Wednesday 18 December 2013

The Cabin In The Woods

Was the first of many films I will be watching to give me ideas and inspirations for my own opening sequence project. Since I'm doing a Psychological thriller, I've come up with a short list of films to watch and they all fit in within the psychological thriller genre.

"The cabin in the woods" is all about a group of young adults who go to one of their cousins cabin up in the mountains. While there they are manipulated by an organization, that the viewer  know much about.

But as the film evolves you learn that the people are put through trails and tests and sacrificed for a reason that you do not find out until the end of the film.

We will also be watching:
- The Exorcist
- Se7en
- Red Lights    

Tuesday 10 December 2013

Podcast results




This is first of many podcasts me and Chris will present. This podcast shows our results form the first survey "Genre Catergory Information" as this is the best way to get the results across to the people watching.
It is also the first time we've used the green screen as a background for the pod cast and as we put more up, the backgound will change from famous skylines each time.

HAMMER FILM PRODUCTIONS

HAMMER was hugely successful gothic monster movies cemented the companies reputation, from the 1930's onwards. HAMMER was famous for its movies like, Dracula, the wolfman, Frankenstein and the Mummy.
But made a major return in the 2000's with "women in black" which was a huge success and has brought the company back into the limelight. 
As you you can see in the style of there older logo it uses a rather gothic font in blood and the new logo is is rather plain, but the red repersents the colour of blood and the horror factor HAMMER prsents.





Wednesday 27 November 2013

Film Company Logos


These are all examples of film logos I have collected, and placed them on a mood board, to give me inspiration to help me create my own logo for my own film company. For my project, as I'm going to have create a film opening sequence and opening titles. My companies logo will probably follow the same path as the same companies that mainly produce horror films.

Tuesday 26 November 2013

Media Script 2 

This is my script for mine and Chris Sykes second podcast where we shall share the results of our second survey.

Monday 25 November 2013

Media Script


This is my script form which me and Chris Sykes will do a media podcast. Which will include are results from our surveys. And this will be a regularly thing when we come to an outcome.

Friday 15 November 2013

Create your free online surveys with SurveyMonkey , the world's leading questionnaire tool.
This is Chris Sykes and mine, second survey into what people like in their opening scenes and how we can reciprocate in our own opening scene.

Wednesday 13 November 2013

Create your free online surveys with SurveyMonkey , the world's leading questionnaire tool.
This is the survey Chris Sykes and I have created a survey to which genre of film are people's favourite and what makes that genre their favourite. This is the first of three surveys we will be posting for people to answer. to help us in our research for our opening scene.

Tuesday 12 November 2013

Order of opening Credits


While there are numerous variations most opening credits use some variation of the basic order noted within:
  • (NAME OF THE STUDIO)
  • (NAME OF THE PRODUCTION COMPANY)
  • (PRODUCER NAME) PRODUCTION or/and (director only) A FILM BY (DIRECTOR NAME)
  • STARRING
  • (FILM'S TITLE)
  • FEATURING
Featured actors.
  • CASTING or CASTING BY
MUSIC or MUSIC COMPOSED BY or ORIGINAL SCORE 
  • PRODUCTION DESIGN or PRODUCTION DESIGNER
  • SET DESIGN
  • COSTUMES or COSTUMES BY or GOWNS (older movies)
  • HAIRDRESSER
  • MAKE-UP ARTIST
  • SOUND RECORDING (older movies)
  • VISUAL EFFECTS DIRECTOR or VISUAL EFFECTS BY
  • EDITOR or EDITED BY
  • DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
  • PRODUCER or PRODUCED BYEXECUTIVE PRODUCER
  • BASED ON THE BOOK (PLAY, GRAPHIC NOVEL etc.) BY or FROM A PLAY/BOOK BY (older movies)
  • BASED ON THE CHARACTERS BY or BASED ON THE CHARACTERS CREATED BY
  • STORY or STORY BY
  • WRITER(S) or WRITTEN BY
  • DIRECTOR or DIRECTED BY

This is an example of how a film opening sequence may be set out and I will certainly add certain aspects of this set out to my own opening sequence plan which i have posted already and will repost the finished plan very soon.



Me and Chris Sykes created a summary of what genre is and what categories it is divided into and what sub categories are within the categories. This will help us in our research to which genre we will use in our opening scene.
These are mine and Chris Sykes ideas for our opening scene. We cover a wide range of ideas of how we will present out our opening. From where company credits will appear, to where our actors names will be shown.

Thursday 24 October 2013

Spider-Man 2 

It starts of with Columbia studios to show you straight off who has made this film. It is then followed by Marvels appearance as Spider-Man is a marvel creation and this film is a joint embargo by both companies. Then Columbia presents the film and this is followed by who's production this is, all the while in the background are spiders webs on a background of red. 
It then zooms past a few of these webs then the camera rotates and shows the title of the film "Spider-Man 2" it starts to increase in light intensity and then flashes forward towards the screen.  Then all the leading actors names come up one by one in a cartoon stripe form of the person themselves. It then does it for past clips from the first film while still showing actors names. 
It's not till just over half way does the names of the people leading the main departments like; casting, music and costume design and many more.
The background is always in the colour of Spider-Man's suit: red, blue an doge black lines. Each part of this opening has a picture present, but the last picture is of Spider-Man himself to reaffirm this film.

The Road

The opening scene of this film is that of the companies who have made this film, Dimension films, but the other companies name I can't see due to the poor choice in background colour which makes it really hard to read.
Then it goes to Dimension presenting the film and instead of the title, it comes come with who produced the film, who the film is by and then the main actor of the film Viggo Mortensen. It then cuts to a plain black screen with the title of the film "The Road" as it continues it is all in computer graphics, of a deserted road somewhere in the world, we can its a deserted road by the state of care it is in.
It comes up with rest of the supporting actors and other main parts of the film crew involved with its production.

Wednesday 23 October 2013

Gladiator 

The opening of this film begins with showing Universal which made the film but instead of its normal format, it has a golden hint to it which continues through the opening scene. Universal then fades out to blank dark screen, then what looks like a flaming torch starts to illuminate the screen once more, this effect sets the film apart as you start to feel that the film is set a long time ago by the effects already used.

The golden text works well on the black background, even with the effect of the flaming torch. The two main companies involved with this film comes up and they are about to show the film's title "GLADIATOR" comes up but for this part the entire screen is illuminated by the Flaming torch effect and the writing is in a black font.

Then a small prologue comes up to set the story of the film up.