Friday 16 April 2010

Evaluation Task: 5

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How did you attract/address your audience?




Death On Tuesday from Jemma Goulds on Vimeo.


LOGO
We created our production logo ' Half moon productions' firstly as a worded logo supported by a dull background, this was due to the fact that our film is from the thriller genre and audiences are expecting scenes of a dull and gritty nature.
We then show an image of a moon next to the worded logo to help the audience associate the figure of the moon with our production company, therefore making it easily recognisable. We decided to keep the image simple as it would be easy to remember and because a 'Moon' is commonly seen by people.

ESTABLISHING SHOT
Our establishing shot shows an image of the city. The effect of this is that it begins to set the scene, with the rain connotating bad circumstances to come during the film.

FIRST FRAME
The first frame of our film shows our female protagonist proceeding on a seductive walk towards the camera (or the audience). The efffect of this is that it introduces her character as being sexy and lustful, so that the audience have some indication of what is to come for her character.


TITLES
he names of each character and people involved in our film fade in. This holds a chilling 'Thriller' effect to support the genre in which we have chosen. The pace in which the titles enter also go with the temp of the music, this makes the footage seem as if it is running more smoothly and in sync in comparison to if the music and footage were not in sync.


SECOND FRAME
The second frame introduces the male protagonist as being dominant with a strong and powerful walk, heading away from the audience. The effect of this was that it portrays him as walking away from his crimes (or hinted crimes), as the women who walked into the frame has now dissappeared. This will arouse suspicion amongst the viewers, maintaining the key elements of mystery on action-thrillers.


THIRD FRAME
This frame shows the female protagonist walking innocently passed the screen, with the titles following her. The effect of this is that it connonates the aspect of her being followed or 'Stalked' by the male protagonist.


FOURTH FRAME
The male protagonist during this moment of the film is shown smoking a cigar. As cigars are commonly and sterotypically associated with people of high status, usually in societies like 'The maffia', audiences will encorpret this idea into their view on his character. Creating assumptions that build on what they acspect from his character.

SIXTH FRAME
The male and female protagonists of Death on tuesday are at this point seen greeting eachother in a way suitable for lovers. This provides some indication for the audience to kno that the two are infact in a 'relationship' of some kind.

SEVENTH - END FRAME
These frames show the male protagonist following the female to portray him ultimately as a stalker towards the audience. As you can see there are red particals within the sillhouetted figures, this connotes the aspect of blood. Blood is a conventional aspect seen time and time again in many famous thriller movies, so we decided to incorporate this idea intevtively into our sillhouette idea

END TITLE
This frame introduces the name of the film to the audiences. It closes a dramatic end to the title sequence enabling a fresh start to commence for the film to proceed.
The title is presented in red, again connoting blood, which can be further shown by the blood stained patched pictured around the title. This could also represent the theme of love strongly present in the film as red is a sterotypical colour full of love, lust and sexual emotion.

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Texas Chainsaw Massacre Title Sequence

Analysis Of Texas Chainsaw Massacre Title Sequence

The opening of this film starts with the presence of eerie music which immediently builds suspence and gives the audience the impression that something not particually normal is either happening, happened or about to take place. The music involved in this scene works effectively as it not only creates a certain amount of tension amongst the viewers to prepare them for the events that are due to follow, but also compliments the low key lighting to ultimately generate a dark mysterious setting typical of a horror genre. The low key lighting is created by the use of candles, which also act as the key light. The candles during the title sequence create a gothic feel as they are mostly identified in churches and hold religious significance.

This title sequence is dependent on the use of photographs, a very simple yet effective decision as it makes the audience feels as if they are people told a story from a family photo album, making them more interested to proceed to find out about the storyline. The use of close-up shots on the photographs and news paper cut outs also helped to create a feeling of involvement towards the audience as if they are being shown the items personally. However, the camerawork was presented as very fast paced. The effect of this is that it dosen't reveal too much of the storyline and helps to also build tension and suspence, keeping the audience gripped and staying true to the horror genre.Other aspects that contributed to making this title sequence successful were the use of iconic and conventional horror figures. For example, blood.Blood is commonly connected with movies from the horror genre as there is usually always elements of death present within them. The other conventional aspects involved during this title sequence were the use of knives and chains. As the film title includes the word 'Chainsaw' this could also be a play-on aspect. The title of the film also suggests mass murder within the word 'Massacre' and therefore, the presence of knives are chains could help portray this idea and theme of muder further.Close-up shots of dead animals and newspaper cutouts involving the words 'Killing' and 'Murder' also help do this.

At the end of the title sequence, a photograph of a baby with a deformity, a cleft lip (which was also shown at the beginning of the title sequence) is being burnt. The connotation of this action is that it suggests the innocent baby in the photograph is nomore, and could infact imply that the baby is now of another form and plays some involvement into the murders that have been taking place as the photograph was shown at the both the beginning and end of the sequence.

Hustle Opening Sequence

Analysis Of Hustle

Hustle comtains elements used witih the iPod advert which eventually is the product we plan to produce with our short film coursework.
The opening credits of this television drams has acted as inpiration for our film and also provided us with a few ideas of which we would creatively change, and incorporate into our own work.