SHERLOCK HOLMES ART OF THE TITLE

12/9/14 | RESEARCH | FILM OPENINGS: SHERLOCK HOLMES (2009)

In class we watched the film opening titles to the 2009 film Sherlock Holmes. As someone who has watched the Sherlock Holmes series I was excited to watch the opening titles for the film. The opening titles were in a monochromatic colour scheme and each character was introduced by moving image followed by a sepia image and was then transformed into an ink sketch, this process is repeated each time for all the different characters. It clearly shows that Sherlock Holmes is set in the Victorian era the sepia tones in the intro suggest Victorian photography. The credits are handwritten in pen and ink wash, there are ink blots and splatters and the papers are tattered and this establishes the Victorian period. The soundtrack is upbeat and instrumental and fits the pace of the titles. The CGI

PLANNING: THE BRIEF

9/10/14 | PLANNING| THE BRIEF

I am working in a group of three pupils with Amber Giles and Eleanor McChesney. we have chosen Brief 7 (video), the opening sequence of a new film including titles, in any genre or mix of genres such as a comedy or thriller together with a storyboard. Maximum length: three minutes.

PLANNING AUDIENCE PROFILE

 

RESEARCH: FILM DISTRIBUTOR

Today in class we looked at different film distributors and used the website Launching Films to learn about how film distributors work and learnt about all the different types of film distributors. We then decided what film distributor would be appropriate for our film based on the genre and how popular the film would be.

FILMING

Over the half term I, Eleanor and Amber met up to begin filming. We used the canon D60 camera provided by the school and a tripod. The first problem we encountered whilst filming was that the camera would only shoot 8 second shots, as we did not have time to look up how to fix this problem we continued filming and tried to film our shots in these short windows of time. We shot the bedroom shots and the last few shots of the introduction to our horror film. I set up and filmed most of the shots for our film and assisted Amber a little bit in the directing of it. By the end of our 4 hour shoot we had achieved most of the shots we wanted and were happy with the outcome.

CALL SHEET (FIRST DRAFT)

GCSE Media Studies Call Sheet for Psychological Thriller

Shoot date: 21/10/14

Location: 34 Beaconsfield Road, Claygate, Surrey KT10 0PW

 

Camera equipment:

 

Lighting equipment:

 

Harriet Mobile:  07*********                                          Email Address: harriet@gmail.com

Eleanor Mobile:  07********                                           Email Address: Eleanor@gmail.com                

Amber Mobile: 07********                                             Email Address: Amber@gmail.com

 Props:

 

 

Wardrobe Person 1:

 

 

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SCOOP IT

Today in class I used a useful interactive online research tool called scoop it to research thriller codes and conventions. This means I can search online and find related thriller posts, scoop it usefully suggests posts daily.