Tuesday, 2 February 2010
Ideas
I have two ideas that I would like to attempt in making the opening credits. My first
One is of a group of friends ( four or five maximum) meeting up in the holidays; the opening sequence will show each on getting ready in the morning before they meet up but since each friend has a different personality I will represent their personalities by the way they get ready in the morning. For example the colours of their rooms, the clothes they choose to wear and so on. Mean while adding humorous moments, such as out of the four or five one could be clumsy or one could be having a bad day. I would call this film, ‘A year to remember’ because it's targeted at teenagers, who would be in stages of their lives when they experience a 'changing' phase and this could be their last year at school together. The settings will be in the four or five characters houses, and then when they meet up by a local park. The characters names will be
Girl one: Beth
Girl two: charlotte
Boy one: Tiago
Boy two: Matt
Boy three: Stuart
The background music I would like to use is: Jason Mraz – geek in the pink. However it is not an official decision, there are other alternatives but this is the song for now.
Shake, rattel then roll.
The music starts as the main actor, a teenage guy called Jake is looking in the mirror getting ready and once he is done getting ready he winks at himself. His sister walks past his room as he does this and she shakes her head from side to side in disapproval.
Then as track of his strutting to a door of a house, where a shot repeats three times of different doors opening and three different girls on the other side (over the shoulder shots). Each girl has a different style, which makes it humorous as they all have a different reaction to the flowers he brings them. The next shot is of the guy on a date but I will show it as if he’s in each part of the date with different girls, where he’s just taken them all on the same date. He walks with on in a park and sees an attractive girl walking past him and as he ‘checks her out’ he doesn’t realise where he is walking and hits a lamppost, as he does that both girls turn to help him, but the attractive girl’s bracelet drops and the guy picks it up without him realising. Then as Jake walks away with his date he smirks as he assumes that he will see this girl again because she’ll come looking for it. I have decided to call it ‘Shake, Rattle and roll’ because the phonological sound capture the audience’s attention and makes them want to find out more about it.
Here are the following songs that I will like to use in the opening credits for this film.
Work – Ciara
Sexy chic – Akon
Starstruck – Katy Perry
Fire burning – Sean Kingston
Characters –
Main actor - Jake
Girl one- Phoebe
Girl two- Robin
Girl three- Cindy
Sister – Charlotte
Mia law - main girl sees before he bumps into girl two
Research conclusion
Monday, 1 February 2010
Product Placement
Nowadays there are many ways of watching movies ranging from cinema, TV, internet, and so on. Other alternatives are ones like being rented at video stores, like blockbuster or borrowed from family and friends as well as being purchased at local supermarket stores, e.g. Sainsbury’s. Never the less to get a film to that stage it needs to be distributed by a company, and a more specific company that specialises with a particular genre of film and getting out in cinemas for everyone to see.
I will be aiming to create an opening sequence lasting two minutes the genre I have chosen is comedy resulting the most popular out of my questionnaire results. That means that I will need to find a film production studio that works with comedy films and/or has already disturbed numerous of them. The company I will like to work with is Lakeshore Entertainment (founded in 1994) as they have distributed films such as, she’s the man, the ugly truth and runaway bride. In 2009 they along with Lions gate films helped distributed the film ‘Crank’ although an action film their revenue was 35,345078 American dollars which does not include blu-ray sales/DVD rentals.
Before my film is screening in the cinemas, people will need to be informed about my film. This means that I will need an advertising campaign to broadcast it to the public and make them want to watch my film. The ways that the advertisement can progress this is by: cinema trailers, TV trailers, internet posters or film posters. However these methods require a large amount of money, which is a problem because I am producing a low budget film and I don’t have the sufficient money for it. An alternative choice is to go with less money consuming methods such as posters, fliers and word of mouth. These ways won’t get as much publicity as the other ones but it should be enough for the public to be informed about it.
The DVD’s that are released in video stores and the bought by the consumer are the ones that I will profit from the most. The more DVD’s that are bought the more money I will make. This means that the distributer I choose will be able to get my move into many shops and still save me on spending lots of money. There I aim to get a deal with big supermarkets stores like, Tesco’s, Sainsbury’s, Asda or video stores such as blockbusters. To do so I will need to have a market and positive feedback from critics. Another way of spelling the film would be through the internet as it’s a very popular way of watching movies nowadays. For example, in 2008 the number of people that downloaded online were 410’000 and in 2009 over 11’000’000 people downloaded movies online, evidently each year more and more people download films online and it increases rapidly.
Another key feature I’ve considered is the packaging will need to stand out to really capture the public’s attention as there would be other films out competing to get their movies bought. Unfortunately there will be problems such as internet piracy and illegal downloads. In order to avoid this I will have to have the files embedded so that they can not be pirate copied. Most importantly , I will have to decide on a reasonable price to sell the DVD’s, at a cost that will be reasonable for the audience to purchase as well as price that will allow me to profit from my movie. In my questionnaire more people prefer to buy a DVD at the price of 5 to 10 pounds, therefore I will price the DVD’s at £8.99. Where as if it were to be sold over the internet I would place the cost at six pounds or under; considering the transport and packaging.
Media Artefact - 4
1) When first seeing this shot, we can see that this is the main character shown as how the camera frames her, for example the camera movement is a low angle which makes her look more powerful. Also the colours used in the images create a teen like style which could be aimed to attract a teenage audience. We can assume by what she is wearing that she could be at the beach, a park, and that the seasons is probably spring or summer. Meanwhile the non digetic music starts in the background which fits into the scene.
2) This is an establishing shot which allows the audience to see in the opening credits where the scene is beginning. Again you can tell by the way of the activities going that these would be some of the things that would normally happen if a group of teenagers would go to the beach.
3) The graphics begin to come up in this shot with the title of the film. The name of the film itself creates humour because it’s a well known well phrase referring to males in a positive way, and the fact that this is referring to a woman makes it humorous. The font is bold and gives the impression of masculinity; this fits in with what the character is doing as she is playing a sport which is stereotypical seen that men prefer more than women do.
4) The way this shot frames the football moving towards the camera makes the audience want to be impressed as it wouldn’t normally be expected from a girl. It’s also a way of showing the audience what type of personality this character has.
5) Finally this shot is showing the graphics of the director of the film. That way the audience know how directed the movie, in case the director was their favourite director. The colours in the background depict the sea and the sand. Also since the target audience is directed at teenagers then as well as to appealing to the male audience in the sport area, it may also appeal to the female audience by seeing this actor in the title sequence.
Media Artefact - 3
1) The camera begins with a track over the mountains like the ones which appear on the screen. With the non digetic music in the background of the kind of music we expect to hear in a fairytale. The Names of the producers and director pops up on the screen like the name of the main character is in this shot. The font used on the graphics connotes fantasy, such as a fairytale film.
2) The graphics which over lap on the background image immediately shows that this movie is going to have a story line like the fairytale book of Cinderella, which the director would assume the audience already know about. In the background there’s a castle that suggests to the audience this is where the story will begin. The colours used in this shot represent pureness because of the snow; the shadows formed on the castle could mean that the sun is rising, at the same time that the film is beginning.
3) Then as the camera zooms out of that image into this shot, the audience are shown the reality of what is actually happening. Also the voiceover begins from this shot, explaining the relationship of the two characters in this shot and why they are important. The voiceover used has a more mature voice which could meant that the character on the screen is the character speaking but when she was a child. Another feature which explains the characters past so that the audience are aware with what is going on in the present.
4) This shot is an establishing shot of a new scene; the camera zooms in from the medium longs shot into a close up of the sign. The non digetic sound changes into a song that fits the scenery, also the design on this diner sign suggests that this story is based in America as it is common to have diners there than it is to have here in Britain.
5) This shot shows that there’s a party for the girl’s birthday. The shot before this was of her blowing out the candles then the camera tilts up and zooms into the decoration shown in this shot and changes into confetti falling down outside a city hall
6) Which is this shot showing the girl’s father getting married, that cut was effective because it links two important events that create the rest of the film. It also points out the other character used in the Cinderella fairytale, introducing the ‘evil’ step mother. Also the graphics are still there are screening the crew of the film, such as in this shot we are shown the main people who were in charge of the casting.
7) This opening credits represents the story of Cinderella of how the girl loses her father. This close up shot shows how they separate. The audience can assume then what happens next, meanwhile the voice over still explains what is currently happening.
8) This shot is a fade from the previous shot when the father left the girl in her room to go save her step mother. The snow globe which broken on the floor represent that the little girls ‘kingdom’ has fallen apart. Also the fade into the new scene show the places where she would have gone with her father, making the audience feel sympathy towards the character.
Real Media Artefact - 2
1) The close up shot on the hand and on the digital clock shows that the character is in early morning. Possibly someone on an older age as the time on the clock shows 5:15, this is a good shot to use in comedy films or comedy teen films because that’s the common reaction to waking up in the morning.
2) The graphics in this shot show the company that helped produce this and distribute this movie. The post note on the desk shows the audience that the day is a significant because of some ‘test results’. This is a starting point in the opening credits explaining what the film is about.
3) This shot goes from showing us point of view shots from the character and revealing the likes of the character to the audience. For example the screen shown is the main screen image we would see on an IPod. However it isn’t music that’s playing but a conversation, which leads more into the narrative of the film.
4) Another point of view shot of the character looking into a computer or laptop screen, this could have been done so that the audience can read what the character is reading and the information giving in that text to slowly reveal the background information.
5) In the beginning we could not tell if the character was a man or woman, but now with the close up on the shoes and the trousers the audience will automatically think that they are male. Also the names begin to appear on screen of the actors in the film. That way if the audience has chosen to watch a film because of the actors in it, they would want to carry on watching it.
6) The shots which are mostly used in this opening sequence seem to be point of view shots, like the one above. Here there is another post notes that other than informing the character about something, it also provides useful information towards the audience about the situation, something that has happened in the character’s past. In the background there a blurred image of the character looking ready, as if he’s going to work.
