task 4 analyse 2 title sequences/task 5

Captain America: The winter soldier

The title sequences were interesting to see as every title sequence suited the style of marvels product captain america, with stars, stripes and shields illustrated well and made the title sequence more eye-catching, also the motion pictures were well presented as the film is an action movie and the title sequence made that clear. The title designing was great and the graphic designing was equally great.

The Lego Movie

The title sequence in the lego movie was colourful and the motions of the title sequence made it enjoyable to watch. I like the way the theme of the title sequence was building blocks which relates back to the movie.

Extension:
The purpose of a film opening is to notify the audience about who is starring in the film, the director of the film, the producing company and producer and many more important things. Usually these things happen at the beginning of the film to get the information out of the way about the film.

Research - practical remake planning (Blog Task 16)

We have chosen to do our remake of The Breakfast Club.


Our story board:

Research - Analysis of High School Micro Features (Blog Task 15)

Analysis of '10 Things I Hate About You' Camerawork, Sound, Editing and Mise-en-scene 

'10 Things I Hate About You' is a high school teen drama film. 

The title sequence of ’10 Things I hate about you’ starts of with an establishing shot. This shows that the film is quite high budget as it can afford the facilities and equipment to support shots like this. The establishing shot is an overview a city, which shows a bright day indicating the happy, uplifting atmosphere.

 

Overview of city  

A mid-shot is used to show a group of urban teenage girls in a car dancing along to the diegetic sound of music coming from their car. There is high lighting on them, which implies their happy mood. This a juxtaposed by a mid-shot of another girl in a different car where she is in low lighting due to her being in the shade which shows her very miserable mood. Also, the music played in the girl’s car is cut off by the diegetic sound, which is more rock music, which is being played in the car of the second girl.

group of girls in the car

There is a long shot to show the setting of a high school, which indicates that the film will be based around teenage situations.  There is a close up of the ‘Guidance Counsellor’ title placed on the desk that is complemented by Foley sound of typing, which indicated that this scene is based in an office.  Shot reverse shot is used to show the conversation between the guidance counsellor and the new student, this shot focuses on the dialogue shared between them both.

Long shot of high school

A pan is used to show one of the students showing all the high school social groups to the new student. This gives the audience an insight to what it’s like in the high school. There is non-diegetic sound of drums playing in the background steadily, which shows that this scene will lead to information that will interrupt the flow of the scene.

Student showing new student around

Throughout the scene continuity editing is used and ellipsis that condenses the time period of the scene. The new student seems to get most of the screen time which shows that he is potential a protagonist.

RESEARCH - Bring it on (High school drama) analysis of camera, editing, sound and mise en scene

RESEARCH - Who makes Title sequences?

 Who makes Title sequences?

Below is some of the questions and answers from an interview from the Creative Director of 'The Conjuring' title sequence.

 

 

 

 

 

 

RESEARCH - what is the purpose of a film opening?

1) This means that a film needs to catch an audience to draw them in to want to carry on watching.
 
2) The risks of 'instant arousal' is that if you start a film opening too strong, the audience may have questions which leads to the problem of all of those questions having to be answered in the film.

3) This is so that the audience can adjust to the nature of the movie, without knowing the whole story.

4) A classic film opening would always tell us the location of the film, the occupation of the main character, the nature of the film and it generally leads the audience into the story smoothly.

5) The title sequence of 'Seven' is so effective because straight away it gets you ready for the atmosphere of the film as it allows the audience to become almost part of the movie. It foreshadows the happenings of the film and introduces the audience to the main character.

6) Orson Welles wanted to have no credits in his opening sequence so he was able to plunge the audience straight into the film story line. However Universal studios changed his idea and added in the credits so that the film was not the way he intended.

7) The trick of 'Film Noir' is that the beginning of a film is more like the ending of the film.

RESEARCH - What is genre and what is a teen film?