Film titles.

Today in class, we watched more fillm openings to discover the way in which they had shown there opening title, ident, main characters and other main components of the film. (E.g. music, editor, production company etc.) This is in order to give us ideas of how to convey the opening credits to our two minute thriller.


The first film opening we watched was: 'The Brave One'


The film 'The Brave one', starring Jodie Foster as the main character shows the opening credits of the film in a very good way. The picture goes from the general to the particular, a blurred image of New York city to Jodie Foster. The ident to the film is the first thing shown, there are three ident's in this film; Warner Bros. Pictures, Village Roadshow pictures and Silver pictures. The first credits are then repeats of these names. The rest of the credit's go from the main character of the film, Jodie Foster, to the least important names. Such as music and editors. These credits are effective as they fade in and out of the moving picture behind them.

Mobygratis

I just signed up to www.mobygratis.com for myself and my group. This is in order to be able to find unsigned music to use inour thriller. Mobygratis will allow us to find unsigned music with ease, after asking for permission. We have not looked for our music yet, but we will do soon in order to get permission and a reply within plenty of time to use it from whoever wrote it.



Survey update

I checked my survey today and as shown below, i have now had 20 responses. This is good, however i will be posting it more and checking in order to get more overall responses.

In order to gain more responses for my survey, i'm going to repost it onto my facebook in order to get more people to complete it. This is shown below;

Our interviews; further target audience research

Today me, Connor, Sarah and Hollie carried out an interview involving a number of questions based around the analysis of thrillers and what different genders and age groups like about thrillers and certain thrillers in particular. This was in an attempt to further identify the target audience for our thriller. We asked three questions in order to do this, these included:

1. What is your favourite thriller?
2. Why is this your favourite thriller?
3. What do you think makes a thriller, what main component?

Below is our final outcome, it answers all the questions asked and includes some bloopers too. Enjoy :)

Panic Room, 2002

This is the opening scene to 'Panic room', written in 2002. The first credits are the production company; Columbia. The next are the main characters, Jodie Foster. The font of these credits are large and bold, emphasisng the size of the buildings. The music is tense and changes to cause more suspense whilst the other charcters, directors and producer etc. are shown. the scene changes from the general to the particular, changing from the tall buildings of New York City to a mid-shot of Jodie Foster.

Se7en, 1995

Below is the opening credits to the film Se7en written in 1995. The music within the opening can be described as disturbing and unsettling. The font of the credits flicker on the screen and the text is also very irregular, different shapes and sizes and can be described as sharp/spikey. The two main characters are one of the first credits and then the title follows, others, not as important, follow after. These credits are very powerful as they are both unsettling and disturbing.

Film openings

Today in class, we watched the opening of films in order to analise the opening credits to come up with ideas for what we want to use in our own opening credits for our two minute thrillers. Opening credits are usually shown as superimposed on a blank screen, static picture or even over the action or picture in the background. Opening credits usually consist of the production company, the main characters, other actors, producers and directors etc.

We watched two film openings; 'Se7en' and 'Panic room'. we watched the opening credits and dicussed the order in which the cast and production team are displayed. We dicovered that in both film openings it was as follows;

• The production company
• The production company logo
• the main character, general to the particular
• The co-stars
• Members of the crew such as editor, director, camera man, music, costume etc.