My Ident

 

 

I created my indent using adobe after effects. My logo/symbol is a cut out, outline of an old fashioned camera, I went with this idea as it linked well with the name I called my production company which is 'Picture Production'. It begins with a camera taking a picture using after effects I added in a sound effect of a camera shutter along with a flash to make it realistic. Then the final part of the indent is what appears to be the logo which was what the camera took a picture off, slowly following is the name of the production company which has a slow fade in. Over all I’m please with the outcome if I was to re-create this I would try to think of something a little more creative of what the camera took the image of, although purposely I didn’t use an actual image as I thought it would be distracting to what my logo was.

Case study - David Fincher

1.     1) Outline how Fincher approaches the creation of an opening title sequence for a film. (You will need to read the interview and analyse some of the clips of his work. You will see that he notes the work of Saul Bass as an influence).

Using the video bellow I analysed some of David Finchers films, this clip contained nine of his film, these being:

http://vimeo.com/44890024

-Alien3 (1992)

-Se7en (1995)

-The Game (1997)

-Fight Club (1999)

-Panic Room (2002)

-Zodiac (2007)

-The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

-The Social Network (2010)

-The Girl With a Dragon Tattoo (2011)

Quote of David Fincher "Titles should be engaging in a character way, it has to help set the scene, and you can do that elaborately or minimally"

Fincher really believes that a good tittle sequence for a movie is just as important as a good movie. He wants the title sequence to be a part of the film itself as it starts by setting the scene and the overall feel to the movie for the viewer. As you can see in the opening to the film ‘seven’ there are clips of lots of writing and someone that appears to be cutting finger tips. This is to confuse the viewer and the get them thinking about what it is this film is based on, is this a strange way to introduce a film with no explanation, or is this just helping to unfolded what is to be discovered later on in the movie. Therefore he wants the title sequence to be a form of a stepping stone to help set up what is later to be shown within the movie. In the interview David Fincher says how he thinks the title sequence to a movie should be straight to the point as he states "I don't believe in decorative titles". He also states in his interview that his work is greatly influenced by Saul Bass who I have recently studied as seen in my last post. The film ‘North by north west’ especially inspired him as said in his interview, and his work made him look at the different ways in which to present information.  

2) Analysis of the film 'Seven'

The opening sequence in film seven begins with a non-diagetic screechy noise and music setting an uneasy feel to over all film right from the start hinting to the viewer what the genre may be. The way in which the words and names were presented was in a hard to read font, it was very jagged with no smooth flowing lines that looked as if it could be representing messed up thoughts or actions, form the choice in text I inferred that it could be someone's messes up head leading to a physiological theme. Lines appeared across the screen too which looked as if they were scratches, this is when It set the sense of this being a horror/thriller film. The flashes of darkness appeared disturbing as it would the quickly flash back to books and what appeared to be someone writing a letter/book. The shots are used in a very cleaver manner, its always showing shots of the hand and pen, along with shadows yet never revealing the person of whom is doing the writing. This is drawing the viewer in and leaving them with questions which would then be revealed through out the film. 

Film openings

I have studied two film opening very closely looking at the different techniques used by the different directors and how the genre effects the difference of the film’s opening. The two film openings I looked at was ‘something gotta give’ and ‘inception’; both with two very different genres and two very different ways to introduce a film to its audience.

SOMETHING GOTTA GIVE

‘Something gotta give’ is a classic romantic comedy directed by Nancy Meyers. It’s very much aimed at young/middle aged women. But as I noticed from the opening sequence it can appeal to men watching it too, even if it wouldn't be necessarily something they would chose to watch over an action film. The opening very much exploits women’s sexuality.  Using very beautiful young women to star in it, walking around and in a way that was practically hypnotizing men they walked past. The one part where a typical skinny, tall blond girl is walking down the street standing tall with a smile on her face and all the taxi drivers turn and look up to her creates this impression. The type of shots used were close up of all the different areas of the woman’s body especially all the different faces. It almost gave the feeling that women were on parade. The title sequence fit around the scenes of which all the different women were in, although I hardly recognised the title sequence as the pictures shown on the screen grabbed more of your attention.

INCEPTION

‘Inception’ had a totally different genre, this was an example of and action film opening sequence, this film was created by Christopher Nowlen. Being an action film I felt It was aimed at men even though a majority of women also enjoy watching action films. In a stereotypical manor I would say ‘something gotta give’ was aimed at women and ‘inception’ was aimed at males. This was extremely different as there appeared to be no title sequence, you are thrown right into the start of the fill. This made the feel of the film quite intense and your chucked straight into what happened, it was almost like a puzzle and you had to work out what was happening bit by bit for it to make sense. Straight away your informed with there being two different time frames going on and I inferred that it would probably be like that throughout the whole story. This idea was created by using focus in one scene then flicking to another which appeared out of focus with muffled sound. I liked the way it was straight to the point and it didn't seem to waste any time on suspense even though it left you in suspense in its own right.