Investigation into Title Timings

When we were investigation the timings of different film openings, we looked at Juno. Below is a list of the titles and when they appear:

Title - Time
"fox searchlight pictures present" - 16 secs
"A mandate pictures - Mr Mudd production" - 22 secs
"A Jason Reitman Film" - 27 secs
"Juno" - 29 secs
"Ellen Page" - 40 secs
"Michael Cera" - 44 secs
"Jennifer Garner" - 49 secs
"Jason Bateman" - 58 secs
"Allison Janney" - 1 min 2 secs
"J.K. Simmons" - 1 min 6 secs
"Olivia Thirlby" - 1 min 12 secs
"Casting by Mindy Marin, c.s.a Kara Lipson" - 1 min 18 secs
"Costume designer Monique Prudhomme" - 1 min 22 secs
"Music by Mateo Messina, Songs by Kimya Dawson" - 1 min 27 secs
"Music supervisors Peter Afterman and Margaret Yen" - 1 min 33 secs
"Co-producers Jim Miller, Kelli Konop, Brad Van Arragon" - 1 min 40 secs
"Film editor Dana E. Glauberman" - 1 min 44 secs
"Production designer Steve Saklad"- 1 min 49 secs
"Director of photography Eric Steelberg" - 1 min 54 secs
"Executive producers Joe Drake, Nathan Kahane, Dnaiel Dubiecki" - 1 min 69 secs
"Produced by Lianna Halfon, John Malkovich, Mason Novick, Russel Smith" - 2 mins 5 secs
"Written by Diablo Cody" - 2 mins 11 secs
"Directed by Jason Reitman" - 2 mins 18 secs

Analysing the timings of titles are important when researching for the final peice as it gives us an idea of what times are affective and how to make it flow more.

Research - opening scenes

This is the opening scene from "Touch of Evil". I like the way it build tension through showing you, at the start, a person starting off a ticking bomb and putting it in the boot of a car. The way it follows the car through-out the whole of the scene makes you know something will evetually happen - which it does.




I also like the opening for "Kidulthood". I like the way it instantly tells you what group of poeple the film is aimed at, basing the opening in a school and showing what the main characters talk and act like.




The opening for "Deja Vu" is one that myself and Harrison are aiming for as our final piece. We like the affect where the camera is placed in the middle of a busy atmosphere with calming music on in the background giving the audience the feeling something may happen. It builds tension which is what we are aiming to do in our opening scene.

Preliminary task

For the preliminary task myself, Harrison, Danny and Dean found an empty classroom in school where we begun our short film in order to get practise for the final piece. We decided danny would film and then rest of us would act in it.

For starters, Danny filmed myself sitting at a desk as a secretary. Harrison then walked into shot and the camera switched onto a match on action shot, focusing on Harrison's hand grabbing the door handle, opening it and walking into the room. Once harrison was in, Danny used a an extreme close of up Harrison's face and a long shot of Dean's whole body. The camera zoomed out to pan while they both sat down. Danny then used shot reverse shot as Harrison and Dean were having a conversation. As there was no sound, he used a fast paced shot to create the tension that was needed.

From the preliminary task, i learned how to properly apply the different camera techniques as opposed to just hearing about them and I dothink more practise is needed with learning the ropes of the different camera angles before the final peice.