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As a group we have decided to change our titles name from ' Love Bite' to 'Bitten'. This is because we have changed our plan form it being a romantic film, as the boyfriend isnt going to be a main character anymore. So we had to make the title of the film seem less romantic. Instead of it being a romantic teen fantacy it is now a teen vampire action film.

Bitten Pitch

Bitten pitch

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Planning: Production Brief

Production Brief: To create a title sequence

Porject Name:Bitten

Length: 90 seconds - 2 minutes

Deadline: Friday 11th January

Group members and their roles: (Me)props,director(Charlotte)camerawoman(Sonal)editor

Brief overview of content:A girl goes missing but is actually turned into a vampire, by an evil vampire that has been stalking her group of friends for a while and has decided they will be his victims (she was turned into a vampire so she could be the creator's mate, but she is heartbroken over her friends and boyfriend so he has set out to kill the rest so she can be his forever). she is declared dead by the police but her body is never found. After her funeral, her boyfriend is sure she is still alive, feeling like he keeps seeing her face everywhere he looks, and is determined to look for her. One of her friends is then killed and afte a lot of detective work the rest of the group manage to find the evil vampire and go to find him. the girl manages to save them from being killed by killing his creator. She dissappears from her friends so that she never hurts them but stays close enough to protect them from any more harm.

Target Adience: This film is targeted towards a female audience, around 12-19.

Possible Scheduling publishing suggestions: During July/ August as our target audience would be out of school for their summer holidays so that they would be able to see it.

What comparable products have you researched?: We have researched Tim Burton opening sequence as they are slightly eerie and usually of a fantasy genre and also 'the lost boys' as that is a vampire film which relates to ours. We have also researched The Twilight Saga films as they are related to oure niche audience.

How will you test whether the product is successful? How will you check that it accomplishes the intended effect?: Through Audience feedback.

What genetic codes and conventions will be operatiing in your text?: The title of our film, cast and crew, an indiation of the location, time and genre introductionto a character and we want to raise intriguing questions with the audience so that they are turned in to our film and will want to continue watching it.

Identify any resource constrains (time,money,equiptment,human resources) that might affect your production and your hopes for your product: I think this will take a lot of our time to film because of the many situations we want to include in it. we will need to buy a scrap book and we will need to print a lot of picturesof the characters, as well as the flowers for the funeral.

Sweeney Todd ,Tim Burton

Edward Scissorhands title sequence Tim Burton

Pitch

We had to present a pitch of our film idea in our groups, pretending that they were an independent film maker and we were trying to secure funding from a production team. Our group (me,Charlotte and Sonal) choose to do a teen fantasy film that included vampires. We thought that it would be a popular choice with our target audience especially as it will have a young male actor 'Zac Efron' who will appeal to teenage girls. As part of our feed back we was told to look at the film 'Lost Boys' and a few Tim Burton title sequences. Overall our pitch went well.

Bob Kurtz and Kyle Cooper Presentation

Bob kurtz and kyle cooper

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LOVEBITE pitch

Lovebite pitch

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se7en (PART OF CLASS ESSAY)

I felt that the title sequence for se7en was creepy and mysterious. It was quite disturbing as well.He was trying to get rid of his identity by scraping off his finger prints.This suggests he could be a serial killer and has planned things through to not get caught also this person seems to know what he is doing.From the close-ups we cant tell what or where the location is but we can guess that it is in a confined room. The reason why i think this is because the person who is making this book doesn't want anybody to know about it. The person who is making the book is making it with perfection. He sticks a picture down precisely and sows some pages together with care. Also he cuts the word 'God' out of a dollar bill which suggests that he is religious.

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Se7en title sequence

The Art Of Film Design Throughout Cinema History

Oscar Fischinger gives serious thought in the relationship between the music and visual effects. Fischinger's practice of subordinating the visual rhythm to the audio was repeated in the motion graphics and title design.

From these two clips i can clearly see that the beat in the music makes something in the picture move. For example in the Monsters Inc sequence the doors are the main features that are moving to the beat. Also the doors position where the text is placed. In The Man With The Golden Arm the white stripes also positions where the text goes. These two title sequences are very similar in their styles.

Man With the Golden Arm

Monsters Inc Title Sequence

James Bond

The Art Of Film Title Design Throughout Cinema History

Homework:

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  From this article I have learnt that " Humorous phases of funny faces" was the first ever animated film, it was the first to feature an animate title opening. It was made in 1906 and directed by J.Stuart Blackton.


• The big innovations of title animation and motion typography don't really emerge until well after the Second World War.



• Ralph Spence was the highest paid title writer in the industry, earning $10,000 a picture fro his one-liners.



• During the 1920s and 30's, European cinema was deeply influenced by modernism, Black letter fonts in the opening credits were used for horror, ribbons and flowery lettering suggested love, and typography that would have been used on 'wanted' posters would be for a western.

The True Birth Of A Title Sequence

• 1950s was the era in which the discipline of the film title sequence was actually born.



• Maurice Binder worked on the title designs of 14 films about the Agent 007, including the first episode "Dr.No". Binder created the famous gun-barrel sequence, which became the signature for the Bond series.

Doctor who title sequence

For my second title sequence i have chosen Doctor Who. The reason why i have chosen this one is because usually in title sequences you see the main characters faces and find out who they are and a bit about their personality. But with the Doctor Who title sequence we only find out the names of the Actor who plays Doctor Who 'Matt Smith' and the name of the actress who plays his sidekick 'Karen Gillan'. The title of the show already lets us know who the main character must be by the name of 'Doctor Who'.The title sequence makes it obvious to the audience that the genre of the show is science fiction.




The title sequence shows a police box flying thorough what looks like a time portal or a black hole.This show the audience that the genre is science fiction. The police box is getting hit by lightning while it goes through the portal. The portal takes us on a kind of roller coaster ride with all of the different directions it keeps taking. The police box makes the audience feel as though we should follow it.Also from the way the police box is flying through the portal it gives the audience a clue that the genre is science fiction.The text is introduced by a strike of lightning and then it appears in the middle of the screen and then disappears by making the audience feel as though we are going into it. The font looks like it is made out of shiney steel look to it and it also has a kind of block solid feel to it. The title 'Doctor Who' is also in this style but there is a DH inbetween doctor who in the same of the police box.

The Inbetweeners Opening Title Sequence Analysis

One of the title sequences i have chosen to write about is TheInbetweeners. The reason for this is because it is differentfrom other title sequences i have researched.

This one has a cartoon effect and also it doesn't run smoothly like a flowing picture, it looks as though separate pictures have been taken to create a stop motion effect. It is also just in black and white although it dose flash brief colours. It is very simple and easy to follow or understand,it isn'ttoo long either. This title sequence just shows the four maincharacters in the show. There is a lot of movement going on with the backgrounds as the pattens keep changing and so do the characters. The background consists of stars/stripes and circles. Also the music beat goes with the changing of the characters really well. The music is high tempo and up beat witch makes if fun. The title sequence introduces eachcharacter separately and right at the end they come together along with the title of the show.

Continuity sequence

Continuity Sequence

The main features of our continuity sequence had to be somebody opening a door, someone walking across a room and a conversation between two people. one of the rules was to stay on the right side of the 180 degree line, which i think our group achieved. The conversation could be about anything so we chose Si Hin [who plays a girls]to say to Charlotte that he [she] was in love with her and that he was really a man. we tried to get the shocked reaction from Charlotte to get a dramatic effect although it was supposed to be funny as well.AS a group i think that we all worked well together as we have never worked with each other before.The only problem that we came across was that we didn't film the part whereCharlotte say "What!" properly or it wasn't uploaded properly to the computer. Another issue we had was the eye line. From where Charlotte and Si Hin were being filmed their eye linewasn't matching, so it looked as though they wasn't looking ateach other.we then had to film that again the next day.