Joseph Campbell's theory was to try and "unlock human responses to narrative patterns". Campbell had a passion for mythology he even went as far as seeing the patterns of his own thinking and getting into the minds of people around him.
He wrote famous books like "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" where he thought some of his students at University and he used popular thinking and he started to comparative mythology where he used the study of the human impulse to create stories and images to try and build a picture of them. This sort of work is frequently used as police work is all about building a picture of what happened to try and get to a successful conclusion to there investigations.
Unsurprisingly some of his work also links in with psychology as he really wants to get to mind of how effectively the brain works. He also looked at the sides of religion and how that effects in how we look they look at things differently. He brings all of his work together in his book or "The Power Of Myths" where it looks at all the areas he had worked on mythological, religion, and metal states of people.
We will need to use Joseph Campbell’s theory in our teaser trailer in how we portray each character. What sort of links and believe they have which may tie in with religion and the audience needs to know what sort of metal state and pressures which make them do what they do. It is all key to build this teaser trailer.
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Friday, 29 October 2010
Research - (Pete Fraser's Blog)
I was doing some research on the back of my post yesterday about openings. I had a look at Pete Fraizer's blog to have a look at what he says about how to show opening credits effectively. I couldn't find anything specific which directly goes into that but what I did find was an interesting video, he had put up, about how much detail has to be thought about.
What he has done is explain and justify everything that is put into this video. What he does is talk about the significance of putting in effect and shot. What I learnt from watching this is that everything we film we have to justify it to an audience. We cannot put in a part because we want to we have to ask why did we put that part. We have to be able to answer that every single time. He even goes as far as justifying the colour choices he uses and the background music.
I know he put this up for Year 12s for their trailers but I feel that this will help us make a successful teaser trailer as we become more analytical and critics of our own work. As we are moving onto our story boards I can show this video off to my group and we can use the skills from that into our story board.
What he has done is explain and justify everything that is put into this video. What he does is talk about the significance of putting in effect and shot. What I learnt from watching this is that everything we film we have to justify it to an audience. We cannot put in a part because we want to we have to ask why did we put that part. We have to be able to answer that every single time. He even goes as far as justifying the colour choices he uses and the background music.
I know he put this up for Year 12s for their trailers but I feel that this will help us make a successful teaser trailer as we become more analytical and critics of our own work. As we are moving onto our story boards I can show this video off to my group and we can use the skills from that into our story board.
Thursday, 28 October 2010
Openings to shows and films
Spooks
Spooks opens with many spilt screens and has many different images of iconic images of London. It introduces all the main character. To show this is a more mysterious and serious show they have every character looking serious and worried. The introduction shows clips of their day to day struggle they have to deal with and the dangers as MI5 agents. The only piece of text that we see is at the end when it is telling us what show we are watching at the end of the introduction.
Serenity
Middle of the screen white coloured writing with a black background. Size 14-15. Easy to see no distraction from the background. Some of the writing comes in at you to emphasizing the audience to read the text. The only Dietetic sound is the music which goes with the action on the film.
Hustle
The opening title in Hustle coincides with the music they play. The opening credits are cleverly put in when the music tunes. The writing is all in white and always near the centre of the screen so your eyes are pealed to the credits and the music fits in as a background noise. Another thing which makes this opening so good is that you do not have to chase around to look for the credits as all the credits are around the middle of the screen.
New Tricks
The opening is a bit different in how they show the opening credits. The text is still on the middle part of the rule of thirds but the writing is more to the bottom than the top. Also the colour of the text is a mixture of white a yellow but we the audience can still read what is on the screen as it matches the actors to the credits.
The Usual Suspects
The credits which are shown here is interesting as it shows the actors name right at the end of the trailer. It comes after the footage of the trailer and after the showing of the title of the film. They also post the names of the actors in different places but they show the names one by one. You also get a good 2 seconds to read the names off so the brain isn't being challenged to follow the credits.
What I have noticed in these introductions and trailers follow the same type of pattern. The credits are written in white because it is the clearest colour. When they show the written credits they normally have very minimal things in the background so that the audience is focusing only on the text. The majority of the time the text is in the middle of the screen as it makes the audience aware of the text which is in front of them. We can use a lot of these basic, but effective, techniques to grab the audiences attention to something specific. I will be doing some futher investigation into this and have a look at different blogs to see what they saying about Credits and how to present them.
Spooks opens with many spilt screens and has many different images of iconic images of London. It introduces all the main character. To show this is a more mysterious and serious show they have every character looking serious and worried. The introduction shows clips of their day to day struggle they have to deal with and the dangers as MI5 agents. The only piece of text that we see is at the end when it is telling us what show we are watching at the end of the introduction.
Serenity
Middle of the screen white coloured writing with a black background. Size 14-15. Easy to see no distraction from the background. Some of the writing comes in at you to emphasizing the audience to read the text. The only Dietetic sound is the music which goes with the action on the film.
Hustle
The opening title in Hustle coincides with the music they play. The opening credits are cleverly put in when the music tunes. The writing is all in white and always near the centre of the screen so your eyes are pealed to the credits and the music fits in as a background noise. Another thing which makes this opening so good is that you do not have to chase around to look for the credits as all the credits are around the middle of the screen.
New Tricks
The opening is a bit different in how they show the opening credits. The text is still on the middle part of the rule of thirds but the writing is more to the bottom than the top. Also the colour of the text is a mixture of white a yellow but we the audience can still read what is on the screen as it matches the actors to the credits.
The Usual Suspects
The credits which are shown here is interesting as it shows the actors name right at the end of the trailer. It comes after the footage of the trailer and after the showing of the title of the film. They also post the names of the actors in different places but they show the names one by one. You also get a good 2 seconds to read the names off so the brain isn't being challenged to follow the credits.
What I have noticed in these introductions and trailers follow the same type of pattern. The credits are written in white because it is the clearest colour. When they show the written credits they normally have very minimal things in the background so that the audience is focusing only on the text. The majority of the time the text is in the middle of the screen as it makes the audience aware of the text which is in front of them. We can use a lot of these basic, but effective, techniques to grab the audiences attention to something specific. I will be doing some futher investigation into this and have a look at different blogs to see what they saying about Credits and how to present them.
Wednesday, 27 October 2010
Motion picture Logo
^ ^ I think, I have finally discovered the name of the production titles at the start of teaser trailers. Although trying to find a definition of is harder than, finding the name. Motion Picture logo ( I hope) are the company's involved animated logos, at the beginning of the films/trailers and teasers. These are normally only a few seconds long ( roughly 10 secs at max), normally consisting with an image, name of the film and a music. These are important to the companies involved as it symbolizes the company and audiences can identify the company by it.
Some famous motion picture logos are Pixar, 20th century fox, Paramount pictures and Walt Disney.
I feel at the moment our idea isn't challenging my media skills. So Rather than just filming random shots and putting them together ( Even though Teaser trailers aren't meant to include much real footage, so our teaser idea is resembling that of a trailer at the moment) with titles. I Feel making a few of these titles will professionalize the look of the teaser and challenge my skills personally, as this is more my field of editing.
I think the best way to come up with a logo is to do a still image first, then animate it..
* Update after looking at some motion picture logos.. they are inface much longer than I thought.. more in the 20sec range. Amazed.
Gah MS
Some famous motion picture logos are Pixar, 20th century fox, Paramount pictures and Walt Disney.
I feel at the moment our idea isn't challenging my media skills. So Rather than just filming random shots and putting them together ( Even though Teaser trailers aren't meant to include much real footage, so our teaser idea is resembling that of a trailer at the moment) with titles. I Feel making a few of these titles will professionalize the look of the teaser and challenge my skills personally, as this is more my field of editing.
I think the best way to come up with a logo is to do a still image first, then animate it..
* Update after looking at some motion picture logos.. they are inface much longer than I thought.. more in the 20sec range. Amazed.
Gah MS
OFVM Week 4
This week we all sat down and voted on the 2 ideas we liked the most. Once we had decided we were split into 2 groups. One group doing one idea and the other doing the other. My group were doing a comedy style piece about a man who was wearing an unhappy mask, he feels very rejected and the audience sees this by birds flying away when he tries to feed them etc. At the end of the piece he meets the female equivalent and he becomes happy again.
We sat down as a group and started bulding up on the idea. We then agreed that we needed to find suitable masks for the piece before planning the whole storyline out, therefore we agreed to contact each other to agree a time to go and look at masks.
PG
We sat down as a group and started bulding up on the idea. We then agreed that we needed to find suitable masks for the piece before planning the whole storyline out, therefore we agreed to contact each other to agree a time to go and look at masks.
PG
Sunday, 24 October 2010
Teaser trailer research
As I was thinking about other action/thriller films I remembered the Bourne trilogy. This is a very good example for us to look at as it includes similar scenes to the ones we were wanting to include.
They show the build up of tension very well. The storyline also follows the lines of trying to find someone urgently from the two different perspectives (Bourne and the government). I also like how in the second clip they start with Bourne warning the government to stay away which is similar to how we wanted to start our piece. There are a lot of shots of the government computers showing them tracking his movements which is something we could use aswell. The last clip also uses a heartbeat sound effect to create tension, this could be very effective within our piece as the main aim of our teaser I feel is to create tension.
PG
Friday, 22 October 2010
Making the bomb - ideas
After the last whiteboard we created where we sequenced our ideas we now wanted to think in more detail about each individual scene.
The first idea we had was for people to be putting a bomb together.
PG, Say wahhh?! MS, PM
Running through a busy area
This was the whiteboard for what we thought we could include in our possible chase scene
PG and legendary MS
Interrogation scene
What we thought we could include in an interrogation scene.
PG and the incredibleMS
Government trying to find out who the bomber is
This is the board about what we were thinking around the government trying to find the bomber.
The name Sergio Leone was a directors name given to us by our teacher who thought we should look at his work.
PG and a cycling duck -MS
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