Feedback from 4th Draft

This is the feedback we got from our screening in one of our lessons. 

Although I wanted the title sequence to contain no zombies (as it confuses the audience and makes the audience continue watching), that seems to be what everyone complained about and wanted us to improve. We filmed some more screen captures of more zombie related things and will edit that in today. 

Confusingly, the class complained about the music while others liked it. 

I do like the idea of the title names being facebook related, so I have filmed something to create that. 

It was suggested that the title didn't work and to perhaps use; 'Facebook Feed' instead. 

There is a really short time to complete all this work in time for the deadline AND finish the evaluation. 

My priority is to edit in the new bits to the title sequence

The Right Kind Of Wrong Title Sequence Analysis

Lucy showed me this film and told me to look at the title sequence.

The Right Kind Of Wrong's title sequence is very similar as to what I envisioned  for our title sequence, mixed with a little of Catfishs' title sequence. I think that this social media title sequence shows modern youth.

Catfish Title Sequence Analysis

 I chose to analyse Catfish: The Movie's title sequence as it uses a similar style that we want for our title sequence, by using online/facebook within the title sequence.

Catfish: The Movie

The title sequence begins with the production companys' titles on the screen, however they have been edited so they are more pixel and look like they belong on a computer; which would suggest to the audience that the film is about the internet and what happens on the internet.

 

 

The sequence is slowly paced through camera work, editing and sound which could show that the film is a documentary, and also that the film is shot over a long period of time. Unlike the way this is filmed, I want our title sequence to seem quite fast paced (not only to fit it into 2 minutes, but also) to emphasise that the protagonists have fun together and spend most of their time together.

 

 

 

The use of extreme close ups doesn't tell you much about the people in the film and what it is about but hints privacy. The iconic symbol of a silhouette of a man suggests anonumity and hiding. The camera movement is clean but slow paced, again suggestive of the documentary style of filming. The font in the titles is simple and easy to read as it is a san serif font. The white font contrasts with the 'dirty white' of the computer screen which makes it easy to read instead of white on white being hard to read. Similarly I would like something like this for our titles font, maybe instead of white, use a red on specific words and maybe two different fonts to suggest the horror genre.

 

The camera pans down from the blue/white contrast. The blue reminds me of social medias, I think this is more of the stereotypical facebook blue colour. The font is easy to read and stands out (because of the contrast of negative and positive space), for our film I think this font would be too simplistic for the title.

Research

This is some more research into sound. We were worried that our original song would sound too 'Pop'ish.







Jump scare noises for our titles of 'A Zombie Movie'

Update: Over the Holidays

Over the holidays we had completed the taking photos and videos for the facebook profiles for our protagonists and uploaded them. We also filmed our title sequence clips (such as opening the laptop and the viewing of the photos and videos). The only troubles we had were the uploading (my upload speed at home isn't too great, and therefore that took longer than it should have done) and when other members in the group were unable to film on certain days due to other plans.

Now we need to:

• Convert all the clips on mpeg streamclip to dv
• start the editing process (first draft finished by 4th March)

• Sort out the sound (sort out the soundtrack and film foley sound)  

In one of our clips, there is footage of a zombie that the protagonists don't notice in the background, this is a photo to document what our zombie looked like, we decided not to be as detailed as the make up tutorial previously showed due to the fact that the video would be filmed on a phone and not on the zombie all the time as it was to be un-noticed. 

Principal Shoot

We met up round my house at roughly 11.30 am. We then went to Bostall Woods (while it was raining).

We took a series of photographs of the locations we would take photos and videos for  our title sequence.

These are the locations we will be using for taking photographs and videos for our title sequence.

Font notes

In Leanne's lesson we began talking about font types and a class analysis of a few title sequences.

Catch Me If You Can
-Smooth
-Flowy
-Sense of constant movement (characters are constantly moving/running away)
-2 fonts represent two different characters
San serif font - outlaw, the font is changing and moving
serif font - official, government, western? FBI Agent
-clear fonts, easy to read
-Saul Bass esque (lines and colour)

Lord of War
-White font - dark background
-Small, centered
-Bullet - dehumanises - not attached to characters
-San serif font
-Soviet writing - Russian, cold war, warish
-military cap letters (serious, no humour, unemotional)
-printed in metal
-Actors names - centered, lesser actors and crew to side
-roles - simplier - rounded, constrast

Forrest Gump
-Serif font
-plain, long (stretched)
-white - purity
-older- more traditional font/film
-newsprint
-slow paced, soft and steady, gentle
-fades in, soft and gentle
-large font, centered

Group Research

During one of our groups breaks and free lessons, we started to begin thinking about what sounds we would use within our title seqeunce.

These are some uncopyrighted tracks we are considering to use for the soundtrack. We are thinking about layering some of the tracks over each other, or even recording noises and making a song from that (showing the humour element in our film).




This is the sort of make up we want our zombie's to look like, maybe not as much detail like the boils and the veins, but definitely the dark eyes and emphasis on the chest.


We are thinking about use zombie screeches/cries during our title sequence. This is what we want our zombies to sound like, however we will record our own zombie noises.

 

Enigma Code

Roland Barthes Enigma Code

Enigma - illusive - secret

A text portrays mystery to draw an audience in to pose questions and as such become intrigued in the piece.

For instance, a murder mystery will often not reveal the identity of the killer until the end of the story which poses the question,'who is the murderer?'

Narrative/enigma codes

Categorised as:

• Hermeneutic Code - Voice of Truth. : Element in a story not explained and therefore exists as an enigma for the reader, raising questions
• Proairetic Code - Voice of Empirics : Tension built up leaving the audience guessing what will happen next
• Semantic Code - Voice of Person : Any element in text suggests meaning by way of connotation which the story suggests
• Symbolic Code - Voice of Symbol : Wider level of semantic code, organises semantic meanings into broader and deeper sets of meaning. New meaning arises out of opposing and conflict ideas
• Cultural Code - Voice of Knowledge : Looks at the audiences wider cultural knowledge, morality and ideology

These codes are important so that the audience read the text with multiple meanings, the audience then take control and take an active role in determining the meaning of the text. The codes are crucial to title sequence as the title sequence is the 'taster' of the film, if the audience aren't satisfied or find themselves 'bored' in the first 2 minutes of the film, they will stop watching or not appreciate the codes.

In our title sequence, we plan to use enigma codes. We will use the Hermeneutic Code; we will show a creature in the background of a photo or video, the character will comment on this but it will not be explained within the title sequence. The use of the Hermeneutic Code will lead to the use of the Proairetic Code; the audience will guess what the creature is and how it will attack them. The Cultural Code may also be used as due to the amount of media the audience have already comsumed based on the idea off zombies will effect the audiences cultural knowledge.

Group Analysis: Evil Dead

We chose to analyse Evil Dead  as there weren't many Zombie title sequences on artofthetitle; so we decided to pick a title sequence from the horror genre. 

Evil Dead Title Sequence

The beginning of the sequence shows the title of the film; Evil Dead. the title looks like blood vessels which connotes that the film will be about blood and death. The music is orchestral which builds tension within the audience.The use of the red and black contrasts and makes the red stand out. Red connotes danger and blood. The use of extreme close ups make the audience feel uncomfortable and nervous as they cannot see any characters and only weapons.

 The shot of blood on the wood makes the audience think of cabins, which shows that the diegesis of the film could be set some where rural; like a cabin. The music makes the audience feel 'spooked' which makes the audience think of demons and part of the paranormal. There are multiple shots of skin/meat/flesh ripping, cutting, slicing, stabbing which makes the audience think there will be a lot of violence in the film. The lightbulb filling up with blood makes could symbolise no hope within the film and foreshadow that something bad will happen in the film.

There is a shot of a girl's head with a chainsaw ripping through it, this shows to the audience  the brutality of the film and the level of violence within the film. The use of slow pace editing makes the audience feel tension building. The finger dropping into a pool of blood connotes and foreshadows themes of torture and death.

The use of scratchy font and symbols makes the audience think of paranormal, demons and a higher power. The chain symbolises torture, restriction and prison, this may foreshadow what will happen within the film. The music builds and gets faster, this makes the audience feel more tense and foreshadows more death. The fire could connote destruction, hell and chaos, this could foreshadow what happens in the film to the audience.