Blog 5-Kyle Copper

What makes a good tittle sequence?

Kyle Cooper is accredited with making one of the most popular title sequences in the 90's called Seven. Kyle cooper also made good title sequence such as the spider-man movies and the superman returns. What makes a good title sequence according to Kyle Cooper is being simple and creative. He likes the idea of originality and thinks that title sequences should excite the viewers enough for them to watch the film to the end. He believes that the font used in Seven shows the genre of the film and the audience can tell that it will be mystery/thriller. Kyle Cooper likes the title sequence for Dead zone because its simple typography and the music makes the atmosphere mysterious. He also likes the title sequence for To kill a mocking bird because the main obsession is showed clearly. What Kyle Cooper means by story based in the title sequence is that that metaphor is clear and the back story pun is to do with the film. The kind of problems a studio face after and audience test screening might face are that the production team might not have enough to do another shoot or the audience might understand certain aspects. This is why title sequence become an important thing for the studio because it adds another scene and becomes a prologue. The title sequence of Dawn of the dead try to portrait fear through displaying scenes of zombies and abandoned houses.

Post Sixteen - Director's Commentry on Sound

Post Three - The Purposes of Title Sequences.

Post Two - Prelim Evaluation

Introduction

The group I was in consisted of me, Abdi, Lama and Alexandra. Our film was set in a kitchen and our prop was a skateboard. The story was about Abdi finding a skateboard in the park and when he came to the kitchen, he was confronted by Lama because she found out that Abdi stole the skateboard from her friend.

Pre-Production – (Planning)

Overall, I thought our Pre-Production workflow was very efficient because within the 3 hour lesson, we managed to figure what role each person, our storyline and began to storyboard. When it came to filming the film all members in the group were prepared and knew what to do. Furthermore, all members contributed ideas on how we should film and the storyline.

Production – (Filming)

Overall, I thought our Production filming was quite average however, I believe there was much room for improvement. Even though we were in a very confined space and didn’t have sufficient space for the tripod to come in to the room – we still managed to great decent shots. One shot that I was no satisfied with was the tracing shot with Abdi going to the kitchen; it was very shaky and was very distracting when it came to editing and seeing it finally. The actors did especially well however, with the minor slip-ups in cues and lines however, we were short for time therefore the ending wasn’t that great.

Post-Production (Editing)

Overall, I thought our Production filming was excellent as all worked together to make the film look professional. In the first part, the rest of my group was quite confused on the actual editing however, I did help them in getting them started and we managed to edit the film within the hour and didn’t need to do any sort of extra work outside the lesson or even in the consecutive lesson.

Post One – Introduction

Hi, my name is Kadeem and I am in Group 15 for this coursework. The group consists of 3 other people: Onat, Abdul and Abdi. In future blogs posts, there will be regular blog posts and you will updated through every step of our Coursework ranging from Evaluations to Research as well as, Reflections as well.

RESEARCH-BP17 Genre Shortlist

Genre Short-list

CRIME-

We as a group choose this genre as it is very popular among our target audience which are males ageing between 25-40. Crime is a very intense genre and it is driven by its plot. It include multiple purposely left out aspects which are added to the end of the film to make it all make sense and give the audience a sense of visceral. It is an action packed genre which makes it one of our easy choices.

ACTION-

Action is a very intense and thrilling genre. Its is usually a begins with a narrative title sequence meaning that its starts at the beginning and it is developed from that initial climax which usually has a resolution at the end. We chose action as it is very plot focused and as a group we have had a unanimous liking of the genre as does our target audience so the choice of this genre is quiet obvious.

MYSTERY-

This choice of genre was quiet hard but in the end with a few ideas we excepted this genre into our short-list. Mystery is a very creative genre as shown by movies such as 'The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo'. We chose this genre not only due to our target audience but also due to personal preference as mystery has a plot that's its not very predictable giving the viewer a sense of curiosity. We thought that if we had a mysterious title sequence the audience would be urged to view on .

RESEARCH-BP10 What is Genre?

What is Genre?

Genre means a specific type of film,music or writing. In this scenario I'm interested about the genre in movies. A genre of a movie has many types of purposes such as giving the director crucial information, and helps the audience to understand which category type that they enjoy the most. In movies when a producer makes a movie, they choose which genre it is. This allows them to stay focus when making the film as they know which codes and conventions to include which makes the movie more specific to their target audience. When a movie has a particular genre a consumer who has a liking for that genre is more likely to watch that movie. Thus genre helps the director to include genre tropes and conventions that their specific target audience enjoy or get aroused by.

Key Words-

Genre- Specific type of film, music or writing

Sub-Genre- When a movie of a set genre has elements of other genres.

Hybrid Genre- Blend elements of 2 or more genres (e.g ROM-COM)

Codes&Conventions- What you put in the movie to make it that genre and also what signals you give to the viewer to make the message have a meaning.

Genre Tropes- repeated symbols and style. Also known as generic signifier or clichés

When the class did task 2 we saw stills of movies with different genres and we identified the most obvious ones first. For example we saw a still of a movie called 'Goodfellas' which is one of my favourite of all time.We immediately extracted from the visual image that it was an Action, Gangster crime. This is because it included multiple generic signifier of genre tropes. This mean clichés and conventions that movies have that make it that particular genre. Once I saw alcohol, money, men in suits and guns I automatically identified what it was. Genres in the present have been so established that its almost a motif. The same conventions are used in every single movie and thus we has been sort of programmed in our memory to identify what genre a movie actually is.

Genre 1- Action

I chose action as a genre as its so fast tempo that I feel helpless but to be dragged along. In this still of this movies the conventions are gun fire, helicopters, army gear and grass. Usually on action movies it takes place on grassy land. All these convention or clichés stated above are all signifier that this movies is an action movie. I also enjoyed action movies like Die Hard.

Genre 2- Crime
I  I also choose crime a it is more of a thriller movie. It is driven by the plot and its very tense as its unexpected on what is going to happen next. I got this still from the movie Goodfellas and the conventions they include are men in suits, alcohol, money and guns. Other crime movies I have enjoyed are the ocean trilogy, fast and furious and casino.

Genre 3- Mystery
I have chosen mystery as my final genre of choice as it has elements of a very dark theme and it makes the movie that little bit more interesting., The conventions used are mysterious figures,
dark backgrounds and ambiguous objects.