Not Quite Alive But Definitely Kicking Title Board.

Even though I am in charge of the title board we have decided that we would make it as a group to maximise the quality of the final outcome.

I have been working on possible composition of the title board as well as the fonts. I have experimented on using 2 different fonts to emphasise certain words, however I felt that this gave an almost disorientating feel, and made the whole title board a unprofessional finish, as well as making it look messy.

[To be Continued]

How did you attract/adress your audience? - Planning.

To answer this question i would have the question placed at the cebter of the page and have various sub titles which will have various ares of the titles answering the question. for example 1 subtitle will include various screen shots of our audience feedback from our blog, aswell as some examplar questionares.
All the subtitles will include in depth explaination of how that relates to the question.  in order to make this an excellent / proficient it will have to include various types of medias which will come from the examples of the content related to the various subtitles aswell as the question. In addition i will need to create a visually exciting, and intresting mediums, which will maxsimise the viewers intrest.

My intial ideas for this are: An exciting prezzie, xtranormal.

Improvements.

"After rewatching our film a few times, we came to the conclusion that it was neccessary for us to refilm even if we kept it the same. This is because that lots of the shots include things that shouldn't be in them as part of the mise en scene. For example:

Here the tripod is very plainly in shot. This will lose us marks as it is an example of bad mise en scene.

When we redo this, we shall move all equipment that we are not using into the hall of the block of flats nearby so that there is no chance of it being caught in the shot.

This is a shot during which Cameron (male human survivor) looks at the camera and asks if it is filming. For our rough draft we decided that the moment between him doing thsi and him breaking free from the fight was too short so we had to include it.

In our refilm we shall do many takes to the same shot so that we can eliminate any breaking of the $th wall.

This is another example of msie en scene. This shot lasts much longer however, so the bags and equipment are much more prominent and this will lose us even more marks than the first shot.

Again, to overcome this problem in the refilm, we shall put all of our bags and things that we don't want to be in the shot in the foyer of the block of flats from which this shot was taken. That way they will not be caught in the shot.

We have also been considering the option of rewriting the whole thing entirely and starting from scratch. At the moment, we really like how quickly it is paced and the shots that we have used. However, it needs to be shorter and we think that it is not funny enough for it to be a comedy zombie film.

We were looking to create a deliberatly amsuing zombie fim opening, however at the moment, it seems much more to be a tongue-in-cheek accidentally funny piece.

We are going to add some mroe things in that will make it funnier, for example, making the fight scene much more dance like so that it is more amusing. I am making a quick storyboard that includes some of the things that we feel would improve it."


This post is done by Edith. As a group we will have a meeting in due course dicussing future filming, and other certain developments. After noting the various inperfections we will have to consider all this in order to better our film opening. We also have various ideas that we will soon put into reality.

Audience Feedback on First Rough Edit

"Just before Christmas, we showed our rough edit to the rest of the media class. Below is some of the feedback that we got and how we are going to repsond to it:

"Great first scene through the window, would be better if you could make the scenes more tense. But anyway, it's good quality,"

In response to this we have decided to rethink our approach to this project. We have to decide if we want to make more tense or more comedic. If we decide to make it more tense then we shall refilm it at night to add a little more suspense to it. If we decide to make it more comedic, then we shall refilm the fight scene to make it more dance like and therefore funnier.

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"Not too sure about the soundtrack, although it was well timed with the action. Camera angles were also very good,"

We are definitely considering changing the soundtrack, however at the moment I think it is perfect and that we just need to adjust the style of the action to fit the music. If we do decide to change the soundtrack then we should look at all of our options, such as classical, something famous, something unknown or even having a student write an original piece for us.

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"It was so awesome. You could add more sound effects, e.g zombie growls,"

We are definitly going to add sound effects to break up the music a bit and to add more authenticity to the piece. Also, we need to add more ambient sounds to the start such as bird song so that it is not just silence because at the moment it sounds like a mistake.

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"The drop of the music matching the zombie charge was TOTALLY WICKED!!!!!"

 

We spent a long time matching the music to the action here and this is one of the reasons that I think that we should keep the soundtrack. However, because of the mixed responses that we have received we shall put out a survey, either on SurveyMonkey or just through our friends."

 

Post done by Edith.

 

As a group have had many talks about improving our film opening, Including chats about developing the mise en scene and the music. we have all listened to the audience feedback and will have to consider greatly what they have said as they are our target market.

Sahun of the Dead - Poster Analysis

I think that this poster has a clear focus which is the title of the film “Shaun Of The Dead” as well as its main star Simon Pegg.

The creator of this has made the focus of this clearly by the use of high contrasted colours; this has been used for both the typography as well as highlighting Simon Pegg among all the zombies.

The use of red as the main colour for the background instantly connotes danger and blood alerting the audience that it is has elements of horror in the film. The colour white is then used to contrast the red. The mixture of the red and white gives a light feel and almost a humorous atmosphere. If black was used for the letters on the other hand, I think that this would have given the film a more serious feel, alerting the audience wrongly. In addition White and red has a clear contrast.

The zombies has also been used to anchor the viewers thoughts. The zombies are saturated, and grey, whilst Simon Pegg is bright and in colour; instantly catching the viewer’s eye, as it is highly contrasted with the zombies visually. The look in his face also suggests many humorous connotations alerting the audience that it also has elements of comedy in the film.

The font used is bold and clear, making it easy for viewers to see the title, It is also very eye catching. The typography used is gives a sense of a dirty finish, as the edges of the letters appears to be jiggered, working really well as it mimics the movement of the zombies which is directly above. The hand in the letter “A” gives the film it’s typical horror film feel. This combined with the design of the font anchors the audience’s thoughts and expectations about the film.

The composition of the typography highlights the word “Dead” again anchoring the audience’s thoughts about the genre of the film. It also gives a clear focus, emphasising the title of the film.

Over all the mixture of both the image used and the typography instantly creates a mixture of horror and comedic feel. The image used suggests comedy and the typography suggests horror, mixing both together visually gives a clear representation of the film

In my opinion I think that this is an excellent poster. It raises many techniques and styles that I will have to consider when i design the title board for our film “Not Quite Alive, But Defiantly Kicking” it has also given me many ideas for the title board. Admittedly our title board will be highly influenced by this poster but i will definietly not be copying it as we want our title board to be original as well as eye catching.

Audience Feedback on Typography and Designs

The following graphs states the general feeback about the numerous designs i have created.

The questionnare was given to our traget market, where they can tick a box next to the one that they feel is the best, underneth they could also give general opnions about the designs, stating what they like or dont like, aswell as on how we as a group could improve certain designs.

The finisng will be highly taken into consideration.



Design 1



Design 2



Design 3



Design 4

Design 5

The feedback on the designs is really close. T.E.E. Productions i feel will have difficulty deciding on which one we will choose as there is a draw between Design 2 & 5.

Design 2 appears to be popular due to the combination of the camera aswell as the tea, as a group we have agreed that this is the selling point of this design. The audience likes that it relates to the Film industry, this has been said in numerous occasions in the questionarre.
Improvements suggested by the audience is that steam could be coming up the word "T.E.E." This is a really good idea and if we decide on using this design, it will defietly be an option to develop it.

Design 5 The simplistic design has won many votes (as stated on 3 out of 5 questionare).
As a group we also feel the the simplicity if this design works really well. However 1 person stated on the questionarre that it may be too simple.
Improvements stated on the questionare was "Tea Spillage" or a border.

Audience Feedback on Typography and Designs

The following graphs states the general feeback about the numerous designs i have created.

The questionnare was given to our traget market, where they can tick a box next to the one that they feel is the best, underneth they could also give general opnions about the designs, stating what they like or dont like, aswell as on how we as a group could improve certain designs.

The finisng will be highly taken into consideration.

Design 1

Design 2

Design 3

Design 4

Design 5

As Designs 3 and 4 T.E.E. Productions will have to consider which one to pick between these 2. As a group we will be weighing up the pros and cons of both the designs, as well as mabye developing the designs, taking on what the audience has said.

The general audience concentus about Design 3 is that the original conjuction of the letters appeals to the target market. As a group we agree.

The general audience feedback about Design 4 is that they like the clear focus of the design, as the word "TEE" appears to be the main subject in the design. The audience also like the 3D effect as many said this gave the typography a "Modern" and "Futurristic" feel.

Production logos

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This is a power point presentation of my typography designs for our Production logo. I think that the individual designs are strong in different areas.

I decided to expirement with different fonts rather than creating just one so that we could improve and develop and create a really strong typography which will give a really good and professional finish.

For the final outcome i could possibly "Pick N' Mix" from the different designs to produce an eye catching, unique, professional production logo.

Production Logo Questionnaire

I have recently finished several designs for our Production Logos, as well as the Typography.
This will be posted in my blog in due course.

I have done a questionnaire regarding the designs and the typography. Here our target market can give us feedback on which of the several designs I have created are the best, and which of the designs and the typography will go together to create our final production logo design.
The feedback we get will be taken into consideration and will highly effect our decision making. We think that it is important to have audience feedback as they are the one who our products are targeted at. Therefore it is important that the majority of the target audience likes any of the things we create.

Also in the questionnaire, people can state their opinions on how any of the designs and the typography could be improved, this information is vital as we aim to produce a Production logo that's fit to compete with any of the other production logos already existing.
In additions people can also give us ideas on colour schemes as we have not made a final decision yet, Although there has been thoughts to using "tea-like" colours to emphasise the branding of our production name.

The questionnaire I have done will be handed out to our target market, which are the teens. The results will then be put into graphs to clearly show the outcome and to have a clear presentation of the findings.

These are a few of my initial ideas for our production company logo, "T.E.E. Productions" .
"T.E.E." being the initials of our names, T-Tasnim, E-Edith. E-Ernie. As a group we decided that we would play with the word "TEE" and apply the concept of teas, as our production sounds like tea, we decided that this also would attract our target audience as it has an element of humour, as well has having an original stamp into the logo.

My sketches are not in colour, as we still have not decided as a group, the colour scehemes we would like to use throughout this project.

These designs are just ideas that will be improved. by using Photoshop, using real images, as well as improving and choosing the relevant fonts, instantly creating a more prefessional finish.

Idea 1

This was my instant idea when we decided that we were going to use the concept of teas.

I think this idea is really simple, but effective. However it lacks originality aswell as potential, as i think it would be difficult to be improved, as it would need a lot of work in order for it to work and to have a professional finish. 

On the other hand the composition of the "T.E.E. Productions" is very effective, as its clear, highlights the main focus of the logo which is "T.E.E", therefore it has very high chance of influencing the final outcome of the production logo.

Idea 2

 

The composition of this idea was very much influenced by the first idea. 

I decided to add a person with a cup of tea, a teenager, as i thought this could help our target audeince relate to the logo and be more attracted.

A way of improving this could be having various types of people holding the cup og tea, simillary to the "Dreamworks", as they had one with a daytime atmosphere and a nightime.

Idea 3

This idea came to me instantly after the first idea.

It simplicity is defienitly its selling point. Its clear, To the point aprroach in my opinion really works.

And improving it would be quite easy as it is up to the standards already.

However i fear that this idea is not targetting our target audience, As i think this idea is more for the older viewing public.

Idea 4

This is my improvement for the 3rd idea. As i thought the idea itself works, i decided to simple enlarge the writing, going out the actual cup.

I got the inspiration from the Universals logo. If i was to develop this idea further i would create a homely atmosphere, with warm colours, this i think would be targetting our target market, as well as having a very calm finish, which would act as an warning for the audience to sit down and be comfortable and watch.

Idea 5

The other ideas ive come up with are very much concentrated on cups of tea, therefore i have decided to mix this with media related objects.

The idea of making the filming camera having a handle connetating a cup of tea then came to my mind, i was then quick to quickly draw this idea. i then developed the shape of the camera, giving it an "old school", "Retro" feel. I mixed this with the composition of the writing in my first idea.

Combined together i think that this logo is very eye catching, original, humorous, and most of all i think that it attracts our target market.

T.E.E. Productions Logo

Recently in school I have turned my sketches into computerised designs, using Serif Draw Plus. I have made several designs. I will be using "Survey Monkey" to see the verdict of our target audience, after this me aswell as the rest of my group will all decide on the final design of our logo.
Although I am in charge of the typography of the logo, the rest of the group will also have a lot of in put, such as choosing which fonts are most appropriate, colour schemes, as well as compositions. This combined with the verdict from our target market, we hope that we will have best final outcome possible.

Test Post

This is a test post done on my Blackberry.
this is to ensure that blog posts are done more frequently, as blogging on my phone would be more convenient and also useful. However I think it will be definitely easier to blog on the computer as it would be very difficult to upload vieos on my phone aswell as pictures, also uploading ceratin medias would also take lonher on my phone than it would on the computer.

This is a previous years trailer for a zombie film.
Unlike our approach to a zombie, they have gone for a serious, horror sci-fi mystery.
The use of low lighting and the silloutte gives a mysterious and a typical horror film feel, this draws the audience in. there is also a wide range of zooming which alerts the viewer and also maximise the connetations of danger, which increaeses tension.
The use of a bigger number of cast for the students gives a very realistic school environtment, however the loud speaker digetic sound for the annpouncement gives a very american feel to the extract.

(To be improved.)

Typhography - Production Logo

This Production logo conotes richness and and simplicity, however it is very effective and rememorable. The use of the white and gold conotes high buget instantly this would anchor the audience's oppinions about the film as it sets standards. The use of the shadowing also adds to the this effect. The gold underlay in the font is shiny, this again connotes richness and weath, re-inforcing the idea of thier films being high budget.
The world being visable at the back of the word "UNIVERSAL" re-inforces that this company is very sucessful and re-inforces the meaning of the word.
Overall the mixture of the colours and the simplicity really works well together, this could be something that i may use for our production logo.

DreamWorks's font used is similar to Universals, however they are both presentaed differently, adding a certain stamp in thier own logo.
DreamWorks's emphasises the word "Dream" with the combination of the colours used; espicially with the darker version of the logo, the night reinforces the idea of sleeping, therefore dreaming.
The clouds and the moon also adds to this effect, by doing this the company is deliberately connotes fairytales. this suggets that they are targetting the younger generation.
The company having two different versions of the logo allows them to choose the one more appropiate to the film, this is a very good idea and may influence me in my designs.
The mixture of the underling and the small print of the words "Animation SKG" is also very effective and would be very influencial in my designs.

This logo is very cleverly put together. altough the colours is verylimited, this really works well for the composition. I like the mixture of the different sizes letters. This made me consider the sizes of the letters in the production logo. This also made me to think outside the box and not go for the ovious.

Plans for Production logo and Film

I plan to sketch out initial ideas for both the Logo of out production company, which is "T.E.E. Productions" and also for the film. I plan to have several ideas and use "Survey Monkey" aswell as the help of my other group members, Tas and Edith, to decide on the final product.
I will be looking at and comparing other production company logos to develop my ideas and also to create a final product with a professional finish. Also this would have to be done to make sure that our logo is not compared or similar to an exsisting production company logo, this also applies for the film.
This means that some future posts will be sketches of my ideas

" Zombie Film Opening

 " Zombie Film Opening

A week ago we filmed our zombie film opening, we have not yet edited it but I am going to evaluate the footage based on the mark scheme.

The film openings that we looked at were Zombieland and Shaun Of The Dead. This is because they are both comedic zombie movies despite being completely different.

We decided that we preferred the action packed opening of Zombieland to the pre-apocalypse opening of Shaun Of The Dead, also we decided to incorporate the use of voiceover also included in Zombieland.

Looking back at the footage we have obtained, I believe that we have managed to achieve our target fairly well. We have included a Zombie Vs Human fight and by doing this have set up the post-apocolypse scenario. Once edited we are going to find a person suitable for doing a documentary style voiceover. Also, thinking back, there is a chance that it will end up looking like either a short film or a trailer for a film, so because of this we are going to have the person reading the voiceover say a line at the end that suggests that there is a plot to follow.

The Mark Scheme requires us to include several different things:

• Holding A Shot Steady - for most of the shots that needed to be held steady we used a very reliable tripod. However, for the moving shots in which the tripod was of no use, we can use the 'Stabilising Media' option on Sony Vegas during post production to make it look a lot smoother.
• Variety Of Shot Distances - we have included a range of different shots including a close up of the zombies, a long shot of the zombies, a long tracking shot, a close tracking shot, a crane shot and even a dutch angle shot. This will make it much more interesting to watch as well as ticking it off the checklist.
• Selecting Mise En Scene - the costumes and the make up are specific to the character, for instance the humans have less obvious make up or clothes than the zombies so that we can tell them apart and tell who they are. We chose the setting that we did because we had the option of shooting out of the window but also because it had such a variety of settings just in that little area such as the forest, the streets and the corner. Finally we chose it because it was very quiet so we could film without filming passers by and this adds to the post-apocalyptic idea of planet earth being abandoned.
• Framing Shot Appropriately - We made sure that we only captured the areas that we wanted. For instance, we had lots of equipment on the pavement however, we positioned the camera in all of the shots so that this was not caught on film. Also, we did not film any of the houses that had people in so that it looked more real. In addition to this we chose each shot very carefully, for instance, we never had too much sky or background, we had actors walking in and out of shot etc etc.

Once we have uploaded all of the footage we will start editing it together so that it mostly matches our storyboard. We will use Sony Vegas Platinum to edit as this is very high quality editing software that will enable us to do more and make it look more professional."


This is a post by Edith about roughly the happening during the filming aswell as future plans for the finish product of our film

Typography

The program i have decided to used is Serif Draw Plus. I am quite confident in using this program as i have used it throughout my school life in cherwell, However i do not have this program at home, meaning that 
most of my typography work will have to be done in school.

Things i have to consider.
 -Fonts, i would have to make sure that the font relates to the film and anchores the audiences, giving them the right connetations, and impressions of the film. Also i would have to consider how easy it will be to read as it can be potentially used not only for the Film title but also the credits in the film opening.
 -Layout, i would have to make sure that the way the words and images may be placed is easy to read and understand, and also that it looks good, overall havinbg a positive outcome on the final product.
 -Comedy Values, as the film is a comedy zombie film, i wouldnt want the audience to think that it may be a horror, this is where the comedy values comes in. In addition i would still need to somehow anchor the audience to think that it is a zombie film.
 -Colour schemes, i would have to make sure that the colour scheme used is easy to read and that the contrast between the background and the colour of the actual texts are distinguished to make them easy to read, as well as making it stand out.
 -Audience, making sure that our traget audience (teenagers) are attracted to the film is vital.
 -Punctuation, this is improtant as it could change the meaning of the title completly, changing the tone or even the meaning