RESEARCH: ANALYSING CREED TITLE SEQUENCE

Art of the title 1 - Creed from Callum Drewett

RESEARCH: ANALYSING ZOMBIELAND TITLE SEQUENCE

Art of the Title 2  - Zombieland (2009)

This film is about a universe (starts off in America) which gradually increases of zombie population throughout the whole country. One of the main actors finds this out at a petrol station and his quest begins from there… He meets people along the way around the country to survive as long as possible. He describes to the viewers how to survive step by step E.G. Double tap (makes sure the zombie is dead).

In the credits at the beginning of the film, as well as having the credits of the actors, there is also step by step instructions of how to survive the zombie apocalypse such as ‘#2 Double Tap’. The producer’s names are presented first as they created the film and then follows the name of the actors. The credits physically move in the short slow motion clips as the people hit the letters which is a very clever edit.

•      Director: Ruben Fleischer

•      Studio: Columbia Pictures

•      Producer: Ben Conrad

The Mise En Scene of the film displays a very wide spread of as it varies location from buildings, to open land, to streets etc… The use of spitting blood and eating people in the opening scene gives the viewers an insight of how gory the film. In this case, Zombieland is 10/10 gore – couldn’t be gorier although it is also very comedic. The way the characters throughout the movie survive is very comedic as half of them aren't very good at it which results in them relying on one person... the country guy.

The background music is strong and bold which makes the viewer understand it is a very serious film from the start despite the comedic parts to it. Moreover, the colours in the opening scenes – too many different colours, shades and locations – already interprets how chaotic the film is and the lacking of structure due to the disruption by the zombie apocalypse.

The audience is drawn in by the famous actors (especially Jesse Eisenberg) which will get many fans of this actor to watch the film. The use of ‘Rules’ which are presented step by step attracts the audience to remain watching as it is addressing the viewer on what to do in the situation.

PLANNING: TRELLO

I have created Trello which is a very useful online organisational tool. This aids me to organise my work in a clear and orderly fashion.
I am planning to update this once a month. Here are some screenshots of my Trello:

THE BRIEF

I am doing the video brief:

Main task: the titles and opening of a new fiction film, to last a maximum of two minutes.

All video and audio material must be original, produced by the candidate(s), with the exception of music or audio effects from a copyright-free source.

PRELIMINARY EXERCISE

The Consultant's Diagnosis

Continuity task: filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room, sitting down in a chair opposite another character with whom she/he exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180% rule.

We had 3 people in our filming group. Two actors and one cameraman. One of the actors was the patient who was suffering from hair loss; The Doctor was sitting at his desk filling out paper work and updating patient documents.

The patient began to run up the stairs of the building; the 180 degree rule was used at the top of the stairs as we just filmed the patient sprinting up the stairs. We utilised the 'shot reverse shot' which is placing the camera over the shoulder of one of the actors to capture the facial expressions and dialogue from the speaking actor and same the other way.

We also used the 'tracking shot' as the patient progresses through the room to the Doctors desk - the camera follows the patient as he moves across the room.