Logo

This is our logo for our film production company. We thought of the name HARJ as it is an acronym of the people in our group. We had put the film reel because this film company will represent any type of genre. We had come up with the company name of "HARJ" because it represents everyones name in my group. There is H- harj, A- aaron. R- Ryan and J- James.

Plot to our film

The people in my group are Aaron Vander, James Mills, Ryan Emin and me.

Our genre of our film is based on horror and the name of the film is Damien. The film is about a boy called Damien. He was caught up in a fire and he had suffered severe burns that had have scared him for life. From his face and the upper part of his body. When he returns to school, he is immediately bullied for by students in his school because of the way he looks. Damien then runs away becasue he can't cope with it. As the years went by Damien built a lot of anger inside him, to a point where he can't resist. He goes on a rampage and hunts the people that had bullied him to get his own back. He burns them and makes them look like him, then he kills them and keeps their head a shrine.

The title sequnece will be focused around fire, fire wikll be in every shot of the sequnce and the main characters face will be hidden under a hood right up until the end of the title sequence. the typography that i would like to use is that of a smoky type of writing so as the fire burns in the title sequnce the names of actors,directors etc. appears written out of smoke again adding tho the thme of fire.

Over the top of this we are not sure whether to have a voiceover of the main charcter speaking about his expieriences and 'the fire inside him'. or whether to have music that fits in with the film genre, the music would have rock music or a similar genre to that as that is normally the tye of music assciated with thsi film genre.

Friday 9th December 2011

In today’s lesson we had to either finish off our storyboard or we had to create a logo thing that will come in our sequence at the beginning. Our group had finished creating the storyboard in Thursday’s lesson so we went on the computers and started to think how our logo should look like. We came up with a few ideas but we did not manage to finish creating the logo.

Thursday 8th December 2011

In today’s lesson we had to go into our groups and we had to produce a story board of how we would like our film title to look like. We had all gave our ideas and then I had drew the pictures in. Everyone in the group had their own input into the storyboard and we had come up with 12 shots. We had finished drawing our pictures then we had added the shots in and the music that will be included into it. In the second lesson we had started to look for some music that we thought will be good for our film title sequence. Because we wanted to use someone’s music we will have to email the person who created it and ask them if we can use their music.  

Codes And Conventions Of A Title Sequence

The codes and conventions of a title sequence are:

The cast and crew of the film. That is who is going to be starring in the film.
The title of the film. What the film is called is very important because some people can tell by a title what the genre of the film might be about.
Indication of place, time and historical period. The time period is very important because if it is very old many people wont watch it. Location is imortant because it sets the scene of what the film might be.
Mis-en-scene is very important because it sets the scene of the film. It can also give away the genre because of the props, lighting, sounds and make up.
Introduction to character is important becuase it is the first impression and basically the people choose who is the better person.
Sets up enigmas becuase it keeps the viewers thinking what has happened and what is going to keeps the tension throughout the film.

In our film we had choose the genre of horror and these are some of the codes and conventions.
Often filmed in a dark and sinister place
Quick shots during editing
Dark music
Plot frequently involves death
Usually involves good and evil

Typeography

We would like to use this type of typeography in our title sequence. We would like to use this type of font because it is associated with fire and our title sequence it is mainly about fire and dangerous things. It will be the colour of grey as it comes out of the fire and the reason for that is because we would like it to look like it is smoke coming out of the fire. This is the only font that we are going to be using, it will be throughout our title sequence mainly when theres fire. The name of the film is not royal inferno the name of the film is Damien. The style of the font looks like wavey smoke and we thought that, that would fit in really well with our title sequence.

Editing

The system of editing employed in narrative filmed is called continuity editing- its purpose is to create and provide efficent and artful transitions.

When editing and filming things you must never break the 180* line, if you do try not to show it in the sequence and film it again.

Take- The single shot that has been recorded.
Sequence- A series of related shots and scences forming a series of unit actions.
Cut- A change for one shot then move onto another.
Jump cut- An abrupt cut between shots in which  a notable jump in order or location is demostrated.
Fade- A means of closing or starting a scene with the image disappearing to black or fading from black.
Wipe- A transition form one scene to another where the new scene pushes or wipes off the old.
Dissolve- A transition where one scene fades out at the same time as the other fades in, one over the same. sometimes it can be called as cross fade.
Montage- An editing style which is consciously constructed to achieve a particular effect on an audience as opposed to the invisible editing.
Invisible editing- Cutting from one shot to another so that the viewer is unaware of the camera changes.
Cross cuttting- Cutting between two independent, different actions to show the relationship between the two.
Long take- A lenghty shot which is uncut.
Slow motion- Action on a screen at a rate slower than usual.
Shot reverse shot- Editing where the camera cuts between two interacting individuals. Frequently used in the over the shoulder shot.
Dubbing- The mixing and recording or a dialogue and various sounds being used.
Mixing- Combining different sound tracks into different music.
Eyeline match- The level at which a shot is taken representing the point of view of a average height person and creating a sequence.
Match on action- The matching of details, movement and dialogue from shot to shot to create an effective continuity.
Rhythm- The sense of movement between sequences.
180 Degree rule- A imaginary line that has been draw between to actors/ actresses to keep the camera on one side of the actions so when shots are edited toghether the persoective remains contant so the audience will not be confused.

Narrative

Narrative has got everything to do with the storyline, plot, charater types/ functions, the structure, deeper meanings the equillibrium and disequillibrium.

Storyline- The meaning of a story line is what the story is about and what is going to happen in the film. Every film must have a storyline to it otherwiise it will not make any sense.
Plot- A plot can be used as a term of what makes up the film. It can be a chain of events that create suspense and makes a big impact on people viewing it.
Character types- character types are extremely important within a film because it can make up a persons mind about the film and they can also take to it by liking some of the characters roles or acters in there.
The structure- shows how the plot of the film is composed and what impression or way it takes the film to.
Equillibrium-Is what the begining of the film is going to be about and how the film will start.
Disequillibrium- the middle of the film and how it can make a new equillibrium.
Chronilogical order- chronilogical order is where everything comes together in order. It has to be in order in what comes first then the last thing is not as improtant.

Audience Profiling

Demographics- Age, gender, race and sexuality, educatio, occupation, annual income and disposable income.

Current lifestyle/ Aspirational or disired life style, culture, media intrests, buying habits, loyalty to brands.
Aspirational means hoping to achieve something big.

Psychographics- This is the way of discribing an audience by looking at their behaviour and personality.

4C's- cross, cultural, consumer and characterisation.
Leitmotif- a repeated phrase that might reprsent a character in the story.
Contrapuntal sounds- Music that contrasts and conflicts with action within the film.
Sychronous sound- Sound that is a visual image. For example a gun being shot.
Asynchronous sound- Sound that is not visible on the screen that we cant see.

Signs in the cinema and mise en scene

Mise- En- Scene- Costume
Lighting
Acting/ body/ language
Make-up
Props
Setting/ Location
Mise en scene tells the person what type of genre the film is.

Science fiction film-
space ships are sifi, aliens, laser and planets. This will straight away tell the audience that the film is sifi, this can be show by all the props beign used. The uses of colours, Costumes being used to make the people look beyond humanitiy. The setting is a key feature in mise en scene because it can give away a lot of things because the location on space tells you that it is about science.

Romantic Comedy-
Newyork/ America, restuarants,roses, soft cudly things and the use of a red colour. These can all give a person an idea that the film is about romance because red can represent love. Roses can show people that someone falls in love because a rose flower mostly indicates love. Restuarants because that is where people go to for dates.

Horror films-
Blood, weapons, barneyard, graveyard, neighbourhood, night masks and fire. This can straight away give an indication that the film is going to be gory. Most gory films are to do with horror. Blood and weapons can be used in action but blood is mostly resorted to horror because people or monsters are getting killed. Graveyars and barneyard set the scene and people can say it is horror because of the ghosts that are there.

Costume hair and make up-
Costume hair and make up act as an instant indicator to us of characters personality, status and the job they have. It can tell us where the film is set or what culture it is. Certain costumes can signify certain indiviuals.

Facial expressions and body language-
Facial expressions tell how someone is feeling. Someone might be happy but you can be accpmanied but scary music. Body language may also indicate how the relate on the state of their relationship is and the position in the frame.

Positioning of characters and objects within a frame-
Position within a frame can draw our attention to a specific character or an object. A film maker can use positioning to indicate relationship between people.

Lighting and colour-
To highlight important characters or objects within a frame. To make characters look misterous.

Low key lighting- created by using key and back lights it produces sharp light and darkness. Highlights the shadows.
High key lighting- more filler lights, trying to make it look natural.

camera movement and camera shots

Pan-Means the camera can move left to right.
Crab- The camera can go sideways.
Tracking- The camera can only go fowards and backwards.
When you are creating a film and you are tracking do not zoom in or out whilst filming.
Ped up/down- Means the higher or lower the camera is.
Tilt up/down- How much you would like to tilt the camera down or up.

Camera angles-
Low angle shot- looking up at a character or object, often to instill the fear or awe in the audience.
Straight angle- a straight shot is an eye level shot from the person filming.
High angle- look downwards to make things look smaller.
Canted- is a side angle shot.
Worms eye- is as low as you can get to make things look huge.
Birds eye- very high shot establishing a lot of things in the air.
Extreme close up (ECU)- extreme close up is just the persons face.
Two shot- two people within the shot and above the waist.
Head and shoulders shot/ close up- anything above the shoulder and the face included.
Over the shoulder- a shot that has been taken over somebody's shoulder and shows someone else.
Mid shot- a shot that is above the hips.
3/4 shot- a shot that has been taken above the knees.
Medium long shot- a shot that has got everything in it but closed up.
Long shot- a shot that has everything in it.
Extra long shot- a shot that has been taken and makes the person look abit smaller.

Proximity- is a wide shot that is or has less emotion in it.
Closer images means that they have more emotion in them.

Media texts

Symbolic- Lighting and colour, positioning, section of a location, facial expressions and the body language, objects, key signafiers and images, clothing and hair make up.
Written- slogan, type face and font, headlines, captions, style, choice of words, emphasis on words.
Technical- Camera angles, Framing(LELS, LS, MLS, MS, CU, ECU, POV), cropping, positioning and seperate signs that together make contrasting meanings.
Text- sign, denotation, connotation, conventions, codes, signifier, signified, signification and realism.
Intertextuality- inonic signs, icons, metonym, metaphor and paradign.
Signifier- denotation- the physical form which we can see or hear, the words, the picture and sounds.
Signified- conotation- The meaning of the sign- what we understand it to represent.
E.G. apple-
Denotation- green, apple, stalk, bite.
Conotation- senf of life, knowledge, starvation, health, apple product, gravity and cider.

Halloween

Halloween is another american film that was created in the year of 1978 it was directed by a man called John Carpenter. it was written by a woman called Debra Hill. On halloween in the year of 1963 a six year old Michael Myers murder his sister by stabbing her with a kitchen knife. He then was sent to prison and fifteen years later he had run away. He had turned mentally ill and had returned home. 

This film is similar to our film because a boy gets bullied and does bad things. Although in halloween the boy does not get bullied but he does do crazy things. You could say that this film is similar because the character in our film does crazy things, in halloween he kills somebody then goes mental. In both films both characters do go crazy and do many things you will never imagine. 

Changes to presentation

Damien

This is the work that we have changed on our presentation. We have added more information and changes what goes before what. We had put the information in what we think should come first and that consist of:
The first page title, slogan and names
The plot of our film
The cast and crew that will be in our film
The title sequence which we think it should be like
The films that had inspired us to create such a film
The costs of the film and profits.

films simular to our film

 

The omen is a horror film that has been created in the year of 1976 and it was directed by a man called Richard Donner. The film is about a man finding out that his son becomes an devil. 

This film is similar to our film because it is about a child that is getting bullied. In the omen the boy is a devil. In our film the boy turns evil and also sort of becomes an devil. Mainly in horror films the older adults are normally acting in it but in this film and our film the kid is the one who turns evil. It also is similar to our film because the name Damien represents the meaning of a devil and in both films there is a devil.