We got the movie "Seven" from the website watchthetitles.com.
How many titles are displayed during the opening sequences to the film?
The number of titles that are shown during the opening sequences is 31.
What images are prioritized in the in the opening sequence?
There is someone that is writing about what it seems to be like some people who are deceased. There is some harm done with a needle that was used to make a book. Pictures of people's faces and words are getting crossed out with a sharpie.
What connotations do the images carry?
The connotations the images carry are that a guy is writing a book about the crimes that he committed. He is most likely a psychopath.
How is genre reinforced through symbolic and technical codes from the outset?
The movie is a crime movie so it's being reinforced by showing what crime movies usually have in the genre such as blood, people dying, and a "bad" guy.
How does the film establish an enigma from the outset?
The film establishes an enigma by giving a very mysterious vibe by having an unknown individual writing weird stuff in a book.
What strategies are used to ensure the film appeals to its target audience?
Creating the creepy mood by showing a guy bleeding and crossing people face out. With the needle going through his finger it gives mysterious feeling about him.
How has technology been used efectively?
Technology is being used effectively by using a black and white filter through the intro and the jump cuts and cutaways gives a weery feeling.
Friday, January 31, 2020
Title research: Hostage
We choose the movie "Hostage" from the website https://www.watchthetitles.com/
How many titles are displayed during the opening sequences to the film?
The amount of title sequences that are displayed in the opening scene of Hostage are 35.
What images are prioritized in the opening sequence?
The images that are prioritized in the opening sequence are buildings, cop cars, crime investigation tape, a variety of guns, cops that are heavily armed, barbed wire.
What connotations do the images carry?
The connotations the images carry are that it is an intense action filled movie, it involves a lot of crime and there is probably an investigation or search for somebody. There is a lot of violence involved.
How does the film establish an enigma from the outset?
From the title sequence the film establishes an enigma when the images of the heavily armed officers, detective tape, and all of the weapons are displayed.
What strategies are used to ensure the film appeals to its target audience?
By creating a curious mood when showing the weapons and heavily armed officers, it gets you thinking what is the need for all the weapons and the detective tape. The music choice also is appealing to the audience, it creates an intense mood.
How has technology been used effectively?
Technology is being used effectively by editing, names of the produces can be seen across a building or on a gun. It is also being used by using transitions like fade ins/outs and jump cuts.
Title research: Manhut
We got the movie "Manhunt" from the website www.watchthetitles.com
How many titles are displayed during the opening sequences to the film?
The amount of titles that are displayed during the opening sequences is nine.
What images are prioritized in the opening sequence?
In the opening scene there is primarily images of Osama Bin Laden who the movie focuses on. As the title sequence progressed there was evidence about the manhunt for Bin Laden.
What connotations do the images carry?
The connotations the images carry are negative as they are all depicting terrorists who committed serious crimes harming thousands of people. This sets the stage for the rest of the movie where the "Manhunt" for Bin Laden takes place.
How is genre reinforced through symbolic and technical codes from the outset?
The movie is a crime movie so the genre is reinforced through symbolic and technical codes by understanding that somebody committed a crime. This was done by moving through the title sequence as if somebody was connecting pieces of evidence to each other.
How does the film establish an enigma from the outset?
From the title sequence the film establishes an enigma by using handwritten evidence about the manhunt in the title sequence. In fact, at any point during the sequence if the viewer were to pause and examine the text they would see relevant information to the film.
What strategies are used to ensure the film appeals to its target audience?
Creating a mysterious mood by opening up with pictures of Osama Bin Laden and what seems to be evidence used in the "manhunt" when searching for him. This draws the viewer interest by showing the extreme amount of detail which the movie is going to explain a situation that most are already familiar with in less detail.
How has technology been used effectively?
Technology is being used effectively especially with the editing in the opening sequence where we move around on a piece of paper to different pieces of evidence. Also the sequence contains many images which dissolve in and out of the picture.
The amount of titles that are displayed during the opening sequences is nine.
What images are prioritized in the opening sequence?
In the opening scene there is primarily images of Osama Bin Laden who the movie focuses on. As the title sequence progressed there was evidence about the manhunt for Bin Laden.
What connotations do the images carry?
The connotations the images carry are negative as they are all depicting terrorists who committed serious crimes harming thousands of people. This sets the stage for the rest of the movie where the "Manhunt" for Bin Laden takes place.
How is genre reinforced through symbolic and technical codes from the outset?
The movie is a crime movie so the genre is reinforced through symbolic and technical codes by understanding that somebody committed a crime. This was done by moving through the title sequence as if somebody was connecting pieces of evidence to each other.
How does the film establish an enigma from the outset?
From the title sequence the film establishes an enigma by using handwritten evidence about the manhunt in the title sequence. In fact, at any point during the sequence if the viewer were to pause and examine the text they would see relevant information to the film.
What strategies are used to ensure the film appeals to its target audience?
Creating a mysterious mood by opening up with pictures of Osama Bin Laden and what seems to be evidence used in the "manhunt" when searching for him. This draws the viewer interest by showing the extreme amount of detail which the movie is going to explain a situation that most are already familiar with in less detail.
How has technology been used effectively?
Technology is being used effectively especially with the editing in the opening sequence where we move around on a piece of paper to different pieces of evidence. Also the sequence contains many images which dissolve in and out of the picture.
Title research: kiss kiss bang bang
We got the movie "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" from the website www.watchthetitles.com
How many titles are displayed during the opening sequences to the film?
The amount of titles that are displayed during the opening sequences are 26.
What images are prioritized in the opening sequence?
There are buildings and a person hopping over the fence and running into a warehouse. There is a gun being fired and a house filled with people. One girl is pushed off the house. There are bullets as well with blood.
What connotations do the images carry?
The connotations the images carry are that a woman ends up dying and a man is running from something. Meaning a person is in trouble for committing a crime with a gun.
How is genre reinforced through symbolic and technical codes from the outset?
The movie is a crime movie so the genre is reinforced through symbolic and technical codes by understanding that crime movies usually involve action and what we see in the title sequence is that it involves that. The equipment that is used fits the crime aspect. A gun, blood, a person running from something.
How does the film establish an enigma from the outset?
From the title sequence the film establishes an enigma by creating a curious aspect by having a man jump a fence and start running and where a female is pushed off of a house.
What strategies are used to ensure the film appeals to its target audience?
Creating a mysterious mood by opening up with a man jumping the fence and then transitioning to a woman holding a gun. With a woman falling to the ground it creates suspense and start to make you wonder how did it happen.
How has technology been used effectively?
Technology is being used effectively by using the camera angles like tracking shots and zoom as well. The editing consists of fade ins/outs, cutaways, inserts, and jump cuts.
The amount of titles that are displayed during the opening sequences are 26.
What images are prioritized in the opening sequence?
There are buildings and a person hopping over the fence and running into a warehouse. There is a gun being fired and a house filled with people. One girl is pushed off the house. There are bullets as well with blood.
What connotations do the images carry?
The connotations the images carry are that a woman ends up dying and a man is running from something. Meaning a person is in trouble for committing a crime with a gun.
How is genre reinforced through symbolic and technical codes from the outset?
The movie is a crime movie so the genre is reinforced through symbolic and technical codes by understanding that crime movies usually involve action and what we see in the title sequence is that it involves that. The equipment that is used fits the crime aspect. A gun, blood, a person running from something.
How does the film establish an enigma from the outset?
From the title sequence the film establishes an enigma by creating a curious aspect by having a man jump a fence and start running and where a female is pushed off of a house.
What strategies are used to ensure the film appeals to its target audience?
Creating a mysterious mood by opening up with a man jumping the fence and then transitioning to a woman holding a gun. With a woman falling to the ground it creates suspense and start to make you wonder how did it happen.
How has technology been used effectively?
Technology is being used effectively by using the camera angles like tracking shots and zoom as well. The editing consists of fade ins/outs, cutaways, inserts, and jump cuts.
Title research: watch the titles
We used the website the watch the titles to look for movies in our genre to learn the best way to structure the opening of our movie. This website allowed us to access movies for free and watch the beginning to see how movies in our genre start. There are many choices of movies with a variety of genres. Additionally, this website had a variety of different kinds of media, however, we are only supposed to look at movies. Our genre, crime had a number of movies choices available on this website. This made it easy to find a good amount of examples improving our knowledge on our genre. The reason we are researching titles is to make sure our movie fits the genre we specified it to be. By watching how other crime movies do it, we can do our titles alike so it looks more professional. We can learn tactics used by crime movies and use similar tactics in our film. Moreover, this website gave us the opportunity to not only view movies for free but also we now have the ability to watch a crime movie and base our movie off of it. Not only will we watch movies in our genre but also others to see the differences and how they set it up and use different tactics. When doing our final project we will look back and remember how other movies in this genre started their films and we will use their strategy to our advantage. This website was great, by watching the first couple minutes of movies that are similar to what we want we learned so much. I am very excited to start the filming process and apply my new knowledge about titles to our film. This website was very helpful and we will take advantage of it as a resource to base our movie off of qualities seen in other crime movies.
Title research: the art of the titles
We used the website the art of the titles to look for movies in our genre and saw how they did their titles. This website gives us the ability to access movies for free and watch the beginning to see how it is laid out. There are many choices of movies with a variety of genres. This website has both TV shows and movies, we are only supposed to look at movies. Our genre, crime had many choices of movies on this website. We were very pleased to see how many crime movies were available to watch. The reason we are researching titles in the first place is, in our movie we need to set up the title just like it was the beginning of a real movie. By watching how other crime movies do it, we can do our titles alike so it looks more professional. We can learn tactics used by crime movies and use similar tactics in our film. This website gives us a great opportunity, one not only to acquire these movies for free but also we now have the opportunity to watch a crime movie. Not only will we watch movies in our genre but also others to see the differences and how they set it up and use different tactics. When doing our final project we will look back and remember how other movies in this genre started their films and we will use their strategy to our advantage. This website was great, by watching the first couple minutes of movies that are similar to what we want we learned so much. I am very excited to start the filming process and apply my new knowledge about titles to our film. This website was very helpful, we will take advantage of this and apply the new tactics we learned to our crime genre film.
Sunday, January 26, 2020
Genre Research: Scarface
Common CAMS in the movie: In the movie Scarface tracking shots, low angles, over the shoulder, and pan. The shots and movements that were used were: establishing shot, tracking shot, medium shot, close up, long shot, and wide shot
Common CLAMPS in this movie: For costumes, there was tourist looking clothing as they were in Miami. Moreover they also had nice clothes like suits ad dresses. For lighting it was mostly sunny during the day as the were in Miami Florida. For acting it was serious, tense, curious. For makeup there was fake blood and wounds. For props there were guns, cars, and bottles. The setting is Miami beach.
Common sound in the movie: The movie uses dialogue, which introduces a serious and dramatic tone
Common editing in the movie: The movie used very simplistic editing techniques as it was created in 1983
Elements of the genre in the movie: The movie is a crime movie about a criminal refugee from Cuba who moved to Miami Florida after being sent to the United States by Castro. He became one of the largest drug king-pens in south Florida however his urge for money and power ultimately got him killed.
What elements of the genre did the movie have that you like?
The best part of the movie was that it ultimately taught a great lesson about how greed can lead to one's demise while also demonstrating a great deal of action as the main character killed a bunch of people before getting killed.
What elements of the genre did the movie have that do not appeal to you?
We did not like how the main character killed his best friend which was very sad
Common CLAMPS in this movie: For costumes, there was tourist looking clothing as they were in Miami. Moreover they also had nice clothes like suits ad dresses. For lighting it was mostly sunny during the day as the were in Miami Florida. For acting it was serious, tense, curious. For makeup there was fake blood and wounds. For props there were guns, cars, and bottles. The setting is Miami beach.
Common sound in the movie: The movie uses dialogue, which introduces a serious and dramatic tone
Common editing in the movie: The movie used very simplistic editing techniques as it was created in 1983
Elements of the genre in the movie: The movie is a crime movie about a criminal refugee from Cuba who moved to Miami Florida after being sent to the United States by Castro. He became one of the largest drug king-pens in south Florida however his urge for money and power ultimately got him killed.
What elements of the genre did the movie have that you like?
The best part of the movie was that it ultimately taught a great lesson about how greed can lead to one's demise while also demonstrating a great deal of action as the main character killed a bunch of people before getting killed.
What elements of the genre did the movie have that do not appeal to you?
We did not like how the main character killed his best friend which was very sad
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