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.