Wednesday, 15 December 2010
Wednesday, 8 December 2010
New Opening Titles vs. Older Opening Titles
I also did some research into older romantic comedies and the latest ones, I have decided to compare 'Love Actually' which was released in 2003 and 'Killers' released in 2010.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_saCHD4Wzqk&feature=related
Comparing their opening titles, Love Actually starts with a voice over of Hugh Grant who is often related with Romantic Comedies who has also starred in other rom-coms like 'Notting Hill' by what he is saying like when he talks about the plane crashing into the twin towers how the passengers weren't make hurtful phone calls but telling their loved ones of their love, he also says it in a way that you can immediately guess its a romantic comedy. The film that you watch in the beginning is the arrivals gate at Heathrow airport and sets a sad and happy theme to the film.
Also the comedy part kicks in with the actor Bill Nighy singing the classic by Wet Wet Wet called love is all around me but with a twist of Christmas is all around me, instead and messing up with singing the words of the original and not the new version. It meets the audience expectations of a Rom-com because of the actors used and the themes and colours of writing in the opening titles.
Comparing this film with 'Killers' it starts with a women on a plane having a funny conversation with her parents after she has just split with her boyfriend, you can tell this is a Romantic Comedy from these opening titles because of how they are talking about her love life and making jokes about her being single and 'getting dumped'
The title of this film doesn't immediately shout Rom-com but the opening titles do.
But on the other hand this film stars Ashton Kutcher a known actor for Rom-com's such as 'Valentines Day' this could give the audience a clue to it being a Romantic Comedy. Also the connections that themain characters have straight away give it away that they will eventually be together.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_saCHD4Wzqk&feature=related
Comparing their opening titles, Love Actually starts with a voice over of Hugh Grant who is often related with Romantic Comedies who has also starred in other rom-coms like 'Notting Hill' by what he is saying like when he talks about the plane crashing into the twin towers how the passengers weren't make hurtful phone calls but telling their loved ones of their love, he also says it in a way that you can immediately guess its a romantic comedy. The film that you watch in the beginning is the arrivals gate at Heathrow airport and sets a sad and happy theme to the film.
Also the comedy part kicks in with the actor Bill Nighy singing the classic by Wet Wet Wet called love is all around me but with a twist of Christmas is all around me, instead and messing up with singing the words of the original and not the new version. It meets the audience expectations of a Rom-com because of the actors used and the themes and colours of writing in the opening titles.
Comparing this film with 'Killers' it starts with a women on a plane having a funny conversation with her parents after she has just split with her boyfriend, you can tell this is a Romantic Comedy from these opening titles because of how they are talking about her love life and making jokes about her being single and 'getting dumped'
The title of this film doesn't immediately shout Rom-com but the opening titles do.
But on the other hand this film stars Ashton Kutcher a known actor for Rom-com's such as 'Valentines Day' this could give the audience a clue to it being a Romantic Comedy. Also the connections that themain characters have straight away give it away that they will eventually be together.
Research of title designer Richard Morrison
This is the opening titles of 'Sweeney Todd' One of Richard Morrisons famous opening titles, he combines live action and stop frame animation together to make this brilliant and scary opening titles, meeting all audience expectations!
http://watchthetitles.com/articles/00193-Richard_Morrison_interview
I have done some research into a famous title designer named Richard Morrison. He has designed famous opening titles for films such as 'Sweeney Todd' and 'Batman.'
In this interview he describes how things went wrong and how the editing for movies can be harder than he first thought. He gives a tour around the 'Th1ng Studio' and explains how they just experiment and model their ideas and how it helps move through a idea they have come up. He also explains about how pitch ideas and how simple it can be to get what you want turned into a film.
He also explain how he personally comes up with ideas and how they develop into the films he invents and composes. He also talks about how he worked with Tim Burton and how him and a whole team of young directors pulled together the opening of 'Sweeney Todd'
From this interview I have learned that Richard Morrison is a very skilled title designer and he uses every little bit of his and his teams skill to put together the best opening sequences you can get.
He also explain how he personally comes up with ideas and how they develop into the films he invents and composes. He also talks about how he worked with Tim Burton and how him and a whole team of young directors pulled together the opening of 'Sweeney Todd'
From this interview I have learned that Richard Morrison is a very skilled title designer and he uses every little bit of his and his teams skill to put together the best opening sequences you can get.
Monday, 6 December 2010
Research into opening titles of the same Genre
This is the trailer for the film Valentine's Day, it is also a romantic comedy and falls into the genre perfectly. It uses the codes and conventions of a romantic comedy, and meets the audience expectations that they get from the title. There is also a massive star cast with people like Jennifer Garner and Ashton Kutcher, who are often related with romantic comedy's.
Research into opening titles of the same Genre
This is the opening titles to the Proposal, this film is the same genre to our opening titles and it has the same codes and conventions that is needed for our opening titles to fall perfectly into this genre. It has the typical clumsy employee, scared to lose his job and the control freak boss that not many people like. It shows their journey to work and how his is unorganised and hers is calm and collected. This also introduces the main characters and the kind of life they live.
Wednesday, 24 November 2010
Ideas For Our Opening Titles
In our group we came up with idea's for what our opening title could be about.
We had to come up with two main idea's incase one didn't go according to plan. Our two Genre's are a Romantic-Comedy and Gangster, we have decided to go with a Romantic-Comedy, to put this into pratice we did some research on opening titles of the same genre to get an idea of what we must include in our opening titles to fit into that genre.
This research will help us make our opening titles better and appeal to our target audience
We had to come up with two main idea's incase one didn't go according to plan. Our two Genre's are a Romantic-Comedy and Gangster, we have decided to go with a Romantic-Comedy, to put this into pratice we did some research on opening titles of the same genre to get an idea of what we must include in our opening titles to fit into that genre.
This research will help us make our opening titles better and appeal to our target audience
Monday, 22 November 2010
About My Continuity Piece!
What did you find difficult about this task?
While doing this task I found that getting the right shot and angle was the hardest part! But I also think that making sure what we was filming looked right in the end was just as hard, if something was moved or changed it could make the whole scene look funny. I think also that as i was one of the actors, I had to make sure I was pulling the right facial expression and not laughing so it didn't spoil the whole take.
What worked well?
I believe that the shots like the match-on-action and filming we did worked well because we came across a few problems and once we had over come them everything fell into place and worked brilliantly. We kept to the 180 degree rule and with the good editing we came up with a good piece of work.
What could you or your team do better?
I think our team could of done a lot better because where things had gone wrong when we filming, we then had to cut big chunks out which messed it up even more, we then decided to film the whole thing again without any mistakes. We should have got it right first time and maybe even used a better conversation to make our piece a bit more entertaining. But in the end everything was sorted and finished.
What new skills have you acquired or developed?
I have developed my skills on how much concentration must go into making a good film, I have realised there is more to it that just pressing record. I have also acquired skills on how to use the Apple Mac's as I had never used one before, now I am wiser about how they work and the editing programme they have.
Overall I think eventually our continuity piece worked well and we achieved what we wanted to achieve.
While doing this task I found that getting the right shot and angle was the hardest part! But I also think that making sure what we was filming looked right in the end was just as hard, if something was moved or changed it could make the whole scene look funny. I think also that as i was one of the actors, I had to make sure I was pulling the right facial expression and not laughing so it didn't spoil the whole take.
What worked well?
I believe that the shots like the match-on-action and filming we did worked well because we came across a few problems and once we had over come them everything fell into place and worked brilliantly. We kept to the 180 degree rule and with the good editing we came up with a good piece of work.
What could you or your team do better?
I think our team could of done a lot better because where things had gone wrong when we filming, we then had to cut big chunks out which messed it up even more, we then decided to film the whole thing again without any mistakes. We should have got it right first time and maybe even used a better conversation to make our piece a bit more entertaining. But in the end everything was sorted and finished.
What new skills have you acquired or developed?
I have developed my skills on how much concentration must go into making a good film, I have realised there is more to it that just pressing record. I have also acquired skills on how to use the Apple Mac's as I had never used one before, now I am wiser about how they work and the editing programme they have.
Overall I think eventually our continuity piece worked well and we achieved what we wanted to achieve.
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