This is our favourite idea for fonts for our titles at the moment. We think that this font is quite quirky but also quite simple which portrays our genre quite well.
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Fonts For Titles
This is our favourite idea for fonts for our titles at the moment. We think that this font is quite quirky but also quite simple which portrays our genre quite well.
Filming Pictures
These are some pictures that we took during filming. It shows some of the locations and also Marcus actually filming some of the shots.
Group Meeting Pictures
This is one of our group members (Mollie) working on things for our film. She has been mainly working on the research side of things and has contributed a lot to our planning.
Shooting Schedule
This is out shooting schedule. It could change due to the weather and may also have to be extended due to us trying to do it on just two different days. There may also be a possibility that we can film on the Sunday.
Risk Assessment
This is our risk assessment for our film, Parallel. Most of the risks are minimal but it is important to recognise that there are risks involved to make sure we can reduce the chance of anything happening as much as possible.
Synopsis
What we will need:
- A bench in Admirals Park
- Bus stop. (Preferably not in
use by other people)
- Trees in the park
- Pavement beneath the bench
- Suit
- Smart shoes and
bag/briefcase
- Medicine bottle and new
label
- Tic Tacs
- Coke and Diet Coke
Characters:
Max will play both schizophrenic men on the bench as it will be a clone.
Olivia will play an unfortunate woman who happens to engage eye contact with
Zabel/ Zac (Max) on the bench in Admirals Park.
Costume:
We have decided to have Max in a suit so he looks like an average
working man but when the film starts, the problems start to unfold and it
becomes clear that he has schizophrenia.
Location:
Our film opening will be located in Admirals Park. We will use the bus
stop opposite the park on Rainsford Road, depending on how much filming we can
get done and if we stick to the shooting schedule.
Audience:
We have pitched our audience to be between the ages of 18-30 however not
excluding any ages older than that. We didn't think anyone younger than 18
would enjoy or understand our film which is why we set the age to 18. The
certificate is 12A.
Storyboard
This is our storyboard for our film opening with a voice-over by Max. Some of the pictures are not that clear in the video as our film was quite dialogue-heavy, we used the script a lot more.
Parts of the storyboard changed when we actually started filming as it started to get dark around the time we wanted to film the bus scene. Instead of waiting for a bus to come we decided to use a door instead as it was less time-consuming but still created the same effect.
Timeline of Shots and Titles
This is a timeline of all our shots and titles that we plan to include in our film opening sequence.
Mise en Scene Ideas
MISE EN SCENE:
- Settings & Props- Costume, Hair & Make Up
- Facial Expressions & Body Language
- Lighting & Colour
- Positioning of Characters
As our film sequence is all outdoors, this makes finding a location a lot easier. We plan to film in Admirals Park. We were thinking about other parks but we decided that this one was ideal as it is quite big and picturesque but also close to a bus stop which is another part of our setting.
Our costume is also quite simple as well as there is only one character on one day so we only require one costume. We decided that the man (Zac) should be wearing a smart suit, nearly immaculate as he is supposed to be boring and plain. Whereas Zabel, the other personality, will be wearing the same suit but messy to represent his evil character. The costume of the other woman will be smart/casual, perhaps she is on a lunch break.
Facial expressions will be important in our sequence as Zac is supposed to be angry/frustrated/embarrassed quite a lot. Facial expressions will also be important when Zac finally caves in and shouts at Zabel, after which the woman sitting next to him quite obviously thinks he is talking to himself.
Although lighting is quite hard when we have a limited amount of time to film, we are going to try our hardest to get it all in the day time when the camera quality will be the best. This is also because we are trying to represent everyday life.
The main focus of the sequence is Zac so he will be on camera the most. It should be clear that he is the protagonist as he is the first person to come on screen and the main focus on the first couple of minutes is him.
- Settings & Props- Costume, Hair & Make Up
- Facial Expressions & Body Language
- Lighting & Colour
- Positioning of Characters
As our film sequence is all outdoors, this makes finding a location a lot easier. We plan to film in Admirals Park. We were thinking about other parks but we decided that this one was ideal as it is quite big and picturesque but also close to a bus stop which is another part of our setting.
Our costume is also quite simple as well as there is only one character on one day so we only require one costume. We decided that the man (Zac) should be wearing a smart suit, nearly immaculate as he is supposed to be boring and plain. Whereas Zabel, the other personality, will be wearing the same suit but messy to represent his evil character. The costume of the other woman will be smart/casual, perhaps she is on a lunch break.
Facial expressions will be important in our sequence as Zac is supposed to be angry/frustrated/embarrassed quite a lot. Facial expressions will also be important when Zac finally caves in and shouts at Zabel, after which the woman sitting next to him quite obviously thinks he is talking to himself.
Although lighting is quite hard when we have a limited amount of time to film, we are going to try our hardest to get it all in the day time when the camera quality will be the best. This is also because we are trying to represent everyday life.
The main focus of the sequence is Zac so he will be on camera the most. It should be clear that he is the protagonist as he is the first person to come on screen and the main focus on the first couple of minutes is him.
Script
This is our script for our opening sequence. We looked at other scripts and tried to do ours in a similar way. When we come to filming then it is obviously subject to change but we are very happy with it. We know that it is quite dialogue heavy but we plan on re-dubbing most of the talking to make it sound as clear as possible.
Institutions Research
FILM FOUR
Film 4 is a British film institution company that is owned and operated by Channel 4 Television Corporation and it has screened many films. It has also distributed many successful films such as Casino Royal, Slumdog Millionaire, Shaun of the Dead and most importantly, The Double and Shallow Grave. Film 4 has a niche, mature audience which we intend to aim our movie at.
The main reason we decided to use Film 4 as our distributor is because we modelled our film around The Double and Shallow Grave which were both produced/distributed by Film 4. This means that they have experience in a similar film to ours which helps things like marketing.
NEW LINE CINEMA
Founded: 1967
New Line produced the Oscar Award-Winning The Lord of the Rings film trilogy. Some others of its most popular films include The Mask, The Austin Powers titles, Hairspray, Rush Hour, Elf, Sex and the City and Wedding Crashers. Since 2008 (when it became a unit of Warner Bros) the company has seen the most successful period in its history.
Like Film 4, New Line Cinema aims its films at a more of a sophisticated audience. This is one of the reasons we want New Line Cinema to help produce and distribute our film. It can help us greatly in advertising to the right audience. Also because of its success it will help us advertise on a large scale.
Audience Research
This is our audience research. People said our target audience was too broad so we decided to take three people of different ages and say what aspect of the film they would like. We also used a contrast and included someone that we thought wouldn't like our film, for example, a child.
Shot List
During our film sequence we want to include a variety of shots to make it more interesting for the audience. This is a rough idea of the types of shots we want to include in the order they'll appear in the opening sequence:
1. High panning shot of tree's in Admirals Park
2. Wormseye shot of river
3. Extreme long shot of the park
4. Close up of a roundabout spinning on its own
5. Close up, wormseye shot of the man's leg
6. Pan upwards to reveal the man sitting on the bench
7. Mid-shot that tilts upwards to reveal both personalities sitting on the bench
8. Close up of mans mouth
9. Long-shot of both men sitting on the bench
10. 180 degree shot during conversation
11. A variety of tracking shots including close ups and long shots whilst the man is walking to the bus stop.
12. Long shot from across the street.
All of these shots will be accompanied with dialogue, music and titles.
The pictures below shows our group looking and planning our shot list:
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1. High panning shot of tree's in Admirals Park
2. Wormseye shot of river
3. Extreme long shot of the park
4. Close up of a roundabout spinning on its own
5. Close up, wormseye shot of the man's leg
6. Pan upwards to reveal the man sitting on the bench
7. Mid-shot that tilts upwards to reveal both personalities sitting on the bench
8. Close up of mans mouth
9. Long-shot of both men sitting on the bench
10. 180 degree shot during conversation
11. A variety of tracking shots including close ups and long shots whilst the man is walking to the bus stop.
12. Long shot from across the street.
All of these shots will be accompanied with dialogue, music and titles.
The pictures below shows our group looking and planning our shot list:
Moodboard of Similar Films
This task really helped me to find inspiration and it actually was one of the factors that made us change our genre to something not as dark.
Timeline of Shallow Grave Opening
0-17 Seconds: Titles introducing Film Four. Simple red background.
18 Seconds: A man with a Scottish accent (protagonist?) starts talking but background is still red.
19 Seconds: It switches to a plain white background.
23-40 Seconds: Confusing close up shot of a man. We can assume the voice is his?
40-45 Seconds: The music starts which is instrumental and very upbeat, at this moment we are confused about the genre. There is a shot of a road.
45 Seconds: There is a shot of a street which presumably has been sped up to confuse viewers, in addition to the music, it doesn't really give the audience a chance to think.
54 Seconds: Just a shot of the road when the first title is introduced. It is a simple, Sans Serif font which is white and bold. There are no capitals. The order is, the production companies and then the name of the actors.
1.04-1.10 Seconds: A shot in a forest. The title shot in the forest is established which is in red and stands out.
1.10 Seconds: Back to city road shot.
120 Seconds: Back to the forest which makes the audience wonder what the significance of the forest actually is.
126 Seconds: Another road city shot.
140 Seconds: Shot inside a house of a man going up a spiral staircase. Looks confusing.
The opening sequence establishes the three main settings: the city, the forest and inside this house. The genre is unclear but we can presume it is a psychological kind of thing by the type of shots but also something more upbeat due to the music.
Title Fonts
We looked at some films that are similar to our film to see what types of fonts their titles used, what colours they used, etc. This will help us massively when deciding what to make our titles look like.
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Jacobs Ladder
This title is big and bold, the producers name and actors etc are bold and capitalised. The main title is a glowing blue colour with shadowed, lighter, ghostly text behind it. This has a kind of eerie feel to it. The title is positioned at the top of film cover, as it is at the top, it has created a main focus of the cover. The first thing to look at would be the title and from that people could get ideas of what the film could be about. All the actors presented on the cover are right at the top, above the film title and all bold an capitalised.
Black Swan
This title is at the bottom of the film cover. It is black, bold and capitalised. The names of the actors are above the title with their first names in lower case and their last names bold and in upper case. The black title is against a white background, this creates contrast which therefore makes the title stand out even more.
Memento
Memento includes a series of polaroid images including the same picture in each one. The title is written in quite scruffy, childish writing. On the second polaroid there is a quote: "some memories are best forgotten". This line draws people in and makes then wonder what memory is trying to be forgotten and why its so bad. Each actors name is capitalised, however not bold. The title is Black, old and also capitalised to make it stand out.
The Butterfly Effect
The bluey-green colour on the front of this film makes the film look like a sci-fi. The actors names are in blocks around the cover to make a large rectangle. The title is red which almost makes it look like a detective kind of genre. The title starts off small and increases in size towards the middle of the text, then decreasing again towards the end. It also becomes bolder and larger towards the middle . This makes the title stand out. This is good when trying to catch peoples eyes.
Mr Brooks
The title for the film Mr Brooks is bold, white and capitalised. It is in the same position as the Black Swans title, the image has a man showing both sides of his personality by taking part of his face away, seeing what's really underneath. This would relate to our film as the man in our film is schizophrenic and therefore has a split personality. The actors names are positioned above the title, first names in lower case and last names capitalised.
Primal Fear
The letters on this cover are quite spaced out, this would make people pay more attention to the title as they would have to concentrate more to put the letters together to figure out the word, it could look quite confusing if the letters are spaced out. This film cover also has white writing against a dark background, this creates contrast and makes the title stand out more.
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Jacobs Ladder
This title is big and bold, the producers name and actors etc are bold and capitalised. The main title is a glowing blue colour with shadowed, lighter, ghostly text behind it. This has a kind of eerie feel to it. The title is positioned at the top of film cover, as it is at the top, it has created a main focus of the cover. The first thing to look at would be the title and from that people could get ideas of what the film could be about. All the actors presented on the cover are right at the top, above the film title and all bold an capitalised.
Black Swan
This title is at the bottom of the film cover. It is black, bold and capitalised. The names of the actors are above the title with their first names in lower case and their last names bold and in upper case. The black title is against a white background, this creates contrast which therefore makes the title stand out even more.
Memento
Memento includes a series of polaroid images including the same picture in each one. The title is written in quite scruffy, childish writing. On the second polaroid there is a quote: "some memories are best forgotten". This line draws people in and makes then wonder what memory is trying to be forgotten and why its so bad. Each actors name is capitalised, however not bold. The title is Black, old and also capitalised to make it stand out.
The Butterfly Effect
The bluey-green colour on the front of this film makes the film look like a sci-fi. The actors names are in blocks around the cover to make a large rectangle. The title is red which almost makes it look like a detective kind of genre. The title starts off small and increases in size towards the middle of the text, then decreasing again towards the end. It also becomes bolder and larger towards the middle . This makes the title stand out. This is good when trying to catch peoples eyes.
Mr Brooks
The title for the film Mr Brooks is bold, white and capitalised. It is in the same position as the Black Swans title, the image has a man showing both sides of his personality by taking part of his face away, seeing what's really underneath. This would relate to our film as the man in our film is schizophrenic and therefore has a split personality. The actors names are positioned above the title, first names in lower case and last names capitalised.
Primal Fear
The letters on this cover are quite spaced out, this would make people pay more attention to the title as they would have to concentrate more to put the letters together to figure out the word, it could look quite confusing if the letters are spaced out. This film cover also has white writing against a dark background, this creates contrast and makes the title stand out more.
Film Pitch Re-Do
After receiving feedback on our original feedback which wasn't negative but people were unsure of the genre as we were not aiming for a thriller, we decided that we should change. Looking at other split personality films we found that they were not dark and depressing and that they were more dark comedies.
Below is a re-do of the original film pitch.
Below is a re-do of the original film pitch.
Feedback from Film Pitch
Many of the comments we received were positive ones and are shown below:
Many people commented on our good editing ideas which is something that we thought would be popular and lots of people also said that we were united in our ideas about the film which is good as everyone needs to be on board and like the idea in order for it to be successful.
Some however said that the genre was a bit confusing which we, as a group, have taken into serious consideration as this is not a problem that we want to keep. From presenting our idea to the class we learnt a lot that people didn't comment on, for example, that we needed to take into consideration the target audience more and be more specific, not just saying 'adults' so this is something we discussed and sorted out. We also came to the conclusion that we needed to cut out some of the scenes we wanted to film as it could make us rush and therefore not produce a high-quality opening sequence. We decided to focus on just two locations instead of three, reducing the dialogue and focusing more on the effects and titles.
Many people commented on our good editing ideas which is something that we thought would be popular and lots of people also said that we were united in our ideas about the film which is good as everyone needs to be on board and like the idea in order for it to be successful.
Some however said that the genre was a bit confusing which we, as a group, have taken into serious consideration as this is not a problem that we want to keep. From presenting our idea to the class we learnt a lot that people didn't comment on, for example, that we needed to take into consideration the target audience more and be more specific, not just saying 'adults' so this is something we discussed and sorted out. We also came to the conclusion that we needed to cut out some of the scenes we wanted to film as it could make us rush and therefore not produce a high-quality opening sequence. We decided to focus on just two locations instead of three, reducing the dialogue and focusing more on the effects and titles.
Possible Name Ideas
We wanted to keep it simple and then put it in Latin to make it more interesting and intriguing.
First idea: Dimidium (Half). This sounds good but the English translation isn't really relevant.
Second idea: Imperium (Control).
The English translation is relevant as it is about the fight for control between the two personalities and the Latin sounds like an English word which people will link to powerful. After thinking about the Imperium name and asking people what they thought, they suggested that it sounds more like a Roman-style film and not the kind of thing we are aiming for.
Third idea: Darker Half
This name is quite powerful in my opinion as it doesn't give away what the film is about too much but indicates the dark, psychological drama genre we are aiming for and sets the tone well. I think if someone asked if I wanted to see a film named 'Darker Half' I would be intrigued as to what it was about.
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