Final Film - Hack

'Hack' - on YouTube

Title Sequence Analysis (Bourne Identity) - Max

The opening title sequence for this film is all shot from the P.O.V of what seems like a security camera, or infact someone who is filming someone else. This gives the effect that perhaps someone is stalking this unknown character.

The fact that there is a lot of emphasis on the stalking of this character, makes the audience wonder who the character being followed is. Is this the main character? Is this just a random character to throw the audience off? We don't know yet. This is clever as it makes the audience constantly ask questions, before the movie has really even started.

The actual credits appear around people in the P.O.V camera footage, this instantly makes the audience wonder if the names correspond to the person in the film that they are appearing next to, or if the film makers are doing this purely for effect.

Also the credits seem to distort and flicker, giving them an unstable look. This could offer an insight into either the film, or main protagonist of the film, this could possibly be referring to the protagonists instability, or that the film plot in itself, is very unstable and makes lots of twists and turns to keep the audience excited.

The title of the film at the end of the seqeunce is simply just the title written in a small white font at the bomttom of the screen, which then dissapears. This makes the film seem serious, and that the film makers didn't feel the need to try and over advertise it. The title then dissapears by flickering too much for the audience to still make out the words, and then ascend into the top of the screen where the text then shrinks into a small orb of light, before completely dissapearing altogether. This gives the effect of when you would turn off a screen of a computer or tv etc; again reinforcing the idea that this could be footage from a CCTV camera and that the person viewing the footage has now turned it off.

(SCREEN GRABS TO BE ADDED SOON)

Credits Changes Made - Max

We have decided to keep the colour of the credits as red, this is because it is bold against the dark backgrounds. Also the colour red instinctively means danger, and seeing as this is a thriller film, quite a big theme in the film is obviously action and danger. So we have decided that by using red coloured font, this positions the audience into thinking that this film contains some sort of danger.

Titles and Credits Re-Visited - Max

We have decided that with the time available, we will do the credits in Motion before importing them into After Effects to change the colour hue of all the credits to a green or white, from the standard red used in Motion.

The type of font and effect we will be using is called Timer, this is when a jumble of letters appear before then all changing into different letters which will spell out the credits.

This is how the effect starts, you can clearly see that these words make no sense, they are simply a jumble of letters.

This font is not the right colour, but as I said we will change the colour hue in After Effects.

By this stage, the effect is nearly complete. As you can see the text almost spells "Acting by Max Slinger-Thompson"

This transition, from the completely jumbled letters, to this point, has only taken about a second, so we may have to slow down the effect in After Effects.

At this point, the effect has transformed the jumble of letters, into proper words.

This means that the effect is almost finished, and by the looks of it, this effect works pretty well for the desired effect. Our aim was to have some sort of text that is jumbled, and is then 'de-coded' to form proper words.

The words then begin to blink out one by one, bringing an end to the whole effect.

Despite this being a good effect, this part of the effect happens far too quickly, and doesn't leave long enough to get a good look at the text on the screen.

This will be easy to remedy, as we can either slow down the effect in After Effects, or use a freeze frame in Final Cut.


We will only be using this effect for the credits, and then we should be able to create a better effect for the main title.

Tittle sequences - Harrison

Dawn Of The Dead

http://player.vimeo.com/external/37711889.hd.mp4?s=bd6d1e53bef20b5af3d94556420d4918

This film is a typical zombie film, focusing on a virus that turns people into the living dead.  The tittle and opening sequence need to be related to the film, but also can act as a way to intice the viewer as well as give hints into what occurs in the movie. In Dawn Of The Dead, the names of cast and crew are written in red, or in splattered blood, this effect does two things that infrom the audiance about the film. Firstly, its obviouse that this film will be a bloody and violant thriller, and secondly, it gives insits and clues into the  key aspects about the film, for example, in typical zoombie thrillers the infection is carried in the blood, this suggests that the blood is likely to be the carrier of the virus.

The soundtrack is contrapuntal to the mood of the bloody visuals, however, although up beat, it succeeds in creating a scary and tense mood, through the lyrics sung by country singer. This spooky music will make the audiance begin to sence the terror, aswell as interperute this film as a twisted horror, as a direct result of the contrpuntal backing track. The soundtrack is very affective at stricking fear into the viewers, preparing them for the gory film ahead.  Furthermore, the non diagetic sounds of screaming, biting and the hospital heart moniter contribute to creating a violant atmosphere . This shocks the audiance, as they dont expect this horror and violence straight away, which draws the vierers full attention onto the film.

Evidence of editing - Hospital scene - Harrison

Final cut pro was used on the Mac pc's in the editing suite during lesson time, we spent approximately two hours compiling our best shots to put into the final, completed sequence.

This is the concluding shot to the whole opening, and its purpose was to conclude the tension that had been raised throughout the opening sequence, therefore it was crucial to make sure this edit lasts the right amount of time in order to leave the viewer asking questions, without giving too much away. The clip concludes with Max about to open his mouth to say something, then it goes to a straight cut.

 This is a close up of the protagonist, we used fast edits here, mixing between big and extreme close ups to convey confusion and anxiety. We chose to use this type of shot, because it allows the viewers to see the panic on max's face, which contributes in creating tension and developing the mood of panic that we are trying to convey.

The two shoots on screen were taken to show the equipment our protagonist is strapped into, this was vital in showing the environment he has found himself in, but also to show the seriousness of the situation he is in. We used a focus pull to add a more professional feel to the shot....

Title Sequence Idea - Max

For our title sequence we could have a blank screen with our title name on it (which has yet to be decided). This would last for a few seconds before fading out to the first shot of the penning shot of all of the feet on the plane.

My idea is that on every pair of feet you see, more credits appear.

For example, when the first pair of shoes comes into shot. We will have the names of everyone who worked with the cameras or sound equipment, probably in some sort of broken up white font, that could then reassemble itself to show the names of the people. This will then fade away quickly as the camera moves onto the next pair of shoes.

On this pair of shoes, we could have all the names of the people who have acted in the piece, this would include the nurse and doctor who helped us in the hospital, the other students who helped as extras, and the parents and siblings who helped too.  This would again be written in broken up white font that would reassemble itself and then fade away.

As it goes past the final pair of shoes, we could feature the names of the students who composed the music for us, or the website from which we have obtained royalty free music. Although we will probably ask for a student to help us with the music. Again this will be written in the broken up white font which reassembles itself before fading out.

Then finally as the camera ascends past the briefcase and towards the head of the protagonist, we will finally have who edited the piece and directors etc. Before the whole scene actually begins. This will all be written in the same style as all the other credits.






This is not a final idea, but just a possible idea for us to explore. The point of having the credits showing in one of the actual shots for the film, is because we are already fairly tight on time, so we need to put the credits in a shot so that we dont use up any more time. We may, if this idea is chosen, make changes to it, but for now this is one of our ideas. We may not be able to include the effect of the font reassembling its self, but if possible we should hopefully be able to use that, to hint at a sort of theme of decoding or hacking.

Another possible font choice could be numbers that would then turn into letters, or something along those lines.