Evidence of Planning - to be edited

Evaluation of filming

Today I think filming went relatively well.
Everyone brought the props they needed to (makeup, bloody t-shirt, Spiderman costume) and we were able to get all of the shots done that we needed to well within the time that we had.

Daniel was absent from filming which meant that we had to use me as a back up, but since he wasn't a main character, it wasn't a main issue most of the time.

The shots could have been better quality, looking back on other groups' work, but since none of us are very handy with a camera, I think we did okay.

I was slightly dangerous during filming when I tried to do a shot of Nahiyan running while I was standing on a chair, but Louisa stopped me and I was brought a step-ladder to prevent accident.

Evidence of Filming

Wednesday, 30th November

After filming, we copied all of the film from the memory cards onto our video drive.

We looked through our film together on the big screen to make sure that we were happy with it.

Prep work - script

This is where I'll put all of my script/sound plans for each section of filming.

Script one - Wednesday, 30th November 2016. Shots 12-19 in Candi.

Prep work - t-shirt

For one of our scenes, we needed a fake blood effect, which I was put in charge of doing.
I got an old t-shirt of mine that didn't fit anymore (using Khadijah as our model for the t-shirt meant I was sure it would fit her since she's pretty small), and bought some raspberries from Sainsbury's to make sure the blood would be comically pink.

Featured: my raspberries, and a fork.

I used around six raspberries on a folded area of the t-shirt so that the leakage wouldn't spill to the back of the shirt, and pressed them in with the fork - a technique which my mum called 'forking'; I'm not sure if that's meant to be the actual term or an innuendo...

This is how the t-shirt looked after a night. It's a bit stiff where the stain is but it shouldn't be an issue as we just need to see Khadijah lying down in it.

Pitch Feedback

Pitch - Apex Arachnid

Blog task 41 - storyboard

Pitch hyperlinks

Pitch task 1- The film.

Pitch task 2- What type of title sequence is it?

Pitch task 3 - What genre of film is it?

Pitch task 4 - Representations.

Pitch task 5 - Institutional detail 1 2

Pitch task 6 - Audience detail 1 2

Pitch tasks 7 & 8 - Mise-en-scene

Pitch task 9 - Sound design

Pitch task 10 - Title credits

Pitch task 11 - Cinematic details

Pitch task 12 - Production schedule

Pitch task 13 - Risk assessment

Production Schedule (Blog Task 39) Updated

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Blog task 31: Pitch task 4 Representations.

Blog task 31- Pitch task 3- What Genre of film is it?

-The genre we have chosen for our title sequence is a superhero comedy. The reason we chose this genre is because the superhero genre is a type of film which we all agreed on as we all had an idea as to what our title sequence may entail (if it was a superhero film) and it was also one of our favourite film genres.

-Another reason why we chose this genre is that the conventions of a superhero film is very clear cut, in the sense that we expect a villain and a hero (who save a city from evil and harm) as the main characters. 

-The film Kick-Ass has inspired our film as a teenager called Dave Lizewski decides to reinvent himself as a superhero, despite a complete lack of special powers. Dave dons a costume, dubs himself "Kick-Ass," and gets to work in fighting crime. This is similar to our character as he tries to gain power, however he fails. But then one day he accidentally discovers his power when he no longer tries.

Blog Task 31-Pitch task 2-What type of title sequence is it?

-Our title sequence will be a narrative type of sequence as it will tell a story of a boy typical day.

The sequence will also show small scenes that will take place in the film e.g a small showcase of his super power and how he received them. it also goes contains flashback from the past, Non-diegetic sound which is music and voiceovers and lastly diegetic sound which is speech. 

-The titles are integrated into the moving images in some way and will begin as the sequence itself begins. 

An example of a title sequence that is similar to our idea is the film Deadpool. Deadpool's title sequence is inspiring as when the titles are credited humour is added.  This is relevant as we will be adding humour to our title sequence as our genre is a superhero/ comedy. 

Blog Task 31-Pitch task 1-The film

The title of our film is called Apex-Arachnid.

- A reason why we choose this as our title is because Apex means the best and Arachnid is a form of spider, which infers to the viewer that a spider may have a part to play in the protagonists super powers. 

-Another reason why we choose this as our title is because our character is different from many well known superhero's/superhero movies as the main character is a boy who is still in school. As he is in school he learns new things everyday, which contributes to learning more about himself and his powers that he possesses. Learning about a Arachnid is an example of new things he learns.  Lastly the title reflects a characteristic of the main character which is wanting to stand out from the crowd and be different from the rest, which is why he choose a fairly complex name as his alter ego. 

- Our film will depict a boy who is obsessed with comic books and he wishes to become a superhero. He then tries his hardest to become a superhero in school and outside of school. Alexis then discovers that being a superhero is not necessarily glorious and amazing. Because of that he decides to stop trying to become a superhero, only then to fall into nuclear waste and gain his power a superhero needs. Lastly he discovers that the one causing the mayhem around school is his love interest.

- Our title sequence will depict a typical day of our superhero, which during the day he is a normal school boy. In the title sequence you see Alexis Webber (Apex-Arachnid)  walking to school. As he walks through the school, people are making fun of him.  He then has a flashback to an incident in the past. The flashback involves Alexis saving someone who is in trouble at school but then he ends up making a total fool of himself. He then has another flashback of him and his love interest and how he gains his power.

Blog Task 37 - Mise-en-scene

Gone Girl Remake - Storyboard

These are pictures of the storyboard we made for our remake of the title sequence from the film Gone Girl.

Planning - Task 40 - Risk Assessment

Planning task 36 - pitch task 10.

The order of titles shall start with the distribution then the production company that is responsible for making the film idents, followed by a (producers name) production and a film by (directors name), starring and insert a joke credit, the film title then is announced with the featured cast after it with casting by music, composer, or original score and lastly the production designer with possible other credits after.

For the font we selected "coal brush" for the style is both child like but still tries to achieve a facade of professional which really reflects both the character and film which is the desired effect for we want the audience to connect and understand what are character is like and how he will change and develop but in order for this to happen the foundations of the protagonist must be established.

Planning - Task 30 - Sound Design

Diegetic and non-diegetic sound intentions -
Our sole ambition is to portray a high school boy unusually discover super-hero powers. To give hints in the title sequence that he will eventually attain these powers, we could demonstrate athletic exercises carried out by the lead actor. For example, we could capture the sound of running footsteps to show how the lead actor discovers his electrifying speed. Also, we could have shots where the protagonist gets an overview of the busy streets and in this case, the sounds of vehicles horning and hundreds of people murmuring on the streets. Additionally, to show that he's an ordinary kid who happens to discover super-hero powers we could have a scene where only the protagonist's heavy breathing is heard whist his surroundings are muted. For the background music, producing a super-hero like music to exemplify the theme of this film would work perfectly whilst seeing the lead actor in action. Also, the audience will hear a voice-over courtesy of the main character.

Influences -
Title sequences which have influenced my decisions regarding my sound choices are films which tend to go straight into action and therefore producing a back story as the film goes on. One film in particular which does this effectively is Amazing Spider-Man 2 where the action begins with
Spider-Man in action whilst the busy streets of New York are packed with vehicles making loads of noise. It also consists of thousands of people muttering and it's a noise that is faintly playing in the background as Spider-Man swings through the city.

Blog task 28 - audience profile

I talked a little bit about target audiences in task 27, and here I will create a profile for our ideal target audience member.
According to our research, this is our ideal target audience.

This is Frank.
Frank is a 25-year-old single Caucasian male. He works as a journalist for The Guardian, and lives in Rayleigh. He has a bachelor's degree in journalism.
Frank uses the internet very often, but also watches a lot of television. He tends to be the obsessive type with T.V. shows.
He is between the classes of upper-working class and lower-middle class due to his parents.
Frank is not very sporty. His hobbies include cooking, marathoning shows on Netflix, and spending quality time with his cat, Ness.
He is not very interested in brands, and does not like Apple - he is happy with his ASUS P.C. and Samsung phone. Frank drives a Peugeot, but travels to work by tube. His music taste is indie, but he likes all mainstream superhero films and T.V. shows. He likes to keep up with different newspapers.

This is all according to research on movies such as Captain America, however - as we could not find profiles for films very close to our theme, I've also made a second audience profile from my own knowledge which seems more likely.

This is Zac Efron. He's probably not 17 in this photo, but he pretended to be around that age for three movies, so roll with it.

For all intents and purposes, Troy is a student. He's a 17-year-old Caucasian male. He's an English college student (obviously), and upper-working class.
Troy is up to date with the latest trends. He uses the Internet a lot for social media and really likes memes. The only T.V. he really watches is online on Netflix.
Troy is a casual fan of superhero films, but tends to go to see whatever's popular at the moment in the cinema. He takes recommendations from the Internet and from people like him. His hobbies include watching Youtube videos, spending time out with his friends, going to parties and reading comics.

He doesn't really keep up with mainstream news like BBC News, but does often look at Buzzfeed  clickbait articles and Huffington Post online.

Troy likes brand-name clothing, uses an iPhone 6s and has an HP laptop. He can't drive so he relies on TFL often. He listens to pop and electronic music.

Blog task 27 - target audience

Our core target audience for this film will be teenagers (age 12-19). Within this, we would expect to see a relatively equal audience in terms of gender; at most, a ratio of 40:60 either way.
Our film would mostly appeal to working class people due to its representation from the characters and the setting. Education level would probably be around high school to college education mostly due to the age bracket.
A wider target audience would include people of older ages i.e. in their early twenties, and perhaps try to reach middle class people with pop-culture references to superhero movies which are big at the moment.
Our estimates come from research on different websites, for example, MPAA shows that Captain America: The Winter Soldier had a relatively similar number of female to male audience members (58% male, 42% female), a figure that has apparently risen in terms of females in films in the superhero genre since 2014, and so we would expect a rise. It also shows that the audience was a whopping 55% Caucasian, which means we would generally expect to be appealing to a white audience.
It was particularly difficult to find audience demographics for Kick-Ass, but filmschoolrejects says that it captured no attention from women over the age of 25 as there was little representation of women, but does take the attention of teenage boys, which begs us to consider if we will attempt to include better representation in hopes of a wider target audience or stick to the most loyal fans to this kind of film as we know that they will turn up to watch it.
To attract this kind of audience, we would mainly advertise online; perhaps using ads on social media sites like Instagram, and on evening television (when families will be sitting down to dinner). We may also use billboards and magazine advertisement. This is our ideal advertisement, but we would probably be a low-budget film, so we may not be able to advertise as much on social media as we'd like to.

 The movie I chose is Kick-Ass it is it relevant to our title sequence idea as it is a superhero comedy.  The main audience for Kick-Ass is males between 25-39, this suggests the type of target audience for our title sequence.


We also looked at Captain America - The First Avenger's demographics.

The general audience for this film is males between the age of 40 and 54. They're different levels of middle-class, and live mainly in the East Anglia region, and tend to be politically left.

The movie I chose is "the amazing spiderman" this demographic is relevant to our title sequence for it is a superhero movie with some elements of comedy and it suggests that the main audience are males from north west England between the ages 25-39, this helps us discover our target audience.

Our target audience is most likely to be a male aged 25-39 possibly having a profession in entertainment or engineering. Additionally, they are most likely to be living in the midlands and the north west. Due to our film exemplifying the genre of super-hero, the age assumption for our target audience is relatively accurate as I would think that the older aged males who tend to watch super-hero films are the ones who supposedly have more knowledge in the super-hero sector. This is because many super-hero films in the modern industry are usually targeted at kids or teenagers whereas films like Deadpool are intended to target the older audience as a consequence of Deadpool's ideology and agenda which is seemingly inappropriate for kids.

We interviewed two people who fit around the demographic of the films we chose.

Audience Research

Planning- Task 33- After effect ident

we chose are design because it looked nice and it was the most relevant to thename which was Gold Leaf Distrubtion.

Blog Task 32 - Distribution Company

We used the film Kick-Ass as inspiration for our opening sequence, so we chose the distribution company Universal, as it distributes lots of films of different genres, including comedy, so we think that it would be most likely of the distribution companies we looked at to agree to distribute our film (compared to, say, 20th Century Fox, which distributed Deadpool, but mainly works with superhero films that take themselves seriously - not like ours).
Universal has distributed films such as Coraline, Dad's Army, and Hanna, which could be classed as indie and also have a smaller target audience.

Production logo

Research Task 14 - Micro/Macro insidious

Blogging Health Check 1 - Feed back and targets.

The feedback I received for my first health check was fair and truly showed that in order to progress an effort to catch up and improve some work to a higher standard of quality in order to achieve a higher grade. Although I am disappointed with my result I can use my time effectively to rectify it.

Delegation of Pitch Tasks

Khadijah will be doing tasks 1,2,3
Arthur will be doing tasks 6, 7 & 8
Nahiyan will be doing tasks 9,12 & 13
Daniel will be doing tasks 4 & 10
While as a group we will be doing tasks 5 & 11 together.

Research- Task 22- Practical Remake Activity Evaluation

Gone Girl is about a former New York-based writer Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck) and his glamorous wife Amy (Rosamund Pike) who present a portrait of a blissful marriage to the public. However, when Amy goes missing on the couple's fifth wedding anniversary, Nick becomes the prime suspect in her disappearance. The resulting police pressure and media frenzy cause the Dunnes' image of a happy union to crumble, leading to tantalizing questions about who Nick and Amy truly are. 

Our Remake activity involved replicating an already existing film title sequence to the best of our ability. Our group decided on choosing the film Gone Girl to replicate as the title sequence and  genre appealed to us most the sequence involved many different settings and locations. At the start of the sequence we was introduced to a character and then towards the end of the sequence we was introduced to another character in the film. The characters that was introduced in the title sequence suggests  that they are the main character and the film revolves around them. The different locations that are shown in the title sequence may suggest the places that the main female character may have been.

It was easy deciding on the type of shot we wanted (which we placed on the shot list) as we could look at the Gone Girl title sequence as inspiration as we had to replicate it. However it was a little difficult storyboarding it and adding detail to the storyboard so we would know exactly what would happen in each scene. We also found it easy to film but it was a little difficult to get the ideal location, that would match or seem relatively close to the scenes in the Gone Girl title sequence. 

Overall I believe that we recreated our title sequence successfully but there was one element I didn't particularly like but we had to include. One thing I would change is one of the scenes, which is in the begin, this particular scene was the hand on the hair scene as personally I thought it was a little cringe and would be awkward for the actors. 

Audience Research Task

From my research I have found out that younger teenagers like films from the comedy and horror genre, older teenagers like thrillers and the older generation likes Action, thrillers and war films.

Planning- Task 25- Head on activity

Spider-man 3

Spider-man 3 is an example of a film that has a good/influential title sequence. The title sequence introduces the characters with still images and moving clips/images. This suggests and shows the audience who the main characters are and what will happen within the film.

The sequence also contains a clear storyline which is a man being bitten by a spider and hence becomes Spider-man who protects the city from evil and harm.  As it is the last film in the Spider-man trilogy it carries on the storyline from the previous films. Spider-man 3 is set one year after the events from Spider-man 2. Peter Parker has become a cultural phenomenon as Spider-man, while Mary Jane Watson continues her Broadway career. Harry Osborn still seeks vengeance for his father's death and an escaped Flint Mark Owen falls into a particle accelerator and is transformed into a shape-shifting sand manipulator. An extra-terrestrial symbiote crashes to Earth and bonds with Peter, influencing his behaviour for the worst.

The colours used in the sequence are dark colours. E.g. the webs used are white but the background is a black/greyish colour.

You know that it will take place in a city from the title sequence but towards the end and the previous films. 
A costume of Spider-man is an example of a prop that is used to portray his character. The costume suggests that it is a Superhero/action movie. 

The shots that are used consists of close ups, medium close ups, medium shots and long shots. The camera movement in the sequence consists of fading and cutting out into the next scene. These different types of shots are displayed within a spider web.

There is Non-Diegetic sound used in the sequence. The sound correlates with the images being displayed. So as the image images speed up so does the music. Towards the end of the sequence  the tone of the music changes and the images within the sequence become a lot darker as the Web had disappeared. And it's mostly black and grey colours.

The reason why I think this is an influential sequence is that it is different from many others films One reason why it is different from many other films is that the images are presented within the spider web. Also towards the end I like how the tone changes. As once before there was the colour white (from the web) which can represent innocence, faith and goodness, against a black background. However that changed into dark colours like black and grey which suggests the fight between good and evil. 

Panic Room

 Panic Room is also another example of a good/influential title sequence. One main reason is that it is very simple but yet effective. For examples most of the title sequence shows buildings which have the title credited on top of them (at all sorts of angles). However the font, colour and size correlate with the buildings. Also there are different types of shots for different buildings. Examples of shots used are worm’s eye view, long shot, medium shot and establishing shots. The location of the film we know is to be set in a city. These shots helps  add something extra to the sequence.

Non-Diegetic sound is used in the sequence. The sound is fairly slow in the beginning but slowly picks up pace. You can also here many different types of instrument being played, which helps to make the audience feel tensed.

Lastly Diegetic sound is used, this sound includes hearing cars and police sirens in the city scene. The police sirens suggest that it is a thriller/ crime related.

Blogging health check 1- feedback and targets

I believe that the feedback I have received from my first health check is relatively fair. Some of the blog posts I have such as tasks 4, 5 and 9, have sufficient details, while others not so much. (This can either be in the amount of content produced, through text, images and visual media or the amount of reflection and evaluation). This therefore makes some of the details in each blog post inconsistent. To rectify this I intend to make my blog posts more consistent with detail and try my best to use different types of ICT applications such as Padlet or Prezi to present my ideas.  Another weakness is my time management and frequency of posting but my aim will be to blog 3 to 4 times a week.

I agree with the strengths and weaknesses that was pointed out and I intend to act on the weaknesses and continue developing the strengths for the future blogs. I also have set Targets which should be achieved by next week and  I shall develop from them for my blogs. Since my blog posts was last checked I have posted five more blogs, which suggests that I can post the required amount of blogs each week. Now that I have my feedback, overall I intend develop my blog further by adding more detail in the  blogs and using more ICT applications for my ideas. I shall also aim to post more regularly

Blogging Health Check 1 - Feedback

I thought that the feedback was completely fair; in some tasks I have excelled in terms of the length and detail I have gone into like tasks 9 and 10, however task 4 is evidence of my lack of detail and work which ultimately displays my overall work as inconsistent. I've noticed that and I am willing to improve on the targets set by Louisa such as completing tasks 18, 19 and 21. I understand that those particular tasks were lacking in detail so I shall be developing those over the next few days. Also, I could input images or links as a way of further evidence to support my explanations in the tasks. Ultimately, I'm looking to improve my consistency of detail across all tasks.

Blogging health check 1 - feedback and targets

My first feedback is pretty disappointing... Due to unforeseen issues, I wasn't able to complete many tasks, and ended up with five out of around sixteen posts in my name tag.
However, in the two days after this feedback, I have brought my posts up to sixteen out of around twenty, so I am very sure that I will be able to catch up on the tasks. I hope that I do not get behind again, but it is possible that I will - at least I know that I have the ability to catch up if I need to.
In terms of the actual tasks, I don't find them particularly difficult, and I like writing about media, so I think that I'll be fine.

Group's Initial Film Ideas & Final Decision

Evaluation of my 6-minute challenge ideas

We were given two cards which we chose at random. One of the cards was our location, which was in a hospital and the other card was a prop card, which was a bicycle. From that we came up with an with the genre which is that it be a horror/comedy film, coming up with the idea was fairly easy after we decided on the genre. From that we decided that the film would involve a private investigator solving the mystery of a bicycle which makes its rider end up in hospital. After we established what would happen in the film we came up with the title sequence that we planned out via a storyboard. Planning what would happen in what scene and the type of shot it would be was a little hard as we wanted to create a flowing storyline. But in the end we managed to create a efficient storyboard with description about the type of shot it would be and what the shot is. I think our idea was successful and would be a good idea to follow through, however it would be fairly difficult to film in certain locations like the hospital, which was a scene from the storyboard, so that may need to be adapted. But I personally would like to create a different title sequence with a different genre compared to the 6 minute challenge idea.

Individual Evaluation Of 6 Minute Challenge

Our location and prop for our 6 minute challenge did seem rather outlandish because it was difficult to combine the two together for the opening title sequence. We randomly chose a hospital as our location and a bicycle as our prop. The task seemed challenging at first but we came to the conclusion that our title sequence should utilise the genre of horror/comedy. The name of the film was randomly generated and turned out to be a suitable title (Darren Mougey) who was the protagonist of the film. It gradually became easier with the name as we decided that Darren Mougey would be a private investigator who discovers this bicycle in an alleyway which has been rumoured to be treacherous as it usually puts people in hospital. This ultimately gave us the idea to make the film surround this unique idea of a 'possessed bicycle'. Once we confirmed this idea, the task in general was much more easy. We then came up with inputing the location now as we decided that Darren Mougey begins to ride the bicycle and then is put into hospital after crashing. Overall, our location, prop and title made perfect sense and therefore allowed us to create a successful title sequence. 

However, I don't think this opening title sequence would be a suitable choice for our film. This is because - although it was comedy/horror, I presume some of the audience would've laughed. Additionally, I don't think the genre of Horror would be utilised well in a film where an adult decides to ride a kids bicycle ends up in hospital. I doubt the possible chances of striking fear into an audience who watches a man go into hospital due to a crash from riding a kids bicycle. 

Evaluation of 6-minute challenge

First, we were given the prop and location (chosen at random) of a bicycle, and a hospital operating theatre. I think that, out of all of the groups in our class, we probably got the short end of the stick with that one... But we rolled with it (mostly).

For such a wild idea, we came up with ideas relatively quickly - bouncing off of each other became really easy once we settled with the genre of Horror/Comedy, we worked really well as a team laughing about our ideas.
The name Darren Mougey was pretty open - it just meant we had to include something about a guy, I suppose.

The title sequence came easier than it did when we worked with Gone Girl, but it was difficult to remember the shot types, and sometimes we'd come up with an idea after we'd already drawn the shot next to it, so there were a few slip-ups. It was also a little difficult to decide where we were actually going with the idea - it's all well and good having a funny beginning, but if you don't know how to end it, then you'll slip up in the filming stage.

I think that we did well considering the task's instructions and the fact that we weren't actually going to continue on filming the idea. 

However, in future, we will need to think of an idea that doesn't come far off the ground in terms of location and props, and a storyline that's do-able for us. Overall, though, I think that we work really well together and we're definitely progressing in our film-making skill.

I don't think we'll be using the ideas that we had in this project for our actual film, especially since we already have ideas for that one, but it was definitely worth gaining some more experience.

6 Minute Challenge - Thinking Creatively - Initial Ideas

Research - Task 25 Head On Activity

Research - Task 22 Evaluation of Gone Girl (Remake)

Evaluation -

We decided to remake the opening scene of Gone Girl. This is because it has an opening scene which consists of mystery and this tends to intrigue an audience. The non-diegetic sound in the opening scene (a voice in the background) plays as the reason behind all this built up drama/mystery which seems rather compelling. Overall, I don't think the remake of Gone Girl was as successful as it could've been. One of the reasons behind this is the difficulty we faced as a group trying to input the sound in the original film into our remake. It turned out to be out of sync and didn't quite relate to the actual film itself. This may be because of the limited time we had to finish the editing and then upload it to the blog. However, utilising softwares such as Premier Pro and AfterEffects in our title sequence proved to be easier in terms of navigation and the pace in which we were able to do things such as, trimming a clip and putting in the directors' names or actor/s names. I do believe that if we were able to re-do the film, we'd be capable enough of creating something which is more successful and signifes a solid resemblance between our remake and the original. 

Research Task 18 - Genre shortlist.

The 3 genres that I would like to include and think would work well within my own title sequence includes:

-Action
-Horror
-Mystery

A runner up option would be Scifi but as a genre it is rather hard to work with and does not always produce the best results.

Research Task 17 - Analyse the use of sound in one film opening.

The sound used in the opening credits of "Scott Pilgrim VS, the World" is mainly diegetic and starts off with characters speaking and introductions but then starts suddenly with the band playing rather loud, intense and rather rocky which captivates the audiences attention especially when paired with the bright colours and scenes and really helps to engage and set the tone that the film is a light comedic film with some intense action. Without the sound jokes is the dialogue would be missed and their would be absolutely no substance during when they are playing the music, this shows how heavily this particular sequence relies upon the audio.

Research Task 3 - Favourite previous student work.

My favourite work from previous students is group 22's title sequence from 2015-2016. Group 22's sequence was very dramatic with its large use of slow fades to cut between the different shots of the two guys running, in the fades is the placement of the the titles which fits really well with the pace and gives the audience a chance to read and take in the titles. The audio of the sequence is police sirens and heavy breathing which screams danger to the audience and that something awful is about to happen to the boy that is being chased. The boy falls towards the end in an alley with very low lighting where we get different shots of the chaser slowly making his way towards him with low angles making the audience seem weak along with the character who is being chased so they are really put in his perspective so they can feel what he feels, it fades to black and gun shots ring out leaving mystery and curiosity in the audience whilst keeping them very engaged for the rest of the movie therefore making it almost a perfect title sequence. One issue I had with the title sequence is that during the running it gets to a point where it almost feels like it drags but is quickly rectified with the change of scene in the later alleyway.

Research task 12 - BFI statistics yearbook

Research task 16 - the importance of sound in film

Just like images and text, sound brings things to film that make the experience of watching it more enjoyable.
Interestingly, at the beginning of our course, we learned about the first films ever published - films in which sound was only a part in background music. 'Talkies'; films with the actors really speaking, only really started to be produced in the 1920s. But, Arthur! They still had some form of sound! I hear you shout. But, musical sound and sounds such as dialogue are different types of sound, and add different things to the film experience.

Music is an interesting one. It can help convey tone and mood in a way that images and text alone cannot, which is why it's so vital in a horror film (I don't know if you've ever tried to watch one with the sound off, but it definitely makes the experience a lot less exciting). Music can convey moods, such as fear, sadness, and excitement. In my opinion, it's a really important factor in suspending disbelief, because it helps the audience to become part of the film wholeheartedly.
Other sounds, for example, dialogue, or other noises within the film, help with storytelling. Since films are such a different medium than books, events cannot be conveyed to the audience in the same way. This is why it is important to think carefully about what the actors are going to say, if there is going to be narration involved, and other things like this. This kind of sound helps to engage the viewers - if an audience were to see a film of average length (let's say two hours or so) with just music and no other kinds of sound, I guarantee you that a few people would be nodding off even in the front - because music is usually very continuous, and so it can just become background noise.

The use of diagetic and non-diagetic sound is also important in film as a storytelling device. Sounds like music and narration would be non-diagetic, because the characters in the film are not supposed to know that it's there, and sounds like dialogue, or a chair scraping, would be diagetic, because it adds to the atmosphere of what is going on in the scene.

Other than all of this, sound is important as a whole because it gives tone to the whole film. I talked before about horror films having music - the music in that genre of film will usually be tense, which shows the mood of the characters in the film, and helps give context to the situation. Other sounds, such as screams, are rare in, say, a romance film, and if used in this genre would shock the audience and make them anticipate what is going to happen next.

Research task 10 - categorising title sequences