Showing posts with label Journal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Journal. Show all posts
Friday, 4 March 2011
Journal 02/03/11
Today is our final day of editing, we made the changes as we got rid of a gap within the music, we got zoomed in on some buildings and we added sounds of wind cars, boats and helicopters to the beginning of our title sequence. Today we have officially finished our title sequence!!!!! I have know uploaded it on to YouTube and tomorrow i shall upload it to Facebook. From these two websites i am hoping we will get all of our target audience. Tomorrow i shall ask people to comment on our title sequence and state what they think for e.g. what they liked and what they didn't like and what they thought needed changing. I shall print screen all of our comments and upload the images to my blog, to show for evidence what people thought of our title sequence.
Journal 28/02/11
So on Monday as a group we looked through our title sequence and have decided that we need to changed a few things. So we added some more jump cuts to particular scenes, such as the money scene where Si Hin is counting his money. We got Miss Whitaker to look through our title sequence today as it is within its finishing stages. She mentioned that we should focus in on one building, within the scene of Hong Kong to suggest this is where the investigator's office is. She also suggested that we should add in real sounds when showing the river scene in Hong Kong and adding in natural noises of the wind and water. We also noticed another aspect to change after talking to Miss Whitaker, that their was a particular point within the music were the sound just stops. We shall make all of these changes on Wednesday.
Monday, 14 February 2011
Journal for last week
This week we have been working on all of the footage, we have been trying to shorten down the sequence as much as we can. So we have been looking through separate scenes and separate shots, deciding where jump cuts will fit. Such as the scene in which Si Hin is counting his piles of money, we have added jump cuts here to speed it up. So it looks very clean cut and speedy, this makes it look far more high tech. It goes along with the crime and triad theme, as it makes it quick as if they have to be quick and get out of the way,otherwise they will get caught. I liked this idea, it also makes Si Hin's character look more of a professional as if he has counted this massive amounts of money lots of times. As if it is completely normal to him. Thus making him look more like a criminal.
Monday, 7 February 2011
Journal 04/02/11
Today we have been working on editing our title sequences, we have got rid of all of the footage that we do not need. We have also got all of the footage from Hong Kong that we wanted. We feel like this footage will make our title sequence feel more authentic and original. Today we have decided permanently on using Paramount Pictures as our distributor. We have also finally decided on our production company it is entitled "Triad Pictures". We have added sound effects and made the text jump on to the screen, this along with a gun sound effect makes it look very professional and effective to us. To be honest i hope that this sound effect would connote to audiences the violence surrounding a triads life. That this will merge together with the triad symbol and show people how it all works and corresponds together.
This decision made will hopefully affect the ways in which audiences will respond to our title sequence. They will hopefully think it looks more professional, and it will be the first indicator to them that the film is all about triads and crime. The gun shot will hopefully just merge all of these ideas together and make the whole thing seem more cohesive to audiences. This idea was an earlier of mine that i suggested to the group that perhaps the title "Closure" should appear on the screen with an animation of a bullet and a sound effect of a gunshot. Yet this did not fit well so we decided against it, especially as the animation would make light of the film. This would make our title sequence look a bit like a spoof, and perhaps enable people to not take it seriously. Yet i suggested the idea again when we made the production logo ideas, i suggested that perhaps this time we should have just the sound of the gunshot appear with the text.
The group liked this idea and we messed around with all the possible gun shot noises and the ways in which it could appear on the screen through transitions. It looks really well just popping up on the screen, as this creates a quick and sudden effect. We also decided upon using the sound of a shot gun, as Si Hin this is a typical triad gun. WE all did like the sound that this gun had and decided upon it. We are still working on the production logo and how it shall appear. I shall post as soon as it is done.
This decision made will hopefully affect the ways in which audiences will respond to our title sequence. They will hopefully think it looks more professional, and it will be the first indicator to them that the film is all about triads and crime. The gun shot will hopefully just merge all of these ideas together and make the whole thing seem more cohesive to audiences. This idea was an earlier of mine that i suggested to the group that perhaps the title "Closure" should appear on the screen with an animation of a bullet and a sound effect of a gunshot. Yet this did not fit well so we decided against it, especially as the animation would make light of the film. This would make our title sequence look a bit like a spoof, and perhaps enable people to not take it seriously. Yet i suggested the idea again when we made the production logo ideas, i suggested that perhaps this time we should have just the sound of the gunshot appear with the text.
The group liked this idea and we messed around with all the possible gun shot noises and the ways in which it could appear on the screen through transitions. It looks really well just popping up on the screen, as this creates a quick and sudden effect. We also decided upon using the sound of a shot gun, as Si Hin this is a typical triad gun. WE all did like the sound that this gun had and decided upon it. We are still working on the production logo and how it shall appear. I shall post as soon as it is done.Friday, 28 January 2011
Journal 28/01/11
Today as a group we have been looking in to how we can edit all of our newly filmed pieces of footage. We are currently re-arranging all of the footage we filmed the other week in the meat packing factory also. We are working hard on making all the footage flow perfectly, we are also thinking about editing and all the things we can put in. For instance we think that using jump cuts of our footage will look really good and compliment our music well. We have been looking in to jump cuts and the style we shall use, we think that this will give our title sequence a much better fast pace to it.
We have also been looking in to our titles today and how we wont them to look and we are currently in the process of adding in our production logo in to our title sequence. We are also playing with the possible effects we could use for our production logo. For example how it shall appear on the screen by either fading in or dissolving in. I think at the moment we are really liking the way it shall fade on to our screen. We shall decide this in the weeks to come.
We have also been looking in to our titles today and how we wont them to look and we are currently in the process of adding in our production logo in to our title sequence. We are also playing with the possible effects we could use for our production logo. For example how it shall appear on the screen by either fading in or dissolving in. I think at the moment we are really liking the way it shall fade on to our screen. We shall decide this in the weeks to come.
Friday, 21 January 2011
Journal 21/01/11
Today we have been editing our title sequence, we have now made the music fit with the dialogue within the title sequence. Through fading the music in places and making the dialogue louder. We have now decided today in the early aspects of editing that we should do our audience feedback. As right now is the best time to get any feedback because we are in the stages where making big changes will not really set us back too much, or effect the title sequence that much either. We shall do this some time this week, i think we are considering on doing it in our double lesson on Friday. We are thinking of ideas on how we can present our audience feedback, so that it can benefit us and be presented nicely on the blog. We are still in discussion about this and i shall update the blog on this once we have decided.
Also today we have realised that we urgently need to re-film shots from the investigators office such as elements as items on his desk. We really want to get this done in the first few days of next week such as Tuesday and Wednesday. So that are title sequence will look really professional, we will confer with Sean who is acting as our investigator so that he can appear in these re-filming processes. We have also decided that we would like to shot our other exterior shots of the investigator stalking the suspect this week hopefully on Wednesday. I shall update upon these matters once the group has met on Monday and decided upon all of these things.
Also today we have realised that we urgently need to re-film shots from the investigators office such as elements as items on his desk. We really want to get this done in the first few days of next week such as Tuesday and Wednesday. So that are title sequence will look really professional, we will confer with Sean who is acting as our investigator so that he can appear in these re-filming processes. We have also decided that we would like to shot our other exterior shots of the investigator stalking the suspect this week hopefully on Wednesday. I shall update upon these matters once the group has met on Monday and decided upon all of these things.
Thursday, 20 January 2011
Journal 20/01/11
So yesterday we eliminated any pieces of film that we did not want to appear within our title sequence. We looked over all of the footage and have now realised that there are some shots that we need to re-film. Such as the investigators office, there are elements such as the items on his desk that need to be re-filmed. This is because they do not look exactly right and make the title sequence look a bit unreal. Such as a file about the suspect it has nothing else on the page besides his personal details, therefore it does not look like a real police file. So we shall re-film this hopefully some time this week, this is something we are working on resolving and trying to edit in to our schedules.
All of this week we have been editing our title sequence, we have been working hard on the music in the title sequence. Si Hin has now edited all the parts of the song that we want in our title sequence and we have blended them together. So that they now flow perfectly just like any other normal instrumental song. We may have to do a few adjustments once we get some audience feedback. We also need to work on fitting in the shots that we have to our music. This shall be taken care of tomorrow, and we will work on looking into Si Hin's footage he got whilst filming on holiday in Hong Kong.
All of this week we have been editing our title sequence, we have been working hard on the music in the title sequence. Si Hin has now edited all the parts of the song that we want in our title sequence and we have blended them together. So that they now flow perfectly just like any other normal instrumental song. We may have to do a few adjustments once we get some audience feedback. We also need to work on fitting in the shots that we have to our music. This shall be taken care of tomorrow, and we will work on looking into Si Hin's footage he got whilst filming on holiday in Hong Kong.
Tuesday, 18 January 2011
Journal 18/01/11
Last week we visited BFI on a film/media school trip, this was an act of preparation for our media and film exams in June. The day consisted of lectures all morning, then a lunch break in which many of us visited Mc Donald's. After this we went straight back to BFI and watched the new Sherlock Holmes film featuring Robert Downey JR, Jude Law and Rachel McAdams.
Within the lectures at BFI we learnt a lot to do with marketing, audiences, Hollywood and distributing and producing. There was a lot of relevant information to help us out with having a much better grasp upon making our title sequence. As it supplied us with information on how we can attract our audiences to our movie, just due to simple factors such as publicizing what actors are present within the movie. The lectures also taught us about distributor's and from this we felt reassured that we can make our own and make it very marketable to our audiences. We are doing this through calling our production company "Triad Productions" it relates perfectly to our film and has a triad symbol above it as if to reinforce it's name.
From the lectures at BFI we also found information such about "The big five" the major studio's and companies that dominate the film industry.We were able to find this relatable to our title sequence as it made us realise that our production company would come under the independent production companies. Therefore making our movie a lot more artistic and it would make our movie look like an independent movie, so perhaps as a group we should think about changing who we would want to be our investigator and our suspect. I shall keep this factor in the back of my mind and update my blog once the group has come to a decision, as there are a number of actors that work in independent movies that we could use and who would work well. Such as a Ewan Mcgreggor Esq actor for our investigator and a Jay Chou Esq actor to play the suspect.
Tomorrow we would like to edit our title sequence the two scenes in which we have already filmed of our investigator in his office and the suspect in his own office and meat packing factory. We shall look through all of our footage and it shall be like an elimination process finding out what we really need and what we will never put in our title sequence. We may need to add footage to either scenes or re-film things, so tomorrow's elimination process will be necessary before any real editing process can begin. Si Hin has also found some footage of Hong Kong that he filmed of a previous holiday to China *Fingers crossed* we can use aspects of it. I shall update on this particular subject tomorrow once we have spoken to our teachers about the footage, also hopefully i will be able to add the possible clips we want to use on to my blog tomorrow.
Within the lectures at BFI we learnt a lot to do with marketing, audiences, Hollywood and distributing and producing. There was a lot of relevant information to help us out with having a much better grasp upon making our title sequence. As it supplied us with information on how we can attract our audiences to our movie, just due to simple factors such as publicizing what actors are present within the movie. The lectures also taught us about distributor's and from this we felt reassured that we can make our own and make it very marketable to our audiences. We are doing this through calling our production company "Triad Productions" it relates perfectly to our film and has a triad symbol above it as if to reinforce it's name.
From the lectures at BFI we also found information such about "The big five" the major studio's and companies that dominate the film industry.We were able to find this relatable to our title sequence as it made us realise that our production company would come under the independent production companies. Therefore making our movie a lot more artistic and it would make our movie look like an independent movie, so perhaps as a group we should think about changing who we would want to be our investigator and our suspect. I shall keep this factor in the back of my mind and update my blog once the group has come to a decision, as there are a number of actors that work in independent movies that we could use and who would work well. Such as a Ewan Mcgreggor Esq actor for our investigator and a Jay Chou Esq actor to play the suspect.
Tomorrow we would like to edit our title sequence the two scenes in which we have already filmed of our investigator in his office and the suspect in his own office and meat packing factory. We shall look through all of our footage and it shall be like an elimination process finding out what we really need and what we will never put in our title sequence. We may need to add footage to either scenes or re-film things, so tomorrow's elimination process will be necessary before any real editing process can begin. Si Hin has also found some footage of Hong Kong that he filmed of a previous holiday to China *Fingers crossed* we can use aspects of it. I shall update on this particular subject tomorrow once we have spoken to our teachers about the footage, also hopefully i will be able to add the possible clips we want to use on to my blog tomorrow.
Journal 17/01/11
Yesterday we filmed in the meat packing factory in Charlton, everything went well we got all of the footage that we wanted. We also found some different locations amongst the premises that we wanted to use. Such as a dark and crumbling looking alleyway, and a broken down old racing car. We found the alleyway to fit well into the scene as it adds a menacing vibe of danger to the scene. We also found the racing car to work before the alley way shot as the racing car is quite comical and shows the suspects youthfulness and outgoing and careless personality.
We think that we are hopefully completely finished with all of the footage within the premises of the meat packing factory. We hope that do not have to film anything extra, as this would be much more time consuming and would set back our production schedule. We shall hopefully start editing on Wednesday 19th January and to carry on filming and editing next week. We are finding that at this particular moment in time we are complacent and thinking that we are meeting our production schedule well, and we can only hope that this continues and that we don't run into any glitches.
Props- We also took it upon ourselves to decide what props a triad might need in the shot within the meat packing factory. We chose to use the props in the form of money and drugs, to work around the whole drug aspect we made our own. Si Hin made some fake drugs out of potato starch and we all decided upon putting them within sandwich bags. Libby also made two very small bags of drugs out of flour with salt added so that it would not stick to the bag or look at all like flour. The smaller bags will be used in other scenes for Si Hin's character to hand to his customers on the streets. Whereas the bigger bags were used within the meat packing factory to present that he was a drug dealer. Also that he was turning these big bags in to many smaller bags to be sold on. Our other prop was money, luckily Si Hin likes to save all the money he earns through working in his parents take away also any birthday and Christmas money he gets. This adds up to a lot so he was able to bring five hundred pounds out with us to the meat packing factory, to connote the massive amounts of money these triads are dealing with on a daily basis.
We think that we are hopefully completely finished with all of the footage within the premises of the meat packing factory. We hope that do not have to film anything extra, as this would be much more time consuming and would set back our production schedule. We shall hopefully start editing on Wednesday 19th January and to carry on filming and editing next week. We are finding that at this particular moment in time we are complacent and thinking that we are meeting our production schedule well, and we can only hope that this continues and that we don't run into any glitches.
Props- We also took it upon ourselves to decide what props a triad might need in the shot within the meat packing factory. We chose to use the props in the form of money and drugs, to work around the whole drug aspect we made our own. Si Hin made some fake drugs out of potato starch and we all decided upon putting them within sandwich bags. Libby also made two very small bags of drugs out of flour with salt added so that it would not stick to the bag or look at all like flour. The smaller bags will be used in other scenes for Si Hin's character to hand to his customers on the streets. Whereas the bigger bags were used within the meat packing factory to present that he was a drug dealer. Also that he was turning these big bags in to many smaller bags to be sold on. Our other prop was money, luckily Si Hin likes to save all the money he earns through working in his parents take away also any birthday and Christmas money he gets. This adds up to a lot so he was able to bring five hundred pounds out with us to the meat packing factory, to connote the massive amounts of money these triads are dealing with on a daily basis.
Monday, 10 January 2011
Journal 10/01/11
Yesterday Si Hin was able to visit the meat packing suppliers and ask their permission for us to film there, and thankfully they agreed to letting us film there. They also agreed to our requests as they are letting us film them whilst they are working they are also letting us use their office once they have closed up to the general public in the afternoon. They even agreed to act within our title sequence, the only down side to all of this is that they are not really to keen on their faces being shown within our title sequence. So we are trying to come to some kind of agreement with them such as us perhaps not filming them straight on. As we could try to film the side of their faces or maybe the backs of their heads as they are working. We hope to resolve this with them on the day of filming and hopefully they will come around and not mind having their faces appear just slightly within our title sequence. If not we are willing to figure out certain ways to film them that do not really show there faces completely.
We have also finalized a date for filming we are planning on filming in the meat packing factory on Sunday 16th January. As the factory closes early on this day, and they are not particularly busy to the general public on this day. Therefore this would be the best day for them to be filmed, and for us to operate our tripod within there premises. We are now in the planning and scheduling stages of our title sequence. We are scheduling all of our filming and planning how much time it shall take us to film certain parts and what shots we need to prioritize. We are awaiting filming tomorrow and we are trying to finalize an office to film within. We are also trying to gather together props for e.g. a camera in which the inspector shall use, his business card with our new chosen typography on it entitling his profession "Private investigator".
Also we would like to film some exterior shots so we would like Sean Simmons to have cigarette in his hand as he is stalking Si Hin. We are also finalizing wardrobe as we would like Sean to appear with smart trousers on and a white long sleeved shirt with rolled up sleeves. For Si Hin's look we have adopted a more natural and laid back outfit for e.g. a hoodie and jeans. As we have decided we do not want him to look noticeable as he is portraying a triad he would have to be discrete and blend in like any other normal citizen. We will film these shots on a later date.
We have also finalized a date for filming we are planning on filming in the meat packing factory on Sunday 16th January. As the factory closes early on this day, and they are not particularly busy to the general public on this day. Therefore this would be the best day for them to be filmed, and for us to operate our tripod within there premises. We are now in the planning and scheduling stages of our title sequence. We are scheduling all of our filming and planning how much time it shall take us to film certain parts and what shots we need to prioritize. We are awaiting filming tomorrow and we are trying to finalize an office to film within. We are also trying to gather together props for e.g. a camera in which the inspector shall use, his business card with our new chosen typography on it entitling his profession "Private investigator".
Also we would like to film some exterior shots so we would like Sean Simmons to have cigarette in his hand as he is stalking Si Hin. We are also finalizing wardrobe as we would like Sean to appear with smart trousers on and a white long sleeved shirt with rolled up sleeves. For Si Hin's look we have adopted a more natural and laid back outfit for e.g. a hoodie and jeans. As we have decided we do not want him to look noticeable as he is portraying a triad he would have to be discrete and blend in like any other normal citizen. We will film these shots on a later date.
Saturday, 8 January 2011
Journal 08/01/11
Today me and Libby worked on finishing our title sequence, we had to re-do a few aspects such as filming in Si Hin's take away. As this can no longer happen as we do not have permission. This set us all back as we needed to show Si Hin's character to be within a Chinese setting to give the essence of a real triad gang. So right now as a group we are back to thinking of settings, Si Hin has suggested a Chinese meat packing suppliers in which he buys from. So tomorrow he shall visit them and ask them if we can film within their premises.
Due to this location change me and Libby have now made a new storyboard with the changes of the setting in hope that they will let us film there. Si Hin shall ask them if we can film them working and if we can film within their office once they have closed and if some of the workers there wouldn't mind starring in our title sequence. If we can get all of this footage it would make our title sequence much better as it would give it a more gritter and dark side.
Me and Si Hin are also looking within using Chinese music this weekend as we feel this will make our title sequence flow much more. Also we are focusing within a rock n roll song which is fast and sounds heavy as we believe this will give our title sequence a much more tougher edge. We are currently trying to find certain songs that are not copy righted, so we are trailing through YouTube to find a song in this moment of time. There is one song in particular that we think would be a perfect match but we have to search through the UK and Chinese copy right laws, so we will update when we have found a solution.
Another aspect we have finalised today is that of who will be playing our investigator. We have decided to go with using Sean Simmons as we know he enjoys acting, so we hope that he can bring a compelling mysterious and detached essences to our investigator. We have also decided upon changing the appearance and persona of our investigator instead of having someone who looks dapper and like a dandy we have decided to go with a rough and messy look. We want him to have rolled up sleeves and someone who smokes as if to connote how he is careless and reckless and someone not to be messed with.
Due to this location change me and Libby have now made a new storyboard with the changes of the setting in hope that they will let us film there. Si Hin shall ask them if we can film them working and if we can film within their office once they have closed and if some of the workers there wouldn't mind starring in our title sequence. If we can get all of this footage it would make our title sequence much better as it would give it a more gritter and dark side.
Me and Si Hin are also looking within using Chinese music this weekend as we feel this will make our title sequence flow much more. Also we are focusing within a rock n roll song which is fast and sounds heavy as we believe this will give our title sequence a much more tougher edge. We are currently trying to find certain songs that are not copy righted, so we are trailing through YouTube to find a song in this moment of time. There is one song in particular that we think would be a perfect match but we have to search through the UK and Chinese copy right laws, so we will update when we have found a solution.
Another aspect we have finalised today is that of who will be playing our investigator. We have decided to go with using Sean Simmons as we know he enjoys acting, so we hope that he can bring a compelling mysterious and detached essences to our investigator. We have also decided upon changing the appearance and persona of our investigator instead of having someone who looks dapper and like a dandy we have decided to go with a rough and messy look. We want him to have rolled up sleeves and someone who smokes as if to connote how he is careless and reckless and someone not to be messed with.
Friday, 7 January 2011
Journal 07/01/11
Today as a group we have been finishing off our storyboards and we have decided on changing a few elements to our title sequences. As a group we have decided upon changing the name of our title sequence as we have decided that the title (PI) is just a bit too plain and obvious so as a group we brainstormed a few names for our film. Here are some of the names we had to choose from:
-Last assignment
-The last job
-A job too far
-End of the line
-Hard boiled
-Closure
-Private investigation
-Open case
Finally as a group we chose the name "Closure" as we thought this would be best-fitting. As the film in itself is the investigator trying to close this one particular case, he is trying to find closure within the case and the people involved. We also thought that this would well as we wanted to make it seem as if this film could have sequels and be a franchise. As if this film were to be a franchise then it would work as the same group of gangsters would be involved but it would just be the investigator trying to put them all into prison so the idea of closing the case would still work within the sequels.
Other ideas that we had was that of were we like to shoot a lot of our scenes, we would like to do quite a lot of shots on the street of our other lead character (the triad member). As we have decided to film within Si hin's family take away, as there are a lot of dark corridors and small rooms that we could easily make look sinister and into a triad meeting place. We have decided to hopefully start filming within Si hin's family take away this weekend.
We have also decided upon two people that we know who could possibly play the investigator we just have to choose one now based on who will be able to do all of the filming outside of school, so whoever is available on the days of filming shall be the inspector. We will most likely have Sean Simmons acting within our title sequence as he will make a good investigator for our title sequence.
Another change we have thought about is making our own production company as we our not sure about using paramount pictures, this is not a decision we have finalized yet as we are pretty uncertain about this right know. Yet nevertheless we have made an image to represent our production company, we were going to use a triad symbol and call the company "Triad Productions". Our only reasoning's for possibly not using paramount pictures is that of copy righted reasons, as we want to be more original and have a production company that we can make relevant to our film. We are still discussing this idea as a group, so for now we have just played around with the idea and have only made a logo for it so far. This is the image for the production company that we had in our minds...
-Last assignment
-The last job
-A job too far
-End of the line
-Hard boiled
-Closure
-Private investigation
-Open case
Finally as a group we chose the name "Closure" as we thought this would be best-fitting. As the film in itself is the investigator trying to close this one particular case, he is trying to find closure within the case and the people involved. We also thought that this would well as we wanted to make it seem as if this film could have sequels and be a franchise. As if this film were to be a franchise then it would work as the same group of gangsters would be involved but it would just be the investigator trying to put them all into prison so the idea of closing the case would still work within the sequels.
Other ideas that we had was that of were we like to shoot a lot of our scenes, we would like to do quite a lot of shots on the street of our other lead character (the triad member). As we have decided to film within Si hin's family take away, as there are a lot of dark corridors and small rooms that we could easily make look sinister and into a triad meeting place. We have decided to hopefully start filming within Si hin's family take away this weekend.
We have also decided upon two people that we know who could possibly play the investigator we just have to choose one now based on who will be able to do all of the filming outside of school, so whoever is available on the days of filming shall be the inspector. We will most likely have Sean Simmons acting within our title sequence as he will make a good investigator for our title sequence.
Another change we have thought about is making our own production company as we our not sure about using paramount pictures, this is not a decision we have finalized yet as we are pretty uncertain about this right know. Yet nevertheless we have made an image to represent our production company, we were going to use a triad symbol and call the company "Triad Productions". Our only reasoning's for possibly not using paramount pictures is that of copy righted reasons, as we want to be more original and have a production company that we can make relevant to our film. We are still discussing this idea as a group, so for now we have just played around with the idea and have only made a logo for it so far. This is the image for the production company that we had in our minds...
Journal 05/01/11
Today we all as a group sat down on our own computers to find different types of typography that we could use within our title sequence. We went onto such websites as da font and edited them on photo-shop. We played around a lot with the typography adding such things as gun targets where the letter o should be. We all looked at each others typography and brought all of our ideas together. We decided upon quite a lot of items such as, that we would like two separate types of typography as we would like to use a business card that will say (Private Investigator) on it. We have decided for this that we would like to use very posh and classy typography. Yet for our main titles we would like to use a type writer style of writing. As a group we decided that these two separate typography's will not look weird as they will be used in different ways. As we have decided that we want the business card to act as an explanation to our audiences as if to make them aware of who this character is. This is what the business card's typography shall look like...
We have decided today that we would like the business card to appear on the investigator's desk, as he is putting down his telephone. This way we thought that appearing the card to be just lying upon the investigator's desk shows that this item has little importance to the actual events going on screen. As we would like the business card to act like just a snippet of information about out investigator. We are still researching our main titles typography and will finish this work on Friday, also on Friday we will finish our storyboards completely and add them onto our blogs as soon as possible.
We have decided today that we would like the business card to appear on the investigator's desk, as he is putting down his telephone. This way we thought that appearing the card to be just lying upon the investigator's desk shows that this item has little importance to the actual events going on screen. As we would like the business card to act like just a snippet of information about out investigator. We are still researching our main titles typography and will finish this work on Friday, also on Friday we will finish our storyboards completely and add them onto our blogs as soon as possible.
Tuesday, 14 December 2010
Journal for 6th- 10th December
As a group this week we have talked over many matters, such as the production schedule. We have decided what we want all of our deadlines to be and have accounted what we want to be doing throughout all of this time. We have even accounted for one whole day to be for tying up loose ends. As a group we have also decided what each of us shall do in our Christmas holidays for our personal schedules. We shall make new schedules for ourselves in the new year when our work really commences. We decided for our Christmas holidays schedules that we shall all do our own research and analysing of the genre crime. Also to delve into planning props, actors and settings.
8th December
Particularly on this day we chose a number of opening credits from crime TV shows and films to look at. We all contributed the TV shows and films we have seen that fall under the crime genre and here is a list of the programmes and films we shall be looking into.
-"To kill a mocking bird"
-"Rear window"
-"White Chapel"
-"Cold Case"
-"Criminal minds"
-"Southland"
-"Holby Blue"
-"The Wire"
As a group this week we have also decided upon a certain element we want to appear within our title sequence. That is of our investigator using an SLR camera to stalk the suspect, and we would like to show him taking pictures with this camera. Then we would like to show him back in his office uploading them to his laptop. We want the photos to all pop-up quickly covering each other and the screen. We thought that perhaps to enhance the speed of this we will possibly use final cut pro. Also we decided upon using a fast paced typography movement as we don't want the main focus to be on the actors more the films meaning and the images and camerawork that will appear upon the screen.
8th December
Particularly on this day we chose a number of opening credits from crime TV shows and films to look at. We all contributed the TV shows and films we have seen that fall under the crime genre and here is a list of the programmes and films we shall be looking into.
-"To kill a mocking bird"
-"Rear window"
-"White Chapel"
-"Cold Case"
-"Criminal minds"
-"Southland"
-"Holby Blue"
-"The Wire"
As a group this week we have also decided upon a certain element we want to appear within our title sequence. That is of our investigator using an SLR camera to stalk the suspect, and we would like to show him taking pictures with this camera. Then we would like to show him back in his office uploading them to his laptop. We want the photos to all pop-up quickly covering each other and the screen. We thought that perhaps to enhance the speed of this we will possibly use final cut pro. Also we decided upon using a fast paced typography movement as we don't want the main focus to be on the actors more the films meaning and the images and camerawork that will appear upon the screen.
Monday, 29 November 2010
Journal- Planning Stages
lly22-26 November
During the last week as a group we have all been deciding the necessary factors that are the core to our title sequence. Such as we needed to decide on a genre we were in between a psychological thriller and crime, we all decided that crime would be the best. We decided to name it PI (Private Investigator) as the films basis would be on an private investigator and the troubles he goes through to get justice. We had a discussion on what type of characters we would want to be in title sequence and we decided that we wanted there to be two lead roles that of the inspector and the criminal he is chasing. We decided we wanted to the two lead roles to be male as we felt an equal state, as using a women would give her more dominance over the male. Whereas we wanted them to be equally strong as this would create and uncertainty and suspense.We decided on a narrative of the inspector chasing the criminal but the criminal being involved in a gang. So the whole situation spirals out of control for the inspector and his name becomes a mark for the gangsters to cross out. As a group we also wanted to give the illusion in our title sequence that we want this film to have sequels. We also looked into the props in which we wanted to use they are a telephone, a folder in which the suspects details will be in. Lastly we want to use a massive white board, where information on the suspect and his fellow gang members will be spread out amongst the white board with images and text to support the case. Then finally this week we were given two films to look at and these were "The Departed" and "The infernal affairs 2" and we all shall analyse these this week.
During the last week as a group we have all been deciding the necessary factors that are the core to our title sequence. Such as we needed to decide on a genre we were in between a psychological thriller and crime, we all decided that crime would be the best. We decided to name it PI (Private Investigator) as the films basis would be on an private investigator and the troubles he goes through to get justice. We had a discussion on what type of characters we would want to be in title sequence and we decided that we wanted there to be two lead roles that of the inspector and the criminal he is chasing. We decided we wanted to the two lead roles to be male as we felt an equal state, as using a women would give her more dominance over the male. Whereas we wanted them to be equally strong as this would create and uncertainty and suspense.We decided on a narrative of the inspector chasing the criminal but the criminal being involved in a gang. So the whole situation spirals out of control for the inspector and his name becomes a mark for the gangsters to cross out. As a group we also wanted to give the illusion in our title sequence that we want this film to have sequels. We also looked into the props in which we wanted to use they are a telephone, a folder in which the suspects details will be in. Lastly we want to use a massive white board, where information on the suspect and his fellow gang members will be spread out amongst the white board with images and text to support the case. Then finally this week we were given two films to look at and these were "The Departed" and "The infernal affairs 2" and we all shall analyse these this week.
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