The Art Of The Title Sequence

The styles of the titles

• They are orange in CAPITAL LETTERS.


• BOLD

What the titles say?

The titles include :

• The title.


• The cast.


• The director of photography.


• Associate producer.


• The production manager.


• The executive producer.


• The producer.


• The director.
  

The images in the title

There are images of a pumpkin, with its eyes and mouth glowing.

Types of shots which are used

The types of shots used in this title sequence are wide shots, medium shots, close ups and extreme close ups. I think it is set out this way because, the audience are suppose to get a sense that the pumpkin is coming closer. I noticed that, on the top left of the title sequence there is a wide shot of the pumpkin, then at the bottom right, the pumpkin has gone. It is like an unexpected disappearance, almost like a ghost.

What appeals to me

In this title sequence, the colour of the writing, on the black background, catches my eye because it gives titles that glowy look, that says "spooky", it is not dull. The pumpkin, also catches my eye beause, it glows, and the way it is coming closer, i think that is effective.

Overall, i think that they have made this title sequence in an effective way, and have used their imagination wisely. The font, colour and style of the writing of the title sequence, links in with the actual title of the movie "HALLOWEEN".

Match Cut Practice

In our lesson, we were set a task, to film a sequence, with at least one match cut.

The brief was : A character opens a door, walks into a room, sits down opposite another character and they share a few lines of dialogue. It had to include a shot reverse shot and we had to show our understanding of the 180 degree rule.

As a group, we decided to base the match cut practice on "Teenage love". We took a basis of a teenage love film, and made it into our own style. The match cut in this exercise was when, the young girl enters the room. First, there is a close up of her hand on the door, then a long shot of her just about to enter the room. Then, there is a close up of the door opening, but the camera is focused on her feet. The 180 degree rule, was when she walked into the room, the camera was following her feet, as she was going to sit down. We included dialogue in this practice because, it makes it more interesting and, the audience have a feel of what we want to show. There was an extreme close of the teenage boy because, we see his reaction when he is told the shocking news. The scene is with a shot reverse shot, between the converation of the teenagers. At the end, there is a two shot (high angle), we both teenagers, coming to an agreement.

I very much liked the match cut practice because i feel that it was much easier. I think, that we shot the close ups, where they were needed. I also think, that we shot the match cut and the 180 degree rule well. I liked our story line to this sequence because it was easy to film and get the right shots. And we as a group, learnt how to improve it, seeing as we did not like the other practice.

Match cut prelim leonora

We was asked to do a match cut of somebody entering a room and sits down opposite somebody else and they share a few lines.

This match cut was based on a girl who is constantly late and gets chucked out of her school.

I personally think that our match cut was successful. I think the close ups that we have done were good like for example the cut from where the young girl walks towards the room then goes to a close up of her hand on the handle and opens the door. This sequence was actually quite easy for us to shoot because there wasn't really much going on so it wasn't complicated. Our shot reverse shots as we were doing the dialogue bit was also good I think. But i think the one thing we could have improved was the dialogue, using some close ups to our lips of something would have been great.

Card Game Practice

In our lesson, we were set a task to film a game of cards in a thrilling and exciting way. We were also asked to create an atomosphere of suspense. To create a sense of tension we had to include:

• ECU (Extreme Close Up)


• A POVE shot (Point Of View)


• An over the shoulder shot


• A tracking shot

For the props the had to include a pack of cards, two players, a table and chairs to sit on.

1. There were low angle shots of the table, from the different corners of the room.


2. Then, there is a panning of the room, where the card game is going to be set.


3. Then, we zoom in and get a close up of the cards layed out on the table.


4. Then, we zoom in and get a close up of the card game being played and the cards in the two players hands.


5. There is is dark screen for about three seconds, to get the audience to think what is going to happen next.


6. Then, there is a shot of a spinning chair, to show that something has happend to the players, seeing as they are not in the shot no more.


7. Then, at the end, the cards are scattered on the table. The camera is unsteady, as it is a point of view shot, as if someone in the room looking at the table, confused by what has happend.

What could have been better :

When I watched the clip all over again, I noticed that the zooming in was too much. To make it better we could have just got a close up of the cards on the table. I liked the sound effects at the beggining, I think that is what made it more effective. I think at the end, when it showed all the cards scattered on the table, we could have had someone's hand in the shot, as if they were murdered, to get the audience wondering how they got murdered.

Match cut Practice

we decied to shot a short film and this one was called ' Young Love' we took the basis of a normal film which was just a door being opened and zoomed in shots of feet. we added speech to it to make it more intresting and gave it a point and almost a moral.
we startedof the scene with a zoom in shot of leonora shala's hand then we had a long shot of her and what was behine her. we then had a shot reverse shot from japhet mesfin from his face to the door which showd his reaction to when it was being opened. then we had the door opening and only a shot of leonora's feet walking towards japhet at the table.we had match cut of her hands and then we began to hear her speech telling the audience in which she had the results for her test.we had a ecu ( extreme close up) of japhets face and his reaction. the scence then continued with leonora's speech and then a shot reverse shot to japhets speech and reaction. we then had a two shot,then scene then ended with comforting close which took place from japhet towards leonora .
in comparrison from this film to the card game practice i did not really do that much i just prompted and co directed and helped with ideas and angles of the camera. we had our two actors
leonora shala and japhet mesfin and our director sylvda shyllon.
finally i enjoyed making our match cut practice but there are still things in which we could learn or change in order to gain ideas for our real film.

News & Current Affairs Events

The Story Which i will be talking about is one in which i found in my local newpaper the metro. it is called.
'Boy complains that his red and black hero is now made to be a softy'
A boy of 8 has complained to the beano for making his hero ndennis the menace ,too nice.jacob rush pleaded with the comic's bosses to return to the spiky haired character to his naughty best after he was turned into a softy. he say's i don't like dennis becuase he does not have his catapault or water pistol anymore and he is not menacing enough. his father mark also wrote on behalf of his son it means to jacob that dennis is now boring. sadly the protest seems to have fallen on deaf ears and simply ignord. they receieved a reply saying the beano charcter has been brought into line with the cbbc tv series.
i personally think that they should of not changed the raw egde of dennis the meance. however simply left it how it was due to the fact that was simply what little children such a jacob went home looking forward to watching there little programmes and the difference from the cartoon charcters in comparrson to others. however if they make all the chanracters the smae and make them innocent simply there will be no excitment and plain old boredom for the youth of today.

Card Game practice

we were told that we had to make a film which contained the props being a pack of cards . it was our decision of how we decided and wanted to make the cards. we decided that we were going to make a simple innocent card game mysterious and also scary we decided to use a range of shots and veiws in order to catch the audiences attention and then later add sound affects to create some sort of spooky theme.
we set out short film out into 15 shots. they were

• shot reverse shot reverse shot of the table and each time something was added to the table.
• panning of the room
• zooms in and out of the cards suddenly appearing of 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 scaterred on the table

we shot each scene or shot serperately and put them all together in the end by using technical auditand added sound effects by using livetype and sound.

then there we had our own card game practice film.