Storyboarding And Typography Ideas

In this lesson we began to start drawing out our storyboards for our pre title sequence for our film. We already had an idea of what our storyboard may look like and how we may shoot this title sequence, we then just had to transfer our ideas onto the storyboards. We split the work between the three of us by each doing a shot on the storyboard paper; we done this so that we each got a chance to draw and to take part in the making and planning of our storyboard. The idea of our storyboard was thought up between the three of us. The first thing we established was the narrative of the title sequence, we then looked into how best to deliver the title to the audience such as; the font, colour and size of the words. This was important as the titles are one of the factors that communicates the genre of the film to the audience. The idea for our pre title sequence is as follows; our main character (Andrew Anderson) is on a sofa throughout the sequence, like his characters personality he is being lazy while laying back watching television. The props around him are mostly fatty foods and sugary drinks, which are on a table that Andrew's feet are resting on. The sound in the background which will be added on will be American sort of rock music, this will be played throughout the title sequence. The camera movement will be a 360 degree angle throughout the scene, starting at the back left of Andrew's head and ending with the camera looking at the front right of Andrew's  face. We will be using a medium close up shot of the main character Andrew, we will be using this shot continuously as the title sequence unfolds. Furthermore we are going to go with the fluidity theme of pre title sequences by the way that we show our titles to the audience, for example whenever Andrew moves his body, part of his body or object a title will be uncovered for the audience to see; doing this will continue the theme of fluidness.

When looking for typography ideas all we had to do was look on my blog as I had researched many different pre title sequences, mainly ones that can be linked to our film's genre. The three main pre title sequences we looked at on my blog were 'Happy Gilmore', 'Step Brothers' and 'Superbad'. I looked at these three films as they were similar in some way to the film that we had come up with. The ideas we got from these films was that the titles were black, block capital letters that were mostly placed alone away from any images. We took some ideas from these pre title sequences and encorporated them into our own ideas. The ideas that we thought of ourselves were the fluidity and placement of the titles within the shot. We looked for the font and colour on the website 'Da Font' which is a website consisting of various types of fonts. The ideas we got for the colour and font came from looking at the pre title sequences that i had previously researched on my blog. We picked out a few from 'Da Font' and placed them in a questionnaire which we handed out to the class to recieve their opinion on what they thought of the fonts and which they thought best suited our pre title sequence.

Blogging Lesson

In this lesson we had an hour specifically for blogging and catching up with our blog. When going into this lesson i was already very ahead with my work and therefore i had a chance to improve and make the work on my blog look that little bit better, for example I changed the lay out of my blog by making the widths longer so that my posts were not so compact. I added more writing to my previous lesson posts to make them more detailed. I then also had time to go through and edit and correct any mistakes that i may have made in my blogs. I was also able to make any changes that i needed to and move around anything i may have needed to in order to make my work look more professional and presentable.

Lesson 10 And 11

In lesson 10 our group presented our ptich for the new film that we would be making a pre title sequence for (Andrew Anderson). This helped me with my presenting skills as it allowed me to give a presentation on my pitch to communicate the different aspects of our film to the audience. My pitch presentation also allowed me to see what different points belong in a pitch for a film. It also allowed me to see just how much pressure people who are giving a pitch to film producers are under when giving the presentation. I think our pitch went very well as there wasn't many criticisms about our pitch and Shaun only gave a few comments on how to improve our pitch and paid us many compliments on our flawless narrative. The pitch below in the lesson 10 post is our pitch presentation with the correction that we have made. In conclusion I think that this presentation overall went very well as the class seemed to like the idea of the pitch.

In lesson 11 we was given time to make our pitches look more professional and to catch up on any work that was outstanding. This lesson was useful to me as I was able to correct any mistakes I had made on any previous posts. I was able to do this as i was ahead of my work with regards to my blogger and so instead of having to catch up with work on my blog in this lesson i had time to make my blog look more presentable.

Blogging Catch Up

This lesson was dedicated to revision so that if there was any work that we hadn't yet done we would be able to catch up on it in this lesson and get any outstanding work finished. When going into this lesson i was already very ahead with my work and so i had a chance to make my work look that little bit more proffesional on my blog and to go through and edit any mistakes that i may have made. I also have been able to make any changes that i have needed to and move around anything i may have needed to in order to make my work look more presentable.

Presenting My Film Pitch

In this lesson we presented the pitches that we as a group made for our film that we have created. In this lesson we gave our pitch to the rest of the class whilst being filmed and after was given feedback on our pitching skills, our film idea and whether we answered all aspects of the film that the audience needed to know within the pitch. The aim of a pitch is to sell the film to the audience that are infront of you and this is what we as aimed to do as a group when presenting our pitch to everyone else. Once we had finished the pitch we were asked questions on our pitch and we were given comments on how we could possibly make it better. I think our pitch went well as there were no questions or criticisms from the class but there were a few from Shaun about our pitch itself, however there were not any about our film or our pre title sequence idea for the film. Shauns comments on our pitch were as follows;

• To add the characters name in the Narrative slide of our pitch PowerPoint
• To add the Genre of the film before the storyline (narrative) so that the audience know what the genre of the film is before they here the film idea
• Also to add the director who will direct our film to the PowerPoint
• Also to change one of the slides that says our film is a Romcom. We need to change it as our film is a comedy, not a Romcom 

This is my groups pitch PowerPoint presentation below, with all the corrections and errors, that Shaun pointed out to us, changed.

Pitch - Andrew Anderson

Lesson 9 And My Own Research

Lesson 9 has helped me in many ways with regards to my pre title sequence as it has enabled me to get a better understanding of just how the film industry work, especially with regards to the distribution of a film. In this lesson i have learnt about what distribution is and just how films have been distributed in a certain way in order to communicate things to the audience. I have also looked into a Hollywood film myself and done a task set from the lesson to explore a film that is specifically from Hollywood. I chose to look at the new Sherlock Holmes film as it hasn't been released yet, so i saw this as a great opportunity to explore the distribution that this film would undertake and just how much would be put in to the distribution of this film. Looking at distribution in this lesson has helped me with regards to my pre title sequence and overall about films as it has enabled me to understand that the distribution also plays a big part in messages communicated to the audience about the film and it's themes and messages it is trying to communicate to the audience.

We also looked at how to write a pitch in this lesson and was later given the task of creating a pitch for our film that we are to make the pre title sequence for. This once again helped me as it gave me an added boost in knowledge of how to write a pitch and the basic fundamentals you would need in order to write a pitch and learning this in the lesson helped me with regards to the task we had to do which was to create a pitch for the film that we would be making a pre title sequence for and without the information that we was given in this lesson, i don't think that i would have been able to create the pitch that i created for the task.

My own research also helped me with planning my pre title sequence and also now looking at drawing sketches for the title sequence for our film. It helped me as it once again broadened my ideas of what i could possibly do when it came down to mapping out my pre title sequence and thinking about the design and how best to go about communicating certain themes to the audience. The pre title sequence that i have analysed in my own research is Superbad, this is a unique pre title sequence as it looks to be using silhouettes throughout of two of the main characters dancing and this communicates many of the themes of the film to the audience but also sets up many enigmas as it doesn't give the films narrative and plot away too much. When looking at this pre title sequence i think of how it could possibly be fitted to my film or how i could perhaps use it when drawing out the sketches for my pre title sequence but for now i will keep my ideas open, however when it comes to drawing the storyboards for my pre title sequence i will have many ways in which i could go about filming this title sequence as i have picked up many new ideas from specific title sequences that i have analysed.

Superbad - IMDB

Storyline

Seth and Evan are best friends, inseparable, navigating the last weeks of high school. Usually shunned by the popular kids, Seth and Evan luck into an invitation to a party, and spend a long day, with the help of their nerdy friend Fogell, trying to score enough alcohol to lubricate the party and inebriate two girls, Jules and Becca, so they can kick-start their sex lives and go off to college with a summer full of experience and new skills. Their quest is complicated by Fogell's falling in with two inept cops who both slow and assist the plan. If they do get the liquor to the party, what then? Is sex the only rite of passage at hand?

Taglines:Come and Get Some

Genres: Comedy

Motion Picture Rating (MPAA) Rated R for pervasive crude and sexual content, strong language, drinking, some drug use and a fantasy/comic violent image

Official Sites: Sony Pictures [France] Sony Pictures [United States]

Country: USA

Language: English

Release Date:14 September 2007 (UK)

Filming Locations:
California State University Northridge - 18111 Nordhoff Street, Northridge, Los Angeles, California, USA

Box Office
Budget:$20,000,000 (estimated)
Opening Weekend:$33,052,411 (USA) (19 August 2007) (2948 Screens)
Gross:$169,871,719 (Worldwide) (4 May 2008)

Company Credits
Production Co:Columbia Pictures, Apatow Productions