Timeline of a Film Opening

These are the titles form the film Captain America: The Winter Soldier. The style of the titles is a computer generated animation that relies heavily on the use of contrasting colours and the clean typeface used for the text. The clean style is effective in making the titles clear to the audience and I think that this is a good idea to incorporate into our film opening. While we wont have an animation, I think that shaving a clean typeface used for the titles along side stationary camera shots, something also done in this sequence of titles, that a similar effect can be created and will give the titles more of an impact than using a more basic serif typeface.

Shot List

Shot List

There are a number of shots that we want to include in the opening sequence of Parallel. The list of the following shots are all the ones that will  be included at some point throughout the sequence in order to make the overall film a more interesting and varied product.

1. High panning shot of tree's in Admirals Park 
2. Wormseye shot of river 
3. Extreme long shot of the park 
4. Close up of a roundabout spinning on its own
5. Close up, wormseye shot of the man's leg
6. Pan upwards to reveal the man sitting on the bench 
7. Mid-shot that tilts upwards to reveal both personalities sitting on the bench 
8. Close up of mans mouth 
9. Long-shot of both men sitting on the bench 
10. 180 degree shot during conversation 
11. A variety of tracking shots including close ups and long shots whilst the man is walking to the bus stop. 
12. Long shot from across the street. 

All of these shots will be accompanied with dialogue, music and titles.

The pictures below shows our group looking and planning our shot list:

Timeline of the Parallel Opening

This is the complete timeline of all the shots that will be in the opening sequence of Parallel. The timeline has been made to work along side the storyboard so that all the shots specified there will match up to the time sequences shown in the timeline.

Shooting Schedule of Parallel

This is the shooting schedule of when we will be filming the opening sequence of Parallel. This table includes details of which shots will be filmed when and also details of what props will be required in order to complete each shot. All of the shots will be filmed over the course of several days and all of them are exterior shots. The locations off all the shots also vary little as the opening of the film only needs to take place in one main location, with the main character only moving around within the same general location.

Representation in Parallel

Representation of Characters

Zac/Zabel: These two characters are, in out opening sequence, representing males with schizophrenia. This is not meant to be a broad representation of this demographic however, the realistic approach to portraying this certain character has not been taken and instead is being portrayed in favor of a more visual style. With this in mind, these two characters, or single character depending on the point of view, are shown to be troubled and at conflict with each other due to their opposing personalities, something that isn't uncommon among those being represented by these two characters.

Woman on the Bench: This character is a general representation of a generic adult female. She does not have any defining characteristics in terms of personality and serves only to judge Zac/Zabel from a glance. This does mean that our representation could be seen as having her being portrayed as unnecessarily judegemental however she is supposed to be in fact a general representation of any 'normal' person and to show that the other character(s) are in fact not normal.

Representation of Places

The main location shown in the opening sequence of Parallel is an outdoor park in the center of a non specified city. This general representation is not meant to highlight anything in particular to be special or anything out of the ordinary. The intention of this is to further serve to highlight how the main character(s) are not normal and emphasize this to the audience. The area itself will be shown to have all the characteristic that one would expect to see and allows the audience to believe the setting of the film is believable.

Synopsis of Parallel

•     A bench in Admirals Park
•     Bus stop. (Preferably not in use by other people)
•     Trees in the park
•     Pavement beneath the bench
•     Suit
•     Smart shoes and bag/briefcase
•     Medicine bottle and new label
•     Tic Tacs  
•     Coke and Diet Coke

 

Characters:

 

The main characters consist of one man, (Zac) and his other personality (Zabel) that has physically maifested before him. Because of the nature of Zabel, he will be played by the same actor to show how the two characters are two personalities of the same actual person. The only other character to be shown in the opening is a woman whose only roll is to sit down and displace Zabel. The use of her character is to show the audience that Zabel is no more than a apparition and not a physical being.

 

Costume:

 

Zac will be wearing a suit so that he looks, for all intents and purposes, like a normal working man. So that Zabel can be shown as another character, he will wear similar clothes, however he will be wearing a shirt and tie, not the entire suit like his real life counterpart.

 

Location:

 

Our film opening will be located in Admirals Park. We will use the bus stop opposite the park on Rainsford Road, depending on how much filming we can get done and if we stick to the shooting schedule.

 

Audience:

 

We have pitched our audience to be between the ages of 18-30 however not excluding any ages older than that. We didn't think anyone younger than 18 would enjoy or understand our film which is why we set the age to 18. The certificate is 12A.

Risk Assessment

This is a list containing all the possible risks that may occur during our film shoot of parallel. While the possible risk that pose a possible threat to us are not too serious,  it is important that they are still taken down as we need to be aware of the possibility of getting run down by a bus.

Film Company Logo

This is the logo that I designed for my own film production company. The logo itself is comprised of as simple symbol that is surrounded by a more interesting shape around it. The design is supposed to be eye catching and something that can eventually become easily recognizable, hence the unique looking symbol. My reasoning behind having the explosion looking surrounding to the symbol is so that, depending on the movie, the shape could be altered and changed depending on the film it was shown alongside. This would allow the company to produce a wider variety of films as there is no specific genre automatically attached to the logo's design. The colours are also different from standard colours. Instead of standard bold colours, there are instead several colours to further make this logo seem distinct in comparison to other film companies.

The name for the company ism "Super Ultra Mega Films", which is an over the top name specifically with the intention of coming across that way. The bold exaggeration is intended to give off the impression that the company is a bold company and that any movies produced by it will be at the very least, worth seeing.

Script of Opening Sequence

This is the script for the film opening task. Is has all the dialogue that will be said throughout our opening as well as directions as to what will be actually happening. It was written over the course of several days and tries to use elements of the genre while remaining original and hopefully interesting.

Film Idea Presentation

This is the film presentation for the historical fiction movie, the legend of Terrance. This presentation details the plot of the film, how we would market it if we were to actually produce the movie, and the casting choices for the various roles in the movie.

Prelim Task Preparation