This is our final edit of our G321 Media project, 2 Minute film ToyWood.
Thursday, 20 March 2014
Friday, 14 March 2014
Tuesday, 28 January 2014
Detailed Opening Sequence Analysis
The Woman in Black's opening sequence creates a creepy
atmosphere. It does this by using a child like background music as the camera
is showing the audience three children playing in a room with dolls and
teacups. The music seems to stay the same throughout the beginning but then
changes as the three girls start to get up off the floor and walk towards the
windows. When the children get to the windows the music becomes louder and
slightly faster paced. While the children are walking towards the windows there
are sound effects of the children standing on their pot dolls and their
teacups. The close up camera shots of these items as they are being stood on
gives the audience a sense that they are under some kind of power and cant
control what they are doing. We get this feeling as we were just shown the
children smiling and playing with these items.
When the children get to the windows there is a close up of
their hands opening the latch and then opening the window. As the children open
the window there is a creaking sound effect. This tells us that he windows
haven’t been opened in a while and also that the house is quite old. The
clothing that the children are wearing also tells us that this film is set a while
ago. The items that they were playing with also support this.
There are many different camera shots in this sequence.
These include wide shots, close ups, medium shots and long shots. There is a
shot where it is from someone point of view, but we don’t see who this is. The
shot shows us the children looking towards us before they turn to walk towards
the windows. This shot gives us a creepy mysterious feel to the film, as we
know the children are looking at someone but we have no idea of who it is. The
camera then shows us a shot of the windows. This puts us on the edge of our
seats as we have a feeling about what is about to happen.
This opening sequence ends with an asynchronous sound of a
woman’s scream and then some dialogue of her saying ‘my baby’. This tells the
audience that she was a mother to one of the children. After this, the camera
zooms out to show the empty room and then there is a close up of one of the pot
dolls. This close up effects the audience as pot dolls tends to look scary. This
dolls eye is wide open and the camera catches this to give a scary, creepy feel
to the audience. As the camera is on a close up of the doll there is a low
sound in the music. This tells the audience that something bad has happened. It
also adds a feel of suspense and dread. The camera zooms as far out as possible
and we see a Black veil and the outline of a side of a face. This is done so
that we know that the woman is the reason for the event that has just occurred.
Title Sequence Analysis
Sweeney Todd (Horror/Thriller)
The opening titles start with the Production Lines names which are Dreamworks and Warner Brothers Pictures. These are shown slowly and and fade in and out. Dreamworks is shown looking through thick grey clouds and then it zooms out to show the whole production name. It then fade out and shows the next production name (Warner Bros.) and this is shown over a grey and eerie sky. This suggests to the audience that the film is a horror/thriller because the sky is dark not light and happy. These titles are shown with a loud organ playing as background music which increases the intensity of the start of the film and suggests that it is a dark movie.
Following after these titles is, the production line names again but as usual tiles. The font of these are slightly crooked, old fashioned and 'gothic', and they fade in and out at a medium speed and the colour of the font is white so it stands out from the dark sky. After this, in the same font, 'A Parkes / MacDonald production' comes up which again, fades in and out at the same speed as the last titles. Another production name follows using the same transition and font, this is, 'A Zanuck Company Production'. Each of these titles have about a 12 seconds difference to the next title shown and this is continued until the cast names appear.
Before the cast names, the last thing to show is that it is 'A Tim Burton Film'. This shows the audience the maker of the film which could make an impression of some of the audience if they already know Tim Burtons previous styles of films.
After the film maker/director title has faded in and out, 2 seconds after the cast names appear which are, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter and Alan Rickman. These cast names are in the same font as the production and film maker titles but the transition of fading in and out is at a much quicker speed, but long enough for the audience to read. It is at this point, when the few cast names appear, when the film title appears by falling down from the top of the screen, similar to the way the blood was falling down the chair and onto the cogs. It says, 'Sweeney Todd' in the similar font which is a deep red; again like the blood seen before and then 'The Demon Barber of Fleet Street' follows after and fades in underneath in white in a capital letter font. It stays on the screen for around 4 seconds until it fades out to the loud organ music.
A few more cast names appear after the Film Title and then is followed by the person who casted all of the cast, the music and lyrics producer, who the film/musical is based on and who the songs are originally sung by. Some of the audience could recognise these names which could make them realise what type of film Sweeney Todd is. More names are shown of who orchestrated the music, supervised and connected, and who produced the music (Mike Higham).
Co-Producer, Katterli Frauenfelder, fades in after the music crew which is followed by the costume designer, the editor, the production designer and the director of photography, all of the creative crew. These titles are all using the same fade in, fade out transition and the same 'gothic' font.
The producer names follow, from executive producer (Patrick McCormick), who the film was produced by and screenplay (John Logan). Some of these names are familiar, like John Logan, (who has written screenplay for popular films like, Hugo and Skyfall). This suggest that some similar screenplay techniques could be shown in Sweeney Todd like other films John Logan has worked on.
The final title is the director, Tim Burton. I think that this is one of the most important titles as it shows the audience who has directed the film and could make the audience think what the film will be about as a lot of Tim Burton's films are quite dark.
Following after these titles is, the production line names again but as usual tiles. The font of these are slightly crooked, old fashioned and 'gothic', and they fade in and out at a medium speed and the colour of the font is white so it stands out from the dark sky. After this, in the same font, 'A Parkes / MacDonald production' comes up which again, fades in and out at the same speed as the last titles. Another production name follows using the same transition and font, this is, 'A Zanuck Company Production'. Each of these titles have about a 12 seconds difference to the next title shown and this is continued until the cast names appear.
Before the cast names, the last thing to show is that it is 'A Tim Burton Film'. This shows the audience the maker of the film which could make an impression of some of the audience if they already know Tim Burtons previous styles of films.
After the film maker/director title has faded in and out, 2 seconds after the cast names appear which are, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter and Alan Rickman. These cast names are in the same font as the production and film maker titles but the transition of fading in and out is at a much quicker speed, but long enough for the audience to read. It is at this point, when the few cast names appear, when the film title appears by falling down from the top of the screen, similar to the way the blood was falling down the chair and onto the cogs. It says, 'Sweeney Todd' in the similar font which is a deep red; again like the blood seen before and then 'The Demon Barber of Fleet Street' follows after and fades in underneath in white in a capital letter font. It stays on the screen for around 4 seconds until it fades out to the loud organ music.
A few more cast names appear after the Film Title and then is followed by the person who casted all of the cast, the music and lyrics producer, who the film/musical is based on and who the songs are originally sung by. Some of the audience could recognise these names which could make them realise what type of film Sweeney Todd is. More names are shown of who orchestrated the music, supervised and connected, and who produced the music (Mike Higham).
Co-Producer, Katterli Frauenfelder, fades in after the music crew which is followed by the costume designer, the editor, the production designer and the director of photography, all of the creative crew. These titles are all using the same fade in, fade out transition and the same 'gothic' font.
The producer names follow, from executive producer (Patrick McCormick), who the film was produced by and screenplay (John Logan). Some of these names are familiar, like John Logan, (who has written screenplay for popular films like, Hugo and Skyfall). This suggest that some similar screenplay techniques could be shown in Sweeney Todd like other films John Logan has worked on.
The final title is the director, Tim Burton. I think that this is one of the most important titles as it shows the audience who has directed the film and could make the audience think what the film will be about as a lot of Tim Burton's films are quite dark.
Target Audience for the Horror Genre
We researched into our target audience for the Horror genre to find out a bit more what a Horror audience is like and what appeals to them in a horror film. It also shows what different genders and age range appeal to.
Genre Analysis
I decided to make a Prezi for Genre Analysis as it splits off the information so it is easier to see and guide through it. This helps us have more of an understanding of the genre.
LA Confidential Video
This is our edit of LA Confidential, from a short scene of the film LA Confidential. We made this to show different camera angles and what we could do with the different camera techniques. Also to show that we could use the equipment correctly.
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