Marketing Campaign Powerpoint- The Impossible

Credits and Titles- Trial and Retribution

The credits and titles in this opening sequence are different to most where the titles are shown before the opening sequence. The action scene is shown first and then the credits and titles are shown. They are also shown whilst a sequence is going on. It works well because they have different shots all over the screen with the credits and titles in different places. The titles are white writing on a black background which are dull colours.

This title sequence follows on from what has happened in the opening sequence a lady fell from above landing on a car infront of a young boy on a bike. In the title sequence we are shown the what happens after she has fallen. This almost continues the story for the audience just quickly.We are shown her being seen to by paramedics and the detective looking around from where she fell.

Representation

In films the female and male roles of characters are represented stereotypically. Females are usually seen as helpless, weak and vunerable where as men are seen as strong, independent and masculine.

An example where men are seen as strong and women as vunerable is in James Bond: Casino Royale (2006). At the end of this film Bond tries to save the weak Vesper (Eva Green) but is unable to because she is stuck in an elevator. This shows her as vunerable and weak. This shows Bond as a strong character as he tries to save her by finally managing to recover her body and revive her which he is unable to do. In this film the typical gender roles are represented clearly.



Another part in the film where women are seen as weak and men as strong is when they have to kill the men and she breaks down about killing them in the shower. He doesn't break down and comforts her. Although this shows his soft side it also shows that he is much stronger than her because he has just killed them and got on with it.

The representation of the male and female roles is clearly seen in this movie throughout. Even though some females can be represented differently in some movies most are represented in this way and needing to be rescued by a strong man.

In our film the male role of being strong is shown through the beating up of the boy. The hoodies are also represented stereotypically through the clothing (black, dark clothes) and through the stabbing. 

Editing

In Eastenders we can see that the characters are speaking to one another because of the editing style shot reverse shot. Using this editing style allows the audience to see they are having a conversation. They do this without breaking the 180 degree rule which connects the characters by keeping the camera on one side of the axis for every shot. This is also continuity editing as it flows from shot to shot.

This is a clip from the Godfather. This clip shows cross- cutting. Cross- cutting is used in order to cut between two action shots which are in different places but are happening at the same time. In this clip it is cutting between people being shot to a christening that is taking place.

Editing

After the break in at school we had to start editing our opening sequence again. Today we started re- editing which meant that we had to go through all our clips again. After naming the clips and we started inputting the clips into the sequence order. We have also had to start using new software which was very easy to pick up as it was similar to the old one.

Catch Me if You Can- Credits and Titles

For credits there is a common credit order which most movies use.

•  The first title in the credit sequence in the name of the studio. In Catch me if you can the studio name is Dreamworks Pictures.
•  Then the names of the production companies are shown which it does in the common credit order.
•  Then the producers names are shown in the titles which it states in the common credit order.
•  Then the directors name is supposed to be shown which it is (steven spielberg).
•  It then tells us who will be starring in the movie. The names of Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks are shown which is what should happen in the common credit order.
•  Then the films title catch me if you can is shown.
•  Then the characters names who will be featuring in the movie are shown. This is what happens in the common credit sequence.
•  Then the casters name is supposed to be shown which is what happens in catch me if you can.
•  Then the co- producers name is shown but this is not stated in the common creidt order which means they didn't completely follow this credit sequence.
•  The credits then show the authors names of the book which the film is based on. This isn't in the common credit sequence.
•  The next title is the creator of the titles. Again this is not shown in the common credit order.
•  Then the music producers name is shown.
•  Then the costume designers and film editors names are shown which neither are shown in the common credit sequence.
•  Then the productions designers name is shown.
•  Then there are lots of different titles in the credit sequence of catch me if you can such as the director of photgraphy, executive producers and again the producers names. None of these are in the common credit order.

These credits are very creative in the way in which they are shown. The titles flow from on to another well. There are people walking which look like flight attendants or air hostess'. There are planes flying in the backgrounds and arrows which look like signs. The blue colours of the titles and the background resemble the sky.

Overall the titles flow from one to the other which looks good. I will take this into consideration with my group when making our film titles.

Soundtrack Research

Today we researched into some sound effects and opening sequences with soundtracks to get an idea of what we need to make. Next lesson we will start creating our soundtrack using garageband.
We looked on websites which have sound loop files of the city as we need city sounds. One website which we found had many different sound files for us to use.
This is the website which we found these files on: http://soundbible.com/tags-city.html

The same site is where we found good sound files for our alley way scene which made it sound eerie and scary. http://soundbible.com/tags-scary.html  This website was very good and gave us many sound files which we can use in our opening sequence.