Animatic

Here is our animatic.

Unfortunately we missed the deadline for the animatic to be completed. This was due to the fact that when  we where putting together the animatic, we found that we where short by 30 second and had to think up a new end to the sequence. This is want we have been doing for the last week. 

We have many idea some where to add extra shots to the being and others where to follow from where left it. However the trouble by doing this was that, we would had destroyed the being at the good at it was. The other thing was that we did not know where to going the the ending at it was, as he has all ready say where he is going to do. The only option that we saw we could do was to go back in time to before this hold sequence took place, so that is was we did. We went back 5 years ago and start building the story from there. 

This problem could have been solved sooner if we truly considered the timing of each shot. We considered each shot however not in enough detail. We could have create a test for the camera shutter to understand to long we need to have to get a cross the location and point we where trying to make. I think we where being a little bit to optimistic in the length and time of our time sequence. Now we need to continue filming and start to create and edit the title sequence.

Filming - Saturdays 21st January

Here is my comment of the filming shoot in the 21st January:

Shooting Schedule

Soundtrack

When we had our next lesson as a group, I brought up the concern I had will the music and the group agreed the the "Mission Imposible" music was not right for the genre of film that we where making. However they also did not feel the song "Sinnerman" was right either for our genre. So the next step is to find some other type of music that we all feel fits into the genre of crime film that we are making. We all consider songs that we feel where good, however we could not agree on a song. Until I want on to Garageband on the mac, a music/podcast creating software that has free copyright music on it and found the song "Collins Avenue". This had a blues, jazz feel about it very cool and relaxed however with a sense of something building up. This is what we want from the soundtrack.



Now we have our music what is next is to add it to the Animatic and start creating the animation for the title sequence, this is where the music will be played.

Other Location Ideas

We need to find a location to film our main male character in. Amy said that she now a place that might be appropriate, she then went of and took these picture. 

We then had a discussion about the location. I feel and amy agrees that, as it is a alley way it may be a bit stereotypical for a crime to be walking down. However we look this idea of having a brick all in the background some we are now considering other location that we could use.

Our decision about the location not being right as it is a alley way is influenced by our decision to stay away for stereotypical location, which has been influenced by other crime genre opening that set the crime in a dark alley way.

Blue-Print Scene Inspiration

We know that we want a sense without title before our title sequence as that is what we have found other crime titles do. However we want the title sequence of be base around the theme for a blue print, which we have to be animation. The problem we face, however, is that we don't know what it should look like. We undertook in doing some research into other animation title sequence and if they are any thing this what we want to create. The title sequence for the film "Catch Me If You Can" is one of these title sequence.

We like the simplicity of the opening, which the text extending to the top and bottom of the screen. We think that this we be a good idea as then the line for the text could make us the lines on a black print. This idea we think we are doing to uses in our own sequence. This has been help and supported by our research into other types of title sequence that we have done.

Pigeon: Impossible

We have been struggling to visualised who the camera taking photo of London landmark zoom would look and sound like. We also had the idea of putting type e.g. the location and time of the last image, but did not know what the sound would be. However we know that it would be like a typewrite sound. So on my voyages around YouTube I can across this which I later show to the group.   

Pigeon: Impossible is an animation that is loosely based on Mission Impossible. However at 0:11 second and again at 0:15 the sound of a electric typewriter can be heard. This is the sound that we want to use in our own title sequence, to play with the title that will be superimposed on the images of London landmarks. Also at 0:31 there is a photo camera sense where the camera takes photo of people with the shutter sound and the camera vue find superimposed onto the images. This is also something that we want  to do with out title sequence.

The shot film has help us to visualised all the begin elements of our title sequence for the way it will be edited to the sound that we will now uses (electric typewriter and shutter) and help us understand the pace that our title sequence will have to be. This is all down to research that we have do, as we all now what we want to create but this has helped us to understand what our finial sequence may feel and look like.  

Music Ideas

We have been thing about what music we would like to have in our title sequence. We know that it will be a Crime opening, that involves MI5 and a person stealing the crown jewels. So considered songs from other films that we know where to do with Crime and the first piece of music we thought of was the James Bond theme music:

However after listening to it we did not feel that it was suitable for our genre as it was to spy and adventure and tension for what we where looking for, as this piece of music will be play with own blue print titles. After that we considered Jame Bond, we moved on to other ideas. The next song we thought of was the Mission Impossible theme song:

We like it better that the Jame Bond Theme song but would start it at 0:03. The group feel that this was the correct piece of music to use at the time. However I think that we might need to reconsider this at now looking back on it I feel that this more like an action, spy, heist piece that a crime, stylised, satire piece of music that I think we are look for. I remember watch "Thomas Crown Affair" and a trailer for the BBC "Sherlock" that both used a piece of music called "Sinnerman" by Nina Simone which I believe this more the genre of music that we need for our opening.

What I need to do now is to bring up my concerns with the group and propose that we re-think our chosen music to something that fits our type of genre better. This has been influenced by watching other types of openings of film that are similar to where we are trying to create.   

Lighting

As I feel that one of the key area that we did not do that well on with out continuity task was the light, and that we are might uses a single light source for our scene in MI5 when our main female antagonist. We thought it would be appropriate to experiment with high and low key lighting and the effect of this.

High Key Lighting: Makes the scene feel happy and of a light mood as the audience can see everything that is in the shot. High key has more white and less shadow than low key. Also high key is normally used to show that it is day. High key connotes the protagonist character traditionally.

Low Key Lighting: Makes the scene feel tense, dark and moody as the audience can not see everything that is in the shot. This is because it is a primary instinct to be scared of the dark as you don't know what is there and fear the worst. Unlike high key lighting there are more shadows and there is more black with in the shot. Also it has become synonymous with the night. Low key connotes the antagonist character traditionally.

So for our MI5 scene I think that we should use low key light but only have the area around our antagonist in shadow as we need to see her face but what there to be tension and suspense. Whereas I think that our male protagonist should be shot in high key as this will be a juxtaposition to the female as make the audience link the male protagonist as being good as he is in a higher light and the female antagonist as bad as she is in a low light. With will help when we come to film our two scenes, but also in the edit as we have considered what this will mean and look like as a finish out put.

Media Ownership: Convergence and Expansion

Key Words: 

Digital Technology: Media being reduce to binary code consisting of zeros and ones.
Media Convergence: Different media institutions or sectors that are merged together.
Technology Convergence: Devices bringing media content together.
Multimedia: More than one media.

Convergent: The merger of two or more media.

Common Digital Storage (CDS): Smartphones, Flash Drive (USB), Hard Drive. ECT

Pluralism: The coexisting of different or the same media.

Globalisation: Develop International Influence

Dissemination: The spreading of information and/or media products

RSS Feed (Really Simple Syndication): Is the automatic updated news (or similar) feed. The effect of this is the movement away from searching.

Web 1.0: is the simple search and receive (Google)

Web 2.0: is the user generated content (YouTube)

Web 3.0: is content run on Apps (Google Doc)

Digitisation: conversion of analog information into digital information.

Internet: is the connection of computers or servers to each other. 

WWW. (World Wide Web): the way a website is displayed (HTML or Flash)

Cloud Computing: is programes or storage that is accessed for the internet (Gmail or Drop Box)

Media Convergence

Media Convergence are weakening the market boundaries that separate different media products from one another, due to media organisations repackaging and disseminating them in alternative formats. E.g.  image and text for a printed book and can be digitised into a Ebook. Convergence is also drawing together the broadcasting, computing and IT sectors. The globalisation of different sectors e.g. broadcasting and distributing have began to blur the market boundaries and barriers, have increased the competition amongst the number of perceived distributing outlets or ‘windows’ that are available.

Globalisation and convergence have created additional possibilities and incentives to re-package or to ‘repurpose’ media content into as many different formats as is technically and commercially feasible and to sell that product through as many distribution channels in as many geographic markets, to as many paying consumers as possible. Media takeovers, mergers and other strategic deals and alliances have increase at a fast rate of the last fur year the before.

The three types of expansion

Horizontal

This is the expansion of media sectors with in the same area long the supply chain to another media sector that produces the same product. This is used to bring expertise from other institutions or to cut out competition.

Vertical

This expansion is one media institutions expanding into different media sectors of the supply chain e.g. a Media production company will buyout and marketing company so that it is cheaper and/or so that they have more control over the final out put.

Diagonal or ‘Lateral’

This is expansion, of when media corporations diversify into new business areas. This helps to spread risk for a media corporation as if one media sector is hit with damaging movements the other are safe and the corporations is still viable.

How to use Premiere Pro?

On the 10th January I presented to the class "How to use Premiere Pro?" This is important as it will be the software that we will be using to edit of title sequence and create our animatic. I want thought thew seven key area of  Premiere Pro to give the student a good understanding of the software. 

These seven ares are:

- Format

- Layout

- Import

- Timeline and Edit

- Transitions

- Text

- Effects

Below you can see my presentation to the class: