Foundation Portfolio in Media

The brief we was working to was to create an opening sequence to our own action-comedy genre film called ‘Ace Kurtis’. We named the movie this as Ace Kurtis is the full name of our main protagonist and he also has a significant link with playing cards,   However, as the opening continues we start to notice the presence of a child and a women as children’s toys are scattered around and the main character puts on a wedding ring. This then sets an enigma for the audience as it asks the question ‘’where are they’’ as we only see one character throughout the sequence. Also, throughout the sequence the audience will notice lots of playing cards are being used as these are significant to the story and set another enigma because the audience don’t know why. The comedy element of the film is vaguely seen during the sequence, for example our main protagonist wears feminine slippers, his tie is scruffy and he struggles to put the kettle back. The truncheon he reveals could also add a comed

For our A level Media coursework, we had to make an opening sequence of our own choice and we had to decide on our own genre. yfgylgyilhv=

On my other post I spoke about the our background music, we had to change our background music because the current song we had (Emergent Dead Letters) didn't go with our edit, so as a group we had to decide on a new song, and our song that we have chose is another non copyrighted rock song which is called  

The idea for me getting the idea of the cards and pinning them on the wall was from a TV series called Daredevil. They would pin the cards up every time they find a new lead to one of the biggest criminal in there city. Also there is also a card game called  killer, which is basically about cops and robbers and you also need to know how to wink.

Our teacher reviewed our footage whilst i was editing, and we realised as a group we need to re shoot some more scenes to get the most possible marks to get the grades we want. We need to focus on mise en scene as some shots that we had should not be there. To get more marks we need to : wide shot of the bedroom 3 shots of him changing clothes Variation of shots  Alarm heard on black screen The phone having a picture of his family as his background.

As a Group we have reviewed our footage and we imported the clips onto adobe premiere and we have decided as a group we need to re shoot approximately 7 scenes. we are going to re shoot the scenes during our free study periods so we can make our opening sequence perfect. The scenes we are going to re shoot are the first scene of the alarm and the rest of the scenes we need to re shoot are minor changes we will need to make, the only reason we need to re shoot is because of the camera shots are not to the standard we want them to be.

For our production team and distributor we have chose Warner Bros and New line cinema. The only reason we have chose these companies is because the have distributed films that fall into our genre, which is action comedy. Background information on Warner bros: Warner Bros is an american entertainment company, film studio and film distributor that is a division of Time Warner and is headquartered in Burbank, California. it is one of the big six major american film studios. Founded: April 4 1923 Some examples of film that are in the same genre as ours: Central intelligence, The hangover.

This is our schedule for our filming and editing days.

This our soundtrack for our opening sequence, as you can see it is non copyrighted music. we decided to go for a rock song because it suits our genre of action comedy. We have got this idea from films such as zombieland, where the music genre of rock was introduced at the start of the opening sequence.

what is a title sequence? A title sequence is the method by which films or TV programmes portray the production companies that helped them with filming, the directors name, the producer, the executive producer and the top billing actors, also not forgetting the movie name itself. What order the titles are in? studio distributing film name of production team producer director cast name of film casting by music/composer  production designer example of title sequences:  skyfall, James bond The beginning of the sequence starts of with James Bond walking onto the screen and pointing a gun. There is then a graphic design of blood spilling down the screen which establishes the genre of the film which is action/thriller. Then, appears an image which says 50 years to portray to the audience that James Bond has been showed for 50 years. The first name in the credits is the top billing actor, Daniel Craig who is the main character The next sc

Here are the shots we are using for our opening sequence: A steady cam to show the main character in bed, the steady cam will slowly zoom in to a phone on a table beside the character. A close-up shot on the phone to reveal the time of the alarm going off, the camera will stay in place as the phone is taken away and put back in place by the main protagonist. A low close up on the characters feet as he gets out of bed and walks away. An over the shoulder shot of our main protagonist looking at clues on a wall. A close up of a shower head/ tap turning on. An close up on the back of the main protagonists head as he puts on a shower cap. A close up of the character walking out of the bath room with a towel over his face. An over the shoulder shot of the character walking towards his bedroom. A close of the character buttoning up his shirt. A close up of him putting on his tie. A pan shot of the character selecting a blazer from his wardrobe. A medium close up of the blazer bei

My group have put together a animatic of our storyboard to show the key stages of our opening sequences.

Feedback comments: our feedback went quite well but we missed out on some of the key things we needed to add for example the rationale.

we chose this as our film logo because our character is an ex police officer and the guns represent how he was an ex military officer aswell.

My group got our feedback from our teacher,  we needed to add more shots into our storyboard and all so think about more enigmas which can make the audience ask questions. we also need to know where we are going to put the names of the: director editor actors name.

The title sequences that im analyzing is Home alone and se7en. Home alone : the camera work of a comedy film is naturalistic and the characters are filmed in a way where no one is better, like in home alone they siblings are always fighting because they think they are the better ones. Sound: in a comedy sound is important in the comedy genre Diegetic sound needs to be clear and it needs to be clear so the audience can understand what it says and thats the same with the dialogue. Non diegetic sound is also important because edited sound can be used to emphasis on certain scenes. In home alone sound at the start does not match what is happening at the start(pleonastic sound), making the audience laugh and the film staying with he genre they have chosen. Se7en:   The hook that attracts the audience in the opening scene of 'Se7en' is the mystery behind who is writing/creating the book that is being shown throughout the opening credits and what it is all about. The

The title designer im going to analysis Kyle cooper. he has designed opening titles like se7en and iron man and incredible hulk. Who is Kyle cooper? Born July 1962 (age 56) Place of birth: Salem, Massachusetts what is his job?  Kyle designs opening title sequences for films to make the audience realise who is in the film and what roles people have. Examples of his films: Se7en (1995) Hulk (2013) Iron man (2008) All the films have nearly the same pattern, that pattern is where the opening scene/titles give the audience a picture of what the film will be about and what genre it could be.

We spoke about how we are going to set up our opening sequence

Saw opening scene: The film opens with slow, mysterious titles that make the film see more sophisticated than other horrors that would start with quite prominent titles featuring dripping blood and screams. The first shot of the film is a close up of a man submerged underwater with his eyes closed, his face only illuminated in some areas by a small blue light that shows parts of his face. The man suddenly opens his eyes and sits up out of the water coughing and spluttering. There are a few close up shots of the plughole of the bath as the bath starts to drain, with the mysterious blue light also being flushed down the drain. This tells the audience that there is some importance to that prop and raises questions as to its significance. We then have a medium shot of the man getting out of the bath, and we see the scene is played out in almost complete darkness. The fact the location of the scene is kept a secret for the time being builds tension as the audience waits for the big reveal

Title/Opening sequences have changed throughout time, with all the new technology that is being introduced recording films will also change. I'm going to talk about the differences from a modern day title and an olden day title. se7en: David Fincher (1995)   In both of these opening scenes you can see the differences technology could make because se7en starts off with rock music and the the images the audiences can see are all xrays of hands and the audience can also see the characters fingers and how he is picking all the skin off his hands. however in Dr strangelove, the scene starts off with calm and relaxing music but the audience are only shown 2 planes flying through the air. when we can see the directors name and the actors name in se7en, you can see the effect they have used when editing the film to make sure the names disappear at a certain time and also the font they are using shows what genre the film will be even with the music which helps identify the gen

setting; school characters: teacher and students school gets taken over by police in search of a jewel teacher and student work together to try find it before they police do because it can get into  the wrong hands.

genre- action comedy Films I have chosen- rush hour - 1998 and 21 jump street 2012 Rush hour- opening sequence Setting: the start of the film is based on a dock in China, where they are offloading containers off a boat which has been delivered from another country, the docks look very lonely, meaning no one can see what they are doing because it could be illegal and you can see the fog and steam from the boat, which means something big is about to go down either from a fight or a big drug deal. Characters- the characters from the opening sequence look Asian meaning this could be set in a foreign country, and they look like they are fed up from working at the docks, this could meaning they are working forcefully by the main villain in the film. As soon as the intro sequence is about to finish you can the main character pop out of a hiding place. Audience Response: In the opening sequence the audience will be asking questions on whats happening at the docks, also

Titles in a silent film: Words and lettering played an enormous role in films of the silent era. Film titles made their appearance in the earliest silent films, along with letter cards (or inter-titles), which provided context. These cards were the responsibility of the lettering artist, who collaborated with the scriptwriter and director to create narrative continuity so that audiences could follow what they were seeing. Distinct from these inter-titles was the film’s main title, a vehicle of particular concern to film producers because of the legal, copyright and marketing information this footage had to bear. This gives me an understanding that words had a big impact on the films that had no sound because of the technology they had back then, but now in this generation technology is at its highest meaning you wont see any words or lettering in a film without sound being in the film. The director, film writer and producer had to wok together to make sure the film had a clear u