Location shot for Alone#2

Maddies brothers room

Alarm clock

Maddies parents room

Hallway and front door

Dinning table we're her family sit at

The front shot.



Location shots for Alone#1

 

Front of the house we're filming at.

The sofa that Maddie will sit on

Another shot of the sofa in the living room

A tv that shows no signal when we turn it on

                                                                   Front angle of the stairs

Under the bed shot



Side angle of the stairs

Script for Alone

Script for Alone

The film opening is set in an ordinary house with a middle class, healthy family. She wakes up one morning to find all of her family to have disappeared and she starts to have hallucinations of the previous day. After Maddie walks downstairs and realises the TV is not working and she calls for her dad

Maddie: (Shouts) DAD! DAD!

She then walks up the stairs and peers into her parents’ bedroom. She then looks over her shoulder and calls.

Maddie: (Calls over her shoulder) 'Ben'

Her facial expressions show that she is starting to panic and hyperventilate.

Shots List

We are going to use a variaty of shots in our opening sequence. We will use different shots for different effects.

The camera shots we are going to use are:

Medium long shots

Establishing shots

Close ups

Extreme close ups

Over the shoulder shots

Medium shots

Tracking shots

Perspective shots

Paning shots

Risk Assessment for Alone

Storyboard Script

       1. In the first shot we will pan around the room to Maddie’s face. This will be an establishing shot and will tell you about the character it belongs to. We will instantly see the main character and learn about her by looking at her room. We will be told a bit about her background and also about her interests.

2. In this shot we are going to have the clock change from 8:59 to 9:00. The alarm will then go off and Maddie will turn it off.

3. The next shot will be taken from under the bed and we will see Maddie’s feet come out of the bed. This will be a close up.

4. We will then have an over the shoulder shot of Maddie putting her hair down and shaking it.

5. Maddie will then walk down the stairs which we will film from the bottom of the stairs.

6. We will then cut to a different angle of her walking down the stairs which will be a medium shot.

7. Maddie will then walk into the living room which we will see from a medium long shot. This will ensure that the audience knows that this is the living room.

8. There will then be an over the shoulder shot of Maddie trying to turn the television on.

9. There will then be an extreme close up of Maddie’s hand trying to turn the television on.

10. We will then have a close up of the television which will have no signal.

11. In the next shot Maddie will call her dad. This will be a medium shot.

12. After she doesn’t hear a reply she rushes upstairs and we will see this from the side of the stairs.

13. There will then be an extreme close up of Maddie’s hand reaching for the door handle.

14. The camera will then switch to the inside and Maddie will peep around the corner.

15. The next shot will be a perspective shot. We will see Maddie walk into her parent’s room to find an empty bed.

16. Maddie will then call her brother by shouting for him. This will be an over the shoulder close up shot.

17. Maddie will then run across the landing and we will see this with a shot of her legs running past the camera.

18. The next shot will be a medium shot of Maddie opening her brother’s door. On the storyboard it says jack on the door we are going to change this to Ben.

19. This is another perspective shot of an empty bedroom.

20. There will then be a close up of Maddies face as she starts to panic.

21. Maddie will then rush down the stairs again which we will see from a medium shot of the stairs.

22. Maddie will then run to the doorway to find her family. This will be an long shot of the family sitting at the table.

23. This will be the same shot but the family will fade away but Maddie will stay there.

24. In an act of panic Maddie gets her phone out and tries to phone someone but there are no contacts. This will be a close up of the phone.

25. Maddie goes to run outside but her boyfriend is in the hallway. She goes to hug him. This will be a medium shot.

26. This will be a medium shot of him fading away.

27. She will then look around for him which will be a medium shot.

28. This is the first possible ending. Maddie will open the door and the screen will fade out to black. This will be a medium long shot.

29. The second ending will be Maddie walking out the house and looking around but no one being there. This will be a perspective shot.

30. The third possible ending will be Maddie running towards the camera with a scared expression on her face.

Storyboard Comparison

First Draft: Here is the storyboard that Ben Smith drew to give us a basic idea of the shots we were going to use and the different angles.

 

 



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 Final Draft: They then gave the basic drawings to me to draw up all of the shots as i took A level art. Here is the final storyboard

 



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Storyboard

 

Here is our storyboard for our film opening 'Alone'. It has been narrated by Ben Flatt, Edited by Ben Smith and drawn by Megan

Pictures of team working

Here is a picture on Ben Flatt working on our meeting diary to upload to our blog

This is a picture of Megan drawing out the final version of our storyboard

Here is a picture of Ben Smith looking at the mise en scene of the film opeing of I Am Legend

Our Inspirations

 'I am Legend'


'I am Legend' is a film about a man living in an abandoned city because of a zombie apocalypse.

When watching this film we noticed how similar in some ways it is to our opening film sequence. At the very start of 'I am Legend' we notice the camera angles are very wide to show the grand scale of the city and how empty the streets of New York are because of the zombie Apocalypse. They've also done various birds eye views of the empty city. Noticeably they've put the titles on top of buildings and on streets to make it look like its included in the surroundings.



 



'28 Days Later'

28 days later is a film about a man that was in a comma and he wakes up to find it is the end of the world and everyone has turned into zombies.

When watching the trailer we saw that the man was all alone in London and it was what used to be a crowded street. This is the look and feeling we want to put across in our film. I really liked how that the phones were swinging from their cord as it shows that there is no one around to help in person or over the phone. This is the similarity between the two films. I really like the costumes that they have used as they fit the genre well. As he wakes up in hospital he leaves with only his hospital gown. We would like to recreate the scale that they have done in this film but we realise that it will be extremely hard. We did not want our film to be in the dark as it would be to cliché. We really like how fear is created even though the lighting does not fit in with the feelings. This is another reason why this film inspired us to film one like it. There are very little props in the trailer and we think that we would change that. We will show televisions and mobile phones to show the time that the film is set in. We have decided to do this so the film will seem more realistic to a young teenage girl of the present day.

Alone feedback for the class

After pitching our film to the class, we were given some feedback on how we could improve our film further. The main point that we had to work on was to not put too much into the short opening. We were given ideas of how we could condense all of the important scenes into one. We will use fades and small flashbacks to show previous activities of the night before. We will also use two layers and have two different shots other each other so it looks like she is remembering her family.

Alone Film pitch

Over the half term, we got set a task to create a pitch of the opening of a film. The film could have been about anything and we got to pick the genre we wanted. When we get back to present the pitch to the group we were put in and decide which one we think is best. We chose this film opening because we felt that it was the most realistic one to do, the other two film openings were two technical.

Titles

This is the title sequence for the film Napoleon Dynamite;

Title 1 - Institution 0:02-0:07
Title 2 - Production company 0:09-0:14
Title 3 - Association 0:16-0:21
Title 4 - Starring 0:26-0:29
Title 5 - Napoleon Dynamite 0:31-0:36
Title 6 - Jon Gries 0:39-0:45
Title 7 - Ason Ruell 0:48-0:53
Title 8 - Efren Ramirez 0:56-1:02
Title 9 - Tina Majorino 1:04-1:09
Title 10- Diedrich Bader 1:12-1:16
Title 11- Casting by Rory Weitz 1:22-1:26
Title 12- Music by John Swihart 1:30-1:34
Title 13- Edited by Jeremy Coon 1:39-1:43
Title 14- Production by Cory Lonenzen 1:48-1:54
Title 15- Director of photography by Mumn Powell 1:56-2:01
Title 16- Produced by Jeremy Coon, Chris Wyatt and Sean Covel 2:05-2:10
Title 18- Writen by Jared Hess and Jeksha Hess 2:13-2:17
Title 19- Directed by Jared Hess 2:27-2:40


Each different title that appears is different but all have something in common, for example some are presented on plates using food but its different types of food. From this opening sequences we get the inmpression that the film is going to be about a young child who is intrested in space and food.

Art of the Title

1. What is the definition of a Title Sequence?

 

A Title Sequence tells us the names of the people who are responsible for being in the film and the making of the film or TV program.

 

2. What is the function of a Title Sequence?

The function of a Title Sequence is to name the people who are credited for the making of the film. Title sequences are usually created and presented in a way which fits the genre. For example, in a Rom com movie, the typography used could be girly and pink, and the non diagetic sound (background music) could be a happy song.

 

3. Name three films featured in the A Brief History of the Art of the Title Sequence?

• Forest Gump
• The Ward
• Juno 

4. Select a film Title Sequence shown in the A Brief History of the Art of the Title Sequence and discuss how the Title Sequence uses Typography Elements (text), Visual Imagery/Sound Elements and what kind of mood/feeling is created as a result?

Coraline - The title sequence is quite a spooky one as the main title 'coraline' is written in stitching which we don't understand as we haven't watched the film but it will be come clear when we do. The actual titles are written in quite bold letters. The music is the background is quite dark and scary to start of with. The music is quite tense to start of with as the music increases quickly and then decreases suddenly to maybe trick the audience. Towards the end of the title sequence the music starts to become more upbeat and chirpy which maybe indicates the film is a happy one with a dark twist.

 

5. What does the use of Typography Elements (text), Visual Imagery/Sound Elements in the chosen film Title Sequence suggest about the theme/content of the film?

The style of the typography in this case is the main title of the film 'Coraline' sowed into some kind of fabric with a button acting as the 'o'. At this point we don't know what the film is about but judging by the creepy music is defiantly got a dark twist to it.

 

6. Select another film Title Sequence shown in the A Brief History of the Art of the Title Sequence and discuss how the Title Sequence uses Typography Elements (text), Visual Imagery/Sound Elements and what kind of mood/feeling is created as a result? Name of chosen Film Title Sequence: Use of Typography Elements (text): Use of Visual Imagery/Sound Elements: Mood/feeling:

 

The Ward - We can clearly tell this is a horror film from right at the start as the music is tracking backwards down a hospital corridor with the main lights flashing, this is a typical scene from a horror movie. Not only does the visual imagery tell us this but so does the music. At first its sounds like someone whistling with the thunder and lighting effect in the background then it gets louder and the sound of lightning appears and a loud organ starts. The main title 'The Ward' is created as though it is an object in the corridor and the camera goes through one of the letters. It then appears in a large font in capital letters as 'John Carpenter's The Ward'. Throughout the title sequence there are animated pictures of people in the olden days getting punished for whatever reason and glass smashing at various points. The titles of the various cast members and key production people are quite simple but work well with the film.

7. What does the use of Typography Elements (text), Visual Imagery/Sound Elements in the chosen film Title Sequence suggest about the theme/content of the film?

The typography suggests that its a horror film from right at the beginning of the title sequence. Its visual imagery is set in a hospital with a broken lights and thunder and lightning in the background. The music is at first someone whistling then continues to play creepy organ music, accompanied by the large font of the main title.

8.Visit the following website;

Art of the Title watch the sequences and read the 6 Film Title Sequence interview with Richard Morrison. The typography for Sweeney Todd is quite sinister, the title for 'Sweeney Todd' is red, this symbolises blood, death and rather haunting things.

9. What does the use of Typography Elements (text), Visual Imagery/Sound Elements in the chosen film Title Sequence suggest about the theme/content of the film?

The title starts just as the organ finishes playing and a quite noise replaces the organ, a haunting noise that sounds like violins in the back ground, on top of that the next scene that comes up is of a dark raining sky and you can here thunder in the back ground, this helps to give the film a mysterious atmosphere as the audience try to work out where it is, you then start to see chimneys and smoke, this is when the titles of the people that were involved in the film begin to appear. The text is in white so it stands out against the dark back ground, and is in an old fashioned Victorian text, so it fits with the era of the film, the writing also looks like skeleton bones which fits in with the main part of the film which is death.As the film carries on and the titles, objects appear that are going to be see through out the film such as a bolts and screws that are covered in blood and even a stream of blood, this makes the film look much more darker and gloomier, as the red contrasts with the dark back ground. When the title of the film appear in bold red against the black back ground, the music increases and picks up its pace and the writing is the only thing on the screen, this makes it stand out and get the audience more excited for it as the title of the film builds the tension and excitement of the film, and makes it dramatic as if the title is the grand opening of the film. After the name of the title is shown the objects shown become much faster and more intense such as meat being grinned through a machine and the meat falling out a and the screen switching to more blood.

10. What does Richard Morrison explain about the Film Title Sequence?
Richard Morrison quotes "Animating blood and its movement became the most crucial and challenging element of the sequence. We had to build special platforms within which we imitated blood movement and filmed it"

11. Does Richard Morrison feel the Film Title Sequence was successful, why or why not? Name of 2nd chosen Film Title Sequence created by Richard Morrison: Use of Typography Elements (text): Use of Visual Imagery/Sound Elements: Mood/feeling:

Richard Morrison quotes "And we had to give it this comical feel, which worked really well. That was a dream project. We would love to work on something similar."
12. What does the use of Typography Elements (text), Visual Imagery/Sound Elements in the chosen film Title Sequence suggest about the theme/content of the film?

High Fidelity - Its starts of with the production logo of 'Touchstone Pictures' whist in the background there is some shuffling. After the slight noise has disappeared a song plays and its a zoom in shot of a record player. The main title and the production names are in red to stand out from the black background. The rest of the titles are presented on posters and stickers.

13. What does Richard Morrison explain about the Film Title Sequence?

Richard Morrison tried to keep the film as original, simple and distinctive enough but at the same time reflecting on the older classier movies and still keeping it feeling fresh and contemporary at the same time. He quotes "Many creative will tell you that short pieces are the most difficult ones because you need to ensure that you make the most of every single second, graphically and visually."


14. Does Richard Morrison feel the Film Title Sequence was successful?

Richard Morrison exclaimed that it went just how he wanted it to go. "I believed simple content would be the answer to a finely tuned piece of work. Hence, the sequence abounds in this somewhat old-fashioned vintage style ‘brand identity’ approach with a titled logotype centrally set in a 3D background movement."

Turning Pages

I chose this opening scene that was made by pupils in the school Latymer because i think its really good. The camera shot that pans across city is really effective and it looks like something from a professional film. The font on the titles really tells us what genre it is (romance). At the start of the film, the girl is using a handheld camera which wasn't completely steady but that gave of a whole other effect to the film. The music also gives us the vibe of what genre it is.There were good use of props e.g. the handheld camera and book. Overall, i think the acting was good and it was very successful. I would give this mark a 55/60.