Final Deadline Edit.

Why We Researched Titles - Chloe Lawler

The research we have done (at looking at film titles) has allowed our group to expand our knowledge of what generic conventions of a horror film title should look like. Seeing other film titles showed us how our own film title should look and has given our group some ideas of what we want our opening title to be. This research has also shown us what we need to include in the opening credits, such as the director and music producer. The title openings of different horror films has made our group discuss a variety of different options of what we want our film opening credits to look like. We have also begun to create many titles that we believe would suit our genre. Having these options gives our group a diverse range to choose from and allows us to pick a title that we all think would be best suited for our opening.

Newspaper Article For Our Opening By Afsara Tasnim

This is the newspaper article we used in the additional scene in the end of our opening. At first, me and Yasir were struggling to come up with a title for the newspaper as it had to be bold and effective, and also relate to our film narrative. After coming up with other titles such as "Shelmadine Murder", we both decided to keep it simple but also include our title name in it as we thought that it would make the headlines look more significant to our film. 

Opening Title Analysis (wording) By Afsara Tasnim

As we were coming to an end of our editing process, we started looking at different horror films and in particular focused on the wording of the opening titles. We already have  rough idea from our previous research of the style and the movement but now we'd just like to get the words right.
The Eye opening scene-

Lionsgate (production company)

 Paramount vantage (production company)

Lionsgate and Paramount Vantage present

JESSICA ALBA

ALESSANDRO NIVOLA

PARKER POSEY

RADE SERBEDZIJA

RACHEL TICOTIN

OBBA BABATUNDE

DANNY MORA

CHLOE GRACE MORETZ

CASTING BY

NANCY NAYOR BATTINO, C.S.A

AND KELLY MARTIN WAGNER

MUSIC BY

MARCO BELTRAMI

MUSIC SUPERVISOR

JAY FAIRES

COSTUME DESIGNER

MICHAEL DENNISON

EDITED BY

PATRICK LUSSIER

PRODUCTION BY

JAMES SPENCER

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY

JEFFREY JUR , ASC

LINE PRODUCER

JACK MURRAY

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

MIKE ELLIOTT

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

PETER CHAN

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS

ROY LEE

DOUG DAVISON

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS  

MICHAEL PASEORNEK

PETER BLOCK

TOM ORTENBERG

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

DARREN MILLER

PRODUCED BY

PAULA WAGNER

DON GRANGER

MICHELLE MANNING

BASED ON THE CHINESE-LANGUAGE

MOTION PICTURE “THE EYE”

(aka “GIN GWAI” AKA “JIN GUAI)

BY JO JO YUET –CHUN HUI,

OXIDE PANG AND DANNY PANG

SCREENPLAY BY

SEBASTIAN GUTTIRREZ

DIRECTED BY

DAVID MOREAU AND XAVIER PALUD

THE EYE:
Findings

1. ·     The names of  cast members are written in a big bold font
2. ·      The main actors and actresses name is shown at the beginning of the film opening by itself 
3. ·      The font fades in and fades out
4. ·      The music also prepares the audience for the genre of the film which is horror. 

The opening sequence of "The Eye" is really long which explains all the credits that were shown in the beginning of the film. The credits only start to appear at the disequilibrium of the story when everything is at it's pace. The credits appear slowly following by the still calm music that plays in the background. The font is white and the names of the cast members are shown in capital letters. Also, when the text appears, it fades in and fades out.

       THE GRUDGE

 COLUMBIA-A SONY PICTURES ENTERTIANMENT COMPANY

GHOST HOUSE PICTURES

WHEN SOMEONE DIES IN THE GRIP OF A POWERFUL RAGE…

A CURSE IS BORN.

 CURSE

THE CURSE GATHERS IN THAT PLACE OF DEATH.

DEATH

THOSE WHO ENCOUNTER IT WILL BE CONSUMED BY FURY.

FURY

SAM RAIMI AND COLUMBIA PICTURES present 

A GHOST HOUSE PICTURES PRODUCTION
A FILM BY TAKASHI ZIMIZU
THE GRUDGE
JASON BEHR
KADEE STRICKLAND
GRACE ZABRISKIE
ROSA BLASI
RYO ISHIBASHI
YOKO MAKI
TAKAKO FUJI
WITH CLEA DUVALL
AND BILL PULLMAN
CASTING BY NANCY NAYOR BATTINO
KELLY WAGNER
EDITOR JEFF BETANCOURT
MUSIC BY CHRISTOPHER YOUNG
PRODUCTION DESIGNER
IWAO SAITO
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
HIDEO YAMAMOTO
CO-PRODUCERS
MICHAEL KIRK
AUBREY HENDERSON
SHINTARO SHIMOSAWA
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
JOE DRAKE
NATHAN KAHANE
CARSTEN LORENZ
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
ROY LEE
DOUG DAVISON
PRODUCED BY
SAM RAIMI
ROB TAPERT
TAKA ICHISE
BASED ON "JU-ON: THE GRUDGE"
  WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY
TAKASHI SHIMIZU
SCREENPLAY BY
STEPHEN SUSCO
 The opening sequence of "The Grudge" is also very long but here the font used for the credits has some character to it. The style of the font looks archaic and old fashioned which gives it simple yet sinister look. The 3 factual statements tells the tale in summarised sentences.

From Our Character and Costume Research..By Afsara Tasnim

From our character and costume research, we particularly focused on an actress such as Jessica Alba who had that naive and innocent look to her face which will immediately portray her as the victim to the audience. Her costume choices in this image below: represent her as a victim as she is a wearing white vest top while she's looking in the mirror.

In our opening sequence, Chloe's (actress) costume choices reflects a sense of danger. We all decided that the victim in our opening should wear the colour red as it connotes danger and also makes her stand out as the protagonist of the film. She wears a red tshirt with her hair let out while sleeping. The reason why her hair was let out was because her scene was shot while she was sleeping and like Jessica Alba, we also wanted to give her that naive, vulnerable look to her face.

Our Calendar By Afsara Tasnim

RTB crew met up the following dates to film and to discuss the progress we've been making throughout our given deadline and also our editing and filming process. These meetings have enabled us to be more organised as we all were constantly discussing what we can do in our next filming session.

RTB ENTERTAINMENT’S CALENDER 

Monday 9th January 2012	Afsara, Chloe, Brian, Yasir Shelmadine close-3:00pm
Tuesday 17th January 2012	Yasir, Afsara and Chloe Tower Hamlets Cemetery- 10:00pm
Saturday 21st January 2012	Afsara, Chloe, Brian Tower Hamlets Cemetery-3:30pm
Sunday 22nd January 2012	Afsara and Chloe Afsara’s house-2:00pm
Sunday 29th January 2012	Brian and Yasir -Were supposed to film but the camera broke off

New Film Title

Chloe and Afsara came up with an idea of a title for film. They suggested 'Deadline'. I thought it was a good idea and so made a title in Photoshop, using the name 'Deadline'. This image shows the different types of effects I've experimented with for our title. Once the members of the RTB team view this image, I will make further improvements for the final title for our film.