Planning for our Title Sequence...The Story

Adam's Lesson PITCH

During this lesson we did our pitches about our made up film's and we took crit from other groups to allow us to make improvements. Adam gave us some advice when we told him about what our ideas were for the title sequence and he told us to look at The Departed and Infernal Affairs:

The Departed







AND

Infernal Affairs II




These are the two films that he told us to look at The Departed and Infernal Affairs, however we could not find the sequence to the first one so we chose to do the second one.

Planning of our title sequence

24th November -Double Media

1.Brainstorm and decide which Genre of film we are going to plan.

2. We had to use 'The Big Picture' sheets to plan each element of the film.

3. We then had to prepare a pitch that we will then be delivering in our next lesson, imagining that you are an independent film maker and you're trying to secure funding from a Production company. 

The genre for our title sequence is 'Crime' we have decided to call it P.I (Private Investigator) 

Narrative

Equilibrium > The investigator is asked to re-open a previous case which is normal for him as he does this on a daily bases. However the case that he is re-opening was closed for a reason and not realizing this he starts digging into it.

Problem/Disequilibrium > The people that he is investigating find out that he is digging up dirt on them and trying to take them down so they then try to injure/kill him but each attempt fails.

Action > They then kidnap the investigator as he now knows too much about them and what they do and they try to get out as much information out of him as possible but he does not give anything up. as a result of this they think that they have scared him enough that he will not go to the police and forget about the case so they let him go.

Resolution > However the investigator never looses a fight so he gathers up all the information that he has found and goes to the police and pleads his case ...as you do!

He is then able to bring down a few of the gangsters but as this is a big gang the main gangsters are still out there and realize that they have to deal with him as he did not do as they told him....Which then leads to a sequel...But that is not relevant :)

Character's 

There are not many characters in our sequence, we only have to private investigator and the one gangster that he has been asked to investigate.

We have decided that they should both be men so there is more of a rivalry there. We decided that we would want Tom Hanks to be the main character and Jet Lee to be the triad.

Setting

Most of the scenes are shot in dark allies and at night time to give it a more darker feel. There are however some shots that will be in the PI's office to show that he is working on the case and what he has found out and what he has to work on.

Visual Style

We  will be using a tilt shot to show the PI's board which has all of the details of the case on it so that he can link things together and so it is easier for him to see what he is working with.

We have also decided that during the whole sequence we do not want to show the PI's face so that we can give him a bit of mystery so all the shots of him will be from behind and some close ups of his hands to see what he is doing and make it more interesting.

Paul Donnellon

A Brief Bio

Donnellon was originally from Dublin and whilst there studied animation and graphic design at Dun Laoighaire College of Art and Design. He then moved to London to be able to work with TVC which was the company who animated 'The Beatles - Yellow Submarine' and 'The Snowman'. From 2000 to 2002 Paul moved to the Oscar winning company The Mill as the consultant director of 3D animation. Since then he has been able to create his own company called Voodoodog with David Z. Obadiah.
His work as a commercials director include: CBBC's launch idents, Mercury award-winning Talvin Singh, Pink Flyd ad Kate Winslet music video 'What If'.

Catalogue Of Work

He has done title sequences for the following films,
-Nanny Mcphee
-Nanny Mcphee Returns
-Smokin Aces
-Scott Pilgrim vs The World
-The A Team
-The life and Death of Peter Sellers
-Love in the time of Cholera
-The River King
-Made of Honor

Smokin Aces




With this title sequence we notice how Paul has used his experience of his Graphic Design. He uses this sort of typography as it is bold and shows a manly side to it and even though it is very simple it also shows us that you need to find a deeper meaning in the type. it shows that the film is very bold and manly and everything is to the point just as the text is. This sequence is very comic book like the way he uses still images to slow things to look at them and puts it over a background to make it look like an animation which he also studied.

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers -Link to the Sequence

With this title sequence we see a more fun side to Paul as he once again uses his experience of Graphic Design and Animation to use in this sequence. The typography shows that it is a fun and comical film by using the bright colours, fun typography and how it pops up onto the screen or more of a hop. Also when the animation begins we see flowers around the first name from the movie and once again shows a fun bright side to the movie. Also when in the animation he knocks over the lamp and does not care it shows that the film is very comical.

Comments - Nanny Mcphee
Paul Donnellon: "Nanny McPhee is a colorful kids movie. The director, Kirk Jones, saw our Peter Sellers title sequence and asked us to pitch on his opening credits."

Paul Donnellon: "I drew caricatures of the main child cast and constructed cut out figures rather than going for full drawn animation, like we did before in the Peter Sellers sequence. It gave a different effect and still holds your interest and gives the audience something to leave the cinema with."

This is our Continuity Piece

This is our Continuity Piece.
This is our first piece of film in a group of four which included Charlotte Norman & Beaird, Emily Hills and me Libby!
In this piece we had to keep the 180 degree rule which we achieved, open a door which we also successfully filmed. Then someone sitting on a chair opposite another person and an exchange of dialogue which once again we achieved. 
For this sequence we chose to take two best friends and make one a transsexual who was in love with his/her best friend. In this piece the transsexual chooses to come clean and tell his best friend about how he loves her and that she is really a he.
We chose this as it was a fun narrative to which we could have a little bit of a laugh with and we were able to to props which was rather funny. 
We used Si Hin as the transsexual and Charlotte played the naive best friend.#

This is the title sequence to the American Sitcom Two guys a girl and a pizza place
I chose this sequence as it looked fun and everything fit together well, for example the text is in a fun looking font and it is also red. by using the colour red it shows that it is a bright show that attract many people into watching it. This also shows that the characters are fun and loving as the colour red could also been seen as the colour of love and they are all best friends so all in all the colour really works for the sequence. Then you have the typography of it and this is a swirly sort of text which you would most normally see on a cartoon or something comedic which is what this show is a comedy. The text allows us to see that they have fun personalities and we also know that the characters will be fun to watch. So when you put the colour of the text and the typography together it shows us that the show is a fun comedy and the characters are close friends that make a lot of jokes.

Then you have the setting and how the actors act in the sequence. You see that they are always together and they always have smiles on there faces and they are also dancing around which shows happiness and that they are having fun which then tell us that the program is a happy one with a lot of laughter in it. You also have a plain setting which tells us that the three characters are the main focus in the program.