Production Log 19/12/14

This is the production log for this week on Harley's blog. 

Roles in the opening title sequence. - unfinished

This is the post on Harley's blog about what things we are in charge of.

Title Ideas.

These are some of the ideas for the title of our opening title sequence, we came up with the idea of using numbers for the titles as we think that this is a good idea as this is rarely done and this will also link to our ots, as we are going to involve a clock which will show this time. As this is the time where our flashback is going to start, this is a key time in the story and so it is appropriate to use this time. 

We have decided to use the time - 18:04 because this is a catchy sequence of numbers and this will also allow us to create a rhyme that can be used in the ots. This is also a time that is during the evening and so this will allow us to use a night setting, which is the setting that we want to have. 

Production Log 14/12/14

This week me and Harley decided to work together for the opening title sequence that I was going to make on my own. We decided that it would be best to work together as there would be too much work for me to do on my own. We also properly planned how we would film and what the story line was going to be. We also organised;
- The types of effects we wanted to use, we decided to have a mix of both colour and black and white filming, the whole sequence will be filmed in colour and then edited afterwards.
- We experimented with sound in the music department in school, we recorded the sounds on my phone which I will upload soon. To find sounds we used an acoustic guitar and an electric piano. We found many sounds that could possibly be used and also decided to record other natural sounds at another time.
- We have also been thinking of ideas for the title, I have made a post about this previously here
- and we also have an actor for the OTS, I organised that we were going to use my cousin Luke Anderson for the role of our anti-hero. I decided to use him as he fits the aesthetics of what I had in mind for the character and also he done this project too when he was doing a-level so he has a good knowledge of what I need to do and I figured it would be very helpful. I organised this over facebook, here is the conversation;

• Lauren Siers
  

  
  

  
  

  Hey! Do you reckon you could help me with my media opening title sequence?
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  Luke Anderson
  

  
  

  
  

  Quite possibly, I've now finished my current project so I'm open for it. What do you have in mind?
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  Lauren Siers
  

  
  

  
  

  Ok so basically i need a guy to be in my video, and no one wants to be in it! Would you be in it? Its literally not even much acting needed and idk when its being filmed but miss humpleby wants us to have our storyboards/plots/characters sorted by like thursday
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  Luke Anderson
  

  
  

  
  

  Ahh ok then. Sure I might be able to do it anyway!

Sound

In the lesson on Friday (12/12/14)  we were analysing the sound in the film 'Priest.' We were identifying; diegetic, non diegetic, ambient, synchronous, asynchronous, contrapuntal, dialogue and the use of silence. We analysed and identified what the sounds were and spoke about the effect that it has on the movie and what mood it puts the characters and audience in. The sound effects used in the second half of the clip that we watched helped me to identify what was happening in the film as this part had many sound effects added over the visuals while the only thing that was being filmed is the girl underneath the floorboards. All of the sounds in this clip add tension and suspense to the story. The sound helps to amplify the mood and the characters relationships with each other, while also helping to show what type of movie this is. This is very helpful to think about when organising what sounds are going to be used in the opening title sequence that I am making. I need to take into consideration what effect the sound is going to have in the OTS and how it is going to affect the audience. I also need to think about what type of sound I am going to have in this  diegetic, non diegetic, ambient, synchronous, asynchronous and contrapuntal sound. This is something that is very important to think about because if the wrong type of sound is used then this will mean that this OTS will not be of the highest quality possible. 

Plot.

Earlier today me and Harley spoke about what we were going to include in our OTS. This was a more detailed and final version of the idea that I already had and Harley had some really great ideas that are included in this. For filming we decided to use my camera and his gopro camera and to use that for more action shots rather than the scenery shots that we are gojng to include in the sequence. We also decided what the basic editing is going to be; black and white and we also decided that the credits were going to be after the viewer sees the title of the film. We decided that this was the best sequence to have it in as we are making the chase/murder scene as a flashback which is going to be in black and white as this will help to show that this is a flashback. We still need to decide on a title for the film, this is a crucial part to the OTS so we will decide this soon. 

photos unfinished

These are photographs that were taken last year for my AS Photography project about Film Noir. 

photos

fonts

annie leibovitz

ideas

Analysing Opening Title Sequences - Game Of Thrones

Game Of Thrones Opening Title Sequence

Neo Noir - Unfinished

red riding trilogy 

bound

blade runner

all opening title sequences  

- need to add blade runner 

Analysing Opening Title Sequences - The Walking Dead Unfinished

The Walking Dead Opening Titles

Location for filming

This is a slideshare that I made to think of ideas for locations,

Scenery from laurensiersmedia

Improved version of the presentation.

This is an improved version of the presentation that I done in class. I decided to improve this as I felt that the first one I done was lacking information and this wasn't a piece of high quality work.
Although this one does have a few missing parts, I think that this is better. It is missing parts as these are things that I haven't thought of yet. There will be more improved versions of this as I decide what I finally want to do. One thing that I need to add into this is the title, this is something that I still need to think of, however I have been focused more on thinking of the plot and about what is actually happening in the opening title sequence. The title is something that I need to think of as this is important.

Media presentation - Improved. from laurensiersmedia

Presentation

This is the powerpoint that I made for the presentation on December 4th 2014

Link to the slideshare presentation