Title Sequence Cinema Premiere

We have went to 'The screen on the green' to watch our title sequence in the Cinema.

I've also managed to get some feed back from our peers...

Planning - Our New Layout

My group has decided to make the background a horror theme to go with our genre. As you can see the 'possessed' girl in the middle implies what our title sequence could be about, which it does as our storyline is a about a possessed girl. The dull and dark look to indicate danger.

Evidence of Signing off Filming

Last Day of Editing (Huseyin Burcak)

 Today is the last day of editing and everyone is panicing. We was told that our film opening is good however too short so we needed to add a few more scenes. In this image Cheinaz is going through scenes that could be added to our film opening. We are also altering the motions and the effects of the new scenes so it fits with the rest.

Cheinaz is using many editing skills such as effects and filters. Making most scenes dull to go with the genre, horror. Also using bin window to view the scenes before using them. We are struggling a bit as the font website is in maintenance so we still have the title and title sequences to put up on the scenes, meanwhile we are carrying on editing.

PITCH Evaluaion

                                    PITCH EVALUATION

• I have taken into consideration the feedback for our pitch and came up with 3 things which can improve our film opening.

     The 3 targets we came up with...

• Stick to the production schedule no excuses as we are all free on the days chosen and we should attend all the time to finish filming as soon as possible. The longer we have for editing the film opening.
• Use all the props mentioned in our pitch. Might be difficult to find some but we need to try.
• Finishing on time, this may be difficult as the weather is unpredictable. Some scenes may take longer as we need a clear sunny day.
  

Planning- Production Schedule 2

Production Schedule 2

This is our Production Schedule for this Week for Monday 13th December onwards until Sunday.

Blogging Health Check (Response)

                                  Blogging Health Check

• To improve I need to post more blogs as i only have 37.
• My blogs need to be more detailed.
• I also need to show more evidence of our filming and editing 
• This time i actually need to do what it says in the blogging health check

Blogging Health Check 2

Blogging Health Check 2

• I understand and happy that i have kept up with my blogging tasks.
• I will detail my production schedule, we will keep up and always update our production schedule.
• In my production schedule, i will use a different format.
• In my final storyboard, i will ad more pictures to give a better understanding to the viewer.
• I will add more detail to my title credits.

Planning- Title Credits (Khamroul)

What will it look like?

Our genre is a Horror/Thriller so the text will be really simple and will mainly stay the colour black/ Red/Green, because those are the colours you really symbolise with.

A type face is a particular design for a specific genre, so we will be using Alien Glow, for example: 

This gives a Horror type feeling which is what we will need to convey to our audience, on the left there is a gloomy effect, however on the right there is a red effect, this may imply blood and violence.

How will the title credits integrate? 

The text will fade in and eventually fade out, followed by another title credit doing the same thing. As it fades in the text will be buffering adding a bit of tension in the atmosphere. The title credit will contain the colours Red/Black. However as it fades out, there will be a glowy effect presented.

Template of our titles

This will be our sub-headings or main titles throughout the title sequence, the esign of the word 'Footsteps', hopefully will match our film opening.

 And this will be the small text under the sub-headings and main titles throughout the title sequence, this is to notify the viewers the cast and crew also the creators of the title sequence/film.

Planning - Change in character

In my group, originally, Cheinaz Cordeiro was going to be the main protagonist however, due to typical horror conventions. We have decided that because Cheinaz was medium skin tone which isn't generally the skin colour of the protagonist in horror films, and as we have already challenged two social stereotypes one being the female being the protagonist and two the males being the victim, we decided a white skin person is more preferred. This meant that she went on a look out and decided that my friend (Alice Pola) who fits the codes and conventions of a 'pale' girl, will make our title sequence more successful, therefore in our title sequence you will see a pale group.

Planning: Overview of Locations

We used the toilets for our protagonist to commit suicide as it would have made it more realistic, this was effective as making the scene dark caught the audiences eye. We filmed this scene as so there was cctv footage at the corner of the room (looking only at the sink).









A great thing about this location is it is very close to the college giving us more time to record more footage in a shorter space of time. This setting is perfect and fits in well with the genre of horror, where our protagonist (Alice Pola) enters the scene.

This will be an effective setting as the editing of the scene being black and white will make the effects stand out.

Evidence of Signing of Film.

This is where our group ticked of the finish of signing of films.

Planning - After Effects Ident.

ROYAL PRO INSTITUTION.

I decided to use a house colour themes of dull and dark colours in my logo such as red and black to evoke a dangerous atmosphere towards the audience. This draws the audience in and makes them want to find out more information. The cracks also add a feel of hell which ties in well with the genre of horror. I have really enjoyed creating a possible logo for our film. In my opinion, i think that this would be a good partnership with our distribution company.

Pitch Evalution

PITCH EVALUATION

From the feedback we have received, I have taken deep thought into this, as there were a lot of questions asked to us especially how I should improve and we will have to meet this.

We have come up with 3 targets:

1. Our actors will have to act out exactly what will be in our final storyboard, this will mean that as there will be more characters to do this, we will have to get them without fail.
2. Our production schedule, we will follow this, as all of us are free at this time, we will have to turn up.
3. We will have to add in all our props, the props that we have included in our pitch presentation might be hard to get but we will get them, includes fake blood, makeup etc.

planning- Risk Assessment

Risk Assessment 

People- The risk that we may encounter are strangers in the park or on the streets as its a public place, so we will need to be as quite as possible to not interrupt anyone, we will have to try not to cause other issues towards anyone.

Equipment- Equipment, we will have full responsibility of the cameras and other equipment, if its lost, stolen or broken we will be fully responsible, this means that we will have to be careful with our equipment.

Weather- If its raining, we won't be able to use our equipment as it can get damaged.
If its foggy, the view may not be clear.

Meeting- As we have decided to add more people into our film, if they don't arrive, this could be a problem.

Planning- Mis en Scene (Khamroul Hasan)

Mise-en-scene is the arrangement of scenery and stage properties in a play or film. Depending on the different scenes included, the location changes as the title sequence progresses. Due to our genre of horror, props and lightening is crucial in order for us to conceive a specific reaction from the audience in order to maintain their focus throughout the sequence. Furthermore, our sequence 'footsteps,' is based on a girl (Cheinaz Cordeiro) who faces a troubled life and therefor lives in a bad neighbourhood. So alternatively, I've decided that a park or in general, the streets/suburbs would be a good location to start of at. This would bring realism to the sequence which could potentially make the audience more likely to feel connected to our title sequence, as they're able to relate it to their day to day life. In the park, bullying from the gang of hoodlums could be taken place here as it adds more tension to the scenery as horror movies tend to rely heavily on the manipulation of formal elements—the control of perspective. 

We would also use scenes in the toilet perhaps in a school to give it the connotation thatshe prefers being in there as long as she's not in her bullies sight andinfant decides to commit suicide while she's at it. Suicide is a veryserious matter that generally has a emotion story behind this action so this makes the audience feel sympathetic towards the protagonist (Cheinaz Cordeiro) and therefor longs for more scenery. Later on when our protagonist is back as a ghost, another location would be in the school corridors, as the boys(bullies)would be walking down and at the far end while she would be looking direct at them but then disappears. This adds suspense towards theaudience and therefor makes our sequence eye-catching as she(Cheinaz Cordeiro) stalks them in order to see them suffer as much as she did in her pre days and because of the fear, the boys tend to run away. 

When our protagonist commits suicide, a knife will be shown with blood to add realism to the killing and in fact makes them question, why was taking her own life necessary? which keeps them entertained and therefor would want to watch the film. Its interesting because even though suicide has negative connotation, that is what horror movies aim to do, which is to create suspense and thrills. Knifes and blood have connotations of danger and death which shows dramatic irony and immediately draws the audience in. 

We've decided that, when our protagonist is presented as a ghost,  grey and dull makeup will be crucial to make the audience feel frightened as it will appear more realistic and therefor can appeal to the audiences expectations in a horror film. In addition, she would also wear dark coloured clothes in order to convey a dangerous and threatening atmosphere even though she is generally a character the audience likes, as she was a innocent little girl who killed her life because of her bullies. This adds more tension and once again makes the audience hate the boys who are now in danger.

At the beginning of the title sequence, the lighting will be bright but dim to fit the connotations of a innocent girl which hows dramatic irony as she later commits suicide and becomes determined to serve revenge. The lightening will be very dull and dark to give it a mystery feel to it in order to reach the expectations of a horror film.

Planning- Risk Assessment (Khamroul Hasan)

Risk Assessment

People- The risk that we may encounter are strangers in the park or on the streets as its a public place, so we will need to be as quite as possible to not interrupt anyone, we will have to try not to cause other issues towards anyone.

Equipment- Equipment, we will have full responsibility of the cameras and other equipment, if its lost, stolen or broken we will be fully responsible, this means that we will have to be careful with our equipment.

Weather- If its raining, we won't be able to use our equipment as it can get damaged.
If its foggy, the view may not be clear.

Meeting- As we have decided to add more people into our film, if they don't arrive, this could be a problem.

Planning - Final Production Schedule

Days; Everyone in our group doesn't have college on fridays therefor, filming production can be taken from 12am and onwards. We will probably film in downhills park, depending on the type of scenery we're looking for. This is so, the footage is filmed in the daylight as it gets dark soon.

Also, on the saturdays that everyone is free, we are able to film from 11am to around 5pm. The scenes that are going to be shot in a bedroom would have to be in cheinaz's house and therefor won't be a long journey as everyone lives quite near.

On tuesdays from 12.15am to 3.45pm we can film in the college's hallways as everyone is free in that time slot.

Planning - Change in Character.

In my group, originally, Cheinaz Cordeiro was going to be the main character(protagonist) however, due to typical horror conventions. We have decided that because Cheinaz was medium skin tone which isn't generally the skin colour of the protagonist in horror films, a white skin person is more preferred. This meant that she went on a look out and decided that my friend (Alice Pola) who fits the codes and conventions of a 'pale' girl, will make our title sequence more successful, therefore in our title sequence you will see a pale group.

Planning - final production schedule

PRODUCTION SCHEDULE

Days; Everyone in our group doesn't have college on Fridays therefor, filming production can be taken from 12am and onwards. We will probably film in downhills park, depending on the type of scenery we're looking for. This is so, the footage is filmed in the daylight as it gets dark soon.

Also, on the Saturdays that everyone is free, we are able to film from 11am to around 5pm. The scenes that are going to be shot in a bedroom would have to be in cheinaz's house and therefor won't be a long journey as everyone lives quite near.

On Tuesdays from 12.15am to 3.45pm we can film in the college's hallways as everyone is free in that time slot.

Planning- Pitch Evaluation

PITCH EVALUATION

From the feedback we have received, I have taken deep thought into this, as there were a lot of questions asked to us especially how I should improve and we will have to meet this.

We have come up with 3 targets:

1. Our actors will have to act out exactly what will be in our final storyboard, this will mean that as there will be more characters to do this, we will have to get them without fail.
2. Our production schedule, we will follow this, as all of us are free at this time, we will have to turn up.
3. We will have to add in all our props, the props that we have included in our pitch presentation might be hard to get but we will get them, includes fake blood, makeup etc.

PLANNING- PITCH FEEDBACK

Pitch Feedback.

As we presented our official pitch to our class to give them a basic understanding of what our film opening and the designs will be about, they gave their feedback, asked us questions, therefore we answered them to the best of our understanding.

Planning- Production Schedule (Khamroul)

Production Schedule

MONDAY:
There is a 3hr lesson, we will use that time to film.

TUESDAY:
Everyone has a Tutorial, meet at 12 to film.

WEDNESDAY:
Filming Starts at 12.

THURSDAY:
No Filming

FRIDAY:
Filming begins at 12

We will probably film in downhills park, depending on the type of scenery we're looking for.

This is so, the footage is filmed in the daylight as it gets dark soon.

Also, on the Saturdays that everyone is free, we are able to film from 11am to around 5pm.

The scenes that are going to be shot in a bedroom would have to be in cheinaz's house and therefore won't be a long journey as everyone lives quite near.

Cinema Premiere Feedback.

We have went to 'The screen on the green' to watch our title sequence in the Cinema.

I've also managed to get some feed back from our peers...

Research - Fonts For Our Titles

We have decided that we will keep our titles in the font shown above, this is because it matches our genre which is horror and it may be effective in catching the audiences eye. We have also agreed to keeping the name of our film 'Footsteps'.

OUR PITCH (cheinaz cordeiro)

SWOT Analysis.

Strengths - Our groups main strength is that we have worked really hard on trying to find an idea for the film opening as well as looking at similar movies such as 'Purge' and came up with good ideas that match our genre, horror. We researched about different type of things the movie 'Purge' had to get an idea from it. Another strength of ours was that we spoke about each scene in detail making it easier for us to film this helped us in ways 
such us not wasting time on talking about scenes while filming. One scene we discussed most about was when the victim hunts back the bullies and were we use a false plateau to shock the audience.

Weakness -  One of our weaknesses is each individual in the group lives far away from each other so finding a location to film on a weekend is consumes a lot of time as we have to figure out what place is good as well as close to everyone in the group. Another weakness is that we have no evidence of planning or finding locations. Also having set dates to finish off work puts pressure on the group.

Opportunities - Working in a group gave me the opportunity to get close with people in my class and become friends with them as I like working with them. I also got the opportunity to learn new editing skills from my group and the teachers. Also using creative visual apps such as Prezi helps me to focus more on the visual to being creative and less writing.

Threats - I felt unconfident when writing blogs or wanting to write blogs because of not knowing what to write about as well as making it creative. Also as it is my first time editing I have no editing skills and the same for my group so we feel as that our film opening may be basic compared to peoples that have a little experience in editing.

Planning: Why is sound so important

Importance of sound

What is Sound: Sound is anything we hear in relation to a film.

What is Soundscape: This is the overall sound environment.

What is Sound design: This is the process of creating, recording and mixing all the sounds.

What is 'Suspending Belief': Forgetting that you are watching a film, feeling like you are there.

The two types of sound:

Diegetic Sound - Sound which the audience can hear but the characters in the film cannot hear.

Non Diegetic Sound - Sound which the characters in the film can hear, for example, an explosion.

Screening without sound made the title sequences seem boring and less interesting, one example was the 'The Taking Of Pelham 1 2 3', the scene seemed plain and not enough engagement with he audience making everything confusing

Afterwards, we screened with sound which made a total difference as it built up tension making you want to watch it more this proves that the importance of sound is a lot in a film as it can make it more entertaining.

Research/planning: Favourite film

As we can see, in the title sequence of  Creed. It is straightforward as it begins with the film name like most of  the movies, it's written in the block letter format with shades making it look dark and  as we know 'Creed' is the family name, this can mean that the family have a dark and maybe a stressful pass, the sound in the background gets louder and louder building tension.

When showing the cast, beside their name, its also showing a picture of who they are and what they look like, also you get an idea of the movie as the the pictures show boxing rings and some scenes showing the main character getting ready for a fight. although, this is different to our movie i would like the title sequence to be similar as i thought it is very appealing.

Planning- Risk Assessment (Briando)

Risk Assessment

People- The risk that we may encounter are strangers in the park or on the streets as its a public place, so we will need to be as quite as possible to not interrupt anyone, we will have to try not to cause other issues towards anyone.

Equipment- Equipment, we will have full responsibility of the cameras and other equipment, if its lost, stolen or broken we will be fully responsible, this means that we will have to be careful with our equipment.

Weather- If its raining, we won't be able to use our equipment as it can get damaged.
If its foggy, the view may not be clear.

Meeting- As we have decided to add more people into our film, if they don't arrive, this could be a problem.

Planning- Final Storyboard (Khamroul)

 Final Storyboard

This is our final storyboard, these are most of the scenes of the film that will be shown.

PLANNING: mise-en scene (cheinaz cordeiro)

Mise-en-scene is the arrangement of scenery and stage properties in a play or film. Depending on the different scenes included, the location changes as the title sequence progresses. Due to our genre of horror, props and lightening is crucial in order for us to conceive a specific reaction from the audience in order to maintain their focus throughout the sequence. Furthermore, our sequence 'footsteps,' is based on a girl (Cheinaz Cordeiro) who faces a troubled life and therefor lives in a bad neighbourhood. So alternatively, I've decided that a park or in general, the streets/suburbs would be a good location to start of at. This would bring realism to the sequence which could potentially make the audience more likely to feel connected to our title sequence, as they're able to relate it to their day to day life. In the park, bullying from the gang of hoodlums could be taken place here as it adds more tension to the scenery as horror movies tend to rely heavily on the manipulation of formal elements—the control of perspective. 

We would also use scenes in the toilet perhaps in a school to give it the connotation that she prefers being in there as long as she's not in her bullies sight and infant decides to commit suicide while she's at it. Suicide is a very serious matter that generally has a emotion story behind this action so this makes the audience feel sympathetic towards the protagonist (Cheinaz Cordeiro) and therefor longs for more scenery. Later on when our protagonist is back as a ghost, another location would be in the school corridors, as the boys(bullies)would be walking down and at the far end while she would be looking direct at them but then disappears. This adds suspense towards the audience and therefor makes our sequence eye-catching as she(Cheinaz Cordeiro) stalks them in order to see them suffer as much as she did in her pre days and because of the fear, the boys tend to run away. 

When our protagonist commits suicide, a knife will be shown with blood to add realism to the killing and in fact makes them question, why was taking her own life necessary? which keeps them entertained and therefor would want to watch the film. Its interesting because even though suicide has negative connotation, that is what horror movies aim to do, which is to create suspense and thrills. Knifes and blood have connotations of danger and death which shows dramatic irony and immediately draws the audience in. 

We've decided that, when our protagonist is presented as a ghost,  grey and dull makeup will be crucial to make the audience feel frightened as it will appear more realistic and therefor can appeal to the audiences expectations in a horror film. In addition, she would also wear dark coloured clothes in order to convey a dangerous and threatening atmosphere even though she is generally a character the audience likes, as she was a innocent little girl who killed her life because of her bullies. This adds more tension and once again makes the audience hate the boys who are now in danger.

At the beginning of the title sequence, the lighting will be bright but dim to fit the connotations of a innocent girl which hows dramatic irony as she later commits suicide and becomes determined to serve revenge. The lightening will be very dull and dark to give it a mystery feel to it in order to reach the expectations of a horror film.

planning- Title Credits (Briando)

Title Credits

What will it look like?

Our genre is a Horror/Thriller so the text will be really simple and will mainly stay the colour black/ Red, because those are the colours you really symbolise with.

A type face is a particular design for a specific genre, so we will be using Alien Glow, for example: 

This gives a Horror type feeling which is what we will need to convey to our audience.

How will the title credits integrate? 

The text will fade in and eventually fade out, followed by another title credit doing the same thing. As it fades in the text will be buffering adding a bit of tension in the atmosphere. The title credit will contain the colours Red/Black.

Template of our titles   

This will be our sub-headings or main titles throughout the title sequence.

 And this will be the small text under the sub-headings and main titles throughout the title sequence.

Research- Analysing use of sound in film opening of my chosen genre.

Sound in Specific Film Opening of our Chosen Genre.

The reason why I have chosen the conjuring sound is because I want my film to be horror/thriller related as instruments will need to be used, as the text changes to someone else's name, there will need to be a loud note played, each sound could symbolise something.
At a specific point there is no sound played, there is only a rush of wind heard until a loud note i played, this was likely to be a piano.
Finally, I want my film sound to be more plain but loud, there will need to be instruments related to the conjuring film opening sound.

Setting Targets

This is the current goals which I am planning and hope to complete also the things which is good and that I am happy about.

Planning - Mood Board

Mood Board Theme.

I've decided that mostly, our title sequence will be completely in black and white with elements of red to give it a more mysterious feel to it and as a result the audience would look for clues within the sequence instead of us giving it directly to them which would capture their attention and make it more successful. This adds to the genre of our film which is horror as black has negative connotations and is a mysterious colour associated with fear and the unknown. In addition red also connotes danger ad death which could be used as dramatic irony for the audience to find out clues. 

Therefore I've created, mood boards in Microsoft Powerpoint in order to express my colour pattern of the genre horror.

Research/Planning: Analyse 2 film sequences

Nerve

Starting with a technology based film opening, every individual in the cast crew and the producers title card was designed in a way to make it look attractive and making it relate to social mmedi. Throughout the title sequence different images are shown to portray the internet feeling to the audience. This can help the audience have a little understand of what the movie could be about.

In the backround a fast paced pop music is being played. Seems like a band with a lead singer. Pop music can also relate to teens which can also be giving an idea of the movie. This title sequence is helpful as our movie is going to be about teens so we could maybe catch a few ideas from it.

Deadpool

The Deadpool title sequence begins with a loud 80s/90s pop/disco music being played, then all of a sudden the main character (deadpool) is shown in slow motion images of him fighting a gang. In the mis en scene we could see objects falling over for example coffee spilling, paper flying around, blood being splattered.

The credits for the people who took part in the film making, for example the cast, was written in block capital letters which relates to the movie being an action movie. Can also show how good the movie can be from the intro. As our film will be a hybrid of the genres action and horror i thought that 'Deadpool' would give us an idea for our film opening.

Our New Layout and Background

Our New Layout and Background.

This is our new layout, we made it narrow so it is less complicated for the viewer, they will understand the blogs clearly as the text is easily readable because it is divided.

As our genre is horror, we wanted our background to fit our genre and relate to our film, as our film is about a ghost girl, we put a girl in the background, this fits our blog background.

Research- Use of Sound in One Film Opening

Purge

The Official Platinum Dunes Film, 'The Purge' film opening has a lot of chemistry within it to make it appealing to the audience.
It all begins straight away with a cctv footage of a murder scene going on, a man randomly shoots a victim, then there is infared footage of a knife crime going on, in the background there is quiet classic tunes heard throughout, while it gets to the end, it gets louder, as the crime worsens.

Planning - Mood Board Theme

Mood Board Theme.

I've decided that mostly, our title sequence will be completely in black and white with elements of red to give it a more interesting and appealing look this will be effective as the audience will be furious to know whats going t happen in the dark scenes. This adds to the genre of our film which is horror as black red are associated with danger, blood and etc. 

Therefore I've created, mood boards in Microsoft Powerpoint in order to express my colour pattern of the genre horror.

Planning: institution and distribution (Huseyin Burcak)

Platinum Dunes is an American production company created in November 2001 by filmmakers Michael Bay, Brad Fuller, and Andrew Form. I have decided to choose Platinum Dunes as our groups institution. As a group we have decided to do a hybrid of two genres, action and horror. The reason for choosing Platinum Dunes is that it is known as a very successful production company and having Platinum Dunes as our institution will give a reason to the audience to watch the movie as they know Platinum Dunes produces good films. 

Platinum Dunes is famous for films such as:

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
• Purge.
• Ouija.
• Friday the 13th.
• Pain and Gain.
• The Hitcher.
• Nightmare on Elm Street.