The choice of our film production company

Choosing which Film Production Company to use wasn't difficult as we had each done reasearch on several different film studios and companies so we was able to select out of the three studios we had researched into which one best suited our film. Once we had looked at all of the studios we found that in fact the film studio that i had done research into was the one that best suited our film. Paramount Vantage (the one we chose) linked in best with our film as in its past it had dealt with many low budget American comedies and so our film fitted perfectly into the film productions companies criteria and so with this in mind we as have group decided to use Paramount Vantage as our distributor as well as our Producer and we will include their logo at the beginning of our Title sequence as i have stated in my previous posts. This is the logo of Paramout Vantage which will be at the beginning of our title sequence.

                    

Storyboard corrections and animatic consderation

       Our group had received feedback on the storyboard that we had created for our pre title sequence. The feedback that we was given was that there had to be more shots included in the storyboard and that there had to be more titles communicated in the storyboard to the audience. So as a group, in this lesson, we went back to the drawing board and made the neccessary corrections to our storyboard so that the feedback that we was given had been altered in order to make it better. 
       We also had the task of maybe preparing an animatic version of our title sequence idea in order to show it to the class to see what they thought of our title sequence idea and to see if it fit in with our film. An animatic is a photogrpahed version of your storyboard that runs from on frame (shot) to another and the time that you have at the bottom of that shot determines how long that shot is on the screen and then you add any dialogue or music that you plan to have in your title sequence to the animatic so it is like a drawn version of your title sequence. You would usually do an animatic to see if your storyboard idea works and it also gives others a chance to review your idea and give you any feedback on how to improve it. 
       When it came to preparing to do an animatic for our title sequence idea, there was a problem as our title sequence was just one shot which was a 360 degree angle of the main character sitting on a couch with his feet up, this was a probelm for us as the storyboard that we had drawn up didn't have the qualities that would be need for an animatic so we resolved this problem by deciding to do a photo version of this animatic. So instead of taking pictures of our storyboard we would take pictures of the actual scene with a person acting like our storyboard states. Once again we encountered another problem as at first we thought of having the titles appear on actual paper in the scene, meaning that the titles were propps in our title sequence but after doing a mock up of these titles it turned out that doing them on paper looked very cheap and you couldnt quite see what they said. Also as our title sequence would be shot in a living room of a home, it didnt quite look right being shot in a school without the propps that we needed and so the animatic didnt quite look right and when this happened we decided not to do the animatic any more as it was hard for us to accomplish this.

Music for our title sequence

We came across a few problems when it came to our music choice because we had originally agreed to create our own music in garage band. Michael is currently studying the subject and has training in the software. However Michael had coursework due in for music that same week that we was due to make the soundtrack and so we was unable to make the track that would play in the background of our title sequence. As we couldn't do what we had originally planned, instead we had to use our back up plan which was to get our sound track from the copyright free music website. At the time of writing what we could do as a back up plan seemed pointless to me as we were certain that we wanted to do our own music from scratch and thought that we wouldn't need a back up plan, but now when we found out we couldn't make our own music, i was relieved that in fact we did make a back up plan.

The music wasn't a difficult decision as we only had to search through a few tracks and we found the perfect piece of music and it suits our title sequence. The music is from the american rock genre of music that uses electric guitars and drums to good use. When Jason and Mike started to look on the website we didn't expect to find the piece of music so soon and so was very happy when we found the track that we did. When we started looking for music we were going to use an instrumental soundtrack but we couldn't find any from the sort of genre music that we were looking for and so instead settled with a piece of music that uses minimal lyrics but still suits our title sequence that we are trying to create.

Google calender

For our group we have had to acquire Google calendar in order for us to keep up to date and aware of the work we are doing. It is used for deadlines and to schedule wok date to make sure we are organised and on task all of the time.

Typography survey

Lesson diary- 2

This lesson we have had to re-draw up our storyboard. It has consisted of us o draw out each scene of the storyboard and to include: camera movement, type of shot, dialogue, transition and where the typography will be used. We have also decided on what music will be used for our title sequence. We had to be certain that the music is copyright free and will have to fit into our title sequence. We have used a rock-themed piece of music which is completely non-copyright and we agreed that this piece of music will be sufficient for the title sequence. We will now have to plan when we will produce this title sequence.

Andrew Anderson Typography

This is the typography we plan to use for our title sequence design. We feel this relates strongly to the film because the thickness of the writing has a fantastic link to our film and essentially our character. The source of the typography used was www.dafont.com This website allows us to flick between hundreds of different pieces of typography in order for us to find the right one.