy as I thought it would be. During the past week myself and partner have been taking the video camera to various locations to film the opening scene of our horror film. I began putting the scenes together to find that we shot too much footage, which we could not use. We were giving a specific length for the film and could not go over that time. Therefore, myself and partner decided on the most important scenes and cut them down. This was a huge problem because various scenes were needed and without them, the film may not make a lot of sense. Eventually we overcame this issue, by agreeing on the most important scenes to include and the extra footage we kept as back up.






Myself and partner found it difficult trying to make the 'match on action' shots look as neat as possible. In our horror film we used two different locations. The first one being an old church and the second the inside of a new church. Making the 'match on action' shot look perfect was hard because the doors were not the same. We cut and and adjusted the colour of the old church door and new church door to make them look similar. This made a slight difference, but it was still quite obvious that one door had an old large brown door and the other had a freshly polished brown door. No matter how hard we tried to make it look as though the character walked into an old church, the view from inside did not match.













After watching my edited footage back, myself and partner noticed that the main character was not as scary as we originally planned. We attempted to add various effects, such as the lighting and colour of the little girls hair, but it just didn't work. We then came to the conclusion that we needed to find a new actor that was suitable for that role. Overall, even though our horror film is not complete i feel that we have done a good job because we have good time management and have stuck to our plan which was the storyboarding.









Monday, 5 December 2011

How would i market my horror film ?

Trailers:
I would like to spend a lot of my money on the Trailer of my film. Trailers are the most important part of marketing, because it creates awareness of the actual film. They attract different types of people and discover their particular target audience. Trailers are often exciting, they are meant to persuade people to watch the film. I would spend money and time making sure the trailer looks good. Many people from all over the world are able to access trailers as it is on the internet. I would put my trailers on YouTube, where there can be various other links. I would create more than one trailer to attract a wider audience. For example, the film Sherlock Homes has one action trailer that has fast movements and full of excitement. They have another trailer which is based on the comedy side of the film. In the long run they benefit from it because more people will know about their film. They would get more viewers that enjoy action and comedy, and will then make a lot more money.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHBHMtl9YWw&ob=av3e

Website:
I would create a website for my horror film that people can go on. On my website I would include various things that would entertain people. People could go on the website and check updates on the film, when it is going to be released. The plot of the film could be put on the website and trailers also. The different actors could be included and which characters they are going to play. Soundtracks and pictures can be put on the website that can be downloaded and put on to mobile phones, ipods etc.. 
http://sherlock-holmes-movie.warnerbros.com/dvd/index.html