Presentation of our concept board.

Today, 16th November 2010, our group are presenting our concept board to our classmates.
The presentation is going to be recorded by our teacher with a video camera so we can post it onto our blogs at a later date as a way of evidencing the experience. We used prezi to create our concept board because we liked how easy it is to create a clear, dramatic presentation that is easy to embed into our blogs, which is what i have done below. Once the film is complete and uploaded, i will use vimeo to get it onto here also.
I think that we have worked really well as a team on our concepts, by spreading the tasks out we can get credit for what we have personally done, yet present it as a team and show how well organised we have been. Also, because it is so well thought out and planned, it will be the perfect basis for our opening title sequence. I am very pleased with the way we have worked, and am happy to continue working as a group.

Concept Board - target market on Prezi

Sound & Characters Concept Board on Prezi

Concept Board-Camera Shots and Typography on Prezi

concept board, my part on Prezi

Concept Board

Concept Board on Prezi

Film Noir Opening Title Sequence Group

I will be working with Jessica White, Ellen Lowe and Kieron Marchese to create an opening title sequence which follows most of the main conventions of a film noir. They are all followers of my blog, and i am following their's so it is easy to find them, also it helps for me to follow the progress of the whole group.
I have chosen to work with these people as i already feel confident around them. This could be either a good or a bad thing, but we will try to focus on the good points that come from it, such as i will never be afraid to voice my opinion, and i can accept their points also. Another obvious benefit from knowing my group well is that it is easily accessible to work together as we live within walking distance from each other, and we work the same days mostly, so it will be easy to meet up for team briefings or to film.
I think we each bring individual characteristics to the group, Kieron is new to media, but has a very strong knowledge of English and Photography (along with both Ellen and Jessica). He has good leading skills and will be able to keep everybody on track. Jessica and Ellen both done media and photography at GCSE, making them probably the strongest with camera's and mise-en-scene. I would like to think my strongest area's are editing and market research, but obviously these are not jobs which i can undertake alone, so the whole group will be helping each other along with the production of our Opening Title Sequence.

10 Film Noir Still Images..

    

A few pieces of research found about film Noir..

Film Noir is a genre of  black and white film, which date back to the early 1940's. The term, 'Film Noir' is French for black film. They use low key lighting schemes and the contrast of light and dark to create atmosphere. Commonly, they will also use a lot of wide and low angles and flashbacks. They feature stock characters specific to the genre, for example the damsel in distress, or the hard-boiled detective. They often feature criminals, making them to a degree a type of crime drama.

My First Prezi..

Digital Media Technologies on Prezi

How does 'I am Legend' meet and break stereotypical conventions?

The dramatic thriller, I am Legend (2007) includes aspects of the sci-fi genre and is directed by Francis Lawrence. It shows the story of an American male, actor Will Smith, taking a journey through New York City to find a cure for a disease which killed, what seems like, most of humanity.

After watching the exposition twice i am going to try to vaguely explain, from notes, how this specific title sequence meets and breaks the key conventions of this sort of film. Firstly, we are greeted by an introduction to the storyline and all sorts of enigma, these are two key conventional points which will commonly cause an active audience, by providing us with questions. For example, the whole setting of the place. There would never be grass growing from the pavements in New York, leaving an audience with the question, 'where are all of the people?'. We can see the film is set in this American City by an establishing shot of all of the sky scrapers, along with the iconography used through yellow taxi's. All of this information together creates a 'hook', a very common conventional factor of most films.

However, the exposition of this film also has unconventional elements.. Such as the fact there are no titles, and it lasts at least four minutes, which is not normal. There is no non-diegetic music, the most distinctive sound is the continuous roaring of the car, which adds to the surreal effect and amplifies the action factor. There is also nothing which interrupts the interaction between the film and the audience in these few minutes, making it seem more unconventional.