Film Logo Ideas

Here are my film logo ideas for the main title name, these ideas and designs will change over time to become more suitable for the film and target the audience to the highest standard. 

Key Scene 3

This is the third key scene that I have filmed to advertise my film and make sure that I have started filming some shots for my final trailer. 

APB Music Record Company

Our group got in contact with APB music who is the company that are in charge of the copyrights for Fall Out Boys music and there song 'Centuries' which I am interested in using when I make my trailer as the music would suit the trailer very well, I sent them an email asking them if it was OK to use there music in my work. Unfortunately they did not reply. 

Shot List

Here is my shot list for the trailer and is similar to my storyboard, it just explains in more detail the individual shot in more detail than it does on the storyboard. 

Key Scenes 1&2

These are my key scenes 1 and 2 which are how they would be shown in my trailer (these clips may be used in the making of my final trailer) and show some of the shots that were written on my storyboard and shot list. 

Questionnaire on Audience Feedback for Production Logos

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Essay - Attack the Block

Essay; analyse the collective identity of British youth in a film of your choice.

‘Attack the Block’ is a British sci-fi, action and comedy that is set on a council estate in South London where a gang of male teenagers need to defend them and the community from being attacked by alien creatures. They come across to the audience as being very violent as they attack the creatures with great force and scare them with fireworks which could be stolen as the characters are portraying a very stereotypical ‘chav’ group of people.

The film is set at night time where most crime is typically occurs in every neighbourhood.  The setting is a council estate where stereotypically people on benefits live and they aren’t very nice people as they are rude and take other people’s money. Every character is dressed in tracksuits and walk around the streets showing they are very powerful and that their parents cannot control them by keeping them at home. The characters are a range of ages with the youngest character being around 10 years old and getting a bad influence on how they are meant to behave from the older males in the film. All of the actors are male showing it is a male dominated film; however there was women that play a massive role in the film as they show the change in the personalities of the characters as they develop through the film and learn about themselves. The bad group of people cause ‘moral panic’ as they attack a random woman in the streets when they try and steal her handbag but they later on save her and make her aware that they are not as evil as they come across as. The actors are not big Hollywood actors showing that the film is low budget; however the film uses the natural light of the streets to portray the characters as being intimidating but using affects to show the aliens are bold and powerful. They speak using a lot of slang and make themselves come across to the audience as being uneducated as they can’t find the correct grammar and words to be able to get across what is going on during the alien attack and with the quote of ‘I just want to go home and play Fifa’ the audience is able to tell that they are lazy and enjoy just staying home rather than getting a job.

 Poletta & Jaspar

The young males are the collective group during the film and are labelled by the people such as the women and man who live in the estate with them that have decided that this group of people are vile human beings that are only around so that they can cause destruction and make other people’s lives worst to enjoy their own more.  The group of male characters that are in the film as shown as being very loud towards other people along with wearing dark tracksuits, this is looked at by the adults and the other people that are in that area that they are then a group of males that cause a panic towards other people and are a very negative group in society (grouped by the outsiders who are the adults).

Snow

All of the experiences that the male group of characters make them one group of people as they are all together every night and causing havoc for the people that live around them, all of the characters think that they are unique such as the woman thinking that she is one because she has a job and doesn’t associate with those sorts of people but she is actually very similar to the group of boys as she experiences the attack and has to try saving herself and the people around her.  

Tafjal & Turner

The characters in the film especially the group of males will have multiple social identities as when they are out on the streets of London with their friends they need to make sure they come across as being very strong hearted when they are attacking people and scaring people to walk away as a sense of power. However when they visit home before the attack happens to get weapons the characters are very different with their families as they are very polite and make sure that they are aware of where they are going and what time they will be home at.

Stryker

The people in the group are always learning more about who they really are and the group that they are with (the gang of males that are very rude and scary) will be who the younger characters in the group will become as they think that it is right to look and act as they do, the younger members in the group will be shaped identity wise by the group that they hang round with – all of the older boys – as they don’t realise any different, especially as one of the younger boys is brothers with one of the older ones, they will look up to this person and want to be like them.

Bakhtin

The characters change from being rude and violent people when they try to steal the woman’s handbag and then help her save her own life and their own. The theory does link in with the film as the characters change who they are throughout the film and show a different side to themselves when they are helping to make a large change to the community. The characters change who they are throughout the film itself, proving that the theory is accurate. 

Gauntlett

The lifestyle choice that the gang are choosing is to be naughty and make sure that people know who they are it is a very negative lifestyle, the members of the gang will experiment with whether or not they want to live the life of a future criminal or become successful like the women who is a nurse. The group does actually tell the younger members that they should go home whilst the attack is occurring which shows the audience that their parents have also influenced their identity by showing them how to care for someone and want them to be safe.

Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a 7.4/10 and said that the film was a mix of scares, laughs and social mixes and was very British showing that the people that rated the film think that all of the youth in Britain are very similar to the people that are in the film which gives British youth a negative look as they think that all youth are rude and stay out late. IMDB gave an even lower rating of 6.6/10 due to it containing strong language and violence and enjoyed the idea of the characters starting as a villain and becoming good and recommend the film to other people.

 

Titles For Production Company

When I looked at my hand drawn logos I decided that I wanted to make them into well made logo ideas which I made on Firewords. My favourite logo idea that I did is the one of the woman on the tightrope as it is a simple image where it is clear what the company is about. I like the different fonts and styles that I used to create a range of different ideas and styles.

Essay on Saw

This is my essay on the film Saw.

Essay - Saw

It is an American film released in 2004 that became a franchise, the film had a very small budget and was all recorded in 18 days which meant that the film wasn’t going to be up to a massive Hollywood budget standard, but it doesn’t need to be due to most horror films being low budget because there is no need for fancy effects and Hollywood star actors. The story in the first film is to do with the two main male characters that are chained in a bathroom and given instructions on what they need to do to be able to survive and win. Police investigate into the murders that are occurring and try’s to find the victims locations and learn how to defeat the game, the characters that are in the film need to decide which thing they would rather kill to live themselves and see if they have earn a good life back. The man who runs the games has cancer and wants to see whether or not they are happy with the life that they have been given to see if they are grateful of what they have. The people that viewed the film had very mixed opinions on whether they liked it or not due to it being a very twisted film and a very gruesome horror.

The first scene in the film is to do with the main character ‘Lawrence’ next to a bathtub attached to a pipe where he cannot escape the lighting is very dull and there are no big clues inside the room apart from the saw in the middle of the room and a range of cameras placed around the corners of the room. There is a body in the middle of the floor where there is a tape recorder showing that the clues will slowly start to appear as he learns about the Jigsaw Killer. There are many flashbacks that occur during the film as they show the past life of the different characters making sure that the audience is able to relate to parts of the characters life before the game. At the end of the game the characters are just left to die, in a psychological murder.

Todorov: The film starts with disequilibrium due to the characters being thrown into the bathroom straight away. Equilibrium: the equilibrium is only seen during the flashbacks that the characters are having, during the flashbacks the characters’ lives that they are living where they are able to have their own families and live their everyday lives as their last. They are just getting on with normal things such as working, partying and eating. They might not have everything that they want but they are learning to live with the things that they already have. They are in a good position in life they might be able to get more out of it and be happier but they aren’t having a bad life they just might not appreciate it as much as they possibly could.

Disequilibrium: the problems that occur is that the characters have to play the game where they end up either dying or killing the people that they know (or could be strangers) they are through into a situation that they cannot get out of and are not happy with the things that are happening as they just want to go back to what they used to have, they now appreciate what they have more than they used too which is what the game in Saw is all about. They just want to go back to the way that things were before as things are just slowly getting worse and they are not happy with the things that are occurring during the film. They are beginning to appreciate the old events that were occurring more as they know that they were able to control the events that were happening and make room for improvements. 
New equilibrium: would be that the people are able to escape and carry on with their lives, however they aren’t able too as they are pulled back into the game that jigsaw is playing along with the psychological damage that the characters will be facing. When some of them end up being able to leave and escape their lives will all have been changed as they will be uncomfortable with doing the things that they used to. Even though they are back to the things they used too there will always be the worry that they will be brought into it again and not be comfortable with the idea of doing things that they used to do in the fear that something will go wrong or get worse. They are slowly becoming happier with the things that they have in the case of Saw they are happier with the life that they have been given and are doing things to help the people around them and not just help themselves, this then makes a big impact on their life as they are learning about the things they should be treating with great respects as this is the aim of the game of saw (which is to show people to look after their life and get the most out of it as they aren’t suffering with any illnesses).  

Levi-Strauss: There are many binary opposites that appear during the film due to the constant change in characters and events that are happening. 

·         Positive vs Negative – there should be positive effects on the characters as they are now realising that they should be more appreciative of their life and live it to the maximum that they can do. However it is a negative effect as the characters are thrown into a very difficult situation where they are then left with lifelong psychological problems because of the events that have happened, this could be seeing a death of someone that they are close too or being tortured into admitting their life isn’t as bad as they think it is.

·         Power vs Powerless/Good vs Evil – Jigsaw has lots of power as he is able to treat people as good or as bad as he likes because he is able to use things such as family and friends against them to make them do things that they wouldn’t normally do whereas the powerless are the other characters who are in the game and need to either hurt themselves or others to be able to survive and become very selfish on saving themselves.

·         Female vs Male – there are an equal mix of female and male characters in the film as they appear at different times throughout.  

·         Sane vs insane

·         Survival (life) vs Death – the characters need to try staying alive along with making sure their families and friends stay alive too, it’s a battle of life and death. The characters either need to hurt themselves to live or die with nothing.

·         Harmless vs violent

The opposites will change throughout the film due to different scenarios that the characters are being put in for example sane vs insane the characters are placed in a room where they need to be able to escape they are not thinking properly when they are going through the games events. They make situations worse for themselves such as pushing others into holes and making them not think about what they are doing before they do it.

Propp: All of the characters will be listed in one way or another as a certain character type depending on how much they are seen throughout the film and how often they are asked to do something.

      ·         Villain; Jigsaw who creates the problem and brings people into the situation

·         The Helper (helps the quest); this is also pighead as she makes sure that things are going to plan and that people are learning there lessons throughout the film and the games.

·         Father; is the detective whose son is in the games he needs to try getting him out to save his life and to make sure that the person making all the problems is stopped before they end up getting worse

·         Dispatcher (makes the problems); is themselves as they made the problem for themselves due to having a negative look on life

·         Anti- Hero; Jigsaw tries to teach them a positive lesson by being a hero figure as he wants them to come out of the games by doing something positive however he does a bad thing by putting them in a negative situation and making the characters die one by one for no reason

Barthes:
Action Codes: in the game when the characters get themselves into pointless situations such as when the character Amanda needs to get the key out of her boyfriend to save her own life, she then kills him so that she can get the key and live another day. These events happen one after another and lead to Amanda becoming very alone and sad as she has now murdered someone else to save herself.

Key Enigma Codes: The audience will watch the film and question why the characters are in this sort of situation where they are fighting for their lives, the answer to this question is later revealed when Jigsaw tells them that they are in the game because they do not appreciate their lives.

Signs and Symbols: the saw that has been left on the floor, the tape recorder that plays the message about the game to the characters and make them aware of what is going on. All of these suggest what is going on and links in the violence of the games.

Cultural References: the film is made in both the present tense and in the past as the characters all have flashbacks to their old life and are able to see the situation that they are in and they are always in the same place which is the bathroom that the games are being held in this is where the characters live and die in the games. The film itself is a linear as all of the events that occur in the film follow one after another however during the film it can go back to past event or forward to what might happen when they do something or if they don’t. Due to the film being linear it means that the story carries on going in a good and correct order

Feedback

Erin's Media Feedback

This is the feedback that I got given back from my teacher and made my own comment on how I felt about the comments that I had received. 

Hand Draw Logo Ideas

These are my hand drawn production company logo, the name for my production company is 'balance' which is shown in all of the logos that I have drawn. I like all aspects of the logos that I have drawn and have not decided on my favourite one yet.

Applying Audience Theory

Applying Audience Theory

More PowerPoint presentations from Erin

I took all of the audience theories that I learnt and applied them to my own work and how I could use them in my trailer especially when looking at the genre itself of psychological thrillers. 

Key Scenes Scripts

1.      Looking into the mirror whilst applying make up and realises she doesn't like how she looks anymore.

*Walking up to mirror and begins to look at herself*

*Looks down at bag of makeup and pulls out mascara*

*Starts to apply mascara*

*Finishes putting it on and smiles at self and looks back down at her makeup bag to see what else she can put on or if she wants more makeup on*

*Picks up a tub of eye shadow and begins to take off the lid*

* Applies the eye shadow on very generously as she is getting ready to go out*

*When about to apply on the other eye lid she stops and looks at herself in the mirror in shock at what she has just done*

*She is shocked and begins to rapidly remove the makeup (this is where the characters personalities are changing*

She Says: ‘’who would have chosen such a disgusting colour’’

2.      Date night, the characters are in love and going on date these characters are very happy.

*Walking into the room as the characters are having a movie night*

Rose: ‘’What do you fancy to eat?’’

Ava: ‘’I don’t mind what we have?’’

Rose: ‘’Well why don’t you come and have a look?’’

Ava: ‘’Put I’m sorting the film out’’

*Chooses a film and puts it in the DVD player*

Rose: ‘’Do you want to come and choose something now?’’

Ava: ‘’I would but I’m comfy now’’

*Ava under blankets ready to watch the film*

Rose: ‘’Fine but when you get hungry it’s not my fault!’’

*Rose begins to giggle to herself as the film starts and the characters have no food to snack on*

3.      Roxanne’s feet walking towards the camera and when they get to a certain distance away they change into something else.

*audience can see the first pair of shoes walking towards the camera walking at average speed*

*as the footsteps are getting close the shoes all of a sudden change to other shoes that are walking at a slower pace as the character is wearing heels and finds it harder to walk*

*as the feet walk up the camera, the camera moves so that the backs of the shoes are showing and again these are different shoes showing the characters personalities changing* 

For some of my key scenes I created scripts so that I would be able to act them out straight away and film them so that I would be able to use them in my final trailer.