Saul Bass Write Up.

Saul Bass was an American film designer and maker more specifically well-known for his title sequences and film posters.
While being in the film business for 40 years, he worked for Hollywood's greatest filmmakers, such as Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Willder and Martin Scorsese.

His most famous title sequences are the animated title sequences:

• The animated paper cut-out of a heroin addict's arm for The Man With The Golden Arm.
• the credit racing up and down what eventually becomes a high-angle shot of the C.I.T. Financial Building in Hitchcock's North By Northwest.
• the disjointed text that races together and apart in Psycho.

Saul Bass is a great influence on new and young film designers, most of his work and creativity is used in a lot of opening titles in major and new films that are out now.

more commonly the opening titles of James Bond films, where the you see the inside of a barrel of a gun as James Bond walks into the middle and fires his gun at us, with blood dripping down:

film studio research

The film studio that me, Aaron and Kieran have chosen is Lionsgate. They produced films such as The Possession, Cabin In The Woods and Dredd.
Lionsgate was formed in 1997 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Erik Feig is in charge of Lionsgate.

Films that have been released that are similar in content to our film such as the Hunger Games.
The average cost of some of their films are around $25-$50 million.

I found that Rise Of The foot Soldier has a story line similar or on the line of revenge to the narrative of my film. The film first starts of to do with football but the base of it is about revenge, gangs, gun crime and drugs.
Batman Begins is similar to my film as in when his parents are killed and the killer is sentenced.

By basing these two films with my narrative, I will have a good aspect and ideas on what I can do with my narrative since it is a revenge/crime and drugs genre.

Pitch Presentation: Hunted

Above is my pitch presentation for my film idea. We had to present this to the class as they gave back feedback on it. It was done to see if there was any improvements that could of been done.

At the start, I was working on my own as I thought it would be easier for me to get work done. Aaron and Kieran now have joined me as one of their members has left. They are now going to be part of my group and are now working on my idea for the film's title sequence.

From this sheet of feedback, they have given both good and need developing points.
They said my narrative was good, used todorov. good use of director and actors/actresses.
For needing developing point, i could've added pictures of the actors and actresses.

from this sheet of feedback, i have got good bad and need developing points.
good points were good use of target audience, premise and narrative, and the themes.
need developing points were release date - go for summer instead.
bad points were director - should be a british director?

from this sheet of feedback, they gave me both good and need developing points.
good points are the story, considered gender (target audience), profit.
need developing points is consider other audiences, romantic element? and underlining messages.

this sheet of feedback didn't give me any at all.

from this sheet of feedback, they gave me just good points.
the good points are the plot, characters, title, director, narrative and the whole pitch was well detailed and well presented.

from this sheet of feedback, they gave me good, bad and need developing points.
good points is target audience.
need of developing points are narrative needs more detail, quite confusing, and the release date.
bad points is the budget, too many high profile actors for such a low budget.

from this sheet of feedback, they gave me good and need developing points.
good point were good description, good consideration of characters and director. target audience and release date is well thought out.
need developing points is budget too low and income expected too low.

Fight Sequence With Foley

Media homework for mr Grimsly.
Fight scene of me and my friend craig.
We had to create a fight scene for homework, he set this for us because our next lesson we were going to work on foley sounds.
We used video cameras and objects such a cashew nuts, melons, carrots and meat to create fight sounds. Sounds such as being hit in the face, broken bones etc..

By doing this, it showed how creative we could be in creating foley sounds that would sound like bones breaking or a punch to the face.
it also is a good way to be creative with camera shots and effects, using angles and depth of field.