Monday, 27 January 2014
Evaluation to Skype call with mike harrowes
Here is the interview that we conducted with film editor Mike Harrowes.Mike's responses to our variety of questions helped to give an insight to what we needed to do in order to create and produce a successful opening title sequence. He made it clear that it was extremely important that the audience understands the fundamentals of the film and that they have a clear idea about what is going on in the production. Even if the audience maybe does not understand everything that is going on, they still feel the necessary emotions that are trying to be implied by the creators of the sequence. Mike also explained how it was important for our particular opening title sequence that the audience understands that the man is clearly an assassin and is good at his job as well as, showing that he clearly is stressed at his currently position of work and despises it to represent the dynamics of why he has to take this job required.
Mike gave us overall tips in order to improve the quality of our opening title sequence. He listed that the 'pace' of the sequence was a key aspect and how some opening title sequences want to give away very little about the film to try and question the audience, on the other hand, others give away a lot of information about the film if the story is attempting to run quickly. He explained how we should not shy away from cutting quickly if a lot of information is needed to be shown.
Overall, Mikes advice has helped us to expand on our opening title sequence and improve the overall quality. We will take his suggestions into consideration when it comes to the development of our sequence, most importantly, his ideologies about cutting and how the speed of cutting is a key factor to generate the right interpretation from the audience.
Interview with Michael Harrowes
As we have been talking about editing and as research we had conducted a Skype call with an editor called Michael Harrowes. We asked him questions on ways in which we could improve our opening title sequence and he then gave descriptive answers in which would help us. Us as a group had made the questions therefor allowed us to get to the point and be direct into what we wanted to know. Michael edited in programmes such as Lewis, heist and city of vice as we knew about what he had done we took his advice highly seriously which we then would incorporate into our blogs.
These were the questions that were asked:
1. Can you name 3 key things we should aim to achieve when creating our thriller opening sequences?
2. Do you have any useful tips about what we could add to our title sequences to improve the overall quality?
3. What would you consider the most challenging aspect of editing?
4. How would you say the way editing differs when you go from editing say a comedy to a thriller?
5. How has the use of foley enhanced the quality of your films?
6. How using editing alone can you increase the intensity of a film/sequence?
7. Can you tell us about the importance pace and rhythm wave on a film?
8. How closely do you work with the director in a film?
9. In terms of editing how would you describe the thriller genre itself and how it should be portrayed via editing?
10. What element of the editing process do you yourself enjoy the most?
These were the questions that were asked:
1. Can you name 3 key things we should aim to achieve when creating our thriller opening sequences?
2. Do you have any useful tips about what we could add to our title sequences to improve the overall quality?
3. What would you consider the most challenging aspect of editing?
4. How would you say the way editing differs when you go from editing say a comedy to a thriller?
5. How has the use of foley enhanced the quality of your films?
6. How using editing alone can you increase the intensity of a film/sequence?
7. Can you tell us about the importance pace and rhythm wave on a film?
8. How closely do you work with the director in a film?
9. In terms of editing how would you describe the thriller genre itself and how it should be portrayed via editing?
10. What element of the editing process do you yourself enjoy the most?
Monday, 6 January 2014
Treatment
Treatment of opening title sequence- The plot
This is an original that me and my group. "A retired assassin and single dad settles down with his son, but when his past catches up with him, he must take up his old line of work to protect the thing he loves most."
For the beginning of our title sequence we thought that the first scene would be the father playing with his son in is own home. We decided that this would be the best for the opening shot as it will establish the relationship between the father and son to the audience and therefore showing them how important the storyline is. After this the plot line would become more dark and mysterious . One of the ideas was that after the shot of him playing with his son he would be out in a pub or some other social place with his old best mate who will be played by another member of our group and, they will be talking about there old lives as assassins. After the best friend would leave the father would get a call from an unknown number. The phone call would say if the man would accept one final job worth millions of pound which will give his son the best life possible, however the person on the end of the phone will take the son. When the father is walking home he is reflecting back on his life and the fact that he lost his wife which means he doesn't want to loose his son the only thing that is close to him. He will then contact his best friend and telling him what he has just been through.
A montage of the two friends will show them training and planning out how they will take out the target. this will then be followed up by a high speed action chase which leads them into the targets mansions. A fight seen will break out making the target have enough time to escape they then follow him in a car which leads them to a run down looking shed in the middle of a field, the plot then takes an amazing twist in which the fathers son is brought out tied up and he then tells the father to kill his best friend and his son will live. This leaves the tension building and the audience wondering what they are going to do. The adults then thinking back to what they have learnt and what they remember turn back to back and flick guns from their trousers creating a gripping shot out between the target and the mystery caller. There will then be a hard cut and the credits will appear.
This is an original that me and my group. "A retired assassin and single dad settles down with his son, but when his past catches up with him, he must take up his old line of work to protect the thing he loves most."
For the beginning of our title sequence we thought that the first scene would be the father playing with his son in is own home. We decided that this would be the best for the opening shot as it will establish the relationship between the father and son to the audience and therefore showing them how important the storyline is. After this the plot line would become more dark and mysterious . One of the ideas was that after the shot of him playing with his son he would be out in a pub or some other social place with his old best mate who will be played by another member of our group and, they will be talking about there old lives as assassins. After the best friend would leave the father would get a call from an unknown number. The phone call would say if the man would accept one final job worth millions of pound which will give his son the best life possible, however the person on the end of the phone will take the son. When the father is walking home he is reflecting back on his life and the fact that he lost his wife which means he doesn't want to loose his son the only thing that is close to him. He will then contact his best friend and telling him what he has just been through.
A montage of the two friends will show them training and planning out how they will take out the target. this will then be followed up by a high speed action chase which leads them into the targets mansions. A fight seen will break out making the target have enough time to escape they then follow him in a car which leads them to a run down looking shed in the middle of a field, the plot then takes an amazing twist in which the fathers son is brought out tied up and he then tells the father to kill his best friend and his son will live. This leaves the tension building and the audience wondering what they are going to do. The adults then thinking back to what they have learnt and what they remember turn back to back and flick guns from their trousers creating a gripping shot out between the target and the mystery caller. There will then be a hard cut and the credits will appear.
Title Sequence timeline
This is a timeline of everything that happens within the zombieland opening title sequence from the setting changing to the music changing. This helps when actually making as it shows exactly what goes where. Within this opening title sequence it also shows the cast and who was involved when making the film.
This helps us as it allows us to see roughly how long each scene is, in addition it also helps with knowing how long each part of the credits will appear for therefore we can relate this to our own work and make it as realistic as we possibly can as well as getting the best grades.
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