Thursday, 4 November 2010

Practitioner Case Study

Three Top Tips To Create An Effective Title Sequence;

The Opening title should give an insight to what the film is about

* Think of the story before the style

* Make it interesting, the title sequence says a a lot about the film and you don't want to bore the audience in the first 4 minutes.

Opening Sequence For David Fincher's Se7en "1995"




Kyle Coopers revolutionary opening title sequence for the film Se7en is known as one of his best piece's of work yet. I think this title sequence is seen as revolutionary because it's so deep and tense and kind of confusing at the same time. The images are dark and mysterious at the beginning the first image you see is an extreme close-up of an open book and some one's hand turning the pages, the camera isn't in focus of the hand so you don't really take notice of it.


 A few images later a clip i found disturbing was a close up of someone sort of playing with what looked like a Stanley knife blade with their fingers. The title sequence really makes you think what's going to happen in the film, it keeps you on edge, keeping you guessing for that 2 minutes 11 seconds. The first minute of the sequence isn't as peculiar and out of the ordinary as the last minute, it gets even more demented, there’s pictures of what i think was dead people who had been tortured. at this point you really start to wonder what the film is about there’s' so many things that pops into your head as you watch it.



The clip of the open book with it's pages being turned is shown again, and clips of a close up of someone’s hand writing on paper, so it gives you the idea of a diary. A few clips shown give you the impression some sort of religion as you see a hand crossing out words you see in the bible. All these clips show different meanings, and you cant piece the jigsaw of clips together to know what the films about with just watching the trailer, it makes you want to watch more! Kyle Cooper has made an extraordinary title sequence, it is so clever and doesn't give the film away one bit.


Synopsis Of

The Sorcerer's

Characters: Dr Marcus Monserrat- Boris Karloff
Estelle Monserrat- Catherine Lacey 
Nicole- Elizabeth Ercy 
Mike Roscoe- Ian Ogilvy
Alan- Victor Henry

Professor Marcus Monserrete and wife Estelle are a strange olderly couple. They enjoy using hypnotism on people. Hynotism is Marcus' profession and he uses it to help people with problems such as: Stammering, Self-Consciousness and Anxiety, he advertises it as "Painlessly Cured". Marcus and wife Estelle plan to persuade a young bored boy to agree "test something" by describing that he would deffinatly not be bored as it will be an "unuasual night" at a diner where Micheal had followed him into. Micheal goes back to Marcus' house, Estelle starts questioning Marcus and Micheal thinks theyr'e wasting his time and tries to leave. That's when Marcus shows Micheal them room, this is the room that Marcu uses as his hypnotism room, After hypnotising Micheal Marcus and Estelle test to see how well it has worked, and to their surprise it has worked better than they could ever imagined, they could actually feel things what Micheal could feel for example when he was washing his hand under cold water, they had total control over his mind whenever they wanted and could tell him to do anything they wanted as long as they concentrated on him. They ddecide to see if they can conrol his mind long distance and tell him to leave and continue with his life, they also tell him that they will occansionally be putting thoughts into his head and when they do, to obey them. Micheal will not remember anything what happened that night. They decide to follow him through their minds to see test the strength on the hypnosis, they can feel his footsteps on the path, and evan sound is transmitted too. Micheal goes back to the club to meet his friends, when asked by Nicole where he has been all that time he says he had been at the diner. It gets mentioned that a reported investigated into Marcus' profession and done a report on it, which I am assuming wasn't a great one. Marcus and Estelle start thinking of plans to use this new found hypnotism to their advantage, Marcus is thinking helping the old people in their retirement and Estelle is thinking money. Marcus wants to talk to some someone to maybe invest in his new found ability, but Estelle has different idea's she throws all the old newspaper clippings onto the table and tries to convince Marcus to keep it too themselves by saying the newspapers had wrecked their lives for 30 years beacuse of them lies. Marcus Tries to tell Estelle that all that is over now, Estelle then bargains with him to use Micheal just for a little bit so they can "Choose". A few days later Estelle is windown shopping in town when she see's a lovely fur rug I think, this is when she gets the idea of usuing Micheal. Estelle and Marcus have started concentrating on Micheal, at this point in time Micheal is waiting in Nicola's living room waiting for her to get ready so they can go out. When suddenly Estelle and Micheal get in contact Micheal stands up and being very quiet and careful he leaves the apartment to obey their command. Estelle Navigates Micheal to the shop where he breaks in and turns the alarm off, while he is looking for the rug, a police officer is patrolling the area and just about to walk past the shop window, Micheal has to hide, because Estelle and Marcus are controlling his mind they feel everything Micheal feels, Marcus is terrified, and not surprisingly Estelle is very excited. Once the police officer has passed the window Micheal takes the rug and replaces it with something simular, The police officer has walked around the back of the store and has found the door open. The police officer then enters the shop to investigate, Micheal ralises he has company and hides, while he is hiding he cuts his hand quite deeply, while the policeman is looking around Micheal checks if the area is clear, he can see the policeman in a room at the end of the shop, he decides to make a break for it and creeps out the back door, and hiding the rug in a bin outside the door before running off. Back at the house, Estelle Saw that Marcus enjoyed it as much as she did, and makes him realise she did, when he admits it he turns over his hand he reveals a cut, in the same place as Micheals, and so does Estelle. After the burgery Micheal returns back to Nicole's apartment, they are talking about if he remembers walking out of the appartment, when he replys, "it just felt like something needed to be done". The next day Estelle gets another idea, of experiencing "Real speed", she will experience "Real Speed" through Micheal's body, coneccting to his mind Estelle and Marcus order him get a motorbike, he invited Nicole for the ride, He borrows Alans Motobike for this particular order he must obey. Micheal is being told to drive extremly fast down the motorway, Estelle is getting an extreme buzz off this, while driving Nicole is feeling very uncomfortable and telling micheal to slow down but he won't listen. Marcus doesn't look very comfortable with this but still continues to concentrate. When returning the bike to the garage that Alan works in Nicole runs over to the car extremly scared. Alan isn't happy and confronts Micheal, Estelle has now gone to a whole new level by telling him what to say, and then makes him start a fight with alan, while fighting Alan's boss comes in and Estelle tells Micheal to hit him with a metal pole. After that Estelle knows she is stronger that Marcus, and tells hime "He can't stop her" Marcus replies saying he will stop her that she is out of control. She then knocks him over and takes his walking stick so he cant get up and destroys all the machinery so he can't change Micheal back, he drags himself to the room and she she hits him over the head while saying "You'll never stop me". Micheal goes to see an old friend and is explaining to her that he sometimes can't remember things, and in that second Estelle is playing games with weak Marcus, she has entered his mind and makes him grab a pair of scissors, when his friend comes up behind him to ask whats wrong Estelle chenches her hands and makes him stab her over and over. She is unstoppible at the moment. Micheal then cleans up and goes to the local club where Nicole and beaten up Alan are, He's watching the female signer on stage, Estelle has entered into his mind once more and made him follow her, they then leave the club and go to a strange place, walking down an allyway they stop and he orders her to sing, when she doesnt sing, Estelle says "now" and he strangles her. Estelle is loving that her husband cannot do anything about what she is making Micheal do. Alan figues out that Micheal has been killing these girls and shows Nicole, Alan and Nicole go and find Micheal at his work and confront him about the singer, and he denies it. While Alan and Nicole are still in the shop questioning Micheal about the girls who have been murdered, Estelle once again gets into Micheals mind, makes him attack Alan while Nicole runs out of the shop. Police are on their way when they see nicole running towards them, Micheal hears the sirens and steals a car to get away. Whille driving from the police Marcus is fighting to get into Micheals mind, eventually he does and he makes him crash the car where it explodes and kills all 3 of them.

Credits List For

The Sorcerers Title Sequence



Starring: 
Character One: Jack o-connel
Character Two: Micheal Caine
Character Three: Kiera Knightly



A
 O.K productions presents
Warner Brother's film
Costume design by: 
Vivian Westwood
Art direction by: 
Nina Webb
Production design by: 
Christian Colson and Richard Holmes
Casting by: 
Julie Harkin
Film editing by: 
Alexander Hitchcock
Cinematography by: 
Christopher Ross
Original music by: 
Nickolas Hooper
Produced by: 
Kuala Lumpur
Directed by: 
Tim Burton

Wednesday, 3 November 2010

Fears

My Fears...

  • Cars,
  • Car Crashes 
  • Losing My Mum
  • Horror Films
  • Walking Home In The Dark
  • Strangers
  • Getting A Serious Illness Or Disease
  • Horses
Modern Day Fears...

  • Criminals
  • Recession
  • Knife crime
  • Fatal accidents
  • Fatal disease
  • Poverty
  • Death
  • Child abduction
  • Terroism
  • War

60 Second Remake Of

Spiderman




Minimalist Film Poster

The film I have chosen to make a minimalist film poster on is Monsters Inc. This is a Disney Pixar Production, that was released in February 2002. This is a great film which is suitable for all ages I think. The aim of this exercise was to help us get to grips with using photoshop. Photoshop is a very confusing but a very fun program to work with as you can practically do/create anything you want. 
We first started drafting our poster on A4 plain paper, my idea was to have the little girl's (Boo's) teddy and then to have the title below it, I got a picture of the teddy and I couldn't use photoshop to do the right thing.

That idea was a complete fail so I had to come up with another one quick.
This is my film poster for Monsters Inc.


I took the idea of the eye with the M and an eye in the middle as i think it's very important and a lot of people recognise the image, it's the logo of the company the monsters work for so you see it very often in the film. it's quite jagged around the edge but i think it gives it character, I used big bold writing, which is called Gill Sans Ultra Bold. I used a light blue for the colouring of the writing as I think it refers to the film. The background is black but Steve said it looks good when you put a image behind the back ground for example a old looking piece of paper or something and making the black background transparent so it makes it look more effective. I am really please with the outcome and look forward to doing more on Photoshop

This is the cover for the DVD of Monster Inc;



Tuesday, 2 November 2010

Comic Stip On

Hammer Horror Productions


This is my Hammer Productions comic strip. It starts at the beginning when Enrique Carrerra's and Will Hinds run it as a Film distribution company called Exclusive. It goes on to how Enrique's son takes over and turned it into a production entity. It tells you all about Hammer Productions untill the end when Hammer went into recievership in 1979 and Carrerras resigned as director.