Part 8: What did you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full production?

Part 8: What did you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full production?

Overall the successful rate was good because it was a good experience to use Final cut pro and develop my skills in video editing. Overall I think the least successful thing was our sound track. We were very quick when it came to fixing errors such as sound out of sync and filming mistakes, we would just alter it. Or if a filming error occurred we would simply re shoot that part.

Part Seven: What have you learnt about technologies from process of constructing this product?

Part Seven: What have you learnt about technologies from process of constructing this product?

The main decisions that we made about technology during pre-production was what type of system was we going to edit the footage on, either i-Movie or Final Cut Pro, we used final cut pro as you get a much nicer finish rather than i-movie which is very basic and you don’t get as nice a finish to it. for filming we used a camcorder which ran on a D.V tape, as it has a better quality to a digital camera. The technology we used throughout the project was a camcorder and tri pod to film, and to edit we used an apple mac computer and used Final cut pro to edit our sequence. I have learnt how to use Final cut pro to edit videos, it appeared very difficult at first , but after a while i began to get the hang of it,

Part 6: How did you attract/address your audience?

Part 6: How did you attract/address your audience?

Do you think you reached your target audience?

Yes I think we did achieved the corrected audience as we have used cleverly put mis-en-scene in subtle ways and.

What did you include when planning your production that you thought would appeal to your target audience?

When we first decided as a group that we was going to do a Action/Thriller sequence,  we planned that we would create a spy  film because spy films are a very common type of Action/Thriller and most of them have been great hits and make big profits e.g. 007 series. As a team we also decided that our title sequence would end on a cliff hanger, to make the audience oh no what’s going to happen next.

Using some quotes How did these appeal and why?

The feedback from the audience that watched our sequence was mixed but there were some good points.

Positives

·        Good use of sound

·        Good location

·        Good enigmas

·        Good Typography

Constructive Criticism

·        Crows go on to long

·        Bad Soundtrack

·         

From the feedback this gave us the ability to alter some of the errors such as the crows.

What was less successful?

The audience disliked the soundtrack and said it didn’t really fit with the storyline, and I quote one audience member said “ I reminded me of a spoof”.

How could the work be improved?

Explore more into the field of  camera shots and use a more fitting sound track.

Part 5: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Part 5:  How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Camera, angles, shot movement and position

The opening of our title sequence shows a skyline of London through vast set of trees from a extreme long shot. This makes the audience focus on that its set in England London, the English audience would more likely go to see this instead of Americans. This beautiful skyline of London was cloudy and trees are in front of it , this represents danger it also make you feel like you’re being watched, this could make the audience feel a bit nervous.

Editing

The editing throughout was fluid and fast, this should fill the audience with adrenalin and tension. The best piece for this is mean Hearthome spots Dark shadow running across the path through trees in front of him. This should really make the audience feel uncomfortable and nervous as Dark Shadow doesn’t look friendly. We tried to get a mixture of Long and mid shots throughout to give the audience a certain feel about it.

Sound

The sound throughout was very effective as the soundtrack has an adrenalin pumped feel to it, which should get the audience of the edge of their seat. The crows also have a very powerful effect on the audience, they mean danger and death which should in a way creep the audience out and make them jump when they start squawking at the start.

Mis-en-Scene

The mis-en-scene is suppose to have a very strong effect on the audience throughout the sequence as it is filled with many subtle types such as enigma codes, they should keep the audiences minds ticking and questioning them. The costumes of the Pro & Antagonist are very similar to make the audience question who’s good and who’s bad. The dark setting of the woods should make the audience question in there heads is something bad going to happen.

Part 4: In What way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Part 4: In What way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Narrative

The opening title sequence of “Encryption” has an typical narrative of Action/ Thriller about an encrypted disc protected by Agent Heartholme of MF5, the disc contains vital military defense codes which if came into the wrong hands could mean end of the world. An Evil Russian terrorist, known as Agent Dark Shadows who is played by Elliot Wright, attempts to apprehend the disc from Heartholme whom at the time is having a walk through the woods with his son Josh, Heartholme senses danger then plants the disc on his son Josh who is the main character of the film he is played by Harry Rothwell when a child and Dan Collins when an adult. At the end of the sequence Dark shadow captures Heartholme, which is one of our enigmas is he dead or alive?

Genre

From the start of the sequence you may have slight difficultly placing the genre but, it begins to make sense until you see the characters costumes as they both were secret agent attire. The music doesn’t really identify the genre at all but in a way it works quiet well.

Camera, angles, shot movements and positions

The main camera that we used is a side shot of Heartholme begin chased by Dark shadow, this appeared very effective so you would be on the edge of your seat as the antagonist is gaining on our hero.

Continuity& Editing

During the chase scene that is where the cutting and editing takes most part as they were very fluent in this sequence, especially the transition between the side shot to the point of view.

Sound

The sounds in our sequence were very effective as the SFX of the crows really set the feel of woodland terrain, this should make the audience fell like they are there in the woods. The soundtrack made you full of adrenalin and speed it especially did this during the chase sequence. There were only two piece of dialog during the sequence both made by Heartholme  when he whispers run into his sons ear this creates a deep meaning of suspense.

Mise-en scene . Expressionism

Mise-en scene in our sequence involves the characters costumes and 2 enigma codes.  Both the Pro and Antagonist both are wearing similar attire two represent that they are both secret agents maybe even from the same one. Enigma codes play the main part throughout the sequence, the disc is the main one as it pretty much is the story and Josh’s job to protect it, when Heartholme slips the disc into Josh’s back pack was done to get the audience thinking and questioning , why has he done that. The second enigma code is when Heartholme is captured does he live or die this is revealed at the end of the film.

Typography

The Typography throughout the sequence is very cryptic and spy like as the credits are a typewriter font known as Rough typewriter, which represents that it has something to do with the government. The title Encryption was deliberately chosen to be slightly difficult to read as it fits into the name of our film Encryption which means difficult to access, this font is known as Cheatin. We acquired these fonts on Dafont.com 

Part 3:What kind of media institution might distribute your product and why?

Part 3:What kind of media institution might distribute your product and why?

We researched deeply into film distributors and narrowed it down to three which where Newline cinema, Touchstone, and Universal as some of their films are focus on our chosen genre. I closely observed the Bourne series as they are distributed by Universal as they are an action/thriller. I also observed enemy of the state as this was distributed by Touchstone which is also an Action/Thriller. Newline cinema is has made a few action or thrillers such as Se7en.

Part 2:Who would be the audience for your product?

Part 2:Who would be the audience for your product?

The target audience of Encryption would be aimed at people from the ages of 15 onwards, it would mainly attract a male audience, the types of people who would come and see the film would probably be people who like action, suspense and violence. To find out what type and age of audience view action/thriller films we research into the genres and discovered that they are mainly focused at younger males from ages of 15 onwards.  When creating it we deliberately focus it at males by using certain typography and all male actors.

Part 1: Brief

Part 1: Brief

The brief we were working to be to create a title sequence for a fictional movie, the maximum time it was allowed to be was two minutes long. We followed our brief but did some minor alterations, such as the name of our film name changed as it was originally called the disc but we changed it to Encryption, as it sounded more effective and suited the themes of our film. Our Title sequence is about a father and son taking an ordinary walk through the woods but its isn’t, the father is a spy holding a disc with encrypted information on it, but a Russian terrorist is stalking the father for the information so the father plants the disc on the son and tells him to run, after this the father is chased by the terrorist and a fight sequences occurs the father is defeated and the title appears “Encryption”.  The genre of our film is thriller and the sub genre is spy, as it contains all three of these genres but contains more thriller and action as they are the main genre and spy is a sub genre.  Our film contains a lot of action and suspense throughout hence why they are our main genres. 

Miss Whittaker feed back

·      Universal should be first and to long

·      Sound effects to over powering

·      Typography doesn’t work

·      Hero and villain look to similar in dress

·      Not enough different verity of shots

Encryption

Jack Miller

played by

Sean Simmons

Bio

Jack Miller is the new boss of Joshua's unit in MI5. He seems a bit untrustworthy could he be working for Agent Dark-Shadow? 

Height: 5:7ft

Eye colour: Blue

Hair Colour: Blonde

Nationality: British

Status: Alive

Job: MI5

Thomas the librarian  

played by

Jamie Reed

Bio

Thomas isnt the sort of librarian you would see in a library, infact he is really the weapons expert for their MI5 unit, he practically live in the armoury hence his nickname. 

Height: 5:8ft

Eye colour: Green

Hair Colour: Light Brown

Nationality: Irish

Status: Alive

Job: MI5

Arthur Wade

played by

Dean William

Bio

Arthur Wade is a fellow Agent of "Joshua Heartholme" he is also best friends with him.

Height: 6:1ft

Eye colour: Blue

Hair Colour: Blonde

Nationality: British

Status: Alive

Job: MI5

Lola Redgraves

played by 

Amber Makepeace

Bio

Lola Redgraves is Joshua Heartholmes girlfriend, she is a weakness to Joshua so Agent Dark-Shadow can use it against Joshua to gain the disk.

Height: 5:2ft

Eye colour: Grey

Hair Colour: Black

Nationality: American

Status: Located

Job: Journalist

Rick Heartholme
played by 
Oliver Rothwell

Bio

Rick Heartholme is an agent for Mi5 and a caring father, he  is charge of guarding an encrypted disk with the worlds most secret defence codes on it, what lengths will he go to, to keep it safe.

Height: 5:8ft

Eye colour: Blue

Hair Colour: Dark Brown

Nationality: British

Status: Missing in action Presumed dead

Job: MI5

Joshua Heartholme

played by 

Harry Rothwell as child    

 played by 
Daniel Collins as Adult

Bio

Joshua Heartholme is the main protagonist in Encryption as his dad plants the disk on him before he tell Joshua to run, hisw life from that day will change forever, 10 years after his dad disappears he becomes the new agent to protect the disk and avenge his father's apparent death.

Height: 5:7ft

Eye colour: Brown

Hair Colour: Brown

Nationality: British

Status: Alive

Job: MI5

Agent Dark-Shadow

played by  

Elliot Wright 

Bio

Agent Dark-Shadow is the main antagonist in Encryption. He is a Russian spy who's only desire is to get his hands on a encrypted disk with top secret another spy is in charge of protecting. Dark-shadow will do anything to get his hand on the disk.

Height: 6:2ft

Eye colour: Hazel

Hair Colour: Black

Nationality: Russian

Status: Unlocated

Job: Self-employed Agent

Analysis of contemporary opening title sequences vs. older opening title sequences:

Watchmen

Film Release: 2009

Genre: Action/ Mystery/ Sci-fi Fantasy

Directed: Zack Snyder 

The Opening credits of Watchmen were all shot in slow motion with using minor CGI. The first thing  you hear is the soundtrack which “ Every bodies Changing by Bob Dylan” which is appropriate because during the title sequence  It shows the evolution of superheroes over 30 years.  The first shot is a slow motion shot of the night owl punching a robber in the face, it is accompanied by the film distributers Paramount pictures and Warner bros pictures the colour of the font is yellow which is the colour scheme of the film. The screen begins to black out and is brought on by the next shot of Silk spectre 1 holding a Newspaper with her name as the header of an article with camera smoke slowly drifting across the screen, this show the paparazzi and taking pictures of her, this also shows that she famous, across the check the production company appears A Lawrence Gordon? Lloyd Levin Production.  The Comedian in his younger days is seen with another criminal in a head lock and a swag sack of money in the other with a cigar in his mouth the cigar smoke wafts across the screen along with bullets falling across the screen as the robber is open firing, then next set of titles appear A Zack Snyder film. The next shot is all the Minutemen getting ready for a photo shoot  then the name of the film appears in bold yellow font WATCHMEN. Now the names of the actors begins to appear accompanied by the down fall of the Minutemen of their murders , Retirement or imprisonment. Now the titles are still showing the cast members but now the shot are replaced with the new generation of super heroes The Watchmen. Dr Manhattan is seen shaking hands with President Kennedy, the next shot is his assignation, the Comedian is firing the a gun, now the other credits are seen such costume designer or editors, the credits begin to wind down with the new group of superheroes having  a photo shoot, then the title sequence comes to an end with a television set with Richard Nixon on it saying Nixon elected, the camera zoom out until its out of the shop and someone is graffitiing on the glass saying “ Who watches the Watchmen” finishing with an over shoulder shot of someone throwing a Molotov at the glass the Directors name appears just before Zack Snyder, the explosion covers the screen in flames then the titles finish.

BATMAN

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Film Release: 1989

Genre: Action/ Crime/Drama

Directed: Tim Burton

With the Batman title sequence it doesn’t use CGI unlike the Watchmen titles at some points. I chose this title sequence because it is made in a different style but the same genre. The credits start in a foggy night sky the soundtrack plays composed by Danny Elfman, then the first set of titles appear in a gold coloured font Warner bros presents, the camera moves slowly down and as it does that the three main actors names appear Jack Nicholson, Michael Keaton and Kim Basinger, as this is happening the camera swoops slowly down into a maze cave. The production company appears A Guber-Peter Company Production then a Tim Burton Film appears, the camera enters the maze cave which is completely dark then the titles appear in the same style of font BATMAN. The maze cave then comes back into vision and the rest of the main cast begin to appear as well as the music costumes and editors names.  The camera begins to draw out wards to a bird eye angle to reveal that the maze cave is into fact shaped like the batman symbol; the directors name appears across the logo Directed by Tim Burton 

24/01/2011 Meeting 8

24/01/2011 Meeting 8

Today a group meeting was had and we decided on our filming date of Friday the 28th January, also we decided on a new location for filming through it being more accessible for the group and easier for us all to get to, and because of the hour in which it gets dark it is closer to us all, also the child may need to be changed as we have had a meeting discussing the troubles in which we are having finding a boy to play the child role through are filming.

Danny Yount

Danny Yount

http://www.dannyyount.com/

Danny Yount a self taught designer who works for Prologue films, Danny is one of today’s top main title designers of television i.e. 6 feet under and film i.e. Iron man, he is also a photographer and a director for commercials. Danny Yount quoted that the work of Kyle Cooper inspired him to go into title sequence designing. Danny Yount has one an emmy for HBO’s six feet under of which he designed the title sequence. He has also won industry awards such as TDC, BDA gold, D&AD Silver and 3 Gold AIGA awards.

(2009) Sherlock Holmes ( Title Designer/ Prologue Films)

(2008) RocknRolla (title designer: / Prologue Films)

(2008) Iron Man (closing credits, title designer)

(2007) Married Life (creative supervisor: titles, Prologue)

(2007) The Invasion (title designer)

(2007) The Reaping (title designer)

(2005) Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (title designer)

(2001) Six Feet Under  (title designer)

Interview of Danny Yount

Six Feet Under

Six feet under is one of Danny Yount’s most famous title sequences. The title sequence starts with a shot of the sky with calm classical music accompanying it a crow fly’s across the screen, this could resemble death. The next shot is of a meadow and a close up of a couple holding hands, an unknown force pulls the two hands away from each other, and this also could resemble death. The next shot is off an extreme close up of hands being washed, then it cuts two a pair of feet with a tag hanging of his big toe, this sets the story now, this program is involved around death. The rest of the sequence appears to be an autopsy or an perpetration for a funeral, the last shot is of the meadow again but all what can be seen is the oak tree in the meadow all else around is white, then it fades.

20/01/2011 Meeting 7

20/01/2011 Meeting 7

Through this meeting we had been made apparent that we had to cancel a filming day through bad preparation because not all the groups members in which are an essential part of our filming were unavailable to make it through their own personal reasons so rescheduling will be needed in which we will discuss and become fully prepared for.

18/01/2011 Meeting 6

18/01/2011 Meeting 6

Through this meeting another complication became apparent because Sean are main actor ripped the original trousers in which we had filmed in so we had to re shoot all the filming in which we had done before and planned to do that the following week to avoid any continuity errors in which may arise from this

16/01/2011 Meeting 5

16/01/2011 Meeting 5

Today we went to Oxleas woods and began to film, but we could only film the parts without in because of a complication in which we faced in which the child to play the role had to cancel on us so we planed to do the child scene the week after where we may be able then to organize another child to take part in this scene

Evidence of Recce

Abbey Woodland Recce Shots

Below are our proof of location we were originally filming in wood, shooters hill but due to errors completely out of our control we decided to re Oxleas shoot it some where easy to get to Abbey woodland in Abbey Wood.

13/01/2011 Meeting 4

13/01/2011 Meeting 4

Today we decided our first shooting day and filled the slot in on our shooting schedule in which we created to stick to. Also we decided on the location in which we would film that being Oxleas woods