Font Activity

In our Media lesson we analysed the font on the cover of 'Rocky Balboa'. We learnt why certain fonts are used for certain films.For this particular film, 'Sans Serif' was used. This including the boldness and size of the font could have represented masculinity.

Thriller sub genres

Heres a list of some/most Sub-genres:

• Comedy
• Detective & Mystery
• Disaster
• Fantasy
• Romance
• Sports
• Supernatural
• Thriller-Suspense
• adventure
• action

The sub genres which inspire me the most are action films, supernatural and the thriller suspense films.

With action films I enjoy the fast paced shots. The dramatic digetic and non-digetic sounds are very exciting. The story plots are interesting.

With thriller/suspense films, I enjoy the intense side of it. I like the fact that horror type of films are easy to understand and quite simple films really. The stories are generally not over worked and more of the focus lies in the sounds and shots. There are intentional fast paced and very slow paced scary moments which are exciting to watch.

Art of the title sequence

Art of the title sequence

The Shining

I found "The Shining's" title sequence the most appealing to me. The style of the titles were quite ordinary in that they were in an ordinary comic sans font. They were all positioned centrally moving upwards from the bottom of the scene. This detail shows us that it is a opening sequence rather than credits which you could quite easily muddle up. The writing was also in a baby blue colour which was interesting because it stood out on the screen and did not clash with any other colour.

The titles say this, and go in this order:

A STANLEY KUBRICK FILM

JACK NICHOLSON

SHELLY DUVALL

THE SHINING

Featuring DANNY LLOYD

SCATMAN CROTHERS

BARRY NELSON

PHILIP STONE

JOE TURKEL

ANNE JACKSON

TONY BURTON

Executive Producer JAN HARLAN

Based upon the novel by STEVEN KING

Produced in association with THE PRODUCER CIRCLE COMPANY

ROBERT FRYER

MARTIN RICHARDS

MARY LEA JOHNSON

Screenplay by

STANLEY KUBRICK & DANE JOHNSON

Produced and Directed by

STANLEY KUBRICK

The titles saying firstly the studio which created it. Then the main actors featured and then the executive producer and then the novel in which it was based upon. Then the company which it was produced in association with and then the people involved with this company. Then the people who wrote the screenplay. And then finally the person who produced and directed the film.

In this there are extreme far shots mainly used. The main focus is the setting in this sequence so the extreme far/wide shots allowed the much of the country setting to be in the shot. The was also a tracking shot through almost all of the sequence tracking the car driving.

The thing that appeals to me most about this sequence is the shots that are used. The wide shots of the scenery really stand out. Also the calmness of the shots and scenery really worked well with the sequence. The writing was big, bold and the letters were well spaced out and this made it clear and easy to read.

Final full story board

Pitch

rough cut

What we liked

As a group, we decided that we liked the soundtrack because we thought that it fits the genre, which is a romantic thriller. We liked the sound effects, we feel it creates suspense, the creeking of the door and the footsteps.

Problem

At 39 seconds, the audience are suppose to hear the natural sound, of the actor making noises. We decided as a group to cut the end, where she stabs him with the knife and, replace it with a lcose up of her face, giving a evil look. And we need to add the rest of the sound track and sound effects, and put on the credits.

Animatic Story Board so far

Animatic Story Board so far. However we may still change it as we film.

List of Thriller sub-genres- which inspires you & why?

Heres a list of some/most Sub-genres:

• Chick flicks
• Biographical
• Comedy
• Detective & Mystery
• Disaster
• Fantasy
• Melodramas "weeper'' films
• Road films
• Romance
• Sports
• Supernatural
• Thriller-Suspense

The sub-genres that inspire me at the moment is Comedy, Romance & Thriller suspense. Comedy inspires me because i love to watch funny things it sort of matches my personality as well, I am like the type who would joke about quite a lot. Romance inspires me at the moment because i like to watch love films that just make me go ''awwww" it's just very interesting for me, I think romance it's very beautiful. And the Thriller suspense sub genre inspires me a lot because i love being scared, i love the thrill, the feeling that goes from head to toes when i get frightened is very exciting.

The art of the title sequence

• The style of the title Het Klokhuis ...
• The program primarily covers science but includes lots of other things like culture, history and technology, and is on every day
• the images The images include an Apple, this Icy inside of an apple, space, fishes, the Earth,
• types of shot***
• what appeals to me... The thing that appeal to me about this title sequence is the colors of it, it is very eye opening because the colors they use are quite bright, the background is simple which is what makes the actual object used stand out even more and seem even brighter. I find it very interesting because of the way they have sort of used so many things like science, showing the space with all the planets on an APPLE.

Card game Practice

In this task, we made a short film on a game of cards between two people. This film is intended to be thrilling, exciting and mysterious. So to achieve this we decided to use a range of shots to catch the audiences attention and leave them tense. We also added spooky sounds to intensify the clip.

There were 15 shots. They were:

• Shot reverse shot of the table. This continued every time we added something new to the table.
• Panning of the room in a fast speed.
• Zooms in and out of the cards suddenly appearing on the table.
• Zooms in and out of the hands appearing on the table playing cards (boy & girl).
• Cross cuts between a plain table, spinning chair and cards scattered on the table.

We shot each shot separately and put them all together in the end by using technical audit and added sound effects by using live type and sound.