http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/19/tattoos-generational-divide_n_6445760.html
Provided the incentive and information of employment discrimination, that will be a focus of this documentary, and will be hinted at as a question to be answered in the opening sequence. i can use a quote like this to help with questions for interviews.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKagSW4s244
I used this documentary to get an idea of "real" shots that I can include in my documentary and how to maybe use archive footage. Also it gave an idea of having to use the production company first in the title sequence.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t9vwc
This BBC Two documentary gave me the idea of questions that could be asked for getting tattoos that could be explored through the documentary and lead onto the "choice and consequence" reality of life or getting the tattoo and what it does for your future.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-27115348
This an article on other countries (there is more than what is shown in the image) views on tattoos and some jobs in Britain that dont allow tattoos in certain places or to be visible.
This was my initial idea to do a documentary for the film opening on tattoos and then my group decided to take my idea on and add what they had too it. So Ben had an idea for drama with culture, we are going to include culture as a focus of the tattoo documentary and then Aaron' film was very artsy (similar to Tree of Life) so we decided to incorporate these artsy shots to the look of some parts of the doc intro.
We used my initial presentation and adapted it for our group presentation...
Feedback and Amendments
The genre was clear from the film pitch...most likely because i said straight away in the first slide that it is a documentary, along with the premise.
Our target audience was thought to be a good age range of 16-early 20, but I think there would still be those of an older generation interested in this documentary.
It was understood that the characters would not be fictional but real life people that we are going to interview. And that the setting would be within a tattoo parlour and other places, it is unknown to us at the moment of which tattoo parlour we will be gong to be filming in.
Most people said on feedback that there was little to no enigma and we thought that we would create enigma by hinting at the tattoo narrative with pictures of tattoos, tattooed you tubers coming up etc.
People thought it was similar in the way it was going to be filmed like TV Documentaries but then other people had never watched any real documentaries so had nothing to compare it too.
In the comments people asked...
How will you make it less like a T.V program?
I will make it less like a T.V reality tv documentary mix (for example 24hrs in A&E) by using the conventions of documentary films and making it a little bit more formal with the interviews, less reality being watched from spy cameras etc and more professional interviews and filming and then on top of that a lot of cinematic artsy shots to add to the film likeness of the documentary.
What is the message of our film?
The message of our film is mentioned in the first few slides, the messages in this society of conforming with trend and pop culture why do we get tattoos? is it still for individualism or just going with the trend? And then what is the impact of getting a tattoo? Like with employment discrimination and such things.
My Group for the opening sequence task consisted of Ben Griffiths and Aaron Hunt. I feel this group will be hard working and that we can produce a good quality piece of work. This group came together really after Prelim tasks where we all saw each others work from different groups. I saw that ben was a hard worker and put in the hours when it was needed and I saw Aaron was able to film reasonably well with his good quality camera (such as mine).
My basic idea for a opening sequence is about an ocd teen who doesnt like the fact that the things in his life dont make sense and are in order like things in his room or the city etc.
I started researching title sequences seeing how they
worked, I already had the idea in mind that I really want to make my opening
sequence indie, to make my audience think, to get hooked on good visuals and an
interesting character/story. I knew for both of these I should look at Wes
Anderson opening sequences with his intricately shown stories noticed by the
audience only if they connect the dots and work out the story. I first looked
at ::::
Moonrise Kingdom
(http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/moonrise-kingdom/) - This story is very
intricate, at least the genre is hard to grasp and the audience guesses that it
is about a family of kids but that is all you get, I would like to incorporate
some ideas from this such as a narration over the op setting up the story or
helping it out - for example in this one Wes Anderson used The Young Person’s Guide to the
Orchestrato metaphorically introduce us into the other parts of
the family by using the parts of the orchestra family.I then started jotting down ideas (insert
image of rough note/ rough story board) and decided a monologue would work well once the main
character is seen to make more of a connection between watcher and the
struggling protagonist with in the story. So I looked to monologues from famous
films, I started with ::::
Ferris Buellers day off
--- After the initial setting up of the story of Ferris staying at home after
faking being ill he does a monologue to the camera and therefore to the
audience this makes him seem like one of the audience making a connection
between him and the real world making us want to see what he says next and what
he will do with his interesting story.
Submarine (Ayoade)
--- To have a relate-able character that is interesting to the audience to listen to, that is superficial in anyway.
Doing a documentary for an opening sequence?
I have thought about doing a Documentary title sequence
because I like documentaries more than anything, I feel this would be easier to
shoot and make it look good but include everything that is needed for the
marks, I have begun a film pitch presentation on emaze and am going through the
ideas of how to hit every aspect of the mark scheme in the opening sequence.
I feel it is easier to film a documentary in the long run
because it doesn't need many different types of shots but it can include them
but it may look weird with the common mid shot interviews and random filler shots
of "not interview things". I feel it will be hard to engage someone,
as one should with a film opening, in a documentary because most of the time
people are watching a doc when they already know what it is about and are
watching it purely for information/education/pre-conceived interest.
For the intro, the basic idea is that we have to have enigma created and just hit the criteria. Our doc intro will be on tattoos and how they can impact our generation in the work environment in future. We will just have to make it look more film like with artsy shots. With doing this documentary all the mise en scene would already be there because it is a real world, so would the characters - it wouldn't look like acting because it isn't.
Choose one title sequences from films in www.artofthetitle.com Screengrab each title in order, write down the jobs titles and seconds from the start so that you can and the length of each title. Write a summary discussing the various titles, fonts, colours, sound, effects and any meaning that may link them to the genre or narrative. Titles are numbered T1, T2 etc I chose Moonrise Kingdom, by Wes Anderson, to analyse all the titles in an opening sequence.
Criteria Level 1 0–23 marks The work for the main task is possibly
incomplete. There is minimal evidence in the work of the creative use of any
relevant technical skills such as:
• Producing material appropriate for the target audience and
task;
• using titles appropriately according to institutional
conventions;
• using sound with images and editing appropriately for the
task set;
• shooting material appropriate to the task set; including
controlled use of the camera, attention to framing, variety of shot distance
and close attention to mise-en-scene;
• using editing so that meaning is apparent to the viewer
and making selective and appropriate use of shot transitions and other effects.
Level 2 24–35 marks There is evidence of a basic level of
ability in the creative use of some of the following technical skills:
• Producing material appropriate for the target audience and
task;
• using titles appropriately according to institutional
conventions;
• using sound with images and editing appropriately for the
task set;
• shooting material appropriate to the task set;, including
controlled use of the camera, attention to framing, variety of shot distance
and close attention to mise-en-scene;
• using editing so that meaning is apparent to the viewer
and making selective and appropriate use of shot transitions and other effects.
Level 3 36–47 marks There is evidence of proficiency in the
creative use of many of the following technical skills:
• Producing material appropriate for the target audience and
task;
• using titles appropriately according to institutional conventions;
• using sound with images and editing appropriately for the
task set;
• shooting material appropriate to the task set; including
controlled use of the camera, attention to framing, variety of shot distance
and close attention to mise-en-scene;
• using editing so that meaning is apparent to the viewer
and making selective and appropriate use of shot transitions and other effects.
Level 4 48–60 marksThere is evidence of excellence in the
creative use of most of the following technical skills:
• material appropriate for the target audience and task;
• using titles appropriately according to institutional
conventions;
• using sound with images and editing appropriately for the
task set;
• shooting material appropriate to the task set;including
controlled use of the camera, attention to framing, variety of shot distance
and close attention to mise-en-scene; using editing so that meaning is apparent to the
viewer and making selective and appropriate use of shot transitions and other
effects. Captive
Blood and gore and Horror, i think this is appropriate for
the target audience of 15 and older for this film maybe in the range of 15 to
25 but the piece can come across a bit trailer like with fast pace, flash backs
and the title at end.
The title work nicely they are small and simple not
distracting from the enigma and narrative being created.
Eery sounds add to the ambiance of the scenes setting up the
genre along with image that you see.
Camera is very steady and of good quality, the use of close
up and extreme close up allow us to see the build up of fear for the character
as the realization is on his face of not knowing what is going on and with
limbs being tied to the chair.
Mise en Scene helps the scene greatly, the blood and make up
on the character is believable and adds to the enigma of what happened to him,
the props of ropes and chair add to the captivity aspect and this abandoned
building is such a good setting.
The editing is well done cutting to different camera angel
types such as POV and the CCTV cameras making the video more interesting.
Overall I would give this film opening a 58 out of 60 so a
Level 4 because some parts didn't make sense like with the female
"evil" character having a doll or what her relevance even was also
the opening sequence came across as a bit like a trailer with how fast it moved
and with the title being at the end of all the action compared to say when the
character woke up.
Resurgence The opening of the piece is good having just the black screen with the titles coming up makes the audience feel the tension building up the first shot which is a major event. I would feel the target audience would be 15 and above because as the radio presenter says the story entails a murderer and execution and other more adult things that younger children might not be accustom to. Having the titles come up in simple white on black text get them across in a good order and timing but don't distract the reader from the radio broadcast that is setting up the narrative of the film. This way of showing titles has been used in many Thriller/Horror films before and it is clear that the makers of these people were copying this way of showing the opening sequence. The use of Mise en Scene is to the makers advantage in this opening, the characters all have costumes appropriate to the scene and time period and the electric chair looks realistic and the props surrounding it like a sponge that would have been used to put on the head of the soon to be executed. Editing made the sepia tone that made the scene look more old time making it look like the dusty setting of 1940's Texas, along with the sound of the buzzing electric generator in the back ground adding to the reminder that this whole scene is leading up the the release of that energy. There were a variety of shots going all around the scene making the watcher aware of everything but some shots were not need like the shot of the guard after tying down the prisoner, this guard adds nothing to the story because one he is silent throughout and two he has no facial expression, if he had showed distress at what was happening around him the shot could be justified. after the title comes up at the end of the big build up top the electrocution ( which by the way makes the whole thing seem a bit trailer-ish) I feel the next shot should be back on the murderer and follow him making his kills leading up to him then becoming imprisoned and the watcher being back at the execution but instead we have somehow traveled forward in time and the murder is now a bar man. This completely throws away all the enigma and narrative created surrounding the murderer and what he has done and now it is an entirely new story, this ruins everything before.
Overall I think this film should be given a low lever 4, maybe 50 marks because the shots were a bit repetitive, the story is thrown away after the execution and some shots were not needed but they did include all the technical skills in the G321 marks scheme.
One from Class... Roses are Red
An interesting use of camera work to show all the titles, the quality of the camera could be better and it could be less shaky also the stops so obviously put in by the edit take away from the flow of the moving camera they are trying create by following the character around the room also some shots are out of focus some camerawork isn't as good as it could've been. The use of Mise en scene to show that the story is about a teen relationship sets the genre up also and the target audience, a teen romance for teens to watch. They tried to make shots flow by trying to put them at the same angle but this didn't work because the jumpiness of the shot being out compared to the last is very clear, and then there are frames at the bottom and top of the video for some shots and not for others this makes the watcher feel less immersed.
I would give this a Level 3 maybe 40 marks.
