The Main Character

The main character in our film is a teenage girl in her last years of secondary School, she is quite a popular girl and gets along with everyone in the school. In her spare time she listens to music and likes to spend alot of time with her friends watching movies and just talking, when shes not with he friends she likes to sepnd her time on social media websites and watching her favouite tv shows.
Her fashion sense isn't very popular but she is a very care-free person and does what she wants. She wears alot of tshirts made by her favourite bands and tv shows on and very rarely follows any fashion trends there may be. She also wears skinny jeans and owns several pairs all in different colours. She also owns many, many pairs of converses and likes to wear a different pair everyday. She also tries to change her nail varnish colour very week.

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The importance of Typography

Today in class we discussed why the font used in a film's title sequence is so important. We looked at several titles sequences and as a class looked at how that reflects the film.
One of the first things we discussed was sans serif and serif fonts. Sans serif fonts are fonts without serifs (the edgy bits) at the end of strokes, these fonts are commonly associated with western/FBI/police films. Serif fonts are the opposite; fonts with serifs at the edge.
The first title sequence we looked at was the 'Catch me if you can' title sequence. http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/catch-me-if-you-can/
We found that the flow from each of the names was very smooth but there was constant movement, the smooth constant moving could represent the main character in the film. He is always changing his identity, however he is smooth so that nobody notices what he is doing, another thing that gives us this idea is the fact that throughout the title sequence the main character is seen in many different occupations, suggesting he is always moving and always changing. The font used is also a Sans serif font which again suggests the main character is smooth. We can also notice that this title sequence has been influenced by Saul Bass as there are alot of straight lines used to fit into the scene, which is similar to what Saul Bass does.

The next title sequence we looked at was the 'Lord of war' title sequence. http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/lord-of-war/
In this title sequence the names of the big stars and the main crew are focused to the centre and the other cast & crew are not as noticeable as they are put to the side. We also noticed that the writing is white and fairly small, this means that it is not the main focus, when we watched it we all found ourselves focusing on the story of the bullet in the background and not what the text was saying. The text itself is also in capital letters which suggests the seriousness of the film.

Th next and last title sequence we looked at was 'Forrest Gump'  http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/forrest-gump/
Throughout this entire sequence the names were centred, this shows that is what the audience is supposed to be focusing on. The font used is a serif font, this suggests the film is set in the past as serif fonts are associated with the past and old newspapers. The background is also not too busy so it is easy to read. There is also a very gentle feeling to the sequence, the fact that there is also a feather floating around in the background makes this calm and gentle than the other two sequences we watched.

Film Pitch 2

After speaking as a group and with some advice from Miss Alme, we have decided to change our film idea. The reason we have decided to do this is because we had an excellent idea for a title sequence, however it didnt really go with the genre and style of our original film idea, but we thought the title sequence idea was too good not to use & it was just easier to change our entire film idea.

Our new idea is a romance drama teen film. It starts with a young girl walking home, she takes the same route everyday & everyday a boy who walks the same way as her tried to pluck up the courage to talk to her. He eventually gets an excuse to talk to her when she drops her book. He gives it back to her & they start talking, they then begin to walk home with eachother everyday and become bestfriends, however the only way they talk to eachother in school is by exchanging notes through lockers because of their different social statuses. Her ex-bestfriend finds out about the two of them and tries to ruin her reputation as one of the popular kids, she succeeds in ruining her social status and begins to bully her, the bullying mostly occurs online until she attempts suicide. When she eventually comes out of hospital she has to attend group therapy to help her recover, when she arrives she sees him. as the group begins discussing problems and how they can be overcome she finds out more about him than she ever could have. They stand up for themselves in school and all is resolved.

Codes & conventions of Teen drama

The genre of the film we are doing falls under a few genres, the main 3 are Romance/Teen drama. Some of the key features of a Romance film are that they explore the themes of, love at first sight, unrequited love, forbidden love, obsessive love, tragic love, etc. our film idea is more along the lines of, love at first sight and eventually tragic love. Romantic films serve as escapes for audiences and allows them to fantasize about having a love like the characters on screen, especially if the two people overcome any obstacles there may be in the way of their love, live a 'happily ever after' or declare their love for each other after years of ignoring it.
From watching a few title sequences that feature our genre, I have discovered that they usually feature a lot of red and pink, which connotes love and passion and also anger and death.
The title sequence for the romance drama film 'One day' features pictures of a couple on a pin board. It also features a slow, romantic song. All the title sequences I watched heavily feature music with an acoustic guitar in the background, I think this is something we should include in our title sequence.
Some other things that feature in romantic/teen drama title sequences are meeting the main characters, and discovering things about them. This is key within most title sequences, but in a romance drama title sequence you should be able to get to know the characters and feel like you know them by the time the film starts. From watching many romance & drama title sequences we have felt like we know the main characters of the film within just a few minutes. This is something we would like to include in our title sequence. We would like the audience to feel a connection with the main character and feel like they know them and is someone they could be friends with by the time our title sequence is over.
Our genre also falls under 'teen drama'. A teen drama is a type of drama series that mainly focuses on the lives of teenagers and the teenage characters. In this genre there is usually a character who is an underdog, this character could be new to the school or is already an unpopular person. There is also usually a narrator in a teen drama. This gives the audience an idea of how that character feels and allows us to  see the film from that characters perspective. In a teen drama title sequence there is usually music playing in the background. This is either upbeat or acoustic guitars/slower music. Music always plays a big part in a teen drama film, it will also play a big part in our title sequence.