Our finished movie.

Part of the opening.

Here is the start of one of the woods scene for our film.

-Harrison.

3 - Thank you for smoking opening titles - Izzy Souter

Thank you for smoking opening titles

This film has cleverly related their opening titles to the main title of the film by using different cigarette packets for each title. The texts are all different colours, fonts and sizes because on each cigarette packet this is also the case. It also highlights the vast amount of cigarettes that there are for sale.


Each title turns on it's side is a rectangular shape, which is the same shape as a cigarette packet. All of the pictures used are off vintage cigarette packets which gives and indication of when the film was set.


The music used is very old, just like an old radio. This is done as this is the time when most people smoked. The music is also very upbeat, jolly and involves people singing about cigarettes.

2 - Six feet under opening titles - Izzy Souter

Six Feet Under opening titles

The opening titles are very simplistic and plain. They involve bold images in the background with drab colours and with clear, white and black text. This is due to the fact that is clearly all about death, with dead bodies, crows, graves, hands parting and a man standing at the end of a brightly lit tunnel. 


The font used is very simplistic, just like death itself. It is all in capital letters which makes it stand out more and makes it easier for the audience to read. It also moves around the screen a lot and doesn't just stay in the middle of the screen which offers a variety to the audience and makes it a little less boring.


The music used is very sharp and upbeat, therefore it doesn't match what is going on in the scenes. I feel that this is done so that the audience doesn't feel depressed about watching the film even though it is about death.

1 - Hulk opening title - Izzy Souter

Hulk opening title

The opening title to this movie is on the theme of the Hulk itself as it uses bold, large and green text. As you can see from the second picture at the top the text almost feels the whole screen which emphasises the fact that the hulk in intimidating and large. 

Cartoon to show where
the Hulk originated from

Because the Hulk originated from a marvel magazine there is a lot of cartoons at the beginning of the film and is yet again coloured green. This provides the audience with some background information about where the film was generated from. Therefore, because of this the text of the majority of the titles look as if they are hand written as if they would be in a comic.

The music used is non-diegetic and it is light and upbeat, however it does increase in tension until the 'HULK' is shown on the screen. This draws the audience attention to the name even more and makes the curious what the Hulk is.

There is also a lot of scientific things such as DNA and cells, which gives the audience an indication that the Hulk is a living thing and maybe is a disease or is something in the genes.  

Example of what we are going to try and recreate.

In one of our final scenes of our opening we are going to try and recreate this effect shown on the link. The youtube video is a cutscene of modern warfare 2 and the man has been stamped on and is dazed and confused and is blacking out every couple of seconds by fading to black and then quickly fading back to normal which recreates the effect of him blinking.

http://youtu.be/vCMIoQD4y2Q?t=2m10s

Experiment - Handheld on running feet.

We did this as an experiment to see if we would like to use it for our chase scene in the woods, as it shows the fast pace in which the joggers feet will be moving. It is handheld by Carla who is playing the jogger and will be running away from the antagonist.
However we concluded that we did not want to use it because it didn't look very good as it looked slightly messy and wouldn't match the mood that we were trying to create with our chase scene.

Experiment - Handheld CU on Face.

This is a little experiment we did of Carla running along holding the camera in front of her face whilst she is running along.


This created a disorientated effect and makes the viewer feel uneasy, it also creates a lot of panic as the scenery is flashing by unfocused. As it is a close up we can also see all the emotions on her face - she will be very scared and very worried.


We are going to use this in our final piece with Carla running away from the antagonist.


Here is the example: