Danny Yount

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This is the audience profile that we have made for our title sequence. This includes the Ages, their ABC, Religion, Education, Occupation, Marital Status, Annual Income, Disposable Income and their Nationality. By creating this audience profile, our group will now be able to know exactly what we will have to do in order to meet our target audience by including things that we know our primary audience will enjoy.

This is our groups production company name  and logo that I created through the use of Photoshop. The name of the production company was thought of by our group member Liam and the design of the logo was by both me and Liam.

Saul Bass

Saul Bass

In our lesson we began to learn about Saul Bass, looking into his life and more importantly his trademark style that he uses in his title sequences.
Saul Bass was an award winning American graphic designer and Academy Award winning filmmaker who was born on May 8th 1920 and died on April 25th 1996. He was best known for his design of motion picture such as title sequences, film posters and corporate logos. Saul Bass's trademark style involved the use of geometric shapes and their symbolism. The shapes used usually connoted what was going to happen in the film such as "The Man with the Golden Arm" as he shows white lines, connoting that the film involves drugs. Bass's work has inspired many to produce title sequences like his, such as the films "Catch Me if you Can" and "X Men: First Class". He had a career that lasted for over 40 years and he used his innovative ideas and unique perspective of the world to influence his art, engaging his audiences and developing the graphic design industry in the process. Hitchcock's famous shower-murder scene in Psycho owes its success to the design work of Bass' storyboards. He is also responsible for the logos of many prominent corporations like AT&T, United Airlines, and Dixie.

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/10/04/the-art-of-the-film-title-throughout-cinema-history/

Website Analysis

"Here is the main title from D.W. Griffith’s “Intolerance” (1916), which many reviewers and historians consider the greatest film of the silent era. Note that variations of the director’s name are featured in five ways:"

I found this part of the article interesting as it has the directors name shown in 5 different ways, so I like how the director has made his name more important than the actual film itself.

"Here is a title still from the oldest surviving feature-length animated film “The Adventures of Prince Achmed” (Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed) by German animator Lotte Reiniger:"

I like this part of the article as it is interesting to know that this film is the oldest surviving animated film.

"While Cooper was working on the sequence for “Darkness Falls” (2003), some glass he was using suddenly split, and the crack cut across the eyes of a girl in an old picture. The incident added suspense to the effect:"

I liked this part of the article as it is interesting to know that the idea of building suspense that way came by accident and if it didn't happen then the whole of the films outcome with its box office could have changed dramatically.

Journal Post

Work Produced this week

This week we started to begin to look into our title sequence ideas in more depth by looking at the technical side of our films. We had to create a PowerPoint presentation that we would later show to the class about our films and had to include some specific points about the film in it such as the cast, the budget, release date etc. By doing this, we were showing that we had looked into what would be the best options to take so that our film idea could actually be executed and filmed in a realistic way. We will now be looking even more into our title sequence ideas and making minor changes so that we can achieve the best possible outcome.