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Friday, 14 December 2012

Title Reserch Ordering


order of titles in movie openings


List of titles as they appear in James bond tomorrow never dies
1. Production company EON productions limited
2. Pierce Bronsan (star)
3. As Ian Flemings (writer of James bond series) James bond
4. Film title tomorrow never dies
5. Starring Jonathan pierce
6. Michelle Yeoh
7. Teri Hatcher
8. Joe don baker
9. Ricky jay
10. Gotz Otto
11. Desmend llewelyn
12. Vincent Schiavelli
13. Geoffrey palmer
14. Colin salmon
15. Samantha bond
16. And Judi Dench as M
17. Producti0n supervisor
18. Supervising production accountant
19. Production executive
20. Assistant director
21. Camera operator
22. Script supervisor
23. Sound mixer
24. Supervising sound mixer
25. 2nd unit assistant director
26. Far east production supervisor
27. Unit manager
28. Production manager
29.  Location production managers
30. Make up supervisor
31. Hairdressing supervisor
32. Wardrobe supervisor
33. Electrical supervisor
34. Stills supervisor
35. Publicity and marketing
36. Set decorator
37. Construction co coordinator
38.  Property master
39. Art directors
40. 2nd unit camera man
41. Miniature photographer
42. Underwater photographer
43. Additional photographer
44. Arial photographer
45. Miniatures
46. Aerial coordinator
47. Halo jump coordinator
48. Casting
49. Main title design
50. Special effects supervisor
51. Stunt supervisor
52. Second unit director
53. Costume designer
54. Editors
55. Director of photography
56. Production designer
57. Music
58. Line director
59. Written
60. Produced
61. Directed

Opening credits for north by northwest
1. Metro Goldwyn Mayer presents
2. Cary grant
3. Eva maire saint
4. James mason
5. In Alfred Hitchcock
6. Title north by north west
7. Co starring
8. Written
9. Music
10. Director of photography
11. Production designed
12. Art  director
13. Set decoration
14.   Special effects
15. Titles designed
16. In vistavision
17. Film editor
18. Colour consultant
19. Recording supervisor
20. Hair stylist
21. Make up
22. Assistant director
23. Associated producer
24. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Clockwork orange

1. Warner bros. A Kinney company presents
2. A Stanley Kurbrick production
3. Title A clockwork orange

Pink panther movie
1. Metro Goldwyn Mayer pictures and Columbia pictures present
2. A Robert Simmonds production
3. A Shawn levy film
4.  Steve martin (star)
5. Main title the pink panther
6. Main titles
7. Pink panther theme written by
8. Music
9. Music supervisor
10. Costume design
11. Edited
12. Production designer
13. Director of photography
14. Executive producer
15. Producer
16. Based on
17. Story by
18. Screen play by
19. Director





September

1. Orion pictures
2. A jack Rollins and Charles h. Joffe production
3. Main title September
4. Cast
5. Casting
6. Costume designer
7. Editor
8. Production designer
9. Director of photography
10. Executive producer
11. Produced
12. Written and directed

attack the block
1. film4 and UK films presents
2. a big talks production
3. title attack the block

Timeline of Opening

Re Drafted Script


To Die For

Ext. House 1 lounge, night
The moon hangs calmly in the sky and stars are speckled across the dark abyss of the night. The camera tracks a Ford Focus as it pulls into the drive of the house. Man 1 exits’ holding a briefcase, the briefcase is focused on by the camera, we pan across as he goes to the front door.
Int. House 1 downstairs hallway
     We here footsteps approach the door, a key turns in the lock and the door opens. Man 1, middle aged tired looking, he’s wearing a sharp business suit and holding a briefcase. He sighs and walks through the hallway, all the doorways seem to lead to a darkened room. He turns to the mirror on his left, there’s a slight movement behind him and, as he spins round, a masked assailant moves into the doorway behind him. There is silence for a moment; the masked man raises his gun.
Man 1
Don-
He’s shot twice in the chest before he falls to the floor, red mist rising through the light cast by the moon in the hallway. The killer pants, the room is still and disorientating. The killer walks into the kitchen.
Int. House 1 kitchen
The killer goes into the kitchen and switches on all the hobs and walks out of the kitchen quickly.
Int. House 1 downstairs hallway
He pries the briefcase out of the man’s hand and walks out, shutting the door behind him.
Title Sequence

Risk Assesment


Risk assessment
Activity assessed:
As media task filming
Assessment date:
28/11/12
Assessed by:
Toby Trew
Activity location: house
Who’s at risk: actors and cameramen
Next assessed by:
Approved by:
HAZARD:
Risk level
Before
High, mediocre  or low
Risk level
After
High or low
Control measures
Reducing the risk to a minimal risk
Car pulling into drive
High: could get hit by car or equipment being damaged by car.
Low risk because cameramen will keep a certain distance away from cars and roads to mineralise the chance of injuries.
Making sure that camera man stands away from where the car is driving.
Use of real knife
Could cut actor with blade
We made sure that we used the back of the knife so that it wouldn’t cut our actor
Used back of blade and made sure that we held it away from the actors neck.
Walking down the hallway(marble)
Could drop and crack equipment
Slip over
Low because with all potential trip hazards removed and things that could injury someone if they fall are removed.
Make sure appropriate foot wear is worn so that there is a reduced risk of slipping and falling.
Action shot
when acting out scene potential to hurt actor
Low because with all potential trip hazards removed and things that could injury someone if they fall are removed.
Remove any shelves sharp corners on desks/cabinets.
Trip hazard wires, track and fake blood







Younger siblings/family members
Trip over and injure yourself slip on the fake blood





Could get in the way of shots damage equipment
No trip hazards left to be tripped over. Make sure all fake blood is removed from the floor before filming the next shot.

Siblings are kept away from shooting area.
Personal protective equipment needed:
Provided by:
Level of first aid provision needed
First aiders
Nearest telephone:
Nearest 24hr hospital/doctor

Influences

In preparation for our filming we watched various movies and took inspiration from these. The first movie we watched was Casino Royale. From this we took the black and white effect for the movie opening, the reasoning behind this was that we liked the gritty realism that the black and white created. It removes all flash and sparkles from the scene and makes you focus on the gritty nature of the shots.
The second film we took inspiration from was ‘Tinker Tailor Solider Spy’. From this we looked to extract realism. No Hollywood chase scenes just real life again the gritty nature was somethhing we wanted to replicate.
The final film was ‘Drive’ which is where we got our violence level from. We saw you could make a stylised movie with a high violence level at it be successful. 

Monday, 10 December 2012

Music Ideas


MUSIC RESEARCH

Mozart’s greatest violin piece - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caVr-VdeDvw – sounds too cheerful, need to be of a lower key and to be the right tempo

 Mozart – Requiem - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPlhKP0nZII&feature=related – Possibility to be used in our work

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde – Prelude - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fktwPGCR7Yw – Sounds exactly right for our opening, possibly going to be used. Correct key and tempo.

Hollywood Brass music UnderScore Opening spy music – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umA09kugKpU – Right tempo, a style which suits our genre and the purpose.

FINAL CHOICE:
Hollywood Brass music UnderScore Opening spy music – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umA09kugKpU – This  is the best song we found to go with our movie opening.

Posible ideas


Proposed ideas
1.       D.E.A.D
Zombie Thriller. A character runs across a field with a zombie(s) chasing him/her. Filmed mostly in a hand held style with chopped out credits that halt all sound. Sound mostly diegetic.
2.       Till death do us part. A 70’s set period drama revolving around a recently widowed man
3.       The rise of the fist. Spoof martial arts film shot in  a vintage fashion like it’s from the 70s complete with scratches on the camera, 70s clothing and an over the top music as well as corny acting. In the opening scene our main character Donnie a young man with social insecurities, witnesses master yang shi ping beat up some thugs in a local restaurant, leading Donnie to wanting to become a master of karate as well. The opening wouldn’t need to include any fancy editing or transitions, the titles would have to be corny and the sound less than decent. I think that this would be a good opening as it wouldn’t mean spending too much time to find a good actor and not that long to film.
4.       To die for. A spy thriller. Like the opening of casino royale it is shot in black and white it shows a man going to his large home. It is revealed that he has some shady connections and isn’t just an intricate businessman. Whilst in his office he sees someone moving about outside. He gets out a gun and tries to find who is outside. As he walking down the hall he’s shot by a silenced bullet. As he dies the door is kicked open it is then revealed that the bullet came from a sniper miles away to make sure he wouldn’t talk to the police. The scene would need no real fancy editing, just to be in black and white for effect. The music should be loud and dramatic as well as used to create suspense.
5.       Gulf. A war film. Opens up with a black screen and a voice. The voice is talking about his time in the gulf war. His speech stops and you hear gunshots and bombs going off. Then colour comes onto the screen and you can see a man in his late 30’s / early 40’s in a therapist chair talking to a therapist. He is suffering from Gulf War Syndrome – similar to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. He talks about the loss of a friend in the war and you can hear his screams. His voice cracks as he’s talking and a single tear rolls down his cheek but keeps a hardened face. In between camera shots, the screen turns black again and credits appear and disappear in a distinctive font.

Proposed Credits

Studio Name: Warner Bros. Production Company: Millennium Films A film by Hamish McNeill and Alfie Shea Charlie Swift Film Title: To Die For With Matthew Gadsen And Toby Trew Casting by Alfie Shea Music Composed by Costumes Designed by Props by Matt Weller Edited by Alfie Shea Production Designed by Toby Trew Director of Photography Hamish McNeill Executive Producers Toby Trew Charlie Swift Story by Hamish McNeill Alfie Shea Written by Hamish McNeill Directed by Alfie Shea

Wednesday, 14 November 2012

General Order Of Credits


  • (NAME OF THE STUDIO)
Name of the studio that is distributing the film and may or may not have produced it (Walt Disney Pictures, Columbia, Lions Gate, Universal, Marvel Studios, Dimension, Miramax etc.).
  • (NAME OF THE PRODUCTION COMPANY)
Name of the production company that actually made the film or name of the investment groups or companies that financed a substantial part of the film (usually credited as "in association with" or "A (studio name) production.").
  • (PRODUCER NAME) PRODUCTION or/and (director only) A FILM BY (DIRECTOR NAME)
Director's first credit, often "a film by XY or "a XY film".
  • STARRING
Principal actors, (Sometimes the stars' and director's credits will be reversed, depending on the star's deal with the studio; sometimes, as in the Rodgers and Hammerstein films, or as in all three film versions of Show Boat, or, as in many of Disney's films, the title of the film will be shown before the names of its actors; sometimes, as in many of Cannon's films, the name(s) of the principal actor(s) will be shown before the name(s) of the producer(s), i.e. "The Cannon Group presents X in a Golan-Globus production of a Y film").
  • (FILM'S TITLE)
Name of the film.
  • FEATURING
Featured actors.
  • CASTING or CASTING BY
Casting director.
  • MUSIC or MUSIC COMPOSED BY or ORIGINAL SCORE BY
Composer of music.
  • PRODUCTION DESIGN or PRODUCTION DESIGNER
Production designer.
As a variation some of the below may be noted:
  • SET DESIGN
  • COSTUMES or COSTUMES BY or GOWNS (older movies)
  • HAIRDRESSER
  • MAKE-UP ARTIST
  • SOUND RECORDING (older movies)
  • VISUAL EFFECTS DIRECTOR or VISUAL EFFECTS BY
  • EDITOR or EDITED BY
Editor.
  • DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of photography.
  • PRODUCER or PRODUCED BY, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Producers, co-producers, executive producers, 'also produced by' (credited for various reasons according to contracts and personal scrutiny of the principal producer). Often, though, the name of the producer will be the next-to-last opening credit, just before the director's name is shown.
  • BASED ON THE BOOK (PLAY, GRAPHIC NOVEL etc.) BY or FROM A PLAY/BOOK BY (older movies)
If based on a book or other literary work.
  • BASED ON THE CHARACTERS BY or BASED ON THE CHARACTERS CREATED BY
If based on characters from a book or other media.
  • STORY or STORY BY
Person who wrote the story on which the script is based, gets "story by" credit, and the first screenplay credit, unless the script made substantial changes to the story.
  • WRITER(S) or WRITTEN BY
Screenplay writers. The Writers Guild of America allows only three writing credits on a feature film, although teams of two are credited as one, separated on the credits by an ampersand ("X & Y"). If each works independently on the script (the most common system), they are separated by an "and". If more than two persons worked on the screenplay, the credits may read something like "screenplay by X & Y and Z and W" X and Y worked as a team, but Z and W worked separately.
  • DIRECTOR or DIRECTED BY
Director. The Directors Guild of America permits a film to list only one director, even when it is known that two or more worked on it. Except in very rare cases (a death in mid-production) there is only one directing credit.

Monday, 12 November 2012

Fonts

Overall we've decided on the bottom font as it was sharp and defined but still simplistic.

Wednesday, 7 November 2012

Script- First edition

This is our original script but we've decided that this had too many faults as an opening and that we needed to re do it and change the style.

To Die For

A large Ford Focus pulls into the driveway of a stately home, its night time and the moon hangs in the sky. The man who comes out is middle aged, worn out and tired; he looks like an ordinary middle aged man coming home from work. We follow him as he makes his way through the house, through this it is revealed that he lives alone, there isn’t any food in the fridge or pictures on the wall. He makes his way into his office; it’s sleek and modern, cold and empty. He sits down in the chair behind his desk. He sighs and slouches back into his seat. He pulls a gun from his coat and puts it in a draw. Just then the phone on his desk rings loudly. The man picks it up)
Man 1
Hello.
Caller 1 (O.S)
The deal in Cuba has gone sour. (Man 1 opens the draw with the gun in it) You need to get out. You’ve probably already been burned; you’re on your own. (He hangs up the dial tone rings)
Man 1 puts the phone down, stands up and checks the clip in the gun quickly. He makes his way through the house quietly, the score begins to stir and it paces up. He goes upstairs once he gets to the landing he hears a creak downstairs. He backs away to the closet at the end of the landing. He pulls out a box from the bottom of the closet it contains some money and passports. He puts it in his pocket and goes to his bedroom, pulls out a suitcase and quickly stuffs in clothes. The phone downstairs rings again. He slowly makes his way downstairs pointing the gun at the hallway as he goes downstairs, you can see the sweat running down his face. Once at the bottom of the stairs he looks about and quickly gets to the phone before it stops ringing. He picks it up, but this time he waits for the caller to speak. It’s Morton, his voice is young and lethargic.
Green
Hello. Hello.

Man 1
Hello, Green?


Green
I’m on my way now I guess you’ve been burned?

Man 1
Yeah.


Green
I’ll be five minutes, get ready to go.
Man 1 hangs up and goes back upstairs, the pace revived. He gets the suitcase and drags it downstairs he puts it down by the door. Having worked up a sweat and goes to sit down in the lounge. He sits on the sofa, panting and wiping his face. The monotonous tick tock of the clock rack up the tension, a close up of the clock intercut with an interior shot on the door, a creak of the floorboard. The tension continues with shots of every way a villain could get in. The doorbell drones abruptly it startles Man 1 his hands are shaking, but he calms himself. He opens the door at the door stands Morton, a clean cut young man in his twenties, his eyes have dark rings around them, his voice doesn’t lose its lethargy in person.
Green
Are you ready?
Man 1
Yeah I just need to get some things.

He turns and begins walking back in
Green
So what’s your plan?
Man 1
Lie low try and avoid detection, chances are I’ll still be found
Green
One hell of a pension
Man 1 stands over a table in the hallway
Man 1
I suppo-
Alound bang and the tingling of a shell on the ground. Blood spatters over the clock and Man 1 falls on the dark floorboards, a pool of blood forming around his head, in the corner of the screen Green leaves.
Opening credits.

Tuesday, 6 November 2012

Monday, 5 November 2012

Movie Pitch


Friday, 26 October 2012

How our piece will fit to codes and conventions