Sunday 18 October 2009

A similar film opening to ours :)

Our film opening is called "QueenBees & WannaBees"
Its target audience is young teenage girls who still attent school/college.
We based our film on the music video "You Belong With Me" By Taylor Swift. We have posted the music video in a previous post.
Some films you could compare ours to are: Mean Girls; St Trinians; House Bunny etc.
These films all show examples of sterotypes and contrast them like our film does, they also are set in either School/College/ Uni settings.
Below is the trailer to the film Mean Girls.



The film shows different stereotypes and shows the way school life is, and "Girl World"
Like our film it contrasts the different sorts of students and personalities you can find around a school.

Our Film Opening so Far....

On friday me and hannah were able to film most of our film opening. We carried out a lot of our footage at home (Bishops Stortford) as we had to shoot in a house. we now only have a few shots left to shoot and we hope to do these on tuesday morning. Unfortunatly we do not have any pictures of clips from our work so far as it has not yet been uploaded.

Sunday 11 October 2009

animatic video.

L3 Group 2: HANNAH & EMMA - OPENING SEQUENCE ANIMATIC from cmdiploma on Vimeo.

Storyboard Session. :)







These are some pictures from the storyboard session. Above are some pictures of our timeline, storyboards, and some pictures of me and hannah doing work :)



Feedback

Good work on the task emma

Thursday 8 October 2009

Art of Title Sequence.
















The title sequence i chose to do was Catch Me if You Can.




Also above are are the pictures of the timeline i done for the title sequence. Unfortunatly the pictures are slightly blurry, so i done close up shots also.




My ident final.

L3 EMMA-IDENT_FINAL from cmdiploma on Vimeo.ed

I created my ident using final cut and photoshop. I firstly came up with the name for it, "Electric Productions" I then searched for images that could relate to that name. I thought the heart i chose gave an almost static look to the image which i thought went really well with the name. I decided on a black background so as the heart would stand out more and look more dramatic.

I then had to decide on a text that would also highlight the name ans show the connection. The text i used looks very static also and is very unique. I thought this would be good so as a viewer you can always identify the text with the brand.

I then added effects to the video which made the heart flicker like an electric shock. This gave a really strong impact to the video and gave it some edge. I then done the same to the writing which made it look like lightning. I done these effects using the pen tool, by increasing and decreasing the settings on the images and text.

I then finally added some audio. I used garage band to do this. It was quite easy to do this as i simply just went to the Electronic sounds which gave me a big variation of sounds. I chose my one as its very unigue and i think it would be remembered and liked by young and old.

Tuesday 6 October 2009

Mind Frames.

Below is a set of frames me and hannah created for a possible opening title sequence. We decided to use random pictures to see how different things work such as font on texts, etc. As you can see below some pictures are more effective than others. for example the last shot really stands out as the font and text stands out on the background. Whereas on the 5th shot the text is difficult to read as the colours are hard to see.

Film Pitch :)

Our Film will be a 'Chick-Flick' which target audience will be 13-18 year olds. It will be an independent film with a low budget.
Our film will have two different stereotypes, a "Geek" and a "Fake"
The opening sequence will show the two characters getting ready for school which will highlight the strong contrast in the two characters. 
We based a lot of our ideas on the music video 'You Belong With Me' By Taylor Swift. 





Other films that are similar to our film opening are: Mean Girls; St Trinians; Wild Child; etc..
A film opening i find quite similar to ours is the opening to Legally Blonde with the scene showing Elle (Reese Witherspoon) geting ready. The shots used are quite similar to ours and i based a lot of our ideas on this type of filming. Below is the link to the film opening.


Monday 5 October 2009

Logo.




Above is my logo image for my film opening. The word electric links to the static like look of the heart which in the clip will flash along like an electric shock.

Credits for opening sequence

A Electric Production presents
A See Big Production film

(cast) Harry Wright
(cast) Lucy Mead
(cast) Josh Murr

Costume Design by Mellissa Taglarinni
Art Direction by David Watts
Production Design by Becky Davy
Casting by Heidi Porter
Film Editing by Katie Hyne
Cinematography by Sadie Marsh
Original Music by Jack Robarts
Produced by Emma Smart
Directed by Hannah Amin

Main Title

Sunday 4 October 2009

feedback

some good ideas but can you embed the video rather than just paste a link?

Friday 2 October 2009

Mood Board - text


These are our possible Fonts for our titles. We think they represent different stereotypes well.
 

Mood Board


This is our moodboard for our film opening. We wanted to show the two stereotypes of 'Geeks' and 'Fakes'.

Thursday 1 October 2009

My Short Film Pitches

Action - An all action epic. Suicidle Jeff Hughs is spoken to by the devil and is given all his powers and asked to destroy the world, however on the otherside of the world local man Simon Andrews is spoken to by god and given all his powers. Its the ultimate battle of the Gods, Who will conquer all!?

Supernatural Thriller - A Mother and her Baby girl are living in a desolate Village, with the Husband away on business, Freaky things start happening, Friends are being killed and spooky messages are posted throught the door, could this be a turn for the worst for this idilic village?

Independant - Set in Italy a rich woman falls in love with the local peasant, after a fling their familys find out. Will these too such different people ever be together?

Adult Animation - A mans story of his life. Ben Johnson is a paranoid schizofrenic who becomes a serial killer,unknowingly leaving himself clues behind him, leading him to be discovered!

Continuity Task






This week we had a continuity task. We had to make a short clip to demontrate the rules of this. Below is our final product.




Continuity editing is when everything os smoothed over to give a film/shot a more even flow and to make the shots look more natural.

180 degree rule is when the camera can only go on one side of an 180 degree axis so as not to distort the clip as it could make the shot look un real.

Match on Action Rule is when you have to connect 2 different shots in a precise amount of time, eg Shot 1- Someone walking towards a door Shot 2- Close up of hand on door handle.

Shot/Reverse Shot - This shows 2 characters conversation using alteration of shots over each others shoulder, showing who is speaking/who is being spoken to.

Overal i think me and Hannah did a good job of editing our clip. However at the beginning there was a bit of audio that wasnt suposed to be there and also sometimes i think we cut the clips too short which led to speach being cut out and to shots being to abrupt.