Enigma code

The enigma code is when the audience asks question of the film they are watching, for example someone dies in the beginning, the audience asks the question "who done it?" The enigma code works by building suspense, the suspense keeps the audience gripped to the film all the way through until they know who the killer is. Films such as Memento uses enigma code as it build suspension all the way through because the audience wants to know what happens to one of the main characters as Guy Pearce wants to know who killed his wife. Other films that use the enigma code is the Machinist because the main character tries to search for this man and this opens questions such as "who is the man", leaving audiences to watch all the way through to find out their answer.

The Conjuring analysis

The conjuring is the genre of horror, and I know this because in the first few seconds I can hear the eery music, which suggest that the film will be a horror and in the first few seconds we see a family picture in black and white, this is always used in horror title sequences because it tells the background story of the person or demon haunting the family. The photo shows us who the family was, they have shown us this because it is details that does not need be explained in the film. We see another family in the next photo, this tells us that the family has a connection in the film and we need to know their name as they are vital to the film.

When tit gets to the 20 second mark. We see the films director James Wan. For people who like horror films knows that James Wan directed the Saw films. so the audience will be expecting the film to be gory like his Saw films.

When showing other members of the cast, the background for them is a newspaper that tells the audience more backstory to the film as the film will not delve into the subject for the audience. This will be like my groups title sequence because we are showing information that is important to the films.

After 55 seconds we get to see the main actors name, Patrick Wilson is well known in the horror genre and for people who like horror will know that he has been in other horror films such as Insidious and 2. the characters are behind old photos, the photos could mean that the person on the photo is important to the storyline.

In the 1st minute and the 40th second we get to see the production company which is New Line Cinema, a Safran Company, Evergreen Media Group

Finally on 1 minute and 57 second we get to see the title of the film in front of the house and a hanging site. This is important to the film because that is where the film is based.

LOGO

Learning STINCS

On the day 17 the class was put in their groups to do group work and what the class had to do was to point out what our title sequence about and use STINCS to describe how our title sequence was going to feel. Where it will take place. Using STINCS my group wrote that the setting will be a forest and also we will use a room for the title sequence. Then for Theme we put it as dark and mysterious because the room will make the audience ask questions as whats in the room? Or they will ask who is the person in the room? For the Iconography the props that we will be using a book and a few photos for the title sequence. For the Narrative we will be using distorted music and distorted dialogue. Characters that we will be using is the group members and a couple of other students.

The task made me and my group have a long discussion on how we will make the title sequence and this discussion made us have a final  thought and a final plan on how we will make the title sequence.

Codes and Conventions of Horror

• ·         Shows the film clips in the title sequence
• ·         The use of dark settings
• ·         Low angle shots
• ·         The use of the protagonist in the shots
• ·         The use of CGI to show more gory stuff.
• ·         Close up on the protagonist
• ·         Builds tension
• ·         Slow pace
• ·         The use of narrative themes
• ·         Point of view shot
• ·         The use of young teenage characters
• ·         The use of handheld cameras
• ·        Always a female victim

STINC Sim City

Setting: The setting of the first scene in the film title sequence is the fictional place of Sin City

Theme: The colour red indicates the theme of violence because red con-notates blood and danger. The music gives the idea of lust and betrayal because we see in the first few pictures are women and one is being handled by a man.

Iconography: the props that we see are guns, we see guns because the film is heavily based on killing and shooting. we also see a man with a gun through his eyes, this is telling the audience that death by guns is major in the film. the colour is all black and whit and the reason they did this is because the novels were in black and white and so is the film in black and white.

Narrative: The only we get to see what the film is about is by the pictures we are given and the music but sometimes the music cannot always be trusted so the audience has to guess whether to trust the pictures.

Characters: We get to see the protagonist and the antagonist in the title sequence because they are all important in the film. in many of these cases there are no protagonists.

Style: The style of the film is dark because the pictures are in black and white and the pictures shows the characters as mysterious or angry or violent and this will show the audience what he film will be about.

Bob Kurtz PowerPoint

http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code30344972

Napoleon Dynamite Analysis

The Napoleon Dynamite title sequence starts with the production company, just like many other films, and the use of foods to show the production company tells the audience that the main character must love their food. or is associated with food. 

We then get to see the main characters name "Jon Heder", and the name is on a "U.F.O Abduction Insurance" card which tells the audience that the main character is a big alien fans and people who like aliens are normally associated with being a geek.

The music also starts when the card is getting taken out and the music has a calm "nothing bad will happen" tune. The song also says stuff about school so we no Napoleon is still at school.

After 34 seconds into the title sequence we get to see the film name and what the Napoleon (the main character) looks like. To the audience Napoleon look like a geek because we can see him wearing glasses and having braces. This gives the audience more information about what the film is about. The audience also knows Napoleon goes to school.

We then get to see the other cast members that are important to the film. The other cast are food except the last one which is a weapon made out of tin foil, this might suggest to the audience that "Diedrich Bader" character is a violent character.

Now we get the other crew and in this case we get the "casting by" and "music by". They are on a library card that was inside the library book. This tells the audience that Napoleon loves taking books out and reading them or he wants to check when to return the book because he does not like being late.

We get to see other casts on stuff maybe Napoleon likes.

We again get to see more crew members and they are on drawings of mystical beast/people and this tells the audience that Napoleon likes to wonder in the world of make belief, maybe to get away from harsh reality.

We then get more cast members

And finally the title sequence finishes with the director and finishes with the food.

Jay Johnson Title sequence.

The title designer that i have chosen to type about is someone called Jay Johnson and he has done may films and many high profile films such as Django unchained, Amazing Spider Man. Jay Johnson. what Jay Johnson did with Django unchained is that he put himself in Quentin Tarantino's boots and did a tile sequence like in his other moveis with that specif type of font that is easily recognized by film lovers. Jay Johnson had previously worked with Quentin Tarantino with films like Kill Bill vol1 and Inglorious Basterds. with the Django unchained title sequence Jay Johnson uses the film as the background, in other Tarantino films such as Pulp fiction they incorporate the film. Jay Johnson does not have a specific type that makes him different, he just makes tile sequences so that it connects with the film and director.

Saul Bass

on the day of the 14th of January we got taught about Saul Bass who does opening sequences in films. Saul Bass has done films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and the ever famous Martin Scorsese's Good Fellas and many more. the class then got their very own title designer and we had to research the title designer in our groups. the title designer my group had Bob Kurtz. we then had to create a power point about Bob Kurtz. after we finished the power point we had to present the following day.

FOLLOWING DAY

my group was third to present. i believe that my groups presentation was a lot better than the weeks before presentation because with this presentation we had more detail and we had more information. compared to last week, my group and i had majorly improved.

HOMEWORK TUES 7TH JAN

"These cards were the responsibility of the lettering artist, who collaborated with the scriptwriter and director to create narrative continuity so that audiences could follow what they were seeing".
The cards had to be express what the film was going to be about. they obviously did this by writing the films title by a lettering artist and what was said helped the audience know what film they were watching.

" we see the emergence of typography that seeks to match letterforms with the subject matter"
this breakthrough meant that genres can be identified by the audience because of the way the words were written. this breakthrough is still used by directors today such as Quentin Tarantino.

“Humorous Phases of Funny Faces” (1906) Not only is it one of the first animated films, it is among the first to feature an animated opening title, making it a precursor of the modern title sequence"
this became the benchmark for other animated title openings. this title opening also became a founding father of animated title openings.

"The concept of score visualization first conceived by Oskar Fischinger in his film “Studies” anticipates the effects created by Saul Bass in “The Man With the Golden Arm” (1955) and later by Susan Bradley in “Monsters, Inc” (2001)"
this paved the way for title openings to be more fascinating by using the pictures and music to combine. the movements of the pictures are synced with the music to create a rhythm in the title opening.  

"Breakthrough ideas in titling, such as timing the typography to interact with metaphorical imagery or to create its own world, were largely innovations that came from outsiders to the Hollywood studio system".
this method was famously used in the James Bond movies and it gives the title opening more of its own identity to a film. the method also bring the creative side to the title openings. 

Course Work Talk

on the day Tuesday the 7th of January, i had a media studies lesson. to which the class got told that  we have been put in groups to work on our coursework. the class got told that we will be making a title sequence for the coursework, . the groups had to come up with an idea about a film so that everyone will get the jist of what the title sequence will be about. in my group we came up with an idea about a horror. the majority of our group wanted the horror idea so we stack with the idea. the class then got told by the teacher that the following day we will have to present a presentation of our film.

THE FOLLOWING DAY

on this day we had to present and my group were second up, already we knew we didn't do enough so what we did was we improvised more than half of the presentation and it did not work. we got actors wrong and we got facts wrong. but we do not give up. we will improve. and we will impress.