Tuesday 28 January 2014

Danny Yount

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Second Title Sequence idea.

Today the idea for our title sequence got changed from the horror house idea to a serial killer and a police officer.

The main idea for the film is a policeman trying to catch a serial killer. The story is focused more on the policeman than the killer. The policeman's job is on the line because he has a reputation for not being all too good at his job, so he takes on the case of a notorious killer who not even the top detectives at Scotland Yard can catch.

The killer is aware of who is trying to catch him so leaves little clues or notes such as 'the longer it takes the more die' which torments the policeman as he can't catch him but knows he should be able to. 

The title sequence will be of the killer in his shed flicking through drawing of how he murders his victims, with split second shots of it happening in real life. 

Audience Profile



The Silencer's primary audience is men ages 15 - 30. This is because via research it is found that the average audience for thriller/puzzle solving films are people of this age bracket. 

We targeted this audience specifically as the majority of the group is the highest group with disposable income and will therefore be able to spend it on going to see the film. We put the main audience as men as they are generally the main audience that go to see a film of our genre. 

The film has potential for a worldwide release but due to the £900,000 budget the marketing will have to remain in the UK. Obviously if it had success like Slumdog Millionaire did then distribution would go worldwide.

Sunday 19 January 2014

Title Sequence Sounds

In this lesson we looked at the following title sequences:

Se7en (1995) — Art of the Title


Vertigo (1958) — Art of the Title


Catch Me If You Can (2002) — Art of the Title


Skyfall (2012) — Art of the Title

We spoke about different title sequences like Se7en, Skyfall, Vertigo and Catch Me If You Can, looking specifically for the type of things that were used to make the sound. 
We discussed different sounds we heard such as musical sounds (drums, symbols), or sounds that would have been created by someone - foley. EG footsteps, wind, door slamming and crashing.

We then spoke about foley sounds and how they're created, and went off to record our own using a device like this:





It picks up the tiniest of sound from each end when can then be used as it is or distorted to create a different sound.

My group used the school lockers to smash shut, the radiator and a creaky door.









Napoleon Dynamite




From the title sequence we can see the film will probably be very light hearted and comedic as the titles are not what is usually seen on a film. This is suggested by the logo being written in various sauces on the plate. 




The background music begins and a wallet is brought into frame, with a ‘UFO Abduction Insurance’ card on it, giving the first insight to the leading character. This also gives information on the first actor in the film, Jon Heder.





 




The various backgrounds of these shots gives an impression of when the film is get – 70s/80s.

 


The main shot type used throughout the sequence is a medium close up birds eye.. This shot is used to draw the reader’s attention to both the objects and titles. Having it be so close also prevents the viewer being distracted by objects outside of the frame.


Danny Yount Presentation

Danny Yount presentation that we made in class after looking at Saul Bass:

http://prezi.com/euvlscyq--pp/danny-yount/

Saul Bass

Today we looked at a Powerpoint about Saul Bass, a title sequence and movie poster creator with a specific style.

He made posters for Vertigo, Anatomy of a Murder and Westside Story to name but a few (Images won't upload).

Bass also made title sequences for films such as Not With My Wife, You Don't!:

http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/not-with-my-wife-you-dont/

and The Man With The Golden Arm:

http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/the-man-with-the-golden-arm/

"Bass became widely known in the film industry after creating the title sequence for Otto Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm (1955). The subject of the film was a jazz musician's struggle to overcome his heroin addiction, a taboo subject in the mid-1950s."

"Bass decided to create an innovative title sequence to match the film's controversial subject. He chose the arm as the central image, as it is a strong image relating to heroin addiction. The titles featured an animated, white on black paper cut-out arm of a heroin addict." (info from Wikipedia).

His work is widely regarded as some of the best title sequence work ever created and many title sequence creators get their inspiration from his work.

We then went to create out own presentation on another title sequence creator; our group's person was Danny Yount:

http://prezi.com/euvlscyq--pp/danny-yount/


Title Sequence Designers

Today (10.1.14) we watched various title sequences from different graphic designers with different styles, such as:

Dexter: http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/dexter/

Se7en: http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/se7en/

The Man With The Golden Arm: http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/the-man-with-the-golden-arm/

Napoleon Dynamite: http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/napoleon-dynamite/

Each of these have a distinct way of creating a title sequence which reflects the genre of the film and what it will be about.Dexter is about a killer who only kills people who have done bad to other people. The title sequence is of a low pace, with calm back ground music but it feels like the pace could pick up and any given moment. This is similar to the character of Dexter, who is calm throughout the original book but towards the end really picks up the pace of his work, but murdering or helping to murder one of his colleagues. 

We then looked at how a title sequence is planned; the time frames between what is shown, the order of the names eg; Producers, Directors, Starring Actors, Make Up Artists etc. We then went and looked at a title sequence of our choice, seeing the pattern between the times of which something was shown, the order of the names etc. We found that it is often the same throughout every sequence, usually having the most important people first and down to the least important.






First Title Sequence Idea

Today (7.1.14) we gathered an idea for our title sequence. 

Our current idea is a horror/thriller/suspense movie. It is about a man who goes into a middle/upper class home with the intention to kill. The owners of the house are away on holiday to the child who lives there has a big sleepover/party, the stereotypical horror movie. The killer would let himself into the house and just walk around initially, gathering in his surroundings. A character trait of the killer we suggested is that he would never run, he would always walk to his next victim, no matter how fast the person he was trying to get was escaping. They are in a house, he will get them eventually. The movie would progress and he would kill people off one by one until it is just the homeowners daughter left. She doesn't get killed, instead she and the parents are in on it, and they all walk over to the neighbours house, leaving the movie open to a sequel.

For the second hour of the lesson we made a Powerpoint explaining what the film would be about, hypothetically who would be in it, how much it would cost, how much it would make etc to be presented the following day to the class.