Research And Planning-Analysis Of A Old Title Sequence "To Kill A Mockingbird"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP5MutuPVxk

The opening sequence for To Kill A Mockingbird is wonderfully made and exciting to watch. The main focus of the film is innocence and the fact that the main image of the opening sequence is of a child drawing really captures the essence of innocence that the film represents.

The fact that the titles are in black and white really add to the effect of the film. There is no colour this requires the audience to use their imagination especially in regards to the image of the child drawing as it makes us think what are they drawing and what is the significance to this drawing.

The way this title sequence is different from so many modern ones is its simplicity the fact that the titles work so well in context with the film itself if the titles were over complicated it would take away the true meaning of time film.

Research and Planning- The Song For Our Titles Take 2

When we originally planned our opening sequence we wanted to remix the song, She's Got You High By Mumm-Ra. However when we remixed it we felt it didn't really go with the edited footage so we then came up with the idea of recording the song with just the guitar riff and perhaps the underlying bass riff. once we recorded it the guitar was played with the edited footage, as a groupe we thought it fitted really well and we all felt very excited.

ACTORS

Jack Lowe Plays Josh, he features throughout our opening sequence and would be one of our main characters. Jack would be playing alongside Laura Debourde who is also a main character.

Laura Debourde Plays Poppy in our film and features throughout our opening sequence, she would be one of our main characters; and would be playing alongside Jack lowe who is also a main character.

filming our open sequence

changing the titles-research and planning

As we were filming our opening sequence we deicided that our idea for having the titles interlinked with the scene was too difficult to execute because most of our shots were outside. As a group we have now decided to have the titles displayed on each half of the split screen. For example on the half of the screen where "Poppy" is we will have the girl's who will be staring in our film and who were part of making the film and on "Josh's" half of the screen we will have the boy's who will be staring in our film and who were part of making the film.

Research and Planning-Treatment

TARGET AUDIENCE: The target audience for our film are mainly people around 13-20 year olds, the reason we have picked this age bracket is because the two main characters will be able to relatable and they will maybe in some cases mirror young people’s lives. The gender we think will mainly come to watch our film will be women because the main themes of the film will mainly relate to women.

MEDIA LANGUAGES: When it comes to editing our opening sequence we are going to edit it in spilt screen, this choice of editing has been influence by films like Freaky Friday and Mean Girls. The shots that will be within the split screen will be shots of the main characters (Poppy and Josh),going about their normal everyday business. Within these shots the audience will see how these two characters are different but have qualities within them that are very similar. Another element that will be embedded within the titles will be clues as to what things these characters are into. As a group we plan to set up enigmas in order to show that there will be an element of comedy within the characters. For example in Josh's bedroom there will be something like a skateboard to perhaps for shadow an injury that might happen involving it, this element will also be used for poppy, example photographs of her with her friends perhaps on a night out showing she can have a good time, the enigmas will also introduce the characters personality. we have decided that Poppy is a very artistic girl so in her bedroom there will be cameras, photographs and art books on her shelf and for Josh we have decided that he is interested in music so he will have guitars on his wall and lyric sheets on his desk.

For the lighting in the film we would like to use very natural light, we have decided to use natural light to show the independence of these two characters and also the innocence of the two characters. We plan on achieving this by filming outside in a location like a park. We also plan on achieving this by shooting throughout the day at different times in order to get different lighting throughout the opening.