Monday, 13 December 2010
Wednesday, 8 December 2010
Monday, 6 December 2010
Thursday, 18 November 2010
Titles
The titles we have added to our opening sequence consist of the same font, font size and colour throughout. We created them using the Mac which we found very easy to use. The necessity of the consistency of the titles reflects the professional conventions of the real media texts we have studied. As well as looking at the design of real media texts titles, we also looked into the information that the tites consisted of. We have used many of the ideas that we have seen, such as 'Director of Photograpy' as we thought this would make our production look more realistic.
Wednesday, 17 November 2010
Music
When producing our music we wanted to create an oriental atmosphere to add realism to our film. A former member of our group (Harry Thake) used Garage Band on a Mac Book to make two separate pieces of music that would fit the two different sections of our opening sequence. The tempo of the music has a change in pace to accommodate the difference in location and the change from boy to Ninja. We opted for no vocals within our music as we thought that it would draw the audiences attention away from the action and information in the film opening. A difficult part when making the music was incorporating the sound of a doorbell which signalled the mysterious note. We achieved the best doorbell sound we could, however we are not entirely happy with the integrated sound but we feel that the music was overly successful and we are very happy with the outcome.
DVD cover design
Here is the finished DVD cover. We created the design in Microsoft word, following the design of the earlier DVD cover 'Jerry Maguire' that we researched. We created the film title by using a website (dafont.com) which had many different fonts and then transfered the chosen font to Macromedia Flash to edit the colours. We went with the white background as we had trouble editing the white backgrouds that surrounded the images we were going to include. We also included our production logo and pictures from our actual film footage along with a cartoon ninja in paint that we created free-hand. We are pleased with the outcome of our DVD cover as we think it matches the film genre really well.
DVD cover research
Whilst researching for DVD cover ideas, we found it really hard to find a cover that had a white background, however we came across a video called "Jerry Magurie" which exampled a white background. Although colour would look more professional for a DVD cover, we ended up choosing a white background for ours as some of the images and fonts that were used, came with a white box around them that made it awkard to work with, so we decided our DVD cover would include a white background based on the idea of the "Jerry Magurie" video Design.
Blurb
Tarquil Pedmore (Harry Thake) has studied the art of Ninjitsu since his early years. He has always been an unpopular teenager and has never fitted in with the crowd. When a mysterious note appears and takes him on an adventure of self discovery, he falls upon an insidious plot, one which will change Tarquils destiny forever. Will he follow his path and beat his demons or will he alway be a nobody?
Title
When researching film titles we came across the misspelling of 'The Pursuit of Happyness'. We thought the use of this play on words was very creative as it adds a childlike quality to the title which links in with the film. Although our film genre differs to this we felt that we could adapt the idea to our own production as it would make it comical to match our genre. We changed the letter 'J' to a 'G' and emphasised this change in our title design by the use of colour. We thought the colours red and yellow indicated the light hearted humour we had produced.
Tuesday, 16 November 2010
Target Audience
Our film is aimed towards the age group of 12-18 year old teenagers. The moderate violence could be threatening to children under the age of 12 however the humour attracts the younger generation. Furthermore, the age of the main character makes it easier for the audience to relate too and understand the idea of emulation.
Monday, 8 November 2010
Film Synopsis
Tarquil Pedmore (Harry Thake) is a young teenager looking for guidance for the path of his future. After studying The Code of Bushido and the art of Japanese Ninja Warriors, Tarquil knew his destiny and after receiving a mysterious note, he knew his time had come. However, all was not what it seemed when his funfilled adventure turned to danger. His inexperienced Ninja skills lead him to a path of no return which counteracts his desire to become a Ninja warrior.
Costume Board
In our opening sequence we only have two characters that are introduced. The young boy/Ninja and the delievery man.
Young boy: We wanted to portray the young boy as a stereotypical teenager so the costume of a t-shirt and jeans implies the casual look we wanted to create. This also implies the age of our character.
The Ninja: We wanted to create the stereotypical image of a ninja in our opening sequence yet we also wanted to portray the humourous side as our genre is a comedy. We have decided on an all black costume from "Props 'n' Frocks" at £16.47. The costume includes a plastic sword however, we will not use this whilst filming due to safety reasons and it could be classed as a weapon from an onlooker. The costume is a typical image of a Ninja warrior and the eyes will be the only thing on show. Hopefully this portrays the humourous side of our production yet show the oriental theme.
The Delievery Man: Even though the delievery man has only a small role to play in our opening sequence production, we didnt want the costume to minimise the atmosphere. We wanted to portray the mysterious atmosphere and suspence along with the confusion to what the reason behind the delievery is. We decided on an all black outfit including black trousers, black top and coat with a hood. The hood will be used in order to minimise the eye contact between the two characters and to create even more suspense.
Shot List.
1. Close up of hand writing out logo. Fade to black.
2. Over the shoulder shot of boy sitting meditating to picture of god. Cut.
3. Mid shot from the side of boy bowing to photograph of Ninja warrior. Blur.
4. Mid shot from the side of boy meditating then looking around when the doorbell rings. Cut.
5. Mid shot from the opposite side of boy opening door. Cut.
6. Point of view shot from boy of delivery man bowing while holding a Chinese package. Cut.
7. Point of view shot from delivery man (shot reverse shot) of boy bowing back to delivery man holding Chinese package. Fade to black.
8. Mid shot of boy getting fortune cookie out of the box. Cut.
9. Low angle mid shot of boy getting fortune cookie out of its wrapper and reading fortune. Flash zoom.
10. Low angle close up of boy holding the fortune cookie message. Cut.
11. Point of view shot, extreme close up of boy’s hands holding the fortune cookie message. Spiral into picture.
12. Still image, long shot of phone box then Ninja jumps out looks around and runs away. Cut.
13. Variety of shots (close ups, split screens etc.) of Chinese signs and Chinese surroundings. Cut.
14. Long shot of Ninja following people in the city. Cut.
15. Point of view of person siting next to Ninja as he rides the fun fair rides. Cut.
16. Long shot of Ninja jumping out from behind objects. Cut.
17. Long of Ninja riding the merry-go-round. Cut.
18. Black screen. Graphic code: with. Cut.
19. Black screen. Graphic code: Harry Thake. Cut.
20. Black screen. Graphic code: starring as. Cut.
21. Panning long shot of Ninja doing stunts then running of into the distance. Graphic code: The Ninga.
2. Over the shoulder shot of boy sitting meditating to picture of god. Cut.
3. Mid shot from the side of boy bowing to photograph of Ninja warrior. Blur.
4. Mid shot from the side of boy meditating then looking around when the doorbell rings. Cut.
5. Mid shot from the opposite side of boy opening door. Cut.
6. Point of view shot from boy of delivery man bowing while holding a Chinese package. Cut.
7. Point of view shot from delivery man (shot reverse shot) of boy bowing back to delivery man holding Chinese package. Fade to black.
8. Mid shot of boy getting fortune cookie out of the box. Cut.
9. Low angle mid shot of boy getting fortune cookie out of its wrapper and reading fortune. Flash zoom.
10. Low angle close up of boy holding the fortune cookie message. Cut.
11. Point of view shot, extreme close up of boy’s hands holding the fortune cookie message. Spiral into picture.
12. Still image, long shot of phone box then Ninja jumps out looks around and runs away. Cut.
13. Variety of shots (close ups, split screens etc.) of Chinese signs and Chinese surroundings. Cut.
14. Long shot of Ninja following people in the city. Cut.
15. Point of view of person siting next to Ninja as he rides the fun fair rides. Cut.
16. Long shot of Ninja jumping out from behind objects. Cut.
17. Long of Ninja riding the merry-go-round. Cut.
18. Black screen. Graphic code: with. Cut.
19. Black screen. Graphic code: Harry Thake. Cut.
20. Black screen. Graphic code: starring as. Cut.
21. Panning long shot of Ninja doing stunts then running of into the distance. Graphic code: The Ninga.
The Code of Bushido
The Samurai Bushido Code (Japanese "way of the warrior", or bushido), was the warrior code of the samurai. This demanded loyalty, devotion and honor to the death. Under this code, if a samurai warrior failed to uphold his honor he could regain it by performing seppuku (a ritual suicide). We have looked into researching the Code of Bushido in hope that we could relate it to the synopsis of our opening sequence and gain a better understanding of the stereotypical image of a Ninja Warrior.
Mood Board - ideas into our opening sequence.
We gathered a range of images from magazines, internet resources and newspapers to create a mood board displaying some of our early ides towards the oriental theme.
Deadfish Production Logo Ideas
The first thing we decided on was our production name. A random word generator was used to give us some ideas and as a result we came up with the name 'Deadfish Productions.' This also represents humour to match the theme of comedy for our opening sequence.
We then decided to start planning our logo so we could import it onto the beginning of our opening sequence. We opened word and started playing around with colours and searched the internet for images of fish to help us develop an image to create. In the end, we went with the idea of a fish skeleton to portray the name 'Deadfish' and began to draw it. Black felt tip was used to outline the simple shape. We went with the colours orange and black for the shape around the fish as the colours contrast each other and the simpleness adds to the effect. Once the logo was finished, we added it to our DVD cover and our main task.
18 slide powerpoint presentation of extensive research of different opening sequences.
Some images i have used on my research powerpoint have flipped for an unknown reason when uploaded to authorstream, so i apologise for this error.
Preliminary Task
We had some problems with this part of our project, since our original video was lost due to technical difficulties (a tower spiking).
We had to remake our video using old footage and none of the original editing so we had to re-film certain parts and re-edit.
This meant we missed out some parts of film and it did cause a delay but our teacher said It proved we had completed the exercise.
Thursday, 4 November 2010
AS; coursework brief
Our task is to create a short film opening from a genre of our choice. The maximum length of the film opening should be two minutes and we allowed to work in groups of up to four people. We have selected the comedy genre because it has a lot of potential codes and conventions to exploit. The whole coursework is worth 60 marks:
20 marks rewarded for research/planning
20 marks rewarded for the final piece
20 marks rewarded for evaluation
Within the production we must observe health and safety rules and consider generic conventions/representations, production rules and audience appeal to pull together a piece which reflects the genre given.
20 marks rewarded for research/planning
20 marks rewarded for the final piece
20 marks rewarded for evaluation
Within the production we must observe health and safety rules and consider generic conventions/representations, production rules and audience appeal to pull together a piece which reflects the genre given.
Introduction
Our new group consists of Hannah Jeffery(4120) and Joanna Pearce(4166). We are re-submitting improved coursework from last year (AS). This year we are no longer a group of four due to the absence of Harry Thake and Luke Neale, but our teacher has spoken to the exam board and has been advised that we should create a new blog with just the posts contributed by ourselves.
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