As a group we have decided upon filming on Tuesday 11th January, we are going to film on the streets and within school hopefully we are able to use the office that we want. We will hopefully film both the investigator's office scenes and the investigator stalking the suspect scenes.
Tuesday 11th January- Filming inside school and on the streets around the school.
Saturday, 8 January 2011
Typography for main titles
I looked at these two types of typography as i thought they would give the title sequence a rough edge, and it would connote as if the investigator had written them himself through either anger or stress. I liked the idea of him writing the title sequences himself as it to connote that this is his story this is the closure that he needs for his life. This idea would work really well alongside the rest of the title sequence. But i wanted to carry on with the Chinese element to the title sequence so i went back on to Da font and looked at some more font types.
There was a particular font style on Da font that was called Chinese/Japanese style writing, so i chose that particular font and found these ten fonts. There are certain ones that i am more drawn to than others, but i shall show the group all of these fonts during the week and hopefully we might choose one of them. I thought this style of writing would be best fitting for the title sequence as the triad theme is already very apparent throughout our title sequence. As a group we decided against using a type writing style typography as we feel it would not fit in with our title sequence anymore hopefully this one will be more best fitting. 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.
Wednesday, 5 January 2011
Chosen typography for title sequence
Possible typography for title sequence
These pieces of typography are the ones in which we looked at to appear on the investigators business card. I played around with all of them for e.g. by putting a target in the "o" of investigator. They all connote a very posh and an intelligent essence, therefore we thought this could be best fitting for a business card. We have now chosen the second typography in this list to appear upon the investigators business card.
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