Tuesday, 19 October 2010

Researching the timeline of titles

JUNO
"Fox searchlight pictures presents" 16 secs
"A mandate pictures/ Mr Mudd. Production"
21 secs
"A Jason Reitman film" 26 secs
"Juno" 29 secs
"Ellen Page" 39 secs
"Micheal Cera" 43 secs
"Jennifer Garner" 49 secs
"Jason Bateman" 56 secs
"Allison Janey" 1min 1 secs
"J.K Simmons" 1min 5 secs
"Olivia Thribly" 1min 11 secs
"Casting by Mindy Marin, csa, Kara Lipson" 1min 17 secs
"Costume desginer Monique Prudhomme" 1min 21 secs
"Music by Mateo Messina songs by Kimya Dawson" 1 min 26 secs
"Music Supervisors Peter Afterman and Margret Yen" 1 min 32 secs
"Co-producers Jim Miller and Kelli Kenop Brad Van Arrogan" 1 min 40 secs
"Film editor Dana E, Clauberman" 1 min 43 secs
"Production designer Steve Saklad" 1 min 49 secs
"Director of photgraphy Eric Steelberg" 1 min 53 secs
"Executive producers Joe Drake Nathan Kanane Daniel Dubleki" 1 min 59 secs
"Produced by Lianne Naylon John Malkovich Mason Novich Russell Smith" 2 min 5 secs
"Written by Diablo Cody" 2 min 10 secs
"Directed by Jason Reitman"
2m 18 secs

Carrying out this task was useful as it allowed me to recognise the break between the credits. I noticed that they do not show within equal time spacings (such as two seconds between each title) and nor do they show immediately.

They begin by presenting the production teams and companies, followed by the film title, the appearing actors (with the leading role first), the key members of the crew, and finishing with the author and director.

Friday, 8 October 2010

The Preliminary Task

As a group of four, Alec, Charlie, Gee and I filmed our preliminary task within the school. To produce our task we used a variety of shots including the 180 degree rule; match on action and shot-reverse shot.
The first shot was a long distance shot of Gee walking up to the door where the match on action was used as she opened it. Once in the classroom we used mid-shot as she sat down and acted as a student while Charlie behaved as a teacher. Shot-reverse shot and the 180 degree rule was used at this time during their short conversation.
Once looking back on our filming we noticed that at some points Gee's head was cut out of the frame. Also, at the point of match on action the handle was off-centre. This meant we had to go back and re-film these sections.