Sound Analysis

Jaws
I analysed only the sound in Jaws opening sequence, as it will help me see how to set the tone of the film and establish genre in my opening sequence.
In the opening of Jaws we hear diegetic sound of the people speaking. By adding no music it almost makes it sound a bit more creepy. When the girl goes into the water at 0:26 we hear the natural sounds of the sea and we also hear a bell which sounds eerie as its the only sound you can hear. When the shots go to the girl from under the water we start to her non-diegetic sounds. It sounds like a piano (0:48) which is quite fast pace, which builds up the tension and implies something sudden is going to happen. Just before the action happens at 1.11, we hear the well know Jaws theme tune, which sounds like something keeps on coming closer to you. It is sharp, piercing music.When being attacked by the shark there is use of both diegetic and non-diegetic sounds. We hear here deep breathing and screaming, but also over it there is fast pace music to add to the tension. There are cuts to the other scene of the person who is not being attacked, we can only hear diegetic sounds, this emphasises the danger of what is happening. At the end the music stops and we only hear the bell which implies this could be significant throughout the film.

http://youtu.be/yjL7VEFvOxM
Let Me In
I thought the sound used in this opening sequence was really effective even though not a lot of sound was used. In the beginning when the production companies are being shown the non diegetic music is very quiet. The music used almost sounds like music which is used for flashbacks. This could help me with my opening sequence as I am using flashabacks. When the actual film starts at 1:00 the music used are sounds of a heart beat. I thought this worked well as it is all you can hear which builds up tension as it feels like something is about to jump out. A bit into the sequence underneath the beat there is music that kind of sounds like the jaws song but its more lengthy and low (a more dramatic scary version), this makes it more tense as we know something is going to happen but it is not going to happen straight away. At 2.20 the non-diegetic sound becomes lower and we hear sirens. This all indicates aspects of horror as the sounds represent danger.

Art of the Title

Film credits almost have the most important role of outlining the film makers intentions and setting up expectations of what the film will be like, it prepares the viewer for what is to come. The opening title sequence of films are becoming works of art that can stand on their own, they are beginning to have a crucial role in the success of films.

Spider-man

• The spider-man credits are a separate title sequence. 
• The titles start with the production companies and then the film title comes up. This fills the whole screen and is in bold. It glows and fades our which makes you focus on it. This also indicates the start of the film
• The names of the crew are on a spiders web but are placed wonky.
• Red, black and white are used for the fonts of the names, this makes them stand out against the web. This is also the colour of the spider-man suit, so it is sticking to the colours.
• The credits travel through a web and are quite dark, this sticks to the genre of the film.
• Throughout the title sequence we see hints about the film, for example we see the back of spider-man, green goblin and the location.
• The order of the titles are: production companies, title, starring..., casting by,co producer, music, costume designer, editor etc.

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

• Like the spider-man titles Sweeney Todd also starts with the production company. Unlike the other credits the production company is in the centre of the screen.
• The titles are a separate title sequence however they are in the location of the film. The credits appear in different places each time depending on where the camera moves to.
• The titles are of the camera following dripping blood, this shows us that the genre is horror/thriller. We also know this because of the dark colours used in the sequence.
• After the main actors in the film the name of the film appears. Similarly to spider-man this also fills the screen and is in red.
• By the sequence looking almost animated suggests that the film is an exaggeration (due to it being a musical)
• The font used is quite formal which is suitable for the time era in which the film is set.
• Both title sequences have the name of the person bigger than their job title.
• Towards the end of the credits the name of the producers, screenplay and directors are shown. The are in the centre of the screen, just like the very beginning, indicating the importance.The name of the director is at the end of the credits.

By analysing these title sequences I enables me to start thinking about what I should do for mine. As I know how to make it fit to my genre and what order to put them in.

Credits

Opening credits are shown at the begging of the film to list the most important members of production. Some Opening credits can be presented over the opening sequences of a film, rather than in a separate title sequence; an example is Spider-man. TV shows often use a separate title sequence, to separate the opening scene and the rests of the episode and also to intrigue the audience.

Opening credits usually identify the film title and major actors and crew, whilst the closing credits list an extensive cast and productive crew. A lot of films however only show the production companies (not even  the name of the film), for example Inception.

Usual order for opening credits:

PRODUCTION COMPANY presents

a NAME LASTNAME production

a NAME LASTNAME film

"TITLE"

Lead Cast

Supporting Cast

Casting Director

Music Composer

Costume Designer

Associate Producers

Editor(s)

Production Designer

Director of Photography

Executive Producer

Producer

Writer(s)

Director

Closing credits:

Director

Writer(s)

Producer

Executive Producer

Lead Cast

Supporting Cast

Director of Photography

Production Designer

Editor(s)

Associate Producers

Costume Designer

Music Composer

Casting Director

8/02/13

Today in the lesson we edited a bit more of our whole sequence. I think the editing is going really well as so far the sequence is looking good. We also started playing around with different fonts and styles for the credits.

Fonts we looked through

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We changed the name of our film to "It's Swings and Roundabouts", we decided to change it as we thought our old name "6/6/6/" didn't flow very nicely. We think this links better with our story line as the flashbacks are to do with a park.

7/02/13

In today's lesson we were editing the park sequence. To make it more like a horror film we changed the colour and saturation to make it more grey, this helps establish that the flashbacks are different clips to the kitchen scene.

7/02/13

The other media groups watched our sequence so far and then gave feedback. This really helped as we now know what to improve, for example a criticism was that the fades were too long, so now we can make them shorter which will help engage the audience. Overall we got good feedback, and the majority liked the idea of flashbacks.

4/02/13

We uploaded our footage of the park scene today. Looking through the clips I thought the footage came at really well. We now have all our footage so can start editing the whole of the footage.

31/01/13-1/01/13

During Thursday and Friday lessons we edited the kitchen scene and we have now finished editing this. We found this process quite quick as we had already done this, so we knew exactly which bits to edit. Once we have filmed the playground scene we will start to inter cut the flashbacks into the kitchen scene.