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.
Saturday, 14 January 2012
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.
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.
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.
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.
Friday, 13 January 2012
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.
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.
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
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.
Wednesday, 11 January 2012
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:
Wednesday, 28 December 2011
Institutional Models
There are three main "Institutional Models", these models illustrate the relationship between institutions and audience. The model is a (theoretical) set of ideas which attempts to explain events that we perceive in the real world.
Manipulative Model
The most common theoretical idea is the manipulative model, which sees the audiences as passive whose thinks and thoughts are easily changed and manipulated by the media products that consume. The audiences is defined by there gender, class, ages and race, which powerful media groups construct there products around. This ensure that the media groups own ideas and values widely believed or accepted. This is a conscious process which the media institutions (News International Corporation) being the puppet masters and manipulating their audiences. This suggests that when media material is presented as 'news' the audience is led to believe that it is real and that the representations are truthful. The success of media institutions is down to how convincing hat can pass their viewpoints as facts. This is how the institutions 'interests and viewpoints' are the most likely to be accepted by the audience.
Pluralist or The Market Model
Other models argue that the manipulative model does not take into account the choices which audiences have in their media consumption. The manipulative model rest upon media products concerned with articulating a very similar set of ideas. Whereas, in fact, there are many different views on offer in many different products. This way of thinking is called the pluralist model or the market model. Pluralistic theory believe different groups and interests within society are constantly competing for audiences. The most successful are ones that are able to appeal to the biggest audiences. Pluralists believe that audiences decide in a very active way which they choose and consume their media. If media institutions don't follow this model thay risk losing a large proportion of its audience unless they change in response to there readers.
Hegemonic Model
The hegemonic model rests between the above models, offering a way of thinking about institutions and audiences where both have control over each other. This model acknowledges that media are controlled relatively small group of people and there viewpoints become embedded in the products that they produce, though the promotion of these views is rarely conscious (similar to the manipulative model). Dominant views are seen as 'normal' or 'common-sense' and are given greater emphasis in order to build up a consensus or agreement among the audience. However some members will change the process and resist by making choices about their purchase and consumption of products challenging the idea of consensus (similar to the pluralist or the market model)
Thursday, 22 December 2011
Re-worked Storyboard
After considering re-working our script, we feel very strongly that we needed to re-work our storyboard as that would give us a better understanding of how are opening would work. So that is what we did we want back to our script and start to visuales it and started to draw it out.
After do this on page Mr Ford got us to cut it up and stick it on to the wall to look out our narration and think about whether we need to start it where we do, if it would be better is we started later and where the affect of doing that would be. However we feel that starting later would not work as well as it would be to abrupt and the audience would not know the context in which it was set. We also think that the photo being taken at the start is synonymous with crime thrillers, therefore the audience with automatic know the genre of out opening.
From this we can now create our animatic and get a sense of how our title sequence will work and feel. This will help you to understand the pace of our opening and the mood which is created. This has been help by the research the we did it to other title sequence and The Importance of Storyboarding.
Saturday, 17 December 2011
The Importance of Storyboarding
Today, we watched a documentary on 'The Sixth Sense' to do with the art and the importance of storyboarding. I thought that it was most enlightening as I believed that the easiest way to create our short two minutes title sequence was to create a simple storyboard with just the basic framework, film it and make the film in the editing room. However after watching the documentary I now understand that to create a good and well thought out opening we need to go back and revisit our storyboard adding more detail and gaining a clearer idea of where we want to take our opening.
Below is the documentary that we watched and my notes as well:
Notes:
- Storyboarding is used to map out the film
- Storyboarding is a visual script to the movie
- Visual supporting the story
- Takes 16 weeks to create a storyboard
- Storyboarding is also called '2D Film Making'
- Storyboarding is a plan of how to bring the audience into the film
- Storyboarding saves money and time on set
- Shot should help tell the story to for the sake of them
- The Storyboard os playing the part of the whole crew
- Storyboarding aid decided making
- A cut should be used to help the story telling (thought) process
- Storyboarding aids and assists the execution, cast and crew of a film
- The storyboard is the worst the film can be
- Even is the storyboard is change it still works better then is there was not storyboard
- Produce and editing is a way to enhance the storyboard
- The film is make at the storyboard not in the editing room
From watching this I have decided that we need to go back to our storyboard and refine to include more detail and really plan out opening title sequence, so it makes it easier and quick to film and edit together.
Below is the documentary that we watched and my notes as well:
- Storyboarding is used to map out the film
- Storyboarding is a visual script to the movie
- Visual supporting the story
- Takes 16 weeks to create a storyboard
- Storyboarding is also called '2D Film Making'
- Storyboarding is a plan of how to bring the audience into the film
- Storyboarding saves money and time on set
- Shot should help tell the story to for the sake of them
- The Storyboard os playing the part of the whole crew
- Storyboarding aid decided making
- A cut should be used to help the story telling (thought) process
- Storyboarding aids and assists the execution, cast and crew of a film
- The storyboard is the worst the film can be
- Even is the storyboard is change it still works better then is there was not storyboard
- Produce and editing is a way to enhance the storyboard
- The film is make at the storyboard not in the editing room
From watching this I have decided that we need to go back to our storyboard and refine to include more detail and really plan out opening title sequence, so it makes it easier and quick to film and edit together.
Thursday, 1 December 2011
Re-worked Script
After our conversation with Mr Michie we decided that we have bit of more off than we can chew. So we when back to the drawing board and start to change our script take out part that we felt weren't needed and cut down the dialogue for our main female characters.
We also look at some other title sequences that we thought might help us to decide on how we will start our title sequence. We have chosen to start with and photography camera take photo of the london landmark. Starting close and then zooming out reveal the hole landmark. We have some changed our idea of having the female talking and then the male talk to now. Just having the female talking be into cut in the ambiguous shot of our male characters walking.
I think that this has help us understand and refine how our title sequence will work and focus on what is important for us. This has been helped by watch other title sequence and seeing how thay construct the opening to tell a story. I now feel that we need to re-work our storyboard, to help us visualised out opening.
We also look at some other title sequences that we thought might help us to decide on how we will start our title sequence. We have chosen to start with and photography camera take photo of the london landmark. Starting close and then zooming out reveal the hole landmark. We have some changed our idea of having the female talking and then the male talk to now. Just having the female talking be into cut in the ambiguous shot of our male characters walking.
I think that this has help us understand and refine how our title sequence will work and focus on what is important for us. This has been helped by watch other title sequence and seeing how thay construct the opening to tell a story. I now feel that we need to re-work our storyboard, to help us visualised out opening.
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