Summary of Film title design ideas for own film opening

Titles are a very important part of a film they tell the audience who is in the film and who created it. The titles are normally at the start of the film. In every film they are in a different order and there is not a set way to do it.

Here are some example I have found.


Titles can be created in all different ways. You can have some thing move then it pops up or it can be incorporated in to buildings or walls. There are many creative ways in which this can be done and we have decided to have our incorporated while James is walking to Ella's house. As he walks across the pavement we will see the title appear. I will add a drawing below of what we hope it looks like and yes I know it looks like a music note but its feet ,I promise.

Target Audience

When you are planning your film you have to take certain things into account. But one of the most important things is the target audience. The target audience is the people who are watching the film. This is normally done by looking at the classification of the film and also many other things that can be part of the film. An example of this would be targeting your film to 5-10 year old kids but your film classification is 18. That would just not work at all.

Existing products:

To help us figure out our target audience I have researched some films that have the same genre that we have been given(Thriller).
I have used the Pearl and Dean website to look at some other films that have the same genre. This will help us when looking who we want to target as our audience.

The comparable film with The Shallows is House at the End on the Street.

The picture above shows that the most common age who watched this film was 15-24 year olds with 51% and females watched it the most with 57%. This would tell us that we need to target 15-24 year olds as they watch these sort of films the most. As well as that you can see that a lot of males also have watched this film, you can see this by looking at the percentages. We will have to target both genders because of this information.

The comparable film to House at the End of the Street is The Grudge 2. The information we get from this one is that once again 15-24 year olds watched it the most. But the difference with this one is that it was a 50-50% for genders meaning that when we create our film we really need to target both genders.

Target audience profile:

This is Jim. Jim is a 19 year old lad from Newcastle. He is currently a student at Newcastle University. He lives at home with his parents and his younger brother. Jim comes from a upper class family and his family pays for pretty much everything he does. They support what he wants to do and his education is their main priority. Jim doesn't have a job at the moment this is because he is at Uni all the time and wouldn't be able to get time off from his studies. He studies Sport at Uni and wants to eventually go o to teaching it at High school level.  Jim enjoys football and is a big Newcastle fan and if he has no work to do he gets to the games on the weekend. If he's not watching football he is going to the movies with his mates and watching all sort of films. His favourite film is Insidious.  He is also into books and tv shows. His favourite book is Harry Potter and the deathly hallows and his favourite TV show is match of the day. 

Summary of initial own film narrative discussions

The first time our group got together we looked at what we was going to call ourselves. We eventually chose to go with Perception films, this was because our idea was to using an eye in our ident and perception is to see something. As well as that we then talked about what our film was going to be about and what sort of thing we wanted to have in it. Our initial ideas were to have a few  jump scares and have a lot of tension in the opening but we had to change as that would have been to much like a horror and we are doing a thriller. We then looked at what sort of actors we wanted in the film and what roles they would play in our film. The whole school kids theme really stuck out to us as we knew people who could play the parts and it would be a good target audience for us. As a team I think we worked really well and listened to everybody's ideas. Some things we disagreed with but we figured them out and eventually agreed an overall plan to move forward.

What did people in the group contribute?

Well to answer this question I would say that we all contributed certain factors and added to other people ideas to make them even better.

Ben - I thought of the texting element to the film. The idea was that some one is texting one of the characters and then when they leave the room the audience see a text saying "Im coming for you" or something along them lines. This creates tension for the audience.

Rhea - Rhea originally wanted to have the whole school kids idea in the film. As you could have a young couple involved. We liked this idea and wanted to expand on it. Rhea also gave us the idea of using her nan and grandads house for filming as it has a seller that we could use to build more tension in our film.

Sam G - Sam's idea was to have the bang involved to add a lot of tension to the film opening. He thought that the bang wouldn't make it to much like a horror and keep it as a thriller. He also contributed when we spoke about the plans to move on.

Production Company name and Ident

As a group our first task was to chose a production company name. In this post we will be telling you our name and why we picked it. Drum Roll please.

We picked Perception Films

There were a few reasons for our decision and this is why...

We wanted to create our film through the perception of the audience who are watching it, and by this I mean we wanted to let the audience watch something that we know they would like.

Also perception is what you see, and our films will be seen all over the world.

In our opinion Perception films is the best name that we could have picked. As it represent what we want to do really well.

Show, Don't Tell Me Feedback and Evaluation

I hope you enjoyed my Show, Don't Tell Me. Since completing that task I have had some verbal feedback from my teacher (Mr Hood). I hope he enjoyed it.




The first thing he mentioned about my short film was that my establishing shot wasn't the best, he thought I could have used a better one like the school or a sign that says Great Wyrley High School. I agree with this, we should have taken our time and produced a better one.

The next thing he mentioned was that I had a very good two shot as well as a good shot reverse shot followed by a decent extreme close up. I was happy with this as I thought the timing on the editing was good and that the shots we're filmed at a high standard.

After that he mentioned that I could have used a match on action when placing down the pieces in the game. I completely agree because when I was editing I messed up part of it meaning that that clip was supposed to be somewhere else but it didn't work. Also he said that I needed sound effects when the pieces are placed down.

When the character feels ill I have used a unrealistic sound effect which is not good. I will need to change that also the timing of the sound effect was a bit out.

When the character is running outside the footsteps need to be more in time. Also when he turns the corner the match on action is out by a bit so that needs work as well.

The sound effect was late on the first door and also the same sound effect was used for the other doors meaning that it didn't sound as good as it could off.

When the other character is messing with the game it goes on for way to long and the framing on that shot is not good at all. This bit of it may need to be done again.

The last thing that was mentioned was that Mrs Nardone was in the corner which shouldn't happen. This is bad because we really needed to check the surroundings before we shot.

Overall I am happy with my attempt at this. I could have done a lot better but some of the things that needed improving wasn't down to the editing it was because of bad framing and not looking before we started shooting.

Show, Don't Tell Me

To be able to get some practice in before we film our thriller we were given a task to make a short film called Show me, Don't tell me. The rules with this are there is not to be any dialogue throughout and also eventually when we started editing we had to use sound effects to replace the fact there was not sound. The reason we were asked to use no dialogue was to practise certain skills. These skills were editing and using sound effects when editing. If there is no dialogue then there needs to be sounds effect otherwise the audience would get bored and wouldn't understand what is going on. As well as that without dialogue you need to rely on the fact that visual images will have to move your film on because normally dialogue does it for you. Show, don't tell me basically is where you show the audience what you want to portray without actually using words this then gives them a better insight into what you actually want to show. Below I will embed my versions of the final thing.

 

In my opinion I was not happy with my final product. The filming and footage was good but my editing needs some work as I have put two of the same clips in as well as not put some of the sound effects in the right place. Overall I need to do some work to this and then I will hopefully be happy with it.

The next post will be ... Show, Don't Tell me Feedback and Evaluation.

Thriller Deconstruction

Due to us getting Thriller as a genre for our final product, we have been given the task to deconstruct a Thriller of our choice. I have deconstructed Sixth Sense.

Below I will embed the deconstruction.

Below I will embed the opening to Sixth sense which our class deconstructed.

Now I will embed one which I have done my self, I chose to deconstruct The conjuring.

I will once again embed The opening to the conjuring.