When our group met on Monday we spoke about the different genres we could use. After discussing ideas for different genres and thinking up some basic ideas for them we all agreed that a "Documentry" film based around the recent credit crunch would be a good idea, and how the credit crunch has changed the economy previous during depressions in england (1985 for exaple) and so on. Once our whole group agreed on this we did a mind map of our basic ideas.
After doing this we spoke about some idea we could put in the title sequence. We decided it might be good to use some real footage (news reports e.t.c). When we started researching this Nina told use we couldn't use this because it has to be a "Fiction" film. So we thought about this and decided we could find a loophole (which we did). This is not so much a ma jor problem, it just means we will have to put more stuff into it and make ir more action-like or maybe drama.
We are now researching things that could be put into a title sequence and when we next meet, we will throw these ideas together and hopefully story board our basic production.
Tuesday 2 December 2008
Bass on Titles.
For our title sequence we decided to look at "Saul Bass on Lines".
In this documentray he talks about how he effectivly used different title sequences for different films. Here is the documentray.
Some of his most famout title sequences are;
North by NorthWest (1959)
Psycho (1960)
And Alien.
After watching "Saul Bass on Titles" I feel I now know what is involved to create an effective title sequence. Saul Bass' most famous openings were with the use of lindes. He used simple lines in jis openings to create a more anticipated feel to his work.
It wasn't just lines he used though.
In "The man with the Golden Arm" he uses a bent arm. This is used to represent drug addidction which was inspoken of in the 50's. In Walk on the Wild Side" he uses a black cat. He said he used a cat becuase we see them so often, we stop seeing them. He wanted to bring the cat back into our eyes. Also in "Grand Prix" he uses a time before the race. The opening title sequence is used to introduce the movie and is a introduction to the film.
Saul started off as a graphic designer slowly working his way up into title sequences and finally fims. He said that his time working in graphic designing helped him with his work. Also Saul worked with a lot of animation such as "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad world". In this there is an animation of an egg, with different and completly rando things happening to it. Always in Saul's films, the opening title sequence brings the mood of the film and the drama of the film right into the opening title sequence.
Also he managed to use real life titles and animation to the best he could. What he alos said was that during the end of his title sequences, he used them to finish of the film. He put the end of the film with the titles so that people could "compose themselves before the lights came up". Also this did more then he expected. He changed the titles for just titles into something different.
For the time period, Saul's technology was way ahead of everyone else. In "Vertigo" he uses a pattern of different colored swirls, which would have been brilliant in those times.
Overall I think what Saul managed was brillinat and he has inspired so many titles for today and today's films, that he memory and what he did may last many years.
In this documentray he talks about how he effectivly used different title sequences for different films. Here is the documentray.
Some of his most famout title sequences are;
North by NorthWest (1959)
Psycho (1960)
And Alien.
After watching "Saul Bass on Titles" I feel I now know what is involved to create an effective title sequence. Saul Bass' most famous openings were with the use of lindes. He used simple lines in jis openings to create a more anticipated feel to his work.
It wasn't just lines he used though.
In "The man with the Golden Arm" he uses a bent arm. This is used to represent drug addidction which was inspoken of in the 50's. In Walk on the Wild Side" he uses a black cat. He said he used a cat becuase we see them so often, we stop seeing them. He wanted to bring the cat back into our eyes. Also in "Grand Prix" he uses a time before the race. The opening title sequence is used to introduce the movie and is a introduction to the film.
Saul started off as a graphic designer slowly working his way up into title sequences and finally fims. He said that his time working in graphic designing helped him with his work. Also Saul worked with a lot of animation such as "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad world". In this there is an animation of an egg, with different and completly rando things happening to it. Always in Saul's films, the opening title sequence brings the mood of the film and the drama of the film right into the opening title sequence.
Also he managed to use real life titles and animation to the best he could. What he alos said was that during the end of his title sequences, he used them to finish of the film. He put the end of the film with the titles so that people could "compose themselves before the lights came up". Also this did more then he expected. He changed the titles for just titles into something different.
For the time period, Saul's technology was way ahead of everyone else. In "Vertigo" he uses a pattern of different colored swirls, which would have been brilliant in those times.
Overall I think what Saul managed was brillinat and he has inspired so many titles for today and today's films, that he memory and what he did may last many years.
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