Transcription Final Piece

22nd - 27th January - Transcription

I have had a lot of technical issues considering my blog as I have not actually had access to a computer outside of the university, but I now have my own laptop back so I will be able to continue onwards keeping my blog up to date.

During the past week on this project I had really struggled with what I wanted to do. I knew I wanted to create a short film/video, but I had no ideas where to go after choosing Jamie Hewlett as my artist.

I ended up focusing on his work on Tank Girl, and what themes are contained in the work.

A lot of the point of this work was that it was used as an outlet for anything Hewlett and Martin wanted to get out in the open. So I carried on my thought track looking at this, within current world issues. My choice ended up being the subject of feminism, which was highly influenced by Tumblr, which is a highly used medium at the current time for being able to express yourself. A video that really influenced me through my research was 'Oppressed Majority' by Eleonore Pourriat.

I have ended up with a final idea to be shot tomorrow, which will be posted on Saturday.

Thursday 8th January - Inventive Titles

During this session I focused on brainstorming ideas for the two sequences I have to create. For the film title sequence, I struggled to decide between two different films. I am still uncertain, but have got two ideas. 

I have also developed further into Withnail & I with more brainstorming and have to do the same for Scott Pilgrim vs. The World.

For the second title sequence I have decided to stay with the original theme of a news sequence. I haven't yet got any complete ideas, but have done a small amount of brainstorming on the topic.

From here I need to develop these brainstorms into more structured ideas and create storyboards to portray these.

Tuesday 6th January - Inventive Titles

The introduction to this project involved looking at a lot of film title sequences.

The main creator we looked at, was Saul Bass. Saul Bass did a lot of title sequences for Hitchcock's movies, as well as many other famous titles.

Saul Bass is one of the most well known title sequence designers, and his style comes out in all of the work he creates. Psycho is my personal favourite of his title sequences, as well as probably his most famous. 

Other title sequences we looked at were:

Juno

Se7en

Catch Me If You Can

Trainspotting

The Shining

When I was looking at the different title sequences, I realised that in a lot of them, I really didn't pay any attention to the actual text that was appearing on screen. For the majority of them, the eye is drawn away already with the video or background contents before text even begins to show on the screen. A really strong example of this is The Shining. I watched the title sequence a few times more, to take more notice of the text, and see how it had actually been put into the sequence. It is a really bland font, alongside being in a cool colour, which doesn't exactly draw the eye. 

After this I looked into films I would like to make my title sequence for. These included:

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

This Is England

Fight Club

Withnail & I

I decided that I either want to work with Withnail & I or Scott Pilgrim vs. The World for my recreation, so I am going to develop ideas for them both before choosing.