Planning Our High School Drama Title Sequence - Prezi

Blog 21 - Reflection

 

This is a progress sheet from before the Christmas holidays, as you can see I wasn't performing at the standards I wanted to be. Which meant I had to improve both my attendance and punctuality in order to improve my progress grades. I am now up to data with all my blogs, I have also be creating time to ensure all my work is up to data with, which should again help my progress grades.  

Evaluation Of Practical Activity

Evaluation of Practical Activity: The Breakfast Club

Throughout the our rendition of the Breakfast task, we used many similar quotes and props as in the original film. This included writing the words "IF YOU OPEN THIS YOU WILL DIE" on the lockers within the media corridor, just as they do in the actual Breakfast Club. The first 40 seconds of the film is our match cuts of the school; lockers, classrooms, clocks etc. We tried to include different aspect of the school just like in the film i.e. graffiti, honor roll and empty classrooms. This gave the same affect in which the film did as it being a school filled with a range of different pupils. 

We then proceeded on to film our characters entrances, in their cars with their parents and entering the building of the "High School". In order to make it seem as though the cars of the students are "there" we filmed mini toy cars, driving into the shot, before we switched to filming the actual characters using over the shoulder and medium shots. After the car shots we filmed each of our characters entering the building of the college, using track shots to show the character coming inside from outside

Blog 8 - Teen Drama Genre

Post 11 - What are sub-genres of Teen Drama Films?

A Teen Drama is a type of drama which focus mainly of teenaged characters hint the "Teen".
Teen Drama was not always around or popular in that sense, It came about in the early 90s. However, today teen dramas are seen to be very popular with a large teen audience shows such as Teen Wolf and Pretty Little Lairs have become very successful over the years.

What has also been introduced recently to audiences are sub-genres within teen dramas, this has proven to be a massive success, the mix of genres seem to attract large audiences.

Teen Wolf is one example of an successful teen drama that has a sub-genre, Teen Wolf consist of many genres such as horror, fantasy and thriller. The mixture of genres has been huge success as it has a 7.8/10 rating on IMB which suggest that the audiences watching the show are enjoying the storyline created by the mixture of genres within a teen drama. 

 A summary about the order and type of title sequences in High School drama films:

1. Have the production companies first and screen play last 
2. The movie title and who it shows are one of the few titles shown 
3. The use of animation or motion 
4. Simple Text 

 A summary about the order and type of title sequence in Youth drama films:

1. Production companies are shown first movie where as titles are shown last 
2. Use of animation or motion 
3. Complex text used especially for showing the movie titles 

A summary on the main differences in the title sequence of films from each sub-genre 

Firstly, Both High School and Youth Drama films use animation or motion which is their main similarity. However, 3 out of 4 High School movies have the actual movie playing in the background of the title sequence, engaging audience from the start of the movie. Whereas, youth dramas use more of bright colourful texts and backgrounds to engaging their audiences. 

Blog 12 - High School Vs Youths Drama order of the titles

Titles and orders:

Universal Pictures
Production company
John Hughes film 
Title
Starring actors 
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

What font is used?

The font used is capitalised and yellow colour centre to the screen.

What type of title sequence is used?

The title is presented on a black screen 

Action behind the title:

None 

Title and order:
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Production Comapny
Title
Starring Actors
Casting By
Costume Designer
Music By & Song By
Music Supervisors
Co - Producers
Film Editor
Production Designer
Director Of Photographer
Executive Producers
Produced By
Written By
Director

What font is used?
The font used is again like Breakfast Club capitalised and again the colour used in Juno is yellow like Breakfast Club. However, the title of the movie is presented in green and yellow.

What type of title sequence is used?

The title sequence used is animated or motion.

Action behind the font:

The action behind the font is an moving animated city and it appears to show a girl who then turns into an animation walking around a city, maybe giving hints to the audience on what the film could be about. 

To summarise the similarities of the order of the titles of Breakfast Club and Juno is that they both use a similar colour scheme in terms of what colour they use on their fonts. However, there are many different things about their order of titles, as Breakfast Club presents theirs title of still images which could be suggested to not be the most effective way of present the order of titles as it could be seen as the most easy and less time consuming way of doing it. Whereas, Juno presents their order of titles over an animated moving background which could be suggested to be more of an effective way of ordering the titles for a movie as it is more interesting for the audience to watch and one other thing it does really well is it sets the mood of the film to the audience so the audience knows what to expect, another good successful film which uses this is James Bond Skyfall.   

Blog 20 - Research into Kidulthood

Kidulthood is an drama showing a day of a trouble 15 - year old boy who lives in the Streets of West London. This movie explores many stereotypes to do with the youth of today, exploring crime, sex and drugs. The movie had an estimated budget of £600,000 and was released 5 march 2006, the opening weekend gross profit was £100,056, its Box office was £453,876. 

Target audience: 

Kidulthood appealed more to a younger audience the reasons for the this is because in various of scenes it shows many teens in uniforms, which could suggest why Kidulthood has a younger audience because young teens can relate to the storyline or maybe some could relate to the lifestyle presented in Kidulthood as the teens in the uniform shows to the audience what age group the movie consist of. 

(UK 15)

Genre and Sub-genre: 

Indie Film

Teen Drama 

Themes raised in the movie:

Gang Violence: 

Gang violence is really explored in Kidulthood, it presents and shows to the audience some of the issues in London today. Trife the man character is used to demonstrate this gang violence in one day. Trife gets into trouble with a well known gang member in the Streets of West London and forced to earn a name on the Streets, which leads to violence and conflict. 

Sex, Drugs and Alcohol:

The theme of sex, drugs and alcohol is also explore in Kidulthood, as it is shown in the scene of the two girls becky and Alisa as they have sex with an older male in order to fund for their drugs. This is exploring a deep issue in the generation of today.

Relationships:

Kidulthood also consist of a love relationship through Trife and Alisa as in the film they are each others exs, however, down the line Alisa is pregent and they decide to get back together in order to give their baby a stable life by sticking together. 

Marketing Strategy:

The marketing team for Kidulthood went by advertising the film in way which isn't really costly as a servey showed that 33% of the people that watched the movie heard it by the word of mouth, suggesting the marketing team done very well in terms of advertising the movie with out using a lot of money, using things such social media websites, like, facebook, twitter and many more. 

The movie also consist of soundtracks by grime artists such as Shystie, Lethal Bizzle, Dizzle Rascal these are all well known grime artist wshich again is another way the marketing team for Kidulthood went by advertsing the film. 

Kidulthood distribution company, Revoler Entertainment also produced many copies on DVD, this is will be good for the movie as it means more people have access to the movie, also giving more people more options on where to watch the movie.  

Character Profiles:

Trife:

This character is an 15 teen year old, who grows up in which could be consider as the "hood". The character follows in the stereotype of young youths today. Trife is made to earn his reputation on the roads of London by his actions.

Alisa:

This character plays as trife ex girlfriend who then becomes pre gent with his child. This again can be consider as a stereotype of young teens now days. The writer also explores the theme of relationships through Alisa and Trife as they come together in order to give their baby a stable family and life.

Jay:

Jay is also one of Trife best friends. However, not like Mooney Jay tends to get into his own conflict within this movie. This character plays a major role within this film as many conflict scenes are explored by Jay as his character seems to gets into a lot of trouble but needs his friends to help him with his trouble, some may suggest he is a selfish character as he tends to do what is best for him.

Mooney:

This character plays as one of trife best friends, silimar to to trife he is bought up in the same "hood" as trife, they experience and go through the same troubles. However, out of the friendship group Mooney is the most humble as this character plays in the middle of Trife and Jay as they get into a lot of conflict whereas, Mooney is the one who is trying to keep the friendship group tight.

Becky:

" local slut"  This character is one who is seen as very weak mentality, as she is easily led by boys. She is seen as weak mentality because she is used by boys sexual and then treated wrongly. This character has no other interests than sex,drugs and partying. Therefore, this could be presentation a stereotype within in todays society.

Sam:

Sam is considered as your typically villain in youth dramas. Sam character is seen to be a boss or feared on the streets of London, who tends to cause a lot of conflict within this film. The character sam is really exploring some major issues with the youths today in London, Kidulthood presents these issues to a large audience of people in the UK in order to raise awareness in some of the issues today, this character explores and presents these issues very well within the movie.

Blog 15 - High School Drama - Camera, Editing, Sound, M.E.S.

Camera

Wide Shot
The wide shot of the animated council flats could suggest to the audience that film/movie will be taking place within or around the council estate. Giving the audience an impression that the council estates have a major role to play within this film. (shot  0.9 secs)

Close  Up
0.22 secs in to the title sequence there is a close up on the faces of the animated characters, The characters facial expressions seemed to be aggressive. Which leads audience to believe that the film is about conflict between rival gang members or youths in general. 

Editing

Special Effects
There are many special effects used within this title sequence. One main example would be the animated gun which is used within this, gun represents violence and conflict, demonstrating to the audience that this movie will include some form or conflict and violence. Also within the barrel of the gun there is an man and girl running, this could suggest to the audience that BOTH women and men are effected by the problems within this council estate, it doesn't matter weather your boy or girl you will be effected by the conflict.

Sound
The grime beat suggest to the audience that the characters within this movie will be fairly young as the music links in to what youths are like today. It also suggest that they are living in a changing urban inner city, the fast tempo within the beat could suggest  the way the youth live as it could be suggested that some of the youths today live a very dangerous fast life. Also at the start of the title sequence we hear a speech which is talking about generations, this again could suggest to the audience that the youths of today live in a very different generation than before.

Mise En Scene

Lighting
The dark doll colours used within this title sequence suggest to the audience that there will be conflict on these council estate.  The darkness suggest their are many bad things happening on these estates but people cannot seem to escape from conflict as everywhere around the area it is filled with darkness.

Clothing
The animated characters are wearing hats and hoods this can be easily link to the stereotype of young gang members clothing. The animated characters have their hoods on this can suggest some conflict as some could feel threaten by youths in hoods.

Remaking The Breakfast Club opening

Practical: Remaking the Breakfast Club Opening

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Blog 13 - Teen Drama

This is an fantastic example of 2 completly differernt types of living but the characters played in the movies are roughly the same age. Firstly American Pie is more of a funny side in america, the movie shows what roughly a freshmen year looks like in America. The audience only gets the side of sex, drugs and fun within univerity, the film doesnt explore Americas crime rate and etc. However,  Kidulthood explores the bad sides to the streets of London. It presents to the audeince what can be considered as the youths of our day and age. Kidulthood performs this by using the main character Trife to come up and gain his repuation on the streets on london, showing the audience how hard life can be in London. These are completly different as one is trying to show a funny/fun side to an Amercia university whereas, the other presents to the audience what life is like as a youth in London and how hard it can get.

Blogging Task 10 - Audience For Teen Films

Demographics -
Male
Aged 18-24
Social Grade: C2DE

Top Regions -
Yorkshire
London
Midlands

Politics -
Right

Typical Profession -
Finance
Sports Industry
Military and Defence

Lifestyle -  

Hobbies & Actives -

Drinking 

Exercising 

Driving 

Favourite Sports -

Darts 

Boxing 

General Interests -

Video Games 

People and Celebrities 

Sex and Relationships 

Niche Interests -

Darts 

Comedy 

Boxing 

Watching Sports 

Football

Mostly Pet -

Dog 

       

Personality  -

Describes themselves as...

Funny 

Honest

Well-Balanced  

But on occasion...

Headstrong 

Easily Distracted 

Control - Freaky 

  

   

Entertainment 

Prezi on Breakfast Club

Blog 2 - Prelim Film

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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

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.

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. 

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