Music

Laura has been looking into types of music from other horror/thriller films, she found a sample which we could use as a template before making our own piece of music to fit the title sequence. Laura decided to pick 'The Omen's' title sequence music as a starting point on the research of music and it too has the same film genre as ours. She also wanted to look at a horror which involves a child, this is when she decided that 'The Omen' would be a good film to look into. 

Our Film Classification

While researching the different film classifications, I felt that the certificate of a 15 would match the ideology and main theme of the film in which we are planning on creating the title sequence for.

Suitable only for 15 years and over
No one younger than 15 may see a ‘15’ film in a cinema. No one younger than 15 may rent or buy a ‘15’ rated video work.

Discrimination 
The work as a whole must not endorse discriminatory language or behaviour.

Horror
Strong threat and menace are permitted unless sadistic or sexualised.

Imitable behaviour
Dangerous behaviour (for example, hanging, suicide and self-harming) should not dwell on detail which could be copied. Easily accessible weapons should not be glamorised.

Language
There may be frequent use of strong language (for example, ‘fuck’). The strongest terms (for example, ‘cunt’) may be acceptable if justified by the context. Aggressive or repeated use of the strongest language is unlikely to be acceptable.

Theme 
No theme is prohibited, provided the treatment is appropriate for 15 year olds.

ViolenceViolence may be strong but should not dwell on the infliction of pain or injury. The strongest gory images are unlikely to be acceptable. Strong sadistic or sexualised violence is also unlikely to be acceptable. There may be detailed verbal references to sexual violence but any portrayal of sexual violence must be discreet and have a strong contextual justification.

Story Boards

Order of Titles

Example of order of titles:
1. Company names...
2. Distributor 1st ...
3. Production 2nd ...
4. Film by...
5. Characters names/actors...
6. Film name...
7. More actors/actresses...
8. Casting by...
9. Music by...
10. Costume designer...
11. Editors...
12. Production designer...
13. Director of photography...
14. Co producers...
15. Co executive producers...
16. Executive producers...
17. Written by...
18. Produced by...
19. Directed by...

Story board order

Shot 1: Camera movement is still while the boy walks up the hill. Sound of footsteps (3-4 seconds).

Shot 2: Boys cuts across view of house to walk up the driveway into the house. (3-4 seconds).

Shot 3: Handheld camera follows behind the boy giving the idea that someone is following him. (2 seconds).

Shot 4: Camera shots from other side of door. Show door opening and boy walks in ( walking towards camera). (10 - 11 seconds).

Shot 5: Camera shot of the hallway and the child putting down their school bag

(showing the idea that he comes across as a usual child). ( 5 - 6 seconds).

Shot 6: Boy opens fridge to get something to eat. When the fridge door shuts the titles begin to show. Music changes tone. (2 seconds).

Shot 7: Camera pans in on the fridge and the beginning of the credits. (2 seconds).

Shot 8: The camera (handheld) then follows the child as he walks up the stairs. (7-8 seconds).

Shot 9: Light beams out of the other room and boy runs upstairs into his room which is very dark, camera pans into child's dark room. (5-6 seconds).

Shot 10: BLACKOUT SCREEN. Sound of child breathing. (3 seconds).

Shot 11: Camera starts of an image in which the child is drawing, and then pans onto another image. Then all the images on the wall; disturbing images in which the child has drawn.

(10-11 seconds).

Shot 12: Camera begins to start on individual drawings, which show different names and credits of the film. (10-11 seconds).

Shot 13: Teddy bears which are sitting on the shelf have been changed in some way by the child, such as heads missing. Pan onto one of the teddies to see yet another credit. (5-6 seconds).

Shot 14: Close up shot of an image of his hand destroying the teddies. (5 seconds).

Shot 15: Camera pans from the image of the teddy to the mirror, the other side of the room.

(3 seconds).

Shot 16: Child writes, 'It's your fault' on the mirror, with the reflection of his face at the side of the mirror. (5 seconds).

Shot 17: Someone walks in front of the image of the boys face and text on the mirror, music builds up. (6 seconds).

Shot 18: BLACKOUT SCREEN. Title sequence ends, film begins. (3 seconds).

Typography

Typography is the art and technique of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyphs. Type glyphs are created and modified using a variety of illustration techniques.""http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typography"


We have been looking into different fronts that we could use for the titles in our title sequence.
The name of our film is "walking with the dead", and as our film is a horror the font will need to be eerie, we also thought about trying fonts that look like a child has written it, or it has been scratched into something.
We use the website "dafont" to try different styles of fonts and this is what we came up with;

Whilst we was looking for fonts for the main titles, we came across type writer fonts that would look good for the titles during the title sequence. Amy and I decided that it would be good if we show the insertion point and the letters being typed into the shot.

Production Logo

When making this logo for our production company, we chose to use quite dark colours as the company are going to mainly produce horror films. The name of our company came about randomly, but when thinking about what could symbolise it, we started to think about sharp objects. The image we chose to represent sharp was a syringe. A syringe can be associated with death and illness, which is quite a dark thing to think about. This links to the types of films the company is likely to produce. The font of the company name was found on DaFont under the Horror section, which perfectly fits in to the genre. The writing is quite formal in a way, but there are little blotches over the writing, which make it look slightly distorted, and less clean. The red line underneath the writing makes the writing stand out, and the colour could connote blood and anger.

Feedback sheets

Pitch

In todays lesson we pitched our idea for out film and title sequence, explaining the characters, the setting and the story line. We used our pitch and treatment to help explain everything that we are going to be doing and the reasons behind our story line.

Production Breif and Treatment

Production Brief and Treatment

Ideas for title sequence

Genre - suspense/ Horror

Music- Hans Zimmer/Daniel Lincht

Setting - House and Woods

Producing Industry -Lionsgate

Typography - Edgy (Dafont)

Dull contrast of dull washed out colours

Eeire/Jumpy rather than gory Cinematography like Paranormal Activity

Produced by Jerry Brickheimer

Title Sequence Planning

Horror

Music: Hams-zimmer

           Daniel Lynch 

Typography: dafont

Time: Present Day 

Dull Contrast 

Directors and Producers - Steven King, Kyle Cooper. 

research: Hostel, Paranormal Activity, Psycho, Poltergeist, Se7en, Steven King Films, Texas Chainsaw Mascara , orphanage.