Typography - Film titles

When it came to creating the font for our film we decided to look into other films and how there titles tie in with the genre of their film.

  

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Straight away we know that this film is aimed at children from the bright yellow and orange colouring along with the wavy block lettering which implies fun and happiness.The waves also suggest that this movie is about adventure. The film location is also given away in the font with the "Escape 2 Africa" written in a stick font which is usually associated with Africa.

We then looked at film titles along the lines of the same genre of our own production, below is an image from the world renown horror film "SAW"


As you can see there is a distinct difference in the fonts style and colouring.
The text seems to have been written in black ink, with the numbers in roman numerals to give it a satanic horror theme.


 

Initial Video Production Logos

The first logo idea incorprates the first initial of each production members name in a sleek font coloured red in order for it to be clearly visible from the background.

The second logo incorprates a simplistic design in the background with the name of the production group in the foreground, I think this works better than the previous idea as it seems more professional even with the simplistic design

In the end i chose this font for our logo as it seemed more professional and realistic for the opening movie credits.

Locations

Possible settings

Outside the church would be a great place for the scene of the main character walking along the footpath, as is not too far from the church, and makes the video set more realistic, as the view would include cars and may be a few pedestrians, which should not be a problem.

Here is the entrance of the Church, which would include the scene of the main character walking into the graveyard. The main character would be isolated with graves and trees. This effect would make the chasracter much lower and a indication of something to go wrong.

In this scene, the the main starts to run in fear, with confusion, and does not know where he is going to end.

At this point, the scene would include the main character is attacked by the other character.
The main chatacter then runs to the stepped pillar made out of stone.

Yesterday, I went to the Church on Cowley Road in Oxford, and took a variety of images of the different scenes which may be included in our beginning scene of our film. We took a few images of the main road, which was quite busy, with

Equipment used in film production

A range of equipment and software was used in the production of our film.
here i have listed what we have used.

Google.co.uk We used this to collect information on films in the horror genre. Images of props and costumes where also easily obtained through this.


Facebook.com The majority of people from our school are connected to this social network site,this made it easy for us to conduct our audience research.This was much more effective then creating and distributing a questionnaire

Blogger.com All our work we did was uploaded and organised on to this website.

Youtube.com This helped us a great deal as we could watch film openings and traliors, and incorporate the ideas into our own film.Our provisional video was also uploaded from this website onto our blog

IMovie: This was the software we used on the macs to edit our video clips together to form our provisional video and final peice on. It has a really simple interface allowing video clips to easily be imported from external sources (Sony handycam in our case).Video clips are easily cropped, and we also experimented a great deal with the different sound effects. Overall I was very impressed with IMovie and found it very stress-free to use.

Adobe Photoshop: We also used photoshop a great deal. Our provisonal company logo was created using this, we later used the software to crop production photos.

Equipment

Video Camera

Tripod

Nikon Coolpix L10 Camera

• 5 megapixel digital camera
• 3x optical zoom
• Movie mode with sound
• JPEG file format
• ISO 64-800
• Auto focus and exposure
• 2 AA batteries
• Secure Digital Memory Card (7MB internal)
• 2.0-inch LCD

AS Media Studies Preliminary Task - Storyboard

The opening shot of our production starts by showing me walking down the road, on my to the school. I have used a reverse shot so it keeps the audience thinking about who this person could be and so it would want them to watch more. It is the beginning of the production which is why the subtitle is there showing the names of the people who acted and helped create the filming along with the title. This is often shown in a lot of films at the beginning which is why I decided to show it aswell. 

As I (boy in the film) get to the entrance of the school, there is an establishing shot of the outside of the school. This gives the audience an idea of where the next part of the film is going to take place. I think is a decent piece of camera work.

The boy is walking into the door and the camera man used the 'match on action' shot where the audience is enabled to see the view from both sides of the door. There is background noise to this clip so the audience have a decent understanding of the surroundings.

This scene shows both characters sitting completely opposite to each other, in other words this 180 degrees line. It is like there is an imaginary line in between the characters engaging a conversation. This gives the audience a clear view of both characters and so they have a clear view of what is happening.

I really admire the next piece of editing along with the excellent bit of camera work. The camera man has zoomed into 'the swap' between the two characters in three different camera shots and views. The following are the three different camera shots:

The three different camera shots used are; 180 degrees line, over the shoulder and zoom in. This has been done to create emphasis on the swap and to show the audience what exactly is being swapped.

The end bit of the filming has been showing like this, emphasising on the money the dealer has made aswell as the lighting from behind shining on his face, showing the happiness on his face.

The final credits of the film just inform the audience, just to be on the safe side that no illegal substances had been used in the making of the film. Also the names of the actors and the roles they played in the film.