Art of film title

As you can see from the examples above, the art of the titles from the same film genre as ours usually tend to keep it simple with mostly white/silver writing on a darker background. This is plane but effective as it shows the seriousness of the film and its not a child comedy for example.
The darkness of the background shows that it is going to be a dark/serious film, which is affective for the audience
and the font shows that its simple yet a lot of them seem like they've been ripped or broken showing the sort of genre of the film

 We will probably use this in our title as it is the same sort of genre

Research into Film genre - Post Apocalyps

Post apocalypse is a sub genre of science fiction and is basically where there is an end to civilization. This type of genre can explore themes of desperation, survival and humans and what they do in a time of need, questioning morality and good nature.
Types of post apocalypse films can be from

• Nuclear war
• Pandemic
• Failure of modern technology
• Extraterrestrial threats
• Zombies (most common)

Most common films of this genre can be

Dawn of the planet of the Apes

Zombie land

World war Z

  

28 days later

Most post apocalypse films focus on the idea of survival a tackle hard decisions.

 

The costumes are relatively the same being old and dirty looking as if supply's are hard finding new cloths, so for our film we will need to do the same

 

Another common thing I found in these post apocalypse films was that at the beginning of some of these films they had the idea of terror and desperation through news reports which were fast cut for example in world war Z and it really introduced the film and set the scene for the audience, which I thought was very effective and something we will probably do in our own film. They also had an idea of emptiness, depending on weather they started before or after the event. When a lot of civilisation has been wiped out you loose the natural sound of cars going past and for example you loose electricity which gives a strong sound of quite (if you understand what I mean). This is something which would be hard to show through our own film, but possible. It will help with showing to the audience that this is real.

Something else I noticed was the way the present the characters, as the civilisation is gone, humans tend to be shown to be survivors. For example, killing other humans for the healthiest people, or Mersey killings if someone was hurt or ill. This types of scenes were filmed and shown in a dramatic way to put across the idea of everything being desperate and messed up, so in our film when we film a scene which would be questioning normal social norms and values.

This research into the genre helps me as it gives me an insight into what an audience who are already familiar in the Post Apocalyptic genre would be expecting, and also shows me what is done a lot so gives me idea on something different which could sand out to this audience

 

 

Opening Credits Art

Both world war Z and The dead undead had their opening credits are with white writing on a black background. This is reasonably simplistic, as they are both Post Apocalypse genre films like our own genre. I think the simple art and colours are effective as it has the audience focus more on the picture or the soundds in the background which ae equally as important. Also a its and older target audience than a kids film and is in no way a comedy, having colourful exotic opening credits wouldn't relate to the film and therefore the audience                                                                                            
wouldn't also be expecting it and wouldn't set the scene for a dramatic film
Its effective
Our film is going to be this genre so i think that we will also follow this idea of a simple opening credit art, i think its effective for the audience.

Opening credits ORDER

In world war Z they did their opening credits in this order

• PRODUCTION COMPANIES
• names
• casting by
• visual effects 
• music by
• additional music by, preformed by
• costume design
• edited by
• production designer
• directer of photography
• executive producers
• produced by
• based on the novel by
• screen story
• screen play
• directed by
• name of film

World War Z is the same genre as our opening sequence so the order could be done in this way

War Z opening sequence analysis - Post Apocalypse Genre

Having just music for the first 10 seconds sets the scene and sets the atmosphere for the audience before they start seeing pictures, being dramatic before the audience even sees anything, this is affective, the tune of it gets increasingly more dramatic adding in more sounds which gives more of an idea of being tense, especial at the end when different scores of music are added in and everything becomes faster and more dramatic.
Along with this the news reports go along with the style of starting off almost happy and less tense but become increasingly more dramatic. The first news report starting off being "a great show in store for you all"and the everything becomes more fast and important and the information starts being about death tolls and scary stuff.
The pictures shown start of sequence are scenic views of the skye and the sea, this also changes along with the music and the news reports. The cuts become quicker, and the shots are instead of being harmless, turn into videos of animals hurting each other and dramatic news repots.
The whole opening sequence starts off calm even with the music being slightly tence and gradually gets quicker and more dramatic, this is an affective way of opening a film for the audience and it helps their expectation but at the same time as everything is quick and starts to give a sense of urgency it also masks whats going on slightly which helps the idea of a urgency emergency post apocalypse feel.

Feed the fish Evaluation

Feed the fish Evaluation

What went well:
- I think we made out video humorous and entertaining to the audience well ,with the over dramatic music, the fast cutting and acting.
 -The music was a well know piece for horror. It is clearly over dramatic as all the character is doing is walking up the stairs, this works really well as it fits with idea we were going for
 -The flash back was well done using a handheld POV angle, its good to the audience as there not too sure what is going on, but creates the effect of it being chaotic
- this then gives more meaning to "feed the fish" than just a boring literal meaning  and also having the dramatic music and sound stop suddenly when the flashback ended continues the funny effect to the audience
 - the cuts when person A and person B are talking are done well as it starts getting more ast paced than the build up showing to the audience that were past the beginning

What to improve:
 - The cutting when she is walking into the school and up the stairs I think took a bit too long, they were effective angles but it was very slow to build up, so could improve on that
 - The lighting at the point when person a and person b are talking at some points you cant see them as there is too much back light