Group Photos from Location Reece | Final Task

'Anonymous' Rough Cut | Final Task

Below is the rough cut for 'Anonymous'. All of the footage is currently in a flat profile, as we will colour correct and grade once we have decided on the fundamental aspects of the sequence. Moreover we are yet to edit the end of the film sequence, but hopefully this rough cut will give an idea to what the final version will look like.

Film Opening Titles - Font Research

The James Bond typeface is very iconic due to the establishment of the brand. The spacing of the words are wide to emphasis the name and the look of the franchise. Moreover all of the names are in full capitals, which makes the words stands out more to the audience.

The Colour Scheme - The colour’s used in this opening title are kept simple but still effective. Having white font overlaying onto a dark eerie backdrop makes the titles stand out more, which then in turn will attract the audience. 

The Font - The font for ‘Skyfall’ looks classy and traditional which reflects the nature of James Bond. This means that this type of font will embellish into the film and therefore make the film look more professional overall.

‘The Imitation Game’ (2014) is one of my favourite designs in terms of the typography that was used. This film is set in World War II, where a mathematician, Alan Turing tries to crack the enigma code to win the war. The opening titles to this film is very effective as all the credits have been animated and designed to look like a code. This means that animation of random letters to form the credit worked very effectively as it fits well with the context of the film.

The colour scheme of the typography is bright white which dominates and takes your eyes to the letters rather than the images behind in. 

Unfortunately I cannot get hold of the opening titles, but the trailer uses the same pattern and method of portraying  the text - which can be viewed below. 

Behind the Scenes of 'Anonymous' | Final Task

Saturday 14th February

Last Saturday we travelled up to London for the day to film the London sequences. We found that shooting on location, especially a busy city like London can have have many rewards but also multiple drawbacks. A great aspect about shooting in London is that the opening will look realistic, due to the filming locations being in a natural circumstance. Moreover, filming in London was a major advantage as it allowed us to ask members of public to take part in our opening. This was very useful for us as we needed over 20+ people in our opening and by using unknown characters, the sequence will then look much more realistic. To ensure legitimacy to the public, we showed them a written consent from our teacher before they took part in our video. 

However, there were some drawbacks that were obviously going to be expected. For example, one major issue we faced was trying to produce high quality footage while working around with the public. Due to this being a non-budget film and for educational purposes we had no control over the public. For example, one of the clips shows a courier getting onto the tube which then cuts to a different courier getting off the same tube at the next station. As you could imagine this could be a nightmare trying to get to the next station, and hoping for a different courier leaving the tube to be in the exact same position with public not getting in front of the camera and blocking the view. Other drawbacks involved weather, time and lighting. 

Below shows a behind the scenes video from Saturday.

Monday 16th February

This extract of the sequence is arguably the most important aspect of the opening sequence to our film, because it is the first thing the audience sees which means that we want them to be immersed into the film as soon as possible. Below shows some photos and a video of behind the scenes from Monday. Many thanks to Macy's Butchers for their generosity in letting us film there. It enabled us to create really nice shots of the butcher and the meat itself, to make it portray like a body being chopped up and then thrown into the red holdall. After the butcher scene, we got shots of a customer and first courier of the red holdall (Louise's grandfather)  walking out of the butchers and heading to the train station. From the train station, this is where he would pass the holdall onto the second courier. 

Ellipsis Sequence Trial Run | Final Task

Preparing for Ellipsis Sequence | Final Task

Before travelling up to London and shooting the ellipsis sequence we needed to ensure that it would work and look effective, and due to its nature of complexity it was crucial that we did test shots for this. We first discussed what we wanted to get out of the ellipsis sequence in London and then went around Shiplake to film test shots. 

Following from our discussion, in our test shots we focused on arches and fields to see how the comination would create a effective montage. One of the main technological features that we needed to test was to see if the grid setting (6x4) would be useful when aligning the person with the frame. Framing in this sequence is very important as we needed to make sure that the person carrying the bag and walking towards the camera was walking in a straight line and centre of the frame. This means that all of our shots of someone walking would be framed exactly the same as everyone else.

Another feature we had to test was whether the colour splash effect would work. To test this we imported a cinestyle flat profile so that we could get as much data from every shot. This means that we  can get a much colour depth in each shot which will improve the look of the colour splash. All of the colour splashing is done in the post-production stage. In Premiere Pro CS6 there is a video effect called 'remove colour'. This allowed me to remove all of the colour in the frame and focus on just one colour, and in this instance I focused on the reds. However, as always there will always be other reds in the frame, so by adding a garbage matte we can just focus on the red bag and eliminate other reds from the frame.

Below shows timelapse of us shooting the Ellipsis Sequence.

Equipment Checklist | Final Task

Below shows a table showing all the equipment that we need for our filming day in London. Each piece of equipment has been checked to see whether its available on this particular day and has been signed off. In addition to this, we all brought in all the equipment that was needed before the shooting day to either use it for practice shots or undergo quality checks of the equipment.