RESEARCH: THE ART OF THE TITLE THE BREAKFAST CLUB

This is my second Art of title on the movie 'The Breakfast Club'

 This is my screenshot of when I had finished my Emaze
http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/the-breakfast-club/

RESEARCH: THE ART OF THE TITLE NAPOLEON DYNAMITE

The genre of Napoleon Dynamite is an offbeat comedy, the actor's names are shown on pieces of food throughout the opening which might relate to the rest of the movie. This is the same with the rest of the names of people who worked on the film, the remaining are shown by a pair of hands opening and closing books and grabbing pieces of paper which show the onset names. Each time there is a new name the background changes its material, for example one background material is white fur, then the next is a brown carpet material. The production company for this film is MTV movies, this is shown at the start of the opening on a plate of food surrounded by eggs and the name written in a sauce.

The period of this movie was in 2004, I can tell this because when it shows the name of the main actor/character on a student ID card it says '2004' underneath. I then found out than in an interview with the director the although the clothes and styles in the film look like they are from the 80s, as the movie is set in a small town the characters are behind in the latest styles, but it is set in 2004.

They use pastel and very plain colours for the background and the type of food they use. The props used are the plates of food and pieces of paper that are related to the rest of the film, each time these appear they show names of the actors or someone who had been associated with the film on screen or behind it.

The music they use in the background is continuous beat of a guitar and the same monotone voice of a male singing. There are no sudden changes to the music, for example the voice or beat doesn't go any higher or lower throughout the opening. There is no talking in any of the opening so it doesn't explain the start of the film and they only show one picture of the main character.




http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/napoleon-dynamite/

PLANNING: TRELLO

I have created Trello account, this is a really useful organisation online tool. This will help me keep track of my work. I will continue to update it as I work.

Here is a screenshot of my Trello account:

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

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.


For todays lesson in Media Studies, we had to do a practical. We were put into a group of four, in our group we had to choose between five different scenarios, which ranged between 'Antiques Roadshow' to 'Australian border control'. Our group chose Antiques Roadshow and got a genie type lamp for a prop for the exercise. In our exercise we had to follow the rules of the task. These included: filming a character open a door, crossing a room, sit across another character and for the characters to exchange a few lines of dialogue, and then edit it all after. For our piece we decided to have a businessman come to the show with his antique and tell the expert how amazing the object is. Whilst this is happening the expert is examining the object and eventually tells the man it is not worth much. This then leads for the hopeful man to storm off. During this scene we shot from different angles involving panelling across the room, close up of facial features and expressions, over the shoulder shots when he opposite character was talking, and close up of the antique prop. We then finished the lesson by editing the piece. 

Here is our final piece.