Company Ident Final

I re edited my company ident so that everything fades out at the end for a better merge in to my film opening.

Pitch

We had to film a pitch for the planning idea of our films in order to establish what is needed in order to achieve our final finishing project.

Film Opening Script - "CityRunners"

Girl in all dark clothing - emerges from the trees

EXT - Dreary, old, abandoned forest. Mid evening. Dogs are barking in the distance.

Girl in all dark clothing, crouched down behind a tree - her phone vibrates in her pocket.

Takes her phone out and 'AGENT A' appears to flash up on the screen.
She answers.

(Everything goes silent as she barks the instructions down the phone.)

Girl:

Get the car ready. I'm at the old site...They're closing in on me.

The dogs' barking and howling intensifies as gun fire begins in the enclosing vicinity.

The girl jumps up and begins to run, pushing her phone carelessly into her back pocket.

As she runs her phone falls out of her back pocket and hits the ground. Not noticing, she continues to run off through the trees, careful to avoid the fallen branches.

EXT - Abandoned building site. No one is around. Mid evening, same day, moments later.

A car comes speeding into the shot, does a 180 degree skid turn on the gravel, and stops parked in place.

Meanwhile, the girl comes running from the trees into shot, and towards the car.

She reaches out and grabs the car door handle, jumps into the car.

The car spins the wheels and racing away out of sight.

Character Vs Characterisation

In character building, there are two aspects that are vital to creating deeper layers to characters in your film.

Firstly, there is Characterisation. Characterisation is the way a character behaves externally to the audience.
e.g
- Speech
- Clothes
- Small traits     

Secondly, there is Character. Character is the distinctive nature of something/someone.
It is synonymous to things such as:
- Personality
- Disposition

An individuals character is made up of the distinctive mental and moral qualities that they possess. It is an internal behaviour. In Robert Mckee's novel 'Story' it says that "If we're introduced to a 'loving husband,' and by the end of the tale he's still what he first appeared to be, a loving husband with no secret, no unfulfilled dreams, no hidden passions, we'll be very disappointed."

Throughout a story, the audience want to see/read that the character is being tested; pushed to the very limit, the very edge of a theoretical cliff, just to see if they would jump. As humans, we, in a way, need to know what makes one another tick, we see someone seemingly perfect, perfect family, perfect job, perfect life. We feel as though it is our job to know what it takes for that 'mask' to come off, even a flicker momentarily..this is why an audience simply will not be satisfied in watching a character that does not progress, and simply does not reflect at all during the journey of the film.

Company Ident

We were given the task to create our own company ident for our film sequence production. I made my ident using Adobe After Effect

Shot/Reverse Shot

We filmed a scene for our media, in which myself and Heather had an improvised conversation. In this sequence, we used a Shot Reverse Shot technique that captures both reactions to the conversation, from each characters point of view, using over the shoulder shots.A shot reverse shot is a film technique wherein one character is shown looking (often off-screen) at another character, and then the other character is looking "back" at the first character. Since the character are shown facing in opposite directions, the viewer unconsciously assumes that they are looking at each other.

Analysing 3 Saul Bass Title Sequences

Anatomy of a Murder 1959

The title sequence starts off with a grey screen. The director's name 'OTTO PREMINGER' flashes on at the beat of the dramatic instrumental music.
White writing contrasts the grey background. Then, parts of the body begin to appear and cover up the director's name. Possibly indicating that the director is the centre of the creation, he is the main body of the film.
Music, again, introduces the change of shot of the scene, there is a 'dum dum dum' of the music beat, which changes the shot of the entire body, to just a close up of the heade in 3 very quick stages. First, the whole body disappears, leaving just the head. Secondly, the head flashes from its original placing, to a centre screen close up. The beat strikes the third time, and now ther head contains the name of the 'head' actor of the film.
This format for title sequence, presents that, although the director is the main body of the film, it is made up of the whole crew, and in putting the main characters nane in the head, it is ironically representing his lead in the film.

It's a Mad Mad World

Saul Bass' opening for 'It's a mad mad world' is a very lengthy opening, lasting approximately 4 minutes. Saul uses hands of the same design a lot in his opening titles. The circular object is used to represent many different things in the opening, such as an egg, a tin being opened etc, this could represent the many different things that come out of this world.
In many points of this opening, something is trying to break free of the object, but is repeatedly being pushed and shoved back in, this may represent an oppression of society not allowing people to part themselves from the mass of everyone around them and the conformities.

Ocean's Eleven (1960)


Upon analysing Saul Bass' opening of the 1960 Ocean's Eleven, it is clear to see the use of the basis of the plot in the title sequence. Throughout the title sequence, Saul has used parts that relate to a casino and gambling, as the film's plot is a heist of a casino. He uses the dots that make up each picture, which represent the big city lights of cities such as Las Vegas, the gambling city lights.