Font Analysis

The name of our film is 'Framed', we have already chosen the font for the title but here are some other fonts we could of used;

Exsisting Production Company Logo's

Here are some images of production companies logos, including some famous lgos like Warner Bros. Pictures and Pixar, it's suprising how much a logo helps, just by seeing the logo is a way of promoting the film and drawing in an audience.

Here is "The Weinstein Company" logo, in some ways our logo is simular to this as it also uses triangles in the logo, looking at the weinstein company we can see what sort of films they produce based on the monchrone colours used in the picture, this logo will inspire me to change our logo's colours to suggest a darker film rather than the bright pink and blue that suggests a teenage film.  

Production Logo

This is our idea for a production logo for our film. We have called it Triangle prodcutions and produced it using paint. The original image of the pink and blue triangle is from the internet then we added the words TRIANGLE PRODUCTIONS. However when we added the logo to the begining of our film it didn't fit in that well with the codes and conventions of a thriller film. The first thing you see of our opening sequence is the brightly coloured triangles followed by the dark street our film starts on, it didn't fit so on Photoshop we edited the colours to fit with a darker thrilling theme.

The history of thrillers.

Thrillers are a genre of film (and tv programming) that uses tension and suspence as its main elements. The definiton of a thriller is "A novel, play, or movie with an exciting plot, typically involving crime or espionage." A thriller film will stimulate the viewers moods in a level of anticipation, uncertainty, excitement, tension and terror. Thrillers often contain literary devices like 'red herrings' and 'cliff hangers', these keep the viewer hooked and wanting to watch more. Most thrillers are villian-driven plots often containing ransoms, revenege, kidnaps, etc..

CODES AND CONVENTIONS OF THRILLER FILMS:
Thriller films will most likely contain a male antagonist with a female protaganist, the females life is put in danger to the point of no escape. What make thrillers most intriging is the music and editing used in them. Creepy, sullen music is often used in a thriller at a point where the viewer will not notice it but feel the tension build. Editing is thrillers is often tracking and panning at the beginning. Close ups are the most typically used as the zone in on objects that may be poinunt to the film later on. Low angles and high angles are used alot in thrillers to make certain things in the film appear small and innocent and others big and scary. Jump cuts are also used alot in thrillers to build tension and give the audience an idea of what could happen in the film, the climax builds greatly via this idea. The sound in thriller films is more likely to non diegetic that plays in the background.

Location Shots of our filming

Here is a screen shot of the street we filmed on.

And again.

Here is a screen shot of the front of Stevie's house, which is where we filmed. 

 

Week 13

We have done more editing this week and looked at music to put in our opening.

Week 12

We have edited all of our film together and added titles, we've also started to look at music choices. On Sunday (4.12.11) we will do some re-filming of the outside shots.

On Friday Mike Smith came in to talk to us about audience and taught about segmenting audiences, we learnt about how to appeal to a certain age range, gender, social class etc... We were given statistics of some televison programmes and from those we could work out what type of people watched particular types of programmes. We also learnt about the "ABC" system of people and Acorn. It was an interesting session which I learnt alot from.