28/12/2014
27/12/2014
High School & Youth Dramas - order of the titles
High School Drama: The Breakfast Club
- Universal Pictures
- Production company
- John Hughes film
- Title
- Starring (in alphabetical order) - 7 actors listed
- Casting by
- Costume designer
- Production supervisor
- Executive producers
- Music composer and supervisor
- Editor
- Production designer
- Director of photography
- Co-producer
- Producer
- Writer and Director
- 22 credits
- On a black screen
- Mainstream, global release
- Capitalised font, yellow in colour in the middle of the screen
- None
High School Drama: Grease
Titles and order:
- Paramount Pictures x2
- Title
- Credits (actor as ...) x9
- Dance, music, choreographer
- Music supervision
- 'Grease' music and lyrics
- Associate Producer
- Production on Broadway stage by
- Editor
- Production designer
- Director of photography
- Based on
- Screenplay
- Adaptation
- Produced by
- Director
- Built around animation (animated)
- Mainstream, global release
- Capitalised, curved font, original 'Grease' font
- Animated characters and place it's set in.
- Introduced to the 3 main characters through an animation in their bedrooms/what they look like
- Get an idea of the general setting/where the main scenes will be set
- Introduced to the other main characters briefly
Youth Drama: Beautiful Thing
Titles and order:
- Production company
- Actors x3
- Title
- Actors x2
- Writer
- Producer
- Director
- 10 credits
- Independent UK
- Titles over moving images
- Bold, orange, simple
- Council estate
- Boy leaving football/P.E. class
- Woman rushing home
Youth Drama: My Brother, the Devil
Titles and order:
- Company name x2
- Film Clinic
- Actors x10
- Producers x3
- Writer
- Director
- Title
- 20 credits
- Independent UK
- Titles over moving images
- White, capitalised
- Boxing
- Boys
- Community club
Differences and Similarities:
The youth drama films which we have used are low-budget, independent usually British industry films, whereas the High School movies are high budget, have a lot of credits and are generally Hollywood movies which are supported, produced and distributed by American companies
Reflection blog
To improve my blog I need to do the extension tasks (tasks 5 and 9) and update some blogs such as "What is a title sequence?" (task 3) and "Categorising title sequences" (task 6). I further need to complete task 10. I also need to post tasks 11,12 and 13 on my blog.
Furthermore I need to attend more lessons and improve my punctuality.
Furthermore I need to attend more lessons and improve my punctuality.
18/12/2014
Individual Post
Individual Post
Title Sequence #1 - The Breakfast Club
Sub-Genre - High School Drama
Title Sequence #2 - Fish Tank
Sub-Genre - Youth Drama
Blog 7- Pick your favourite film, analyse the type of title sequence it uses, and the order the credits are in?
Fast & Furious 6
Order of credits:
Production Company
Production
Main Actors : Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster and Chris 'Ludacris' Bridges
Music by
Costume Designer
Visual Effect Supervisor
Editors
Production Designer
Director of Photographer
Executive Producers
Producers
Writer
Memento
Director: Justin Lin
Budget: $160,000,000 (estimated)
Production Dates 20 Feb 2010 - March 2013
Release Date: 7 May 2013 (UK Premiere) 17 May 2013 (UK)
Writers: Chris Morgan, Gary Scott Thompson
Starring: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson
Country: USA
Language: English, Russian, Spanish, Indonesian
Gross: $238,673,370
Runtime: 130 min
Art of the Title
Art of the Title
Title Sequence #1 - The Conjuring
1. Which credits do we see and the order we see them in?
- Introduction of a family (The Perron Family)
- Introduction of another family (The Warren Family)
- The director
- Written by (two people)
- Produced by (three people)
- Executive Producer (two people)
- Director of photography
- Production designer
- Edited by
- Actor
- Actor
- Actor
- Actor
- Actor x4
- Actor x3
- Casting by
- Costume Designer
- Music by
- A New Line Cinema Presentation
- A Safran Company/Evergreen Media Group Production
- A James Wan Film
- The Film Title - The Conjuring
Total of 28 credits.
2. What font type is used for the titles?
The font type is typed in sometimes White and sometimes Black, depending on the backdrop.
3. How do we see the font - where do we see it in the frame?
The font is presented over Moving Images and due to the in-identical back drop in every image, when the font is black it is conveyed in front of a white background the show high contrast, if the background image is dark then there is a white box placed where the writing is to create the contrast and vice versa when the text is white.
4.What happens behind the font - what do we see, who are we introduced to, what sound do we hear?
During the title sequence we are introduced to history of the film, as it proceeds in order, with old images of family photos and the names of the leading actors and actresses who will portray these supposedly real people. Along with the moving images sound is played creating a chilling mood.
5. What do you like about this sequence, why did you pick it?
I chose this title sequence because they have used Titles over Moving Images, which is more complex than Titles on a blank screen or Titles on still images and have managed to really create the tone of the film as well as giving background to the film for their audience without giving too much away and leaving the audience with an aura of suspense.
Title Sequence #2 - The Incredibles
1. Which credits do we see and the order we see them in?
- Title
- Written and directed by
- Produced by
- Executive producer
- Associate producer
- Music by
- Story supervisor
- Film editor
- Supervising tech director
- Production designer
- Character designer x2
- Supervising animators x3
- Directors of photography x3
- Art director
- Shading supervisor
- Hair and Cloth simulation supervisor
- Sets sequence supervisor
- Effects supervisor
- Rendering supervisor
- Production manager
- Sound designer
- Casting by x3
- Additional casting by
- Cast (in order of appearance)
- Actor (multiple list of names)
Total of 31+ credits.
2. What font type is used for the titles?
The font type is plain and readable and the font colour consistently changes depending on the background of blank screen or moving motion but the colours used are black, white or red. Bold colours which stand out against the colourful array in the background which appeals to their child audience.
3. How do we see the font - where do we see it in the frame?
The font is incorporated in the moving anomation or motion that is presented amongst it. It is mainly centred but moves along with animation behind it.
4.What happens behind the font - what do we see, who are we introduced to, what sound do we hear?
Behind the font we are introduced to the characters and the story line of the film as throughout the title sequence a small summary of the events in the film are played out for us, for example when we see Dash running through across water as he tries to escape "bad guys". We hear a continual escalating thriller sound along with the title sequence which builds an interest in the thought that there is going to be some sort of drama in the film.
5. What do you like about this sequence, why did you pick it?
I chose this title sequence to analyse because they have used Titles using Animation or Motion, requiring exceptionally more advanced skills through the key use of technology as appose to Titles of a Blank Screen, which would require not much effort. Through their work they have conveyed a thrilling atmosphere to their audience, the right atmosphere and due to this they will have excited their audience for what lies ahead.
High School Drama Analysis
High School Drama Analysis
Grease
Order of Title Sequence:
- Production company (Paramount Pictures)
- Title of film (Grease)
- Producer x2
- Actor (John Travolta as Danny)
- Actor (Olivia Newton-John as Sandy)
- Actor (Stockard Channing as Rizzo)
- Actor (Jeff Conaway as Keneckie)
- Actor x3
- Actor x3
- Dances and Musical Sequences Staged and Choreographed by
- Musical Supervisor
- "Grease" music and lyrics by
- Associate Producer
- Produced on the Broadway by... In association with...
- Edited by x2
- Production designed by
- Director of photography
- Based on the original musical by x2
- Screenplay by
- Adaptation by
- Produced by x2
- Directed by
Total of 30 credits. This high number of credits mentioned in the opening title sequence of a movie leads the audience to believe that it is a mainstream movie and is US big budgeted with a lot of people on the production team.
Camera:
A number of camera shots are used in the first scene to display the scenery and the characters on the beach, wide shot is regularly used to present the characters in a number of locations within the beach, this incorporates the scenery with the actual scene, emphasising its relevance. As the school is scenery of the school is introduced after the opening title sequence the camera uses an establishing shot is to establish the location we are now in, a high school. As we are introduced to character the more important to the film an actor is the lower the angle of the camera, showing that they are superior within the storyline eg. John Travolta as Danny. Less superior characters like the T-Birds are shown from a slightly higher angle showing that they are more inferior that certain others, being Danny.
A number of camera shots are used in the first scene to display the scenery and the characters on the beach, wide shot is regularly used to present the characters in a number of locations within the beach, this incorporates the scenery with the actual scene, emphasising its relevance. As the school is scenery of the school is introduced after the opening title sequence the camera uses an establishing shot is to establish the location we are now in, a high school. As we are introduced to character the more important to the film an actor is the lower the angle of the camera, showing that they are superior within the storyline eg. John Travolta as Danny. Less superior characters like the T-Birds are shown from a slightly higher angle showing that they are more inferior that certain others, being Danny.
Editing:
The opening scene begins we see a beach and a couple who through jump cuts show that they are excited and through this they have been there a long time as the camera cuts to a number of shots of the couple in different positions and locations on the beach also with the use of elipsis.
As the first scene presents itself a continual shot is used to establish the scene of the High School. Whereas as the characters are introduced through match cuts and cross cuts and we flicker from the introduction of the boys gang (T-Birds) to the girls (Pink ladies). This is a cross cut because the two scenes are linked together, we know thjs because of the recognisation of the two main characters; Sandy and Danny, who we have already been introduced to at the very beginning of the movie.
As the first scene presents itself a continual shot is used to establish the scene of the High School. Whereas as the characters are introduced through match cuts and cross cuts and we flicker from the introduction of the boys gang (T-Birds) to the girls (Pink ladies). This is a cross cut because the two scenes are linked together, we know thjs because of the recognisation of the two main characters; Sandy and Danny, who we have already been introduced to at the very beginning of the movie.
Sound:
In the opening scene of Grease diegetic, gentle, oceanic sound is used, synchronous to the scene on the beach to convey the love that is present between the couple on the beach. As the title sequence begins the music picks up speed and level of sound and it gradually reflects the attitude and character of the characters in the movie as well as the title "Grease". The song is famously connected to the Grease movie as it was created for the film and it is feautures on the soundtrack for the film.
17/12/2014
Blog 6 4 types of film opening
Summary:
Titles over moving Images:
• Sound And usually no dialogue
• Moving Images serves to offer a metaphor or an narrative thread
• To help introduce the tone or storyline of the film to the audience
Examples of title sequences that have used Title over moving Images :
A paramount release
The sixties
Titles using Animation or Motion
• Came about in the late 1990s
Narrative - Titles are integrated into moving Images
- Discrete
- Stylised
Examples of titles sequence that used titles using animation or motion :
James Bond (007)
Titles on a blank screen :
Titles on a black screen is the most common type of title sequence.
• usually has different kinds of type face on a blackground
• studios used them because they are low budget. Eg. Psycho / Eg. Pucp Fiction
Titles on still Images:
More elaborate than simple white text on a blackground. Historically title cards developed to include hand drawn bordors and other images. This requires combining different media to the background
Example where it has been used:
Winbledon
My favourite title sequence is titles using animation or motion because personally I believe it is the most effective as it can show some hints of the film but in a different way. The animation is also very effective as it can link to all target audience from young children all the way up to the adults, everyone can understand the animation if put in the right context.
Reflection Blog
Reflection Blog:
To Improve my blog I must complete all blogs to Atleast a C grade standard by using blogging tools such as thinglink, Emaze, Powtoon and Vlogs this will ensure my blogs look and sound great.
I also should attend more lessons and making sure my punctuality is at a 100%.
Work to be completed :
Blog Task 4 - Analyse 2 Title sequences
Blog Task 5 - Extension / Purpose of a film opening? / watch the doc "watching" answer questions
Blog Task 7 - pick favourite film, analyse the type of title sequence it uses, and the order the credits are in
Blog Task 8 - Genre? And Teen Drama Film?
Blog 4 - 2 Title Sequence
Casino Royale
Order of credits:
Film Producer & Production Company Main Actors:Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen and Judi Dench Film Title Associate Producer Production Executive
Sound Recordist
Electrical Supervisor
Stills Photographer
Make Up Supervisor
Hairdressing Supervisor
Wardrobe Supervisor
Second Unit Director
Costume Designer
Editor
Director of Photographer
Production Designer
Music
Executive Producers
Producers
Director Martin Campbell
Font
The font used in the title sequence is century gothic regular, it is used to represent the spy and mystery character in the film played as James Bond.
How The Font Is Presented
The Font is present in between the patterns which are moving in the background, this gives the effect that the font is moving along with the patterns. Behind the font is a scene of the shy James Bond and casino roulettes which link in with the film.
Grand Prix
Order of Credits:
Production Company
Main Actors
Film Title
More Actors
Music Composed
Production Designer
Supervising Film Editor
Film Editors
Assistant Director
Sound Editor
Special Effects
Director John Frankenheimer
Font
The font used a simple font but very effective as it suits the theme of the film of a racing based film, the colour white is used well to match the colour of the racing cars.
How The Font Is Presented
The font is presented and used to match the colour of the racing cars, this is very effective as its suggesting racing cars have a important role to play within the film, which is telling the audience to focus on racing cars.
Order of credits:
Film Producer & Production Company Main Actors:Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen and Judi Dench Film Title Associate Producer Production Executive
Sound Recordist
Electrical Supervisor
Stills Photographer
Make Up Supervisor
Hairdressing Supervisor
Wardrobe Supervisor
Second Unit Director
Costume Designer
Editor
Director of Photographer
Production Designer
Music
Executive Producers
Producers
Director Martin Campbell
Font
The font used in the title sequence is century gothic regular, it is used to represent the spy and mystery character in the film played as James Bond.
How The Font Is Presented
The Font is present in between the patterns which are moving in the background, this gives the effect that the font is moving along with the patterns. Behind the font is a scene of the shy James Bond and casino roulettes which link in with the film.
Grand Prix
Order of Credits:
Production Company
Main Actors
Film Title
More Actors
Music Composed
Production Designer
Supervising Film Editor
Film Editors
Assistant Director
Sound Editor
Special Effects
Director John Frankenheimer
Font
The font used a simple font but very effective as it suits the theme of the film of a racing based film, the colour white is used well to match the colour of the racing cars.
How The Font Is Presented
The font is presented and used to match the colour of the racing cars, this is very effective as its suggesting racing cars have a important role to play within the film, which is telling the audience to focus on racing cars.
Blogging Task 13 - Sub-Genre Conventions
Plots and story-lines/characters and social groups introduced in teen drama films.
Key plot introduced?
- Five completely different characters; Criminal, Basket case, Athlete, Brain, Princess
- All in detention for different reasons.
- Shows that there will be conflict between all of the student as well as the teacher.
Order of story line?
- High school is introduced (Shermer High school)
- Match cuts of different aspects of the school e.g. lockers, graffiti, "man of the year" award
- Introduces 1st girl student- Father drops her off to school in a BMW & wearing a Burberry scarf.Girl is seen to have taken time on her appearance, altogether shows her character to be rather well off and higher class to the rest.
- The "Brain" is then introduced, in a cramped dingy car, pressure by his mother to study hard.
- The "Jock", father drives a pick up truck and lectures him about sport.
- The "Criminal", walks to school opposed to being dropped off by his parents like the others.
- The "Basket Case", dropped off by parents but drive away before she gets to say goodbye, her hair covers her face.
Social Group?
Social groups within this are the popular kids and the not popular kids, binary opposites
My Favourite Film
My Favourite Film
The Grinch
The order in which the credits appear:
- Production company (UNIVERSAL)
- Production company (IMAGINE)
- Production company x2 (again)
- Producer
- A Ron Howard film
- Actor
- Title
- Actor
- Actor
- Actor
- Actor
- Actor
- Actor
- Narrated by
- Casting by x2
- Music composed by
- Music supervisor
- Special make up effects by
- Costume Designed by
- Associate Producers x3
- Edited by
- Production Designer
- Director of photography
- Executive Producer
- Produced by x2
- "Based in the book by Dr Suess"
- Screenplay by x2
- Directed by
The opening title sequence of The Grinch lasts a total of 5 minutes and 23 seconds and during this time a total of 33 credits are mentioned as the set of film and its characters are introduced. The titles are shown over Moving Images. There is dialogue, narrative speaking over the opening conveying the Dr Suess tone. The text is one of a kind and is the same as is used in the title of The Grinch, colours being red and green conveying the Christmassy atmosphere of the movie and its children audience.
This amount if credits indicates that The Grinch is a mainstream, American big budgeted production.
15/12/2014
Sub-genres in Teen Dramas
Sub-genres in Teen Dramas
Teen dramas are usually films/TV shows which base around the lives of teenagers and the problems/conflicts they have to face. They were generally not very popular or moreover, non-existent until the 90s and the outbreak of the TV show 90210.
In recent years they have become very popular in everyday TV and there are now many films and TV shows which are for the audience of teenagers.
Sub-genres of this genre can be as follows:
- Thrillers (The Room Mate)
- Comedy
- Horror
- Drama
- Fantasy (Teen Wolf, The Vampire Diaries)
- Adventure (Harry Potter)
- Mystery (Pretty Little Liars)
Furthermore, many recurring themes in teen movies which can reflect on the sub-genre are:
- Conflicted with authorities - often parents, teacher
- Relationships
- Self discovery - coming of age films, such as Perks of Being a Wallflower
- Gangs/rival groups - much more common in British television as an aspect towards the teen audience
- Sex, drugs, music
Teen Drama - Sub Genres: High School Vs Youth Drama
Teen Drama - Sub Genres: High School Vs Youth Drama
Grease:
Inbetweeners:
Bend it Like Beckham:
This is England:
Reflection Post
Reflection Post
- Need to analyse blog task 7 in depth.
- Finish blog task 11 (write analysis of the research)
- Complete The extension Task once all tasks are complete.
Reflection Post
Reflection Post
- As soon as my current work is up to date and of A standard I will complete the extension tasks to ensure that I can secure an A grade.
What is a title sequence?
Summary -
To summarise title sequences, a title sequence is the method by which films or television present their titles.
Most title sequences have a purpose in which, why they were presented like the way they are. For example a title sequence can be used to put the audience in a certain mood to link with the movie/tv show. However, there are many examples where the purpose of a title sequence is simply just to present the film.
To conclude title sequences are very important in movies/tv shows as it shows the audience how the director wants the start of the film to be presented and it is the first thing the audience see.
13/12/2014
What's a target audience? - Research on American Pie
Audience profiles for teen films: American Pie
Demographics
- Gender: Male
- Aged: 25-39
- Social Grade: C2DE
- Wales
- Midlands
- South Coast
- Left wing
- Advertising/Marketing
- Consulting
- Manufacturing
- Less than £125
Lifestyle
Hobbies & Activities
- Quizzes
- Using the internet
- Board Games
- Boxing
- Football
- Sex and Relationships
- Video Games
- Movies
- Sleeping
- Australia
- Amsterdam
- Careers & Requirements
- Paris
- Cat
Personality
Describe themselves as
- Loving
- Funny
- Kind
- Selfish
- Quick-tempered
- Lacking self confidence
Brands they consume
Consumer of
- First Capital Connect
- Sky One
- CANON
- Apple
- McDonald's
- Batchelor's
- National Rail
- Pringles
- NINTENDO
- London Underground
- ASDA
- Sports Direct
- Rocksport
- Timberland
- HSBC
- Toyota
Entertainment
Favourite movies
- American Pie 2
- Meet the Parents
- There's something about Mary
- The Hangover
- American Wedding
- Friends
- Men Behaving Badly
- The Office
- Little Britain
- Bottom
- Rihanna
- The Black Eyed Peas
- The Cranberries
- No Doubt
- Blink-182
- Owen Wilson
- Jack Black
- Elle Macpherson
- Adam Sandler
- Will Ferrel
Media
Online for
- 11-15 hours per week
- Mirror
- Nuts magazine
- 1-5 hours per week
- Family Guy
- 24 Hours in A&E
- How I Met Your Mother
- Come dine with me
- Googlebox
Having only researched this one film into proper depth, the conclusion I came to was that the audience for this film was quite different to the usual audience you would expect to see for a teen film. What I found out was that the majority of the audience for this specific film was male and 25+ whereas the usual audience for a teen film would be teenagers. Although it was clear that adults do watch teen films, the genre of the film states that it's specified for a certain target audience - and that is, teens. However I found out that the audience for this film was very manly, working class and 'lad-ish'.
Surprisingly, the audience for the other movies I briefly looked at was very similar to this one - in referral to the age group. Most movies had an audience of 25-39 in referral to age. Only the Inbetweeners movie and Kidulhood had an audience of 18-24 which was not surprising. What I found that was surprising was that Harry Potter had an audience of females 40-59 years old, and Attack the Block had male 40-59 which is very unexpected.
To conclude my research, what I initially thought was the audience for teen movies (mainly teenagers) turned out to be quite different to what I found out in my research. The target audience seems to mostly be 25-39 year olds.
12/12/2014
Who makes title sequences?
GAME OF THRONES TITLE SEQUENCE
There is also an interview about the title sequence which gives us an overview of how the designers deal with the title sequences.
We also get a sense of the people who get a say in the title sequences.
As Game of Thrones is a TV based show with a TV based title sequence, I decided to also show a perspective from a movie (The Interview)
The Game of Thrones title sequence was produced in the Production Studio Elastic as we can see by the creative director Angus Wall.
Here we have more information from artofthetitle.com on the credits:
09/12/2014
Favourite film
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
Credits
- Production/Distribution companies x4 (Universal Pictures, in Association with Relativity Media, a Donners' Company/Depth Field Production, a Paul Weitz film)
- Title (Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant)
- Actors x17
- Original score
- Co-producer
- Visual effects
- Special effects x2
- Costume designer
- Editor
- Production designer
- Director of photography
- Executive producers x4
- Producers x4
- Based on
- Screenplay x2
- Director
- 43 credits
- This title sequence is very similar to other Hollywood title sequences in the sense that we are first introduced to the Production and Distribution companies, and then we are introduced to the title of the movie, followed by actors, producers etc. and lastly followed by the director.
- However it's quite different from some other Hollywood movies, as it shows it's own unique design in referral to font and the way that it shows on the screen. It very clearly links to the theme of the film and the general plot-line of the film. This also stands for the scenery behind the credits, which is very dark and gloomy - very much like the plot of the movie and the events which happen during it.
- The dark, gloomy colours, the small figures which are moved by strings and the red eyes all refer back to the title of the movie. The sequence very much reminds me of a Tim Burton movie. In this sequence we are introduced to the main character at the beginning of the sequence, and during the sequence we are introduced to a few more important characters, although not all of them.
- Furthermore, we get a sense of setting - which is a very gloomy, graveyard/circus setting and we also see a lot of spiderwebs. They are also seen in the credits, used as one of the ways in which the credits enter the screen.
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