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 ad...

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 Th...

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.