Film Pitch Video

This is me, Sophie, Megan and Christian performing our pitch. I was very nervous in it and annoyed about not projecting my voice enough but I am still happy we videoed ourselves so we can see live footage of our work to see it from another's perspective. 

First Pitch

On Monday we had to present to our media teacher and the rest of our students in our class our ideas for our Film, we looked presented in our powerpoint:

- What the film is about 
- Production Company 
- Box office of our supporting films 
- Box office to 2 Lionsgate films 
- Popular actors and actresses which are in Lionsgate films 
- Distributor
- Budget and release date 
- Kidnap Research 
- Possible actors (female) 
- Possible actors (male) 
- Our film idea in more detail

 After presenting our powerpoint to the class we received feedback to our ideas. Firstly, we was asked to have a second think about our budget, considering we wanted star power in our film which would require more money than we thought. We was secondly told to go into more research of the stars we really wanted for our film. We decided to use a different male star to the three we reconsidered but we still have not decided on that yet. Another decision was to drop 'teen drama' to our genre as we have expectations of our film to be respected and serious and the teen drama genre do not tend to do that. Film4 has also been dropped from our production and we have decided to just stick to Lionsgate for our production. Lastly, our group needs to rethink about the ending of our plot as not all the group is clear of it and it is a bit messy on how it has been written up.

"A diary of a Captive" pitch from lucyabbott

Art of the film title research

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/10/04/the-art-of-the-film-title-throughout-cinema-history/

"The first Mickey Mouse cartoon, circa 1929, features both Mickey and Minnie, but its main title, “Plane Crazy,” is lackluster"

- I found this interesting as the Mickey Mouse cartoon is very famous yet I had no idea Walt Disney had an influence of the film title history. The comic book themed title sequence could be put into consideration for our group's title sequence as our film is significant to writing and perhaps drawing in a diary.

"The concept of score visualization first conceived by Oskar Fischinger in his film “Studies” anticipates the effects created by Saul Bass in “The Man With the Golden Arm” (1955) and later by Susan Bradley in “Monsters, Inc” (2001)"

- Disney were seen as an influence to the change of the title sequence. Yet in 2001 Disney took the influence from Saul Bass from 1955 to use in the title sequence of "Monsters Inc" which was a successful film of Disney.

"Maurice Binder worked on the title designs of 14 films about Agent 007, including the first episode, “Dr. No” (1962)"

- In my mind I have always thought that James Bond film’s title sequences are one of the most popular title sequences in the world. It was interesting to see that Maurice Binder created more than one of the film’s title sequences. Reading this makes me want to look into some of Binder’s work.

"The revolutionary title sequence f

or “Se7en” (1995) by Kyle Cooper was named by New York Times Magazine as “one of the most important design innovations of the 1990s”

- I have previously looked at the title sequence for Se7en and found it influential myself, it was hardly unbelievable that the title sequence was awarded by a popular magazines in America. When researching Se7en online it seems to be one of the most respected and praised title sequences of the 90s. New York Times magazine don’t seem to have a niche opinion to the sequence

"The title sequence for the 2009 adaptation of the comic book “Watchmen” drew a loud response from the public."

- It is interesting to read about the start of title sequences being done in a comic book style in the 1920s and now it is still taking influence towards recent films today. Watchman have used a comic book style yet used features of a modern title sequence using live action. This could be a huge influence to my title sequence and has made me realise that I could use more than one style to my sequence rather than the same style throughout the whole 2 minutes. I feel as if the method Watchman have used is visually interesting for the audience, it grabs their attention to make them excited for the whole movie and gives them high expectations of it.

First Bubbl plan

After speaking on Facebook to confirm all our ideas, I decided to make a brainstorm of our current thoughts on our film idea.
I am proud of my first brainstorm using Bubbl.us because I have never used something like this before and I think the use of colour has made the brainstorm more easier and smoother to read. This is more attractive than a scan of a piece of paper with ideas on.

Journal #1

In this week's lesson we was given the brief of our Year 12 Coursework, we was put into group of 4s. My group consists of Megan Harris, Christian O'Brien and Sophie Scott. I am happy with this group as I feel we have individual views towards media yet we are all mature and confident to share ideas into the work.

I wasn't too happy about the brief of the coursework, making a title sequence immediately panicked me as I realised we could onlyt use only 2 minutes of film to show the main features of our film idea. I thought it sounded hard to do but when looking at student's past title sequences's and general title sequences from youtube I have now seemed to grow more confidence about what I need to do.

Our group did struggle when we was given time to make up a plot of a film, we especially struggled with the genre as some wanted horror and other wanted action. We settled with a suspense genre film with a dark story towards it to satisfy the ones which wanted a horror genre in it. I found deciding a film idea quite stressful because creating a film idea without thinking about how the title sequence would be first to be quite concerning incase no good ideas would come out of the film idea for the title sequence. After worrying about that situation I realised that I was happy about having other people to input into my coursework as they can contribute things that I may struggle at.  

After our lesson on wednesday, we created a chat group on Facebook to communicate together more frequently about our ideas as we all have different free periods so we are unable to meet up altogether during study hours. Ideas were resolved on the group chat and our unclear thoughts on our film idea in lesson became more clearer. I felt from this decision that our group will work well in the following weeks. 

YR12 MEDIA Continuity editing example

This is the video me and 3 other students made. It has a simple story of money problems trying to be resolved but violence taking place instead of settlement. The clips were then edited on a Mac with Final Cut Pro.

The editing techniques the clip includes is Shot Reverse Shot and Match On Action.

The Shot-Reverse-Shot is used to present the conversation across the table more flowing and clear. It is simply done using a wide shot and a over the shoulder shot from Chloe's perspective.
The Match on action is used when Kameron is leaving the room with the bag took from Chloe, the match on action gives the audience a sense that the clip is continuous and has no cuts, a visual bridge is used at the end which makes the audience unaware that there are numerous cuts being used.

Overall I feel as if the Match on action is more effective than the Shot-reverse-shot despite the difficulty I found cutting the clips so the scene flowed towards the end. As a first attempt at editing clips together, I feel a lot stronger and confident with using Final Cut Pro for my coursework piece.