Story Board

In our previous lesson, we created story boards. We learnt how to create them, using either a pen or pencil.

We paired up, and created our very own. Storyboards are a sequence of images or drawings that describes the planned content of a film.

Storyboards should include the use of dialogue, characters, movement and not forgetting the camera shot. I enjoyed creating them.

^^ There is an example of a storyboard, I found this on a website which helped me to create my own storyboard. Here is the hyper link; http://accad.osu.edu/womenandtech/Storyboard%20Resource/

For homework we were asked to look at the following websites, these were very helpful aswell.

longroadmedia.com and

6thformnoodle.blogspot.com

3rd Week In Media

In our media lesson today, we analysed the title sequence from the famous film pyshco, and vertigo.

The opening scences of Pyscho has no use of camera or image. The music contains ostinati of staccato notes, therefore it makes it very dramatic and creepy to make the atmosphere tense, then the music starts to go slower. the Font throughout the title sequence doesn't change neither does the colour. The use of colour is very dark which makes it incredibly creepy and dull.
The image is dull, which consists of horizantal lines and vertical lines to create the title "Psycho", the image is very dramatical. The camera shots are very long. Its seems to have a very negative impact by using dull and dark graphics and colour.

Saul bass was an American Graphic Designer, He was born in 1920, and originally brought up in New York. He was known for his motion picture title sequences. Saul is also remembered for the most iconic icons in north America such as; The bell telephone logo. He designed title sequences for 40 years. In 1958'a Vertigo, his first title sequence for Alfred Hitchcock, Bass shot an extreme close-up of a woman's face and then her eye before spinning it into a sinister spiral as a bloody red soaks the screen. 1959's North to Northwest, the credits swoop up and down a grid of vertical and diagonal line like passenger stepping off elevators.

Here are some of the title sequences;

Pyscho,

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad world,

The war of the roses and

Goodfellas.

"My initial thoughts about what a title can do was to set mood and the prime underlying core of the film's story, to express the story in some metaphorical way. I saw the title as a way of conditioning the audience, so that when the film actually began, viewers would already have an emotional resonance with it" - Saul Bass

My First ever Blog! :)

Hello, My name is Jordon, and this is my first ever blog account! I set this up for media studies to contribute to my As level result. This is the first year of using blogs so its a whole new experience for us all. Im so glad to be using this instead of pen and paper!