Media 2 min title sequences

Media 2 min title sequences (ideas)
Story line/ storyboard (Oringinal idea)

Initial Ideas as a Group

Tuesday 8th December

We as a group discussed different ways filming the title sequence but we decided to continue the story from our previous video " Morris, I Want Him Dead". Below is our final idea:

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Harri and Matt are seating down talking (in Harri’s Office). or Harri entering the room and meeting Matt seating on his chair.

Flashback of Matt and Ayo in a fighting scene with Matt’s voice over the clip: either in a toilet, classroom or outside the buildings.

Harri runs away and matt pulls out his gun, screen blacks out and then we see Harri on the floor struggling and crawling away.

Matt points a gun at a camera (camera from Harri’s view), when the screen goes blank the gun shoot goes off.

While the screen is black , we hear the phone ring and Matt saying “ its done”

Title will appear from small print to big print on a black background.

Photo of our final stroyboard with 24 boxes

Wednesday 9th of December 2009

This is a photo of our first storyboard, later changed and developed a few shots :

Developed Idea

- Vee would infiltrate Morris' office.
- Come across two guards, within the office.
- Deal with both guards, and then wait for the main target to arrive. -- For this idea to work we would have to show the past 'flashbacks' which I will comment on later withing this blog.
- There will be a short conversation between the hitman and the target, with the target then being assassinated/executed.

'The 5th Column' - the name gives the audience a tingling feeling about what our film is about and it was has meaning behind it that is associated with the word assassin which our movie is based on.

The actual meaning of 5th column is this;
"A fifth column is a group of people who undermine a larger group, such as a nation, from within, to the aid of an external enemy."

Drafts from our opening scene

Thursday 10th December

The first clips that our group filmed was the scene which involves me (Ayo) as Harri's bodyguard and Matthew Venis. In this clip we show a flashback of how Matthew Venis kills me (Ayo). We have done it in black and white colour to show that the action is in the past and not present.

1- Vee punches Ayo.
2- Vee tackles Ayo into the desk, papers fly off the table.
3- Vee drags Ayo across the desk and papers fly off the edge of the table.
4- Ayo falls off the table and lands in a heap.

5 - You See Ayo on the floor with the sound of Vee Cocking the gun in the backgorund

With feedback from audience we decided to extend and improve on this shot as we would finally see in the other draft shots.

second week of January

8th and 12th January 2010

Garage band - we as a group have used garage band in the second week of January. We are not too sure if we are going to use Garage band for our final background music.

Draft 1

we have completed a draft of our opening sequence but have noticed we have made a few mistakes such as lighting and continuity. We are now going to redo some of the ending shots in the next few does such as the camera shot of the Gun.

solution and improvement for draft 1

We have decided to change the scene where Harri walks. we are thinking of cutting up his walking and adding extra shots of Matt getting ready. Also we have had some progress on the garageband for our instrumental for our movie.

February ( completion)

We have decided to use Garage band to create our music and we have decided to re-film Harrighton's walking scene at the beginning also to cut out harrighton's whistling because we as a group feel that it sounds better and replace that with background music with the new remade scene. Also we are adding an extra shot, this type of a phone ringing and a conversation between between Guled Jama and Matthew Venis.

draft 2 of opening 2 minute sequence

This is our second draft and our unfinished version of our 2 minute opening sequence. We have used a range of different software's on the Mac during the m
aking of the filming, some recommending ones and some new ones we just tried out and find on the Mac. This also includes the improvement from draft 1 which invovles gun affects, refilmed Harri and Matthew talking scene and extending the fighting scene by adding a new character in. We still have the credits and the Non dieigetic music to include to our final piece of work.

Evaluation

This is our uncompleted version of the 2 minute opening title sequence and we have added and changed some of the shots that we planned in our storyboard. the changes we made was mainly prolonging the fighting scene to make it more interesting. Also Harrighton added gunshot effects to make the gunshots during the film more realistic.

The part we struggled with is the lighting , even though at the time of filming the lighting didnt change but whilst watching the film lighting and focus of the camera changes. This could be due to the quality of camera or the different angle shots we took.

softwares used:

• Type live -We used this software to create the opening two credits : Jama production and AdotBREEZY LTD. This helped us by bringing our credits toa animation and the background of the credits

• Imovie - editing movies and adding effects

• Garage Band - creating our background music which will be non-diegetic for our final piece
  
  

this is photo's of our group, recording,filming and working during our coursework.

Final piece

Tuesday 9th February

This is our finished version with the credits, effects and background music , we have made a few changer during the three different versions such as , Harrighton's walk , extending the fight scene and adding a conversation between Matthew Venis and Guled Jama. the non-diegetic music we have used is the background music and the telephone. The diegetic sound is the gun shot effect that we have used a few times.

Location shots - oakgrove school classroom

Music analysis

With better knowledge of Garage band and a lot of thoughts we have ending up with the music that is played in the final film. We decided to use non-diegetic music for the titles at the beginning to give a feeling of what to come. We used piano to show the calm at the time of when Harrighton was walking to his office and finally we changed the music at the fight scene to give the audience tension and to up the beat.

photographs throughout the coursework

Characters -

Harrighton Morris - director

Matthew Venis ( V)

Ayomide Babatunde (Bodyguard 1)

Emmanuel Ajala (Bodyguard 2)

Improvements/evaluation

The only improvements that I can think of are that we could have made the shooting more realistic but we don't have the resources for that. For example fake blood. also we could have picked a better location to shot our scene to make the 2 minute opening sequence more realistic as well.

Audience response

Jake Austin

"musics good mate, good intro ending good due to credits . easy to watch reflecting camera useage, eg the camera panning . good use of switching cameras eg harri walking through the door him being shot, you walking through the door, flows whole way through. fighting scene good use of software (Y) eg black and white, also good use of audio such as phone call at the end and throughout the video, eg being able to hear the characters. ect..

Annalee Thomas

"I thought it was really good. The music at the beginning really works well because it doesnt give away the scene too much but it still builds tension. I like how it shows the flashback in black and white and i thought that where the scene keeps cutting out to create that flashing effect was really effective. Also i like how the clock ticking created tension in the room when Harri walked in and how the low angle shot near the end gave the impression that Matt is a powerful character. Oh and the end is good too, because it makes you think what will happen next"

Phil Herwing

"the music at the begining like the piano playing works really well with the sounds in the background wen matt getting ready and that and then it cuts n harris silently walking the music at the end is really good the little like phone jacker thing and then when the music changes during the fight scene it compliments the upbeat tone of the scene.
the camera shots were really good and youy used a wide range of diffrent ones that worked well with the piece overall A+ guys :) "

Elliot Fraser

"that is real quality! like it a lot "

Logline

Analysis of popular title sequences for our choosen media piece

importance of title sequence

The importance of title sequence is to give us a feel of what the movie could be about and the mood of the movie could be. Also it gives us an insight of some of the main characters.

Thank you for smoking - http://shadowplaystudio.com/smoking.html

This title sequence is based around smoking, everything to the song lyrics to the background of a cigarette package. Also the sound is non-diegetic with a man's voice singing about smoking and the effects of it. Also have the classic music tells me that though this title sequence was done along time ago, seems like the title sequence is for a comedy movie. this is because of the music is joyful and catchy. Finally the credits are all lied out on boxes of cigarettes which keeps in the theme of smoking.

James Bond - Golden Eye Title sequence

The title sequence is from classical James Bond movie, golden eye, and also the title sequence is typical of a james bond movie. The gun shot in the beginning connotes the title golden eye. The bullet is golden and the camera angle of the gun looks like a eye and also shows a women's eye later on. the tradition of a James bond movie is that there are lots of girls shown in the title sequence. The next objects that are falling from above are symbols that relate to Russia and their political.

Most of the imagery is animated and colours are bold and may relate to the setting of the whole movie which is in Russia. The sound is Non-diegetic and a female voice is singing throughout the whole title sequence and includes the movie name in the lyrics.

Terminator

Out of the four opening title sequence that we chosen , i thought that this one was the worst one. Although the background is the shapes of the letters in the word " The Terminator", there isn't a lot to this opening scene. the credits are displayed like a computer data, this may mean that high tech computers and machinery may be evolved in the actually movie.

The sound is Non diegetic and the music is the classical theme song for terminator. The music has suspense and drama in the sound, also includes heavy beats. you could also argue that one particular noise may be a sound of metal hitting each other.

lucky number slevin

this title sequence that we picked is from a movie called Lucky Number Sleven and although this clip is 10 minutes long we couldn't found a two minute clip of the opening scene Lucky Number Sleven.

In the beginning we have title credits and the background looks like a type of book. We also have slow, quiet and gentle music throughout the first minute or so. This clip out of the four is the only one that has both Diegetic and non-diegetic sounds. The Diegetic sound is from the Tv that is turn on in a room and the diegetic sound is the smooth background music that i previously talking about. then the camera focuses on the telephone which may connote that there is business being down or an expected phone call.

North by northwest

this title sequence from North by Northwest is made by Saul Bass. the lines create the background of building in New York. also the directions of the lines go north and northwest , showing that is connotes the title name of the movie.

the setting is set in New york city and the weather is a typical new york weather which is clear and sunny. all the characters are blue coloured people, that are in the business working class workers.

the music used in the opening scene is gives a thriller and exciting feel to it, also it sounds very dramatic. Saul Bass uses Non-diegetic music which i think that he would have created just for this music. finally we get to the opening scene where a unknown guy as killed a man , but we dont see any identity in this short clip at the end,

Saul Bass

fact file

• Born May 8th 1920 – New York City
  
• Died April 25th 1996 – Los Angeles
  
• Job/profession: Graphic designer, filmmaker.
  
• he was in the film making industry for 40 years
• Also created the Carmen Jones 1954 film poster.
  
• Academy Award winner film maker
• best know for his motion title sequence and normal the opening title sequences to his movies represent the movie itself.

Saul bass has had an successful 40 year career in the film industry which started in the year 1952.He was most famous for creating and designing title sequence is a different style.

Famous movies

• GoodFellas
  
• Casino
  
• Psycho
  
• Carmen Jones
  

Psycho open title sequence

This title sequence is special because of the disjointed title that was raced together and pulled apart. also the music that is used in the title sequences it very punchy and quick. The kinetic typography is very dramatic and spooky. final the way that the words of been cut and the pace of it cutting movement which may represent a knife or dagger. I think that Saul Bass uses Non-diegetic sounds , the music sound is punchy and loud which may connote that this could be a horror movie..

THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH: THE TITLE CREDITS

This title sequence by Saul Bass is completely the opposite to Psycho's title credits. More bright colours are used and Saul Bass plays along with the background. The background looks like sheets of paper. Through the sequences certain squares open up the non- diegetic sounds is live , has a cartoon feeling to it and it makes the viewer feel warm.

Morris, I Want Him Dead ( completed version)

Morris, I Want Him Dead ( completed version)

the is our complete version of Harri, I Want Him Dead, the improvements that we made where the lighting , type of music , title credits and ending credits and the ending of the movie when the guns slides on the table until Matthew says " considerate done".

Evaluation

this is our unfinished preliminary sequence that includes 180 degree rule, match on action and shot reverse shot. the match in action shot in this video was taken when Matthew Venis opens the green door and walks into the room. during the conversation involving Matthew Venis and Guled Jama both 180 degree rule and shot reverse shot used at that present time. also we included panning when Matthew Venis was holding and loading the gun against his chest.

Improvements

The faults that we found whilst editing the film was the use of lighting, we noticed when Matthew entered the room the lighting increase from dark to light and this ruined the continuity of the film.

Harri begs it too much

Evaluation

In the video called Harris begs it too much we had to use different camera angles to complete the task. the sound track that we used in the video was "Kano - P's and Q's. The first camera movement that we shot was a tilt up movement. Then the next shot was a high angle shot of Guled Jama and a low angle shot of Harrington Morris. The high angle shot shows that Guled looks superior but on the other hand the low angle shot on Harrington shows as that he looks inferior ccompared to Guled. But between the the tilt shot and the high angle shot, we accidentally cut a clip when Harrington falls over Guled.

Then we jumped into a far angle shot of Ayomide Babatunde (me) and Guled Jama beating up Harrington Morris.

Improvements

I think we could have improved on the continuity of the video because at the time of making the video we were just filming random clips. At the end we played around with the video clips and made a story line out of them.

Table Tennis : Oakgrove Championship

We included two of the three shots because we used the tilt shot in our previous video. At the beginning we used tracking when Matthew entered the room and panning out while Guled and Matthew where playing table tennis. also to make the video more enjoyable and interesting we added titles such as the " 1 hour later scene"and background music.

Improvement

We could have could have improved on the panning out. If we could have another go at that scene we could have used a object to help use steady the camera because as you all can see that the camera was not steady when we where filming the panning movement in the film.