Meeting 6

Today we had a meeting at school, to disscus the finalised parts of our production.We ran into our lunch break whilst planning throughly the final tasks that had to be completed.

SAUL BASS (1920-1996)

Saul Bass was not only one of the great graphic designers of the mid-20th century but the undisputed master of film title design thanks to his collaborations with Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger and Martin Scorsese.
Part of his success came for Otto Preminger’s controversial new drugs movie. By the end of his life, he had created over 50 title sequences for Preminger, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, John Frankenheimer and Martin Scorsese.


Even before he made his cinematic debut, Bass was a celebrated graphic designer. After apprenticeships with Manhattan design firms, Bass worked as a freelance graphic designer or "commercial artist". He then opened his own studio in 1950 working mostly in advertising until Preminger invited him to design the poster for his 1954 movie, Carmen Jones. Impressed by the result, Preminger asked Bass to create the film’s title sequence too.
Over the next decade Bass created an animated mini-movie for Mike Todd’s 1956 Around The World In 80 Days and a tearful eye for Preminger’s 1958 Bonjour Tristesse. Blessed with the gift of identifying the one image which symbolised the movie, Bass then recreated it in a striking modern style.


In 1958’s Vertigo, his first title sequence for Alfred Hitchcock, Bass shot an extreme close-up of a woman’s face and then her eye before spinning it into a sinister spiral as a bloody red soaks the screen. This is slightly similar to our production logo – a close up of a woman’s face and her lips prior to the lipstick highlighting her lips as the logo spins onto the screen.

Kyle Cooper

Kyle Cooper based in LA, has directed and produced more than 100 film title sequences.

Cooper is the founder of two internationally recognised design and production companies - Prologue Films, launched in 2003, and was a finalist in the 2004 year's National Design Awards.


Creativity magazine named Cooper one of the 'Top 50 biggest and best thinkers and doers from the last 20 years of advertising and consumer culture.' The New York Times Magazine called the title sequence he created for Se7en 'One of the most important design innovations of the 1990s'.

He holds the honorary title of Royal Designer for Industry from the Royal Society of Arts and is a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale.

Location Recce

We chose to film our opening sequence at a school(Harris Academy South Norwood) as this was the best suited locaton for our production.We used the typical scene of a teenage girl daydreaming about a boy and therefore we chose the common location of this desk as Lisa's 'personal' spot,sticking to the traditional conventions of rom-coms.

                                                              

As Lisa is filmed walking down this stair way alone this location maps out perfectly how she is practically deserted as she doesn't fit into any social group. As she walks alone this makes the audience feel sympathetic towards her.

Meeting 5

Although we had an idea of who would be suitable to act the characters in our film we hadn't yet decided who would be doing what. Later we decided Sara would be Lisa and we had two people in mind to play Owen (Duane or Paul).

We also designed a basic costume brief for the main characters.Then it was time to work individualiy on editing our footage after we had revised the tutorial from our media technition on using Adobe After Effects.

SMART TARGETS

S-specific
M-measurable
A-achieveable
R-reasonable
T-time


These smart targets will be used to help monitor our groups progress. They will also be used to ensure that all points are established;aims and goals of the production of our film opening achieved of a good quality and profesional standard.

Through following our plans devised from the smart targets this will enable us to sucessfully complete all tasks to create our opening sequence within the time frame we have been given.