CCR Task 4

 

Creative Critical Research task 4 

This is a Canva, document showing my understanding and how we used technology hardware and software throughout out preproduction, production and post production stage to create our opening title sequence. 

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CCR task 3

 Creative Critical Reflection Task 3 

CCR task 2

 CCR Task 2 

“How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text?” 

In our opening title sequence, A void, we originally planned for our target audience to be around the age group of 15 - 25 years old as our main character “Jules” is a teenage girl of 16 years old herself. Therefore this would attract a specific target audience considering the fact that we show a stereotypical 16 year old girl in our opening title sequence. We also considered females targeted towards our opening title sequence mainly because our main character is a female however still a mix between both genders. As well as this, we thought of targeting the film to an international level as the genre of our film is a very traditional genre that usually attracts people from everywhere in the world. Psychological thriller is one of the most famous genres in the film industry.  We also thought to target the film to an audience with a higher education and mainly in western countries. As we saw that many of the Swedish and Norwegian thriller movies are doing really well at the moment (Nordic noir) and many production companies are remaking them in their own counties such as the US.

Targeted age category: 

- We used a series of casting to engage the audience. In our opening title sequence we used a stereotypical female teenager therefore this would attract the target audience we were aiming for. We showed Jules as a high class teenage girl, by decorating her room with fairy lights as well as using modern day aspects such as a I phone and hints of pink to suggest her gender. As well as this we showed her waking up with light pink pajamas and organization in her room. As for the other characters we also added a stereotypical strict mum which we later on find out is her “fake mom” and a loving care mother which as shown in the flashback is her “real mother”. 

- We also used a sort of enigma codes and cliff hangers to engage our target audience following Roland Barths theory. In our opening title sequence we added the transition of a flashback where we find out that young Jules is in trouble and there is another woman with her. This created a mysterious tension and engaged the audience to want to find out more. We ended with a cliff hanger as we thought this would surprise the audience. After the flashback, the opening title sequence immediately ends this suggests fear and something bad is going to happen which was what we were hoping for to engage the audience. As our opening title sequence is a psychological thriller we though adding cliff hangers would catch the viewer off guard and want to keep watching for more. 

- For location, we decided to have two very different places to highlight the different representations of characters. As we can tell, Jules wakes up in a very organized and wide bedroom therefore this shows the status she has, a wealthy teenager. From the decoration we can tell this, for example the fact that she has a double bed and a TV as well as cute small decoration and in general the room looks very clean and organized. However for the second location, the lowkey lighting highlights the coldness of the room. In our shot we can’t tell what the apartment looks like due to the closeshots however by the mood and atmosphere of the lights we can tell that both locations are extremely different and this foreshadows what will happen next. 

- Our themes for our opening title sequence are considered extremely well known especially for the fact that it is a international genre that mostly a lot of people enjoy. Our opening title sequence themes are physiological thriller, mind perception, routine, abuse etc… We thought that having a generical theme and structure would engage the audience especially psychological thriller fans as this will make them intrigued and surprised for what will happen next. 

- In our opening title sequence at the beginning we used a simple morning routine of a teenage girl which started off as slow and continuous to then reveal a shock at the end of the opening title sequence. The mood starts off as relaxed and composed however we can still feel a trembolous  feeling that something bad is going to happen due to the calmness at the beginning. To trigger the flashback we used a prop which was a box full of jewelry which is supposed to be jules’s real mothers jewelry. This therefore triggers the flashback and makes jules fall into the loop. This shows contrast from the beginning to the opening title sequence where everything is calm to the end where we finish with Jules having a mental breakdown and feeling stressed about what she just remembered. 

- I think personally we did a good job in engaging our audience, however there are some factors that we could have included in our opening title sequence to improve it and make the audience more intrigued in what will happen. For example, for music, we didn’t include any sounds because we had very restricted time and it was very time consuming to add and find a song as we finished the editing very last minute. Therefore to improve i would have added background music to emphasize the suspicion and mystifying experience as well as build up tension to reach the flashback. As well as this I would have added more sound effects and pleonastic sounds to create a shock to the audience and make them want to know what will happen next. We were successful as we used the Roland Barth theory of enigma codes and left the audience wanting to know more as it was a cliff hanger. 

Film Poster for A Void: 

- Ive included moments in my poster design to engage the audience, for example, the fact that the main picture for the poster is a young girl walking alone on a field. This makes the audience question and wonder why this girl is alone what happened to her and all these unanswered questions making them want to watch the movie to figure out what has happened to her. As well as this, I included a bold black text to contrast with the light background of the title, this is too aim the eye for the title and notice the name of the film. As the title of the film is called A void this will also make the audience intrigued and question themselves the meaning of this. The quote I added, will also reiterate and stand out for the audience to notice and create an understanding that something happened to this little girl in her childhood which is the whole point of the film. 

- In my film poster, i have hinted to moments that would engage our target audience with our poster design. 

I have included film festivals my film was nominated in at the top of my poster as well as main characters actors name at the top of my poster, this therefore shows that the film has done well making the audience feel like the movie is good and has done well. As well as this I added light colors and a intriguing picture to engage the audience as this is the first thing a person notices from the poster of the film. The bold headings and the strong title of the film shows a definite film and attracts the audience straight to see the film title. 

- The distribution company I would choose for my film is, Picturehouse Entertainemnt. The main reason I would choose this distribution company is mainly for the fact that they have already distributed similar films of the same genre as A Void. Their films are mostly psychological thrillers or horror films which would contribute extremely well with our film. Picturehouse Entertainment release films that serve audiences across the whole UK and in all cinemas nationwide. As our film has a medium budget this would serve great with out produce as it would reach a national and worldwide level. Some of the latest films that Picturehouse Entertainment have released recently are, “happening” “Vortex”and “Nítram”.

Creative Critical Reflection Task 1

Creative Critical Reflection Task 1 

‘How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues.’ 

Final editing day

 Finally we finished editing our opening title sequence, although it didn't go as planned exactly we are still very proud of it. We decided no to add any music to the soundtrack as it would have been very complicated to find a song that wasn’t copy righted and suited our opening title sequence. Therefore, we ended up just adding ambience sounds to our opening title sequence. For the titles we used a classical font and added them all before the transition occurred as we thought this would make the audience loose focus of what was happening in the actual scene. We also decided not to add any diffusion’s or transition to the titles as we thought it would have been too much for the sequence. After hours and days of thinking what we could name our film title, I had a idea of what if we call it Avoid, as we liked how simple and connected to the sequence it is, however then Zoe had the idea of separating the words and calling it “A void” we though this was a brilliant idea, therefore now it is called A void which we love. After watching the sequence thousands of times and improving some cuts and problems with the sounds we finally finished it and are very proud of how it turned out. 

These our some pictures of our last day of editing and how excited we were that we had finished the sequence after hours put into this and thinking over again how we could fix the last minute issues we had throughout the whole editing stage. 

style and order of titles

 Order and Style of film titles 

The order, it is very important to have a structured order and style depending on the film as this gives to audience a preview of what the films genre will be about. Our film in particular is a unexpected psychological thriller therefore we wanted to give a hint to the audience about this. 

Reference of picture: https://www.studiobinder.com/film-credits-order-template/

Film name: 

production company: pillback productions 

film by: Pulp Studios 

director: Jack Williams  

lead cast;

Jules: Lucia Mont 

Young Jules: Anna Zach 

real mom: Mia james 

fake mom: Maya Smith  

casting director: Oliver Murphy 

costume designer: Alison turner 

editors: Tom roberts 

executive producer: Ronald evans 

Producer: harry Philips 

Screenplay: Hannah Moore 

For our opening title sequence we took a reference and inspired ourselves with movies such as “Split”, “Shutter island” and “Black Widow” as we thought they had the same genre, psychological thriller, and story board that we thought our film had as well. For Split the whole story board is meant to be of this girl getting kidnapped and then she meets this guy that has personality disorder therefore although it is not the same story exactly it comes with elements that helped us influence our film and create the opening title sequence that we just produced. For the fonts, we decided to do something classical and quite basic as we have a lot going on in the opening title sequence anyways. We then also decided to put it in a white colour as this way by the end scene you can clearly see the film name.

Split Opening title sequence: 

We decided we liked the classical font and the white color that they used however thought that it was too confusing and extreme to add all the transitions and effects as out opening title sequence already includes Jules having her morning routine and then the action part starts. Therefore we had this as an idea as we liked the colour and font that Split had. 

Black Widow opening title sequence: 

We extremely liked this opening title sequence especially with the credits. i really like how defined and culturistas they look and how fine and classical but at the same time modern they look. I also really liked the color as it was a rusty white that foreshadows the film. Another thing i though could relate to our opening title sequence is the flashbacks as that is a main part of our. In general I thought they were a bit fast and a bit small to read so I would definitely have made them a bit bigger to contrast wiht what is happening in the movie. 

2nd day of editing

 For the second day our main focus was to complete the basis of the editing as we still had to get on to the music and the titles. Therefore we took turns the three off us into cutting and changing and snipping the shots. We saw that we had some problems with the transition shot which was a shame as this was one of our most exciting parts of the whole opening title sequence. The problem wasn’t going from Haley to Annie it was going from Annie to Haley. We edited and snapped the first part of the transition and it looked really good, however for the second transition the light intensity was different and the closeness of the shots were to distinct to get it correct so instead we tried adding a effect of a twirl for the transition so it looks like there was a flashback. At first we thought this idea was going to turn out bad however after we tried it we really liked it and decided to stick with it as it evoked the idea of a flashback and also showed the audience that its a flashback and it’s back in time. We also added a sound effect to it it was a high screeching sound just to add suspense and create tension to the opening title sequence.