Fitting together the titling and film 11th Mar

Readers,

On Friday 7th March I finished making and editing my titles to fit into my 2 minute film opening.

I started my titling with translucent backgrounds in photoshop and white writing but when I started adding the titles into my film they couldn't be seen any more. I then tried black titling but this also disappeared. As most Horror genre films keep to 3 different coloured titles I was very limited so had to settle with red titling for my movie. 

I have added all my titling from my film at certain points and having changed and settled on a different colour was happy with the end result. 

Music and sound 2nd Mar

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Today I am looking at music for my 2 minutes opening of my film. I am looking at 3 different films and how the sense of terror is relayed to us through the music.

Jaws- This film is well known for it's horrifying scenes and dramatic music.
Jaws was released in 1975. The synopsis of the story, is that there is a huge shark that is hell bent on killing people in the sea while other unsuspecting people sunbath and relax. The main theme tune that the film uses over and over again is the minor 2nd two note motif. This is played by the tuba and uses the notes E and F. The audience is always alerted to the presence of the shark just before the attack happens. The music starts off the single 2 note motif then crescendos and adds other instruments playing this same melody line while underneath the timpani adds dramatic drama.

Jaws theme tune- http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvCI-gNK_y4

Silence of the Lambs (SOTL)- The synopsis of the film is about this young FBI agent Clarice Starling who is assigned to help find a missing woman and to save her from a psychopathic serial killer who skins his victims. Clarice tries to understanding their twisted minds by talking to another psychopath Hannibal Lecter. The FBI believes that Lecter has the answers to their questions and can help locate the killer. Clarice must first gain Lecter's confidence before the inmate will give away any information.
SOTL was released in 1991. The escape scene I have been watching has two different types of music used in it. At the start the inmate is listening to a piano concerto on the radio. This is a relaxing calm melody which puts us on edge waiting to see what is about to happen. When the Lecter attracts the unsuspecting policemen the music suddenly changes to a full orchestra playing a minor dramatic feeling melody. When the murders have been committed the dramatic music changes back to the concerto. This sudden radical change in music is very unsettling for the audience and shows the horror and thriller factor.

Escape scene- http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s3nIw30hn4U

Nightmare in Elm street (NIES)- Was first released in 1984 but the film was remade and released in 2010. The synopsis of the film is that a man with a crawled glove called Feddy Krueger. Is killing teenagers in their dreams while they sleep. The connection between all the teenagers is that they all went to the same pre-school and were sexually abused by the gardener there (Fred Krueger). The remaining children find out what really happened to Freddy and the reasons why he is seeking revenge.
Before every killing in NIES there is a scary nursery rhyme that is sung. This tells the audience that a murder is about to happen.

Nursery rhyme- http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HqzE1_b0eVs

Music changes the way in which we look at a film. In a rom-com genre film that has laughter and joy, a major tonality is used, while in a horror/thriller genre a minor tonality is used to make the audience nervous and unsettled. These 3 films use music to their advantage to make the desired emotion felt by the watchers.


These graphics are from the same company but the editing team has changed the original music to make the tonality minor, this reflects the film the audience are about to watch.


20 century Fox original graphic- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXWFYPk11GM
20 century Fox scary movie graphic- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMZb4nPMunI

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Film titling and names 24th Feb

Readers,

I have looked at several films in the genre of Horror/Thriller and how the film industry produce their titling for their movie. The films I have studied are: Se7en, The Shinning, Texas Chainsaw Massacre (TCM) and The Silence of The Lambs. All these films have the same sequence of titles.

1. Production company
2. Starring actors/actresses
3. Casting by...
4. Music by...
5. Costumes and make up by...
6. Editing and director of photography
7. Produced by...
8. Directed by...
9. Title of film

I will use the same order of titles in the opening to my film.

The other main feature I looked at is the colour and font and how they laid out their text. The colours used are red, black and white. Also the editing team on all of the film openings either had BLOCK CAPITALS or thin lower case writing.

These are my ideas of font for titling in my 2 minute opening. The fonts I have chosen are Oriya MN as the san serif and Charlemagne Std as the serif. I did a tally chart of different titles for my film and then asked my target audience- teenage girls- which one they liked the most. My target audience chose "Dark Secret". 

The name of my final film is Dark Secrets

These graphics are classy and emphasise to the viewer what genre of film this is going to be.

2 minute opening update 7th Feb

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Today I continued with my editing of my film and have completed this. My film length at the moment is 3 minutes and 45 seconds so I must shorten this so it becomes 2 minutes. I will be looking at openings of different horror/thriller films to look at: colours used, graphic titling and special effects that are used on these titles to make them disappear or move in any way.

After half term I will be starting my sound track to fit with the film and then I will be putting everything together to produce my final product which I will then upload.

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Editing update 27th Jan

Readers,

On Friday last week I continued my editing of my 2 minute opening of my film by cutting and rearranging the different clips so that it looked like my 'rough' story. This is just my initial thoughts and designs of what the cinematography will be like in the finished product.

This Friday I will be continuing with the editing and hopefully finishing a scene or two.

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Editing update 18th Jan

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Yesterday I started to edit the opening of my film by collecting, arranging and trimming all the footage I have taken last term. I will be progressing with this throughout the weeks ahead with also composing or arranging my music and making my own graphics. I am going to finish this at the end of the term which is quite a short space of time.


I will add some screenshots of me editing my film on Final Cut Express.


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Who might produce, distribute and exhibit my film? 13th Jan

Readers,

My task today is to research which production company might want to produce, distribute and exhibit my film (theoretically).

My first initial thoughts were Working Title. The reason for this is because 1) they are an English production company 2) they are a large company and 3) they have ties with a wide range of multimedia contacts.

Background research on Working Title (WT): WT were set up by two people (Tim Bevan and Sarah Radclyffe) in 1983. This company produces films and TV production. WT was taken over by Universal studios in 1999 but the company WT can still trade in its own name while having its headquarters in London. 2nd August 2004 Universal studios were taken over by Vivendi a French company that owns many other multimedia companies. As with WT, Universal can still trade in their name but are attached to Vivendi. The film side of Vivendi is called Vivendi Universal, this also includes WT.

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