PODCAST 1+2: Introduction to our group and Idea

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In this podcast we spoke about our idea and our production company

Greenscreen film opening cut

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Terminology used so far

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Terminology Log (Terms used so far) from OliStr

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Film Opening report

HOT FUZZ

Working Title

BBFC:15 MPAA: R

Budget: £8M

Box office: £80M

Distributed in 41 countries

Trailer:

TITLES

Number of people/company names in titles:Start/end time of main titles: 0:33-1:01Running time of main titles: 58 seconds
Titles in order using exact text:

UNIVERSAL PICTURES PRESENTS

IN ASSOCIATION WITH STUDIOCANAL

A WORKING TITLE PRODUCTION 

IN ASSOCIATION WITH

BIG TALK PRODUCTIONS

TITLES ANALYSIS 1: THE COMPANIES

In the opening of Hot Fuzz only 4 companies were credited and those were the main production companies. Universal Pictures is a member of the big 6 and Working Title is a subsidiary of Universal. StudioCanal is a massive European production and distribution company. Big talk is a smaller production company who is owned by ITV.

TITLES ANALYSIS 2: ROLES

No actors have been given a title which is surprising considering Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are very well known actors.

TITLES ANALYSIS 3: GENRE/NARRATIVE CONNOTATIONS

The font used for the titles is bubble, white. This connotes that this wont be a very serious movie, but it wont be childish due to the more serious white colour. Everything is in upper case, however the names of the companies have been made larger, probably to put emphasis on the names of the companies. This font has been used to signify the movie wont be serious but it wont be a kids movie either.

FIRST SHOT + THE PROTAGONIST

This is an interesting way to show the central protagonist as there is just one long take where the protagonist, in this case Simon Pegg, walks all the way up to the came and shows his badge. As he come closer we can see part of the costume and it becomes clear what he is when hes close. He is a PC.

Technologies I have used so far

• Blogger
• YouTube
• Final Cut Pro X
• Microsoft Word
• Sony A58 Camera
• GoPro
• Slideshare
• Apple Mac
• Greenscreen

Terminology rap

To be used with this instrumental (ignore swear in title of video):
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Uh uh
The worms eye view is from the floor
The master shot show you more
If you don't do media here's the door *points to door*

Uh
Verisimilitude is convincing
Tracking is following
Don,t go too high though
That boy is sorrowing

Dont go too low though
Make it too powerful
Pan the camera around
And we can see the shower full

That has nothing to do with this though
You have a shallow field of focus
Make it wider get the bigger picture
Its hard making a rap
You have to make it rhyme
I need more takes, more time

Uh Dun know
Frosty in tha house repping Cents squad
Uh

TITLES: The Notebook example

POSSIBLE INFLUENCES

• Fade in/out
• Order of Company details: ...Presents...a... Production... 
• Director NOT credited 2x (auteur): However this is an exception!!!
• run across 2mins

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TITLES

Number of people/company names in titles: 28

Start/end time of main titles: 0:09-2:26

Running time of main titles: 2:17

Titles in order using exact text:

New Line Cinema Presents

A Gran Via Production

Ryan Gosling

Main actress - Therefore gets a single credit

Rachel McAdams

James Garner

Gena Rowlands

The Notebook

James Marsden

Kevin Connolly

David Thornton
Jamie Anne Brown
Heather Wahlquist

Many names in the same credit because actors aren't well known

with Sam Shepard

and Joe Allen

Casting by
Matthew Barry, C.S.A.
Nancy Green-Keys, C.S.A.

Costume Designer
Karyn Wagner

Music Composed by 
Aaron Zigman

Executive producers get own credit

Edited bye
Alan Heim, A.C.E.

Production Designer
Sarah Knowles 

Director of Photography
Robert Fraisse AFC

Executive Producers 
Toby Emmerich  
Avram Butch Kaplan

Produced by

Director credited

Mark Johnson
Lynn Harris

Based on the novel by 
Nicholas Sparks

Screenplay by 
Jeremy Leven
Adaptation by
Jan Sardi

Directed by Cassavetes 

Filming practice

This October our media group went to a green-screen studio to shoot scenes for a very short movie where we were completely responsible for all filming and planning and acting and directing. This is a summary of the trip (including a few trips from myself for the next time).

Planning and Planning sheets:

• So a few days before we went to the studio we worked well as a group to think of ideas of the plot for our film. We decided upon making it a parody horror movie but make it completely ridiculous on purpose.
• Now onto the planning we were all responsible for for 2 scenes each that we were completely responsible for and we had to provide a complete call sheet for these scenes and few people hadn't done that which made some problems arise since they weren't prepared.
• However we still managed to fix these issues and organise everything again quickly.
• We lacked an extensive prop list, however we all wrote down what we needed to bring which we thought would be a be better way.

Directing:

• Since we all had 2 scenes we were completely responsible for it also meant we had to direct these scenes and that wasn't always the smoothest.
• And to be an effective director you have to give clear instructions. this is important so the actors and camera men know what do do or what to film in that exact moment.
• Also you have to make sure you film the same action with numerous angles and takes so you get more footage to choose from when editing

Cinematography:

• We took a lot of coverage shots as backup in case woe didn't film what we wanted for the scenes where we didn't have the completed call sheets.
• We could've tried to  tried using manual focus but its out of our skill range at the moment.

5 tips:

1. Take lots of different shots
2. Dont waste time
3. Make sure everyone knows what must be done
4. Drink water (to clear your mind)
5. Have fun!