Sunday 27 November 2011

Film Distributors

What does a film distributor do:

Advertising
Marketing
Synergy/Partnership with production company
Distributes films
Premieres/Home releases
Produce content to make it available to the public
Delivers the film
Film related content (Trailers,posters,teasers)
Release it to the public

The film distributor is the link between the producer and the exhibitors (cinema chains, TV networks). there aim is to get as many people to watch the film as possible. They also make the film an appropriate ad campaign and make sure it targets the right audience.

Media Coursework- Film Idea

My group for media coursework:
Aaron Vander
James Mills
Ryan Emin
Harjinder Chana

Our tile sequence idea for our coursework is a horror film, to which we have not decided the name yet but the plot will be that a normal child is one day caught up in a house fire and is left significantly disfigured because of the burns he has suffered. upon returming to school he is continously bullied by other students, and eventually he runs away and hides himself from normal people. over a number of years the anger grows inside him, to the pint where he hunts down those that bullied him, and to get revenge burns therer face, so in his eyes they are equal to him, and then he kills them and keeps there heads as a shrine.

The title sequnece will be focused around fire, fire wikll be in every shot of the sequnce and the main characters face will be hidden under a hood right up until the end of the title sequence. the typography that i would like to use is that of a smoky type of writing so as the fire burns in the title sequnce the names of actors,directors etc. appears written out of smoke again adding tho the thme of fire.

Over the top of this we are not sure whether to have a voiceover of the main charcter speaking about his expieriences and 'the fire inside him'. or whether to have music that fits in with the film genre, the music would have rock music or a similar genre to that as that is normally the tye of music assciated with thsi film genre. A song i believe would be a good choice is Been To Hell by Hollywood Undead.

Thursday 24 November 2011

Duel-- Film Pitch To Warner Bros.

Our pitch
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This is the presentation that i created with James Mills and Jasmine Winston for our film duel, a superhero film with a twist. We were pitching to Warner Bros.

We chose 

Friday 18 November 2011

Groundhog Day Title Sequence






This is our opening sequence that was made by me and Dom Coleman. We focused on the theme of repetition with the character walking past the same background repeatedly, and we also have the title sequence finish where he started in bed. The film shows the same day being repeated over and over again, so we decided to try and get it across in the title sequence.

Thursday 17 November 2011

ZombieLand






This is the opening sequence for the film Zombieland. The first thing that you notice about the title sequence is the titles themselves and how they are actually part of the title sequence rather than just, words added after. The way that when people collide with them and they break apart really draws the audience’s eye to them, almost as if people really want the titles to be noticed rather than them just focusing on the title sequence that is playing over the titles. They almost being wiped away off the screen as if they are blood rather than being smashed through.

The sequence is very chaotic with people running everywhere in panic running away, this could possibly be a theme throughout the film, the theme of chaos and people trying to escape. One of the first shots is of a zombie prisoner throwing a prison guard over a rail. This to me is important as it shows that the virus, or whatever it is affecting people can reach anyone, even prisoners who are locked up 24/7 and are usually kept away from people. Added to this fact is that it shows people from many different areas, different jobs, and different sexes. Every shot shows someone different being affected backing up the idea that anyone and everyone can be affected.

Iconography is also very important in this particular sequence; in every shot something easily recognisable is shown. Zombies are shown in every shot along normally with blood. Both tie closely to the genre of the film, which is horror. The fact that the colour of the writing, which is red, is also important, this connotes blood which one again ties back to the genre of the film.  
The sound track matches well to the sequence it fits with the images being shown. It talks about fighting and killing both of which are shown in the sequence. The music also plays a big part in the sequence, it is sung by a Metallica, a metal band, and that type of music is usually more associated with horror films more than any other.

Joost Korngold

This is my presentation on Joost Korngold, a Dutch title designer for my media homework. I chose him mainly because I saw the opening for his film/documentary "Devil's Drug" which is about a drug addict. And after seeing that sequence I knew that this was the title designer I wanted to create a case study on.

Monday 14 November 2011

History Of The Title Sequence- Homework

Words and lettering played an enormous role in films of the silent era. Film titles made their appearance in the earliest silent films, along with letter cards (or inter-titles), which provided context. These cards were the responsibility of the lettering artist, who collaborated with the scriptwriter and director to create narrative continuity so that audiences could follow what they were seeing.

This is interseting beacuse it shows how important, the actual words were before sound came along. Speech and all sound in the film world was not used and dialouge was shown through the use of letter cards. This to me shows how important text was then because the whole film depended on the text to get the whole point of the storyline across.

During the 1920s and ’30s, European cinema was deeply influenced by modernism, and aspects of this visual sensibility were brought to the US by filmmakers who were fleeing the Nazis. Meanwhile, the studio systems operating in Europe and Hollywood also delighted in creating titles that featured vernacular graphic novelties. As much as possible, they liked to convey the tone of a movie through the “dressage” of its main title. Thus, blackletter fonts in the opening credits were used to evoke horror, ribbons and flowery lettering suggested love, and typography that would have been used on “Wanted” posters connoted a western flick.

This is intersesting because it shows that even when imagery in title sequences was new people still put alot of thought into the images that were shown, as it says above flowers were used to show love and the text from a wanted poster was used to symbolise a western. These are very early examples of the use of typography and Mis-en-Scene. and how they can affect a film even in the title sequence.

Breakthrough ideas in titling, such as timing the typography to interact with metaphorical imagery or to create its own world, were largely innovations that came from outsiders to the Hollywood studio system. Figures such as Saul Bass, Pablo Ferro, Maurice Binder and Richard Williams arrived on the scene in the 1950s, at a time when the studios were starting to flounder in their fight with TV. At that time, independent filmmakers made commercial headway by doing things differently, spreading utterly fresh ideas about the possibilities of title sequences. This is the era in which the discipline of film title sequence design was actually born

This is intersting as it shows that the film industry needed something new as if it wanted to keep up with the TV industry the film industry needed to change. this is when film titles began to change and influental designers like Saul Bass apperaed on the scene, and began to change and the title sequence actually became a pert in the film it was no longer just to announce that the film was starting.

Tuesday 1 November 2011



This is my continuity sequence for my media A-level. I worked with Harjinder Chana, Ryan Emin and James Mills. Within the group we assigned roles to one another the roles were:
James- Actor
Harj- Actor
Aaron- Cameraman
Ryan- Director

Our fisrt over the shoulder shot is correct, the rest however of the conversation between James and Harj was not right. we broke the 180 degree rule throughout the rest of the conversation we did notice this in editing but did not have time to correct it so we posted it anyway.

The things that I liked about are piece was that it was funny, the sequence as whole was done in a light hearted, funny manner, despite the serious situation being shown. Another thing that i was happy was how well we worked in a team, we had good communication whilst drawing the storyboard and also during the filming we all had some input and all listened to what each other had to say.

 The thing that i was not happy with in our piece was the fact that we broke the 180 degree rule as i felt that we had a really good piece without any real mistakes until we made that major one. As the cameraman i do feel mostly responsible, however no one else did poin this out to me so i'm not completely to blame. Another thing that we did wrong is that we had actually filmed it before, but we didn't use a tripod whilst recording so we had to record again as the footagee was shaky.