Foundation Portfolio in Media

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  

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 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...

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 ...

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...