Thursday 12 December 2013

Animatics Intertitles: Decisions to choose from

Myself and my group have come up with these intertitles for our films, after also making our own logo of "CutThroat Pictures".

These are our choices for the first inter title




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This is our choices for our second inter-title:






We chose to style our inter titles like this after watching Sinister's official trailer, which their intertitles were similar, as follows:





We wanted the text in white for the second inter title which says "Coming Soon" as we found it very effective on Shutter Island's trailer:

However, we wanted the colour red for our first inter title that was red and the websites also, because we liked the reference of the "blood" from the colour, like our logo has which represents blood within the colour.
However, we really liked the Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones Trailer where red was a main colour throughout the end inter titles, which we have also decided to put near the end of our trailer, as these trailers we have viewed so far all have put them at the end.

Enhance the red for "Paranormal Activity" to stand out.

This inter title is also similar to ours with the idea of colours, with just plainer font used.

Wednesday 11 December 2013

Scripting:

For the script I wanted to ensure I had a good understanding of what scripts for filming actually looked like, so I took some examples to make sure mine fit well.


First draft on Script

Megan Sanders, Jessica Mann, Harri Evans
Script – Enclosed

Internal: Asylum
Shot of syringes and any other medical props being placed onto a tray. Long shot of Nurse Cecilia walking down asylum corridor. Cecilia opens cell door and turns on the light. Cecilia enters with tray and as she looks around confused and worried expression crosses over her face. Cecilia drops tray and glass smashes. Cecilia’s legs are shown being pushed apart by somebody else’s [patients], and focus on Cecilia’s arm held against the wall. Camera focuses out from the door closing back in the corridor and zooms out, as diegetic voice of Cecilia’s screaming and shouting “No” echoes.
Estimated seconds: 20
External: Asylum Grounds
Doctor arrives at Asylum. Walks up grounds steps and knocks at front door, using knocker. Knocker must be focused on ready for relation back to it at end of trailer. The door creaks open, and the doctor enters.
Estimated seconds: 5
Internal: Asylum
Shot reverse shot sequence. Over the shoulder shot of the doctor sitting down as he stares at the person’s shoulder viewing.
Doctor:
How are you feeling?
Boy:
-Silence-
Doctor:
Where are your parents now, [name]?
Boy:
I don’t know who they are.
Estimated seconds: 15
Flashback sequence;
External: Train Station
Silence from actors. Only sound is a train arriving. Cecilia and her father the Head of the Asylum on the other side of the platform, wide shot. Cecilia hands over a baby in white blanket over to her father. Train goes past, and then once it goes past, Cecilia disappears.
Estimated seconds: 10
Present day;
Internal: Asylum: Head of Asylum’s room
Doctor is searching for documents. Finds file and opens it. Searches through documents until he finds the boy’s name with his birth certificate, showing name of the boy, and the father unidentified, and the mother’s name: Cecilia.
Estimated seconds: 10
Internal: Asylum: Head of Asylum’s room
Doctor:
You need to tell the boy who his real mother is!
HoA:
I needn't tell the boy a thing.
Doctor:
He’s going his whole life thinking his parent’s have given him up by choice!
HoA:
Leave, now!
Estimated seconds: 15
Internal: Asylum: Front side room
Doctor opens a side door after looking around as he brings the mother in.
Doctor:
Your son. He’s escaped.
Estimated seconds: 10
Montage of shots: 1-2 seconds each: Including:
-          Long shot of all the rooms empty
-          Someone running with a knife [unidentified]
-          The mother screaming “No! Stop!” [same thing she said to the patient who violated her]
Estimated seconds: 15-20
Internal: Asylum: Front room
Camera zoom out quickly from front room to outside the asylum focusing on the door as it slams, and then focus on the knocker once again [iconography]
Intertitle:
Enclosed
Intertitle:
Coming soon
[Or together instead of separate?]
Internal: Asylum
Jumpy scene, figure out on shoot.