Individual Progress Report 14/03/13

Progress report

we have finished filming our scenes and we as a group are ready to start editing , me as an individual will be working to create a soundtrack from garage band and also i will be creating a suitable title sequence to add to our opening sequence. Personally i believe this term i have shown signs of improvement along with my group and as an individual i will now be looking forward to finishing and submitting our group opening sequence on time. Next week by Wednesday we will be looking to finish our editing and start submitting our coursework.

Location work

Location Work

Location work is finding an appropriate scenery to help match the storyboard, as an individual i had many ideas to film and i had discussed it as a group and we had come to an agreement. I found the location work to be a more suited work for me, because i had knowledge of certain plays and positions where it was most suited to film our scenes and stuff.

Location work plays a big role into the success of an opening sequence, so from the beginning when i had conducted my research i had took a mental note of this and found that it was very useful to know such a knowledge because it helped us stay in position of filming and to have a good look at our progress as a group.

Crime genre research

Crime Genre research 

In this blog i will be talking about my research on the crime genre and the final findings of this genre as a whole and its target audience and major crime genre hits in the box office which have managed to sell heavy and i will be talking further about how the crime genre is portrayed in the media today and what it's suited to.

the crime genre is a genre that is suited to the male viewers aged between 15-24 this is because most crime genres have a high demand from the male viewers and the reason why i have chosen the age ranges from 15-24 was because of the more common age restriction of this genre.

I have research London Boulevard because of it's more common known crime film, that is very much known in this genre becasue of it's interest from audience and appealing to the target market was a key idea that helped make this film such a success.

Production Companies

Production Companies

Production companies help make a film a big success because they potentially bring the film into the market ready to be viewed. A distributor plays a big part into disturbing the film because first the film has to be marketed into the market so the audience can get the message of a new film being introduced into the market ready to be viewed.

These are the main distrbutors in the market which have dominated the media industry all around the world for success, the marketing teams of the production companies will look at selling a great number of box office to gain sales from the audience.

Credits & Titles

Credits & Titles

in this task i will be talking about credits and titles and how they help to stage the scene into position and how they introduce the characters and the cast of position of authority into the scene. My Credits and Titles research that i have done recently, I've conclude that it is very important into staging the scene and getting the opening sequence rolling.

The Credits help the end of an opening sequence and help show whats in store for them ahead of the film. i had an initial look upon Spider man 2 and the credits and ihad realized how much of a big role credits plays into the film,because not only does it establish the film, it establishes the names of the whole cast and bring more viewers to view the film and will then gain more of a positive feedback.

The Credits of a film play a major role into introducing the film and its characters and in this Blog i have chosen to look upon in my research the opening title sequence of the film 300 because of its strong and brutal beginning to show the audience what is ahead for them in the scene and how the structure of the scene is.

Personal Responses to process of Planning

Personal Responses to process of Planning

The process of planning our opening sequences had begin which me making my own storyboard and looking further into the script and dialogue of such, which help me see what could be improved or even changed and up till date i believe the process of planning had taken long, but in the end i was happy of what i had came up with in the ending of the planning process.

The process of my individual work was to make notes and keep in-mind of progress and i believe that our group are on track now and i believe the most difficult part of the producing the opening sequence was the making and editing of the film because as an individual i had found these two element hard to cope with, i found inspiration along the way into my research and practice of this and found that it was much easier with the planning and practice put into my individual efforts.

Five Codes theory Research

Five Codes Research

In this task i will be talking about the research i had conducted into the media theory of Roland Barthes of Five codes which primarily talk about the text of a scene and how it is shown or portrayed. 

Enigma Code is an association where the elements of a text help contribute to a device which is put forward into showing a greater meaning of the scene such as solving a mystery or even revealing something and this is called enigma because it builds tension to the scene itself 

Action Code is related to the narrative structure because it helps show the action or the plot the text which is created by the reader, it helps to bring suspense and this is helped with the structuring principle. 

Semiotic Code is mainly to do with the connotation shown for the whole, This allows the text to be shown instead of being told by describing the materials and things in order and to suggest immaterial ones.

Cultural Code is a straightforward way of showing the constituted points of the text which refers to the most common bodies of knowledge.

Symbolic Code is the most interpreted and it exists to explain the complexities of an element of the text.

Setting

 Setting

Setting is where the scene is set, setting is a place in which a director must consider greatly into shooting there film, this is because the scenery is highly regarded to be a pointer in a film and for the film to be a success the director must produce his/her film in such a location that it will win the audience over from viewing the opening sequence. 

Setting plays a major role into the success of a film because it allows the audience to see how much work is put into producing a film and distributing it into the market, this is because setting helps make a film predominate, with its scenery.

I had research Harry Potter's trailer, because of it being a box office hit and the reason behind it being a box office hit other than its characters and dialogue, was it's scenery and this is because the scenes are set in such a way that the audience are engage and it helps to the mood of the scene and the build up to the next scene.

Narrative and Structure

                Narrative and Structure theory (Levi Strauss)

Levi-Strauss was the theorist who had came up with the narrative structure and the terms of binary opposition, the term binary oppositions means the sets of opposite values which means that it is the straight of opposite of something such as Good vs evil which is portrayed in nearly every film and this is because it is the most common used thing in the media today.

Binary opposition doesn't look at which order the events occur at they are arranged as how the scheme  or plot is laid out into the the order of the scene which means that the scene will then look for a deeper meaning into the scene in a bigger arrangement of the themes of the scheme.

Media language

Media Language

Media language is a way the scene is shown to us as a viewer, this means that it could be portayed in anyway, in this task i will be referring to an opening sequence when i will be talking about media language and how it shown and produced to the audience.

Media language includes many different types of media techniques which include:

-Lighting 

-Music

-Costume

-Editing Styles

-Camera Movement 

lighting is used to show the audience a brighter and more clear view in this scene and helps give the audience more involved into the scene, music helps to bring mood from the viewer into the scene, Costumes help show the audience sometimes see where the scene is set, editing Styles help show the audience the effort the make the scene and it helps amaze the audience and Camera movement in my opinion plays a big part in opening sequences because it shows the audience match on action and helps to show the audience a clear view of the scene.