This is our production logo. We created our logo using the photoshop programme where we researched pictures of "cool pyramid designs" and we came across this image which we deemed suitable for our production logo. This picture was eye catching and we agreed both the colours were vibrant and unique, which differentiates our production amongst other groups.
As we opened the photoshop programme, we had to change the dynamics of the page. We changed the width to 1920 pixels and the height to 1080 pixels, then we began to make our logo. We added a layer so that we were able to insert the pyramid design.When reinserted the image we faced the problem of size. Our image was too small to fit the background. so we had to crop the background in order to fit the image and then we used the pipette tool to capture the background colour on the image and paste it on the background of our logo. The reason why we chose the colours pink, greens, black and white is because they are bright colours and with the contrast from the black made it look more bright and eye catching. Black annotates death and pink annotates love and girly things and considering we are a production made up of girls who create films that include death and thriller scenes.
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I am going to be analysing the thriller-drama film The Shawshank Redemption. This is the first screenshot I took of the opening sequence and it shows two men walking towards the camera, with lots of other men around them all wearing the same clothes. This indicates that the film is going to be set in a male prison. Also the background noise of all the men talking and walking is very quiet as there is a voice over of one of the main characters who is walking towards the camera. This shows the audience that he is important in the film. The next screenshot is at a different camera angle, this time it is of a midi shot, showing only the top half of the character but also showing a lot of the background too. In this shot it shows all of the men in the yard looking up at a tower because there is a siren going off. At the moment it doesn't indicate what this means to the audience yet, it could mean danger but none of the characters are moving urgently. In the third screenshot it shows a bus driving on a road quite fast, it is going towards a large building this could either be the prison or something else which will be later introduced. In the background there are also other inmates walking in a straight line along side two guards. The sky is grey, dull and cloudy which can annotate anger and sadness. At this point the dialogue has finished and has been taken over by sad music, mainly played by violins. In this shot the camera angle has changed to a crane shot, this time it is a crane shot. This is where the camera is on a crane and is able to get to shoot really high angle shots. They have been able to get a birds eye view almost of the prison and it shows all of the inmates walking in the same direction. There is also some more dialogue over the music, of someone speaking through a microphone telling everyone to walk towards the main gate. In this shot it shows the same bus from the previous shots driving towards the same gate that all of the inmates are walking towards. There are two armed guard standing on top of the gate, the guns are a sign of a thriller film. This can also mean that the prison has high security and that there might be lots of action in the film. Also the music has gone quiet again and the same voice for dialogue has come back, this time mentioning someone called Andy again. The next shot shows some men all cramped inside of the driving bus. They are all wearing suits or smartly dressed. This could mean they have come from court and are now new inmates are the prison. The voice over introduces the character at the back by telling the audience what crime he had committed and how we was known from the outside to now in prison. The camera also gradually zooms into the characters face, showing his sad and confused expression. In this screenshot is shows the men in the yard again, but also focusing on one of the main characters. People around him are clapping and it is unclear why but I suppose it is aimed at the men on the bus. All of the inmates are allowed to run about, smoke be loud and hang round in groups. This could mean that the prison isn't a high solitary one and that the inmates are not the worst of the worst. Also the main character is seen to be running in the opposite direction to everyone else, and points and smiles at someone. This next shot then shows one of the main characters jump up onto a platform and four other inmates follow him, they all look over and down at all the other inmates. They have been showed as the bigger/more important people in this shot. They stand as the gate opens for the bus to come through and at the moment there is no dialogue just the sound of the inmates cheering and whistling. In the final shot it shows the bus coming through the gates and being faced with five guards lined in a triangle. This can be seen as intimidating to the incoming inmates. Also all of the other inmates are surrounding the gate and are shaking and banging the fence. It then cuts to two officers running down some stairs with guns and getting into position, pointing their guns towards the big crowd, being prepared for anything that could happen. This can indicate the scene including action and violence.
After we presented our presentation to the class, we got some feedback from our peers and teacher. Some of the comments were constructive criticism and some were positive. They gave us this feedback so that we are able to edit and improve on our opening sequence and to help make sure that the audience understands the opening sequence thoroughly.
Peers: - A lot of our comments were positive which means we wont have that much extra to improve on, our peers thought that our presentation was well detailed, we gave good explanation and they were impressed with the amount of research and thought that went into the presentation. - Others thought that the narrative for the opening sequence was unclear or what will happen after the film. - Some mentioned that it will be difficult to show the teenage girl being possessed and that we will need to research the correct ways on how we are going to be able to show the teen as being possessed. - Some of our peers comments mentioned that they liked how we included a video in our presentation all about the importance of music within a scene and what difference it can make. - Finally some peers mentioned how they liked the idea of some of our camera angles and shots, for example our idea of putting the camera on top of the bottle or replacing it so that we are able to get a good look of all of the cast. Teacher: Our teacher mentioned some similar comments to our peers, mentioning how detailed and well thought our presentation was also she liked how we included a video too. She also mentioned that we will need to research other film and other scenes to look at how they were able to make it look like a character was possessed, and to make sure that it comes across clearly. Another thing she mentioned was that we desperately need to start casting our roles to people so that we have all that ready and prepared also this will make it easier to start planning too. The opening sequence of Sixth Sense is mainly made up of non-diegetic sounds, as the credits are shown introducing everyone who was involved in the film. The music is quite calm, but it also has a mysterious feel which will make the audience feel that, that is what the film is about. The credits start off with the studio name, at this point the music is really quiet and started to crescendo as it went on. When the title is introduced it is very quickly, in a Mexican wave sort of style across the screen along with very quick violins making quite an eerie sound. As the sequence goes on the music becomes louder and more intense also the music begins to overlap with different instruments and pitches this could indicate that in the film it can become confusing, tense and a lot of things happening. The colours used in the opening sequence are dull, black and white this doesn't really represent anything in the film and doesn't have many annotations, although the colour black has annotations of death, and the colour white annotates purity these are two completely different annotations. These annotations could represent the child in the film as he is pure and innocent but is able to see dead people. The way they have edited the credits is quite spooky as the animation makes them flicker across the screen sometimes quickly appear and then fade away. This is a good thing to use for a thriller because it reflects the genre really well. As the credits disappear a flickering light bulb starts to appear, a flickering lightbulb can indicate something bad about to happen which also helps to show that the genre of the film is thriller. There is now only diegetic sounds as a squeaky door opens and you hear footsteps walking down old stairs into a basement. A woman in heels and a dress appears and walks towards a shelf full of a wine she grabs a bottle and then slowly turns around to look at something on the other side of the room this adds mystery to the scene as it makes you wonder if there is something down there with her. The camera angles used is one starting with a close up of the light bulb to show the audience the flickering, then changing to a wide shot of the basement but the camera is 'hidden' behind the shelf of wine. The camera slowly starts to zoom in to the woman's face which shows her pulling a confused facial expression, you then hear what sounds like someone stepping on glass which then changes the angle of the camera to a midi shot of the woman standing and turning around, it then changes to another wide shot this time the camera is quite low down by the stairs and shows the woman begin to shiver, she then begins to run out of the basement and up the stairs. I decided to use the opening sequence to the film Final Destination 5, I chose this because it is completely different to The Sixth Sense also the type of thriller is also different.
The sequence starts off with introducing the the title of the film with dramatic music. The title is made to look like it bursts through some glass, making it shatter and there is a also a huge explosion with fire. These are all indications of a thriller. There are also lots of different props and objects also involved in the sequence for example skulls and other strange things smashing through glass. The opening sequence is made completely up of non-diegetic sounds, the music is very dramatic which makes the audience feel like this will be a dramatic and intense film. The way they have edited the credits is by making sure that each name, explosion and object all come into sequence at the same time as the beat of the music, also the credits keep repeating themselves this could indicate that something in the film keeps on repeating itself. As I have already watched Final Destination I know that the film is full of visions, death and a lot of repeating of scenes. The opening sequence is full of blood, water, weapons and other strange things these could all be indications of how some of the characters die in the film. This also prepares the audience for lots of death in the film. The camera angles in the opening sequence are different in every shot, this adds variation to it. Sometimes there are close ups of the glass being smashed and the object flying through, sometimes the camera is far away. Also the camera is sometimes behind the glass but then sometimes in front of it, this adds variation and makes it still interesting to watch although it is basically doing the same thing. I chose to use the opening sequence to The Purge: Election Year and I noticed they use contrapuntal sound, they did this by adding fun, happy music to a scene about death, murder and full of blood. The music was also a diegetic sound which means the characters and the audience can hear it. I know this because in the opening sequence it shows the iPod playing and the murderer in the video dancing to it. Also there were voices and muzzled screams in the background coming from the victims. The opening sequence also includes some dialogue, of the murderer talking to his victims and explaining his choice of music and what they mean. The victims are a family and the murderer then asks the mother to choose which one of her children she wants to survive. For the second evaluation I decided to use the opening sequence for Spectre and it is just non-diegtic sound throughout the scene. It is of a sound track, it includes lots of different instruments and it has a Mexican feel to the music too. In the scene there is a weird death/skeleton festival or parade going on, everyone wearing masks and carrying skeletons and things that represent death. Which gives me the idea that the music is also contrapuntal because it seems too fancy, happy and festive to be used in a parade full of death represented things and mystery.
The opening sequence doesn't include any dialogue, which probably means that the scene is supposed to be focused on what is going on in the scene rather than any speaking. A thriller is a genre of film, TV, book or play it typically contains lots of action, excitement and suspense. Thrillers have many sub-genres which means different categories/types of thriller come together to create a two-toned piece of media. Within the Thriller genre, for example there can be an action thriller, psychological thriller, horror thriller and many more. This expands the thriller field and gives more inspiration and depth for film directors to get more creative and extend all the different to create a thriller. Preliminary Task Evaluation
The first step we took to create our preliminary video was to plan what camera angles we were going to use and how we wanted to corporate them into the video. We then made a story board which showed each clip and angle step by step, this included drawings of the character and the environment. We decided to film it in a corridor and a "gangster" conversation inside the schools art room, for the dialogue part of the task we used over the shoulder shots from each character that way the audience is able to see each character separately and be able to judge each character and their comparisons, and then we used a wide shot to show both characters and the "intense" part of that scene that way the audience is able to see both characters expression and the way they react. As we only had 3 days to plan, film and edit the Preliminary Task it isn't that impressive and the editing isn't that neat, we also weren't able to create a scene using props and have good costumes to help the audience identify the characters, but we were able to include every camera angle we wanted to and gave the best effort we could. |
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