Gone Film Opening Presentation

MoodBoard

I created this mood board to gain inspiration and ideas to add into our opening sequence. The selections from above feature... The Missing, The Conjuring, The Mist and The Blair Witch Project. These films and pictures relate very much to our film especially with the setting and the very low key lighting from these films. The films all feature some sort of mist effect in the films what we also want to feature when we film our opening sequence to create a mysterious effect. 

Title Tasks

Title History: The first clip I watched was to do with the history of the title sequence. This clip was a brief history on well known title sequences throughout the years from the 1933 "King Kong" film to a more recent film "The Social Network". Through out the clip to see the transition from the old to the new title sequences featuring many different films. The clip show's how much technology as changed title sequences over the years with different animations and special effects. 

Richard Morrison Interview: The second clip I watched was the Richard Morrison interview, man has done title sequences for Batman, Brazil, Enemy at the gates and the more recent Sweeney Todd. Richard talks about the process of creating a title sequence for a film in this clip. He states throughout that it is very important no to rush in to the process of creating a title Sequence and creating a storyboard and having many different inputs for different shots and animation is very important from all different people for the title Sequence. Richard also hopes that technology doesn't take over too much for the title sequence's as he believes that physical objects filmed before are very important.

Title Sequence Annotations

 

Man of Steel:

Life on Mars:

Audience Research

The target audience for our film is going to be aged between 15-40, the certificate of the film is going to be from 15-40. From looking at previous horror films which have a similar sense to ours, I gathered some information from films this year which have appealed to the similar target audience which we are trying to gather.  I started looking at a website which showed the 25 top Netflix horror's which are frequently shown.  As netflix has become a much larger network this year for younger a younger audince of around 17-18 this would fit perfectly for some key statistics which may help our film. 

5. The Cabin In The WoodsYear: 2011Director: Drew GoddardFor a movie chock-full of twists, perhaps the biggest is that despite all appearances to the contrary, The Cabin in the Woods is a heartfelt love story. Mind you, not between any of the young and pretty college students who tempt fate at the cabin in question. No, this romance is between creators Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard, and the scary-movie genre as a whole. A ménage à terror, if you will. Like Scream before it, the film is a simultaneous dissection and celebration of all the tropes to which it pays homage, while also managing to be a superb example of the genre in its own right. The script is vintage Whedon—smart, funny and surprising. Thanks to Goddard’s direction and staging, and despite the film’s very focus on the formulaic nature of horror, it still manages to be tense, atmospheric and jump-out-of-your-seat scary. The Cabin in the Woods may very well be the ultimate schlocky little horror movie.—Dan Kaufman

4. NosferatuYear: 1929Director: F. W. MarnauF.W. Murnau’s sublimely peculiar riff on Dracula has been a fixture of the genre for so long that to justify its place on this list seems like a waste of time. Magnificent in its freakish, dour mood and visual eccentricities, the movie invented much of modern vampire lore as we know it. It’s once-a-year required viewing of the most rewarding kind.—Sean Gandert

3.Let the right one in
 Year: 2008
Director: Tomas Alfredson
Vampire stories are plastered all over American pop culture these days (True Blood, Twilight, The Vampire Diaries), but leave it to the Swedes to produce a vampire film that manages to be both sweet and frightening. The friendship between Oskar, a scrawny, 12-year-old outcast, and Eli, a centuries-old vampire frozen in the body of a child, is a chilling but beautiful story to behold.—Jeremy Medina

2. The Silence of the LambsYear: 1991
Director: Jonathan Demme
In the face of grotesque sequels, lesser prequels and numerous parodies, The Silence of the Lambs still stands as a cinematic work of art among crime dramas. Winning the five gold rings of Oscar-dom (best picture, best director, best actor, best actress, best screenplay) Anthony Hopkins’ portrayal of the murderous Hannibal Lecter proves the worth of surrounding one of cinema’s greatest thespians with a stellar supporting team. Director Jonathan Demme deftly wields the brush of that talent to bring audiences into the dark, sadistic world of Dr. Lecter while leaving them gasping at the twists and turns of novelist Thomas Harris’ gruesomely wonderful story. As what happens with all great films, second and
third viewings fail to diminish the ride.—Tim Basham

1. Rosemary’s BabyYear: 1968
Director: Roman Polanski
The most famous of Polanski’s paranoid thrillers, not to mention the most inviolable. The film infiltrates a privileged space of middle-class entitlement and pollutes it with the most extreme evil possible: sweet, unassuming Rosemary (Mia Farrow) is pregnant, but could her baby already belong to someone else? The volatile climax has an answer, and the sequence has remained one of the most celebrated in horror history for good reason.—Sean Edgar
As you can see the films which scored the highest is a rather old film, and this is the most viewed film of 2014 on Netflix, obviously our target audience typically prefer a much newer horror film compared to an old one produced in the 1960s.  Statistics show that 17 year olds specifically prefer jump scares rather than scares which are less startling.


Information obtained from IMBD

Production Diary

Production Diary

11/11/2014 - Today we got ready our film ideas so they were ready to present for Thursdays lesson to the rest of the group. We all created PowerPoint's as this was the most suitable format. On our presentations we collected different inspirations and ideas and talked about what we would include in our opening scene.

13/11/2014 - Today we pitched our different film ideas to each other to decide what film idea we were going to go with. Jack pitched a drama film to do with a man being convicted of a murder and the film was to ponder on if he committed the murder or not. Tom's idea was a teen drama evolved around drugs and crime which he gained his influences from Noel Clarke's Kidulthood and Adulthood. Then the final idea came from Connor which was a horror which based around a couple who are not able to have children. From this the couple went to take other children to be theirs. We agreed finally that Connor's idea was the best and we decided to go for that for our concept.

14/11/2014 - Today not in our groups we started to do our Title Tasks. This involved watching many different clips and reviewing them. This included a history of film openings and a interview with a man who is very big in the film industry. Our final task was to take screenshots from three film openings and annotate them for every title that appeared such as actors and production companies.

17/11/2014 - Today we adapted the film concept and slightly changed the main story of the film. We took the concept away from the couple who were not able to have children and changed it too a boy who went missing on a winter evening in a park. We then went on too reviewing different film openings as a group to gain inspiration from a number of different films. (In the Picture we reviewed the opening of Casino Royale)

18/11/2014 - Today Connor was creating our marketing ideas to promote our film in a PowerPoint presentation which you can see him doing below. In the presentation he included how he would advertise our film and what he would do to promote it in the best way. Meanwhile Tom looking at our target audience which he was doing by reviewing films in our category and our style of film and comparing them with what audience the films were most popular with.

19/11/2014 - Today we made sure everything was up to date on our blogs so we could get everything out of the way and start with the planning for our film, although we made no progress on the film for the next lessons we can now focus on that.

20/11/2014 - Today as a group we all came up with separate mood boards to compare with each others to gain inspiration to create the different scenes to go on to our story board which we would create in Friday and Mondays lesson. The mood boards for each of us have now been uploaded onto our blogs.

21/11/2014 - Today we began to create our story board going through scene by scene with what type of shots they will be and where the different titles would be located around the frame of the shot. In this lesson the storyboard was nearly completed and would me finished and finalized in Mondays lesson.

24/11/2014 - Today we also worked on the story board for our film. The story board a very long process and is looking to take us one more lesson as we have to cover every shot we have in or opening scene including just slight different frames and where the different titles are involved. During this process we separately evaluated our LAP charts to make sure everything is up to date and correct.

25/11/2014 - Today we made sure everything was up to date on our blogs so we could be ready to film once the story board had been uploaded so everything was  out of the way and start with the filming for our film very soon

27/11/2014 - Today we filmed our story board with the voice over and made sure everything was correct. It took us a few tries for the filming of the storyboard for it to be up to a standard to be ready to be uploaded to our blogs. 

28/11/2014 - Today we edited the storyboard on Premiere and made sure every shot for the storyboard was included with the voice over being in time with the shots also. We also designed a news article for the "Missing Boy" which will be included in our film to be a realistic shot. The article will be uploaded on to the blog also. 

4/12/2014 - Today we started filming the different shots at John Shennans park which can be seen in our film. We also took shots of the missing boy article throughout the day and the filming of John Shennans park in the early evening to get the perfect day light. 

8/12/2014 - Today we started editing the shots we had filmed and got them in order so we could be able to edit all the different shots we got together. Jack also found some news clips of a missing boy that could go into our film.

11/12/2014 - After getting the shots in order for the first draft we realised we needed more shots and shot in the evening around the site in various locations. This would give us the correct time needed for our film and also a variety of shots.

15/12/2014 - On the final day of working down to the deadline, we got all of our shots together and as a group worked right down to the wire. We were not happy with our first draft but now our final draft has been edited we are now happy with our film. 

Marketing Campaign for "Gone"

Opening Sequence Influences

For our opening sequence I have reviewed previous films with their opening sequences and try to gain some influences from them.

Seven Opening Sequence

One of my favourite title sequences that I looked at was from the film Seven. I really like the font that has been used in this opening sequence and would very like something similar in our film. Even though this opening does not reveal much about the actual film it does provide actual enigma to make you wonder what the film is actually about.

Casino Royale Opening Sequence

The bond films are very well known for there opening sequences. This is a massive part of the bond films and the music that is used in the sequence always does very well in the music industry just because of the reputation of the Bond series openings. Anyone creating a title sequence can take great influence from the bond films as all of them are done so well. The animations are very impressive in this particular opening with the mix of animation and real life works very well. The font of the credits I am also very fond of. This bond opening is my favourite bond opening sequence.

Catch Me If You Can Opening Sequence

Catch Me If You Can is one of my favourite films and the title sequence is also very impressive. The animation of the titles and how they move across the screen is very impressive. I like how the titles link in with the animations, on those lines this is something that I would like to include in my film as it is very impressive. The sequence also reflects on title as you see two characters chasing each other and them going through many different stages which you see in a bigger light later on in the film, this provides enigma and is all together also a very good opening sequence.

My Film Pitch

Student Film Evaluation

A Schools Nightmare (58 Marks): In this opening I really liked the different shots in the film. The shots of the car in action was very well done especially when the car goes over the puddle, also when the car is speeding it also shows many different impressive shots as the camera changes angle very well. The only thing that could be better in this opening is possibly adding some dialogue even if it was just a little bit to get a insight into the characters of the film.




The Edge (55 Marks): In this opening the thing I found the most impressive was the title sequences throughout the film this is very good how the titles are attached to certain objects so as the shots move the title sequences move with the object it has been attached to. Also the different shots were very impressive especially some of the tracking shots which were my favorite. As the first one I evaluated I also commented on the lack of dialogue I would also say the same about this clip that it could feature more dialogue to cause a better affect.



Blitz (54 Marks): In this opening clip the audio affects instantly give you the impression of when the clip is based this is a very good affect. Also the scenery that is used is very impressive and instantly gives you the impression of when the film is set. I think that the scenery and audio effects are the best part of the clip. In this clip also there is no dialogue which maybe could be included into the clip.