Sam Blake: January 2016

Friday, 29 January 2016

Friday, 22 January 2016

As a group we decided to use the font 'Black Asylum' for our title of our opening sequence project. This is because this font best suits our opening sequence as it is bold and creates a sense of fear and makes the audience feel uncomfortable which is what our opening is all about. This font is also sharp highlighting the sub genre of our film which is a slasher, due to the style of the font it fits in with our genre which is horror. Additionally, this font suits our target audience ( females and males under the age of 25) as it portrays the genre horror and indicates that the film is going to be eerie and unsettling through the style of the font where as if this film was addressed to children the style/type of the font would be suitable for them.

Monday, 18 January 2016

Title Fonts

I chose these different fonts as they are bold and dark colored which relates to the theme of horror. The top font indicates blood as the dripping affect of the font symbolizes the dripping of blood indicating that blood would be spilled in that film highlighting to the audience that it is a slasher.

The next font is bold and stands out making sure that the audience can read the title clearly making sure they understand the type of film they are about to watch.

Finally, the last font i have chosen suggests another thriller as the different size in the letters make the audience feel uncomfortable and as a bit of each letter is cut out is indicates the type of horror the audience is about to watch- Slasher.

Survey Results

We Created a survey in order to see what people most enjoy about our sub-genre, this includes things such as props, type of killers/ characters and location.

These are the results that have an impact of our film as they are what people like to see in horror films:

The results from this tell us that more people prefer supernatural horrors rather than slasher horrors.

The results from this question show that more people are scared of weapons rather than dolls and music box, which are often used in slasher films.

These results show that different people believe that different locations are scarier in a horror movie as there is an even amount between woods/forest and haunted house.

This graph shows that a majority of people believe that a clown is the scariest character in a horror movie.

In terms of characters a wide amount of people agreed that teenagers are the best characters for horror films.

From these results, we have decided to create a slasher horror opening sequence that targets a mixture of male and female teenagers. Additionally, our film will include a group of teenagers at a house with a serial killer going to kill off each person at the party one by one.

25 Word Pitch

Distribution Company- Lionsgate

The company we have chosen to distribute our film is Lionsgate. This is because it suits our target audience as the films that they distribute are mainly suited for teenagers/ adults, which relates to our target audience of male and female ages 18-25.

The horror films that they have distributed that are aimed at our target audience are:

- Saw
- American Psycho
- Teeth
- The Vatican Tapes
- The Grudge

Initial Posts

The sub genre of my film is a slasher, which typically involves a violent psychopath murdering several victims usually with a bladed weapon. In our film, there will be a group of teenagers that get killed off one by one by a psycho killer. This means we will probably use props and fake blood. Sometimes the killer wears a mask to cover up their identity and make people scared of them.

Our story line is going to consist of a group of teenagers at a house having a big party, but outside is a serial killer that is watching the party from outside the house. Then, each teenager start getting killed off one by one slowly decreasing the number of teenagers left in the party. The killer will be masked with a sharp weapon and wear all black to look scary to the teenagers.

The characters we are going to use are:

-a serial killer
-a group of teenagers
- a policeman who is clueless about what is going on.

Entourage

Who made the title design for Entourage?

Jason Doherty and Helen Greene were the creators of the title sequence to the film Entourage, which came out 2015. After leaving Create Advertising, Helen decided to launch her own motion graphics company and make it 100% female-owned. Jason joined Helen in the fall of 2010 after working with her a few years earlier while she lead up the graphics division at 'Create Advertising.' They found commonality on many creative levels and decided to work with each other in motion graphics.

Where did they acquire their ideas for the sequence?

As leaders of the project both designers Jason and Helen believed that it would be essential to originate back to the roots of the eighth series, so they used the identical track and similar style to present the credits and the way they were formatted. This was by capturing many of LA's iconographic signage, locations, establishments, and landmarks to present nearly thirty credits ,altering them so they pictured producers, designers and editors names instead of the actual sign.

What was their relationship with the director and film studio like?

Both graphic designers had to have feedback in the locations used to change to present the credits and wait for approval from different aspects and managers from the film studio. However, they were given much freedom by moth parties as they were able to travel into the depth of LA and expand/explore past the sunset strip.