4. High School Drama VS Youth Drama

There are two sub genres within the 'Teen' category: High school dramas and youth dramas.

High school dramas

High school dramas are typically filmed within a school setting, with female leads and a theme of romance. Normally with a comical tone and basic plot line, they appeal to teens who feel they can relate to the loose story line and entertaining comical edge.

Typical Structures of High School Drama Title Sequences  

This usually consists of a large list of titles.Whilst the titles are being rolled there will usually be a socialisation of teenagers, celebrating the idea of being young in the background.  This may introduce the main focus of the film which is often ' female focused'. 

Mean Girls 

Mean Girls is a High School Drama , the title sequence supported the conventions of a High School Drama . This Consisted of a very large of producers and actors. With a simplistic typing, which utilised stereotypically 'feminine' colours. This title sequence establishes the storyline; it features a girl starting her first day at an American high school, therefore setting the movie as a 'high school drama.'

Structure:

1. Owners
2. Production
3. Main actor
4. Title
5. Opening scene
6. Other main actors x11
7. Casting director
8. Screen writer
9. Music Supervisors
10. Music composer
11. Co-producers
12. 
    

Boys N The Hood 

This was a youth drama . this Consisted a no mention of actors or directors simply the producers and owners . This consisted of a unique logo on a black background but thawed was a white outline not filled in .This subject behind the title was of a children aged about 9-10 exploring a murder scene this matter is rather serious and not something every one is exposed to in there life's.

Comparison

The youth drama seems to  be more serious, this would imply less humor a.The List  of producers  and actors is bigger for the Teen Movie as what happening behind isn't such serious ,and not vital to the plot as the plot is rather simple . However the Teen Drama has a serious storyline and every part of the film is vital and there attention can't be taken away.The teen movie doesn't have a unique logo as it's not seemed serious enough unlike the youth Drama . The subject of the youth drama is not clear unlike The High School Drama which we can tell is a female this  is also shown through the female color scheme of the text . 

18 How to make titles on Motion!

Using Motion is used for titles to fit into movies that are edited in final cut pro.

Starting using motion you will be presented with this tab and you will have to choose what type of project you would like to do. you also get to choose what type of quality you want your project to be in for example from 240p to 1080p. When you finished picking all your options you click open.





You then arrive that this layout and this is where you will be doing all your title making and and effects that you wish to add to your title. You're presented with the canvas, the timeline and the other options such as the file browser where you import all your data and the library where you import effect and sounds.




To start making your title sequence, choose a photo or add text to your title sequence and then on the title sequence you can choose for how long you want your words or picture to be seen, and you can choose from the library, how your text appears and how it goes away, all of this happened on your timeline and you can control it from there.

 You can also choose to make your title to look even better by operating in 3D and, from there its the same thing but you have a lot more option because you can make your image or text move in 3D and add even more effects on the title sequence.

Documentary on Title Sequences watching '

When does Thomas Sutcliffe means when he says "Films need to seduce their audience into a long term commitment. While there are many types of seductions, the temptations to go for an instant arousal is almost irresistible".
The Film at hand must demand the audiences attention and to draw them in to want to carry on watching.

According to Director Jean Jacques Beiniex, what are the risks of "instant arousal"?
Explain why "a good beginning must make the audience feel that it doesn't nearly enough yet, and at the same time that it doesn't know too little"
The dangers of  instant  arousal' is, whether you begin a film opening excessively capable, the audience perhaps making inquiries which would prompt the plot of the film being found furthermore the ending.This is with the goal that the target audience can be arranged, without finding the entire story.

What does critic Stanley Kauffman describe as a classic opening? Why does it work?
A classic film opening would always tell us the location of the film, who the main character is, what type of the film this is and it introduces the story to the audience,

Why is Kyle Cooper's title sequence to the film seven so effective?
The title sequence of "Seven" is extremely compelling on the grounds that it set the groups of onlookers mind-set, prepared for the air of the film as suspends skepticism and makes the gathering of people a piece of the film. It hints whats going to happen in the film and demonstrates the group of onlookers the primary character. 

What did Orson Welles want to achieve with his opening to the film A Touch Of Evil? What did Universal Studios do with it? Why? 
Orson Welles didn't want any titles or credits in the beginning of a film because he wanted to suspend disbelief. However Universal studios didn't take his idea and put in the credits. 

What is meant by a "a favourite trick of Film Noir"? What is the trick? 
The trick of 'Film Noir' is that the introduction of the film is similar to the ending of the film.

How does the opening to the film The Shining create suspense? 

Suspense is made by the cam while it is taking after the auto, the group of onlookers see that the auto is being taken after and it is attempting to escape. The landscape is disregarded as there is this suspense is drawed the groups of onlookers thoughtfulness regarding the quick paced moving auto; accordingly a feeling of desperation is practically made..

Easy A analysis

Easy A
Cam:
"easya" is a story title sequence as it goes straight into the film and begins by having a shot of the delightful brilliant sky and tilts its route down to the road with a building shot of the spot. There are then a lot of people close up shots of a few items like a street sign and the american banner and a few soil grown foods to give the audience a thought of what the spot is similar to. It then demonstrated a nearby up of the secondary school's name, "Ojei North High School, a California Distinguished School". The scene changed to the school's entrance by utilizing a tilting movement from a closer up tree and tilting downwards to demonstrate the school yard and students. The cam was following the titles that where coordinated with the moving pictures however in the meantime demonstrating to us the different social groups as it utilized moderate motion whenever it demonstrates a group of students. This demonstrates that it is an ordinary secondary school film as the students are put into social groups.
Sound:
There was dialog all through the title sequence as the principle character was describing and she was additionally conversing with other individuals. Everyone talked in an American accent which demonstrates that it is an American base film and was situated in America, or California as the storyteller said. There was synchronous streaming music through the start of the title sequence where the students walk and converse with their friends. However the music halted when the pioneer of a young lady group found the principle character and made her drop her papers. The way that the music ceased fits superbly with the scenes as the content moment ended. A few parts of the talking was diegetic and a few parts were non-diegetic. For instance when the principle character was portraying, that was non diegetic yet when she was conversing with her friend,teacher and others it was diegetic. Other non-diegetic sounds would be the school chime which was additionally a foley sound.
Mise-en-scene:
The title sequence was situated just outside the school structures and the lighting utilized was unadulterated daylight. Dress characterizes a person in a secondary school show, for instance the fundamental character wore long dull attire to blend in with the swarm and attract no attention to herself where as the friend wore splendid short clothes which would infer that she is pretty yet may be a prostitute. The non-verbal communication additionally aides characterize a character on the grounds that the primary character's friend had her involved her hips which demonstrates that she's bossy, yet the principle character remained up straight with a few papers in her grasp. The props utilized was a notepad to relate it to class however there was additionally cigarettes included in the title sequence which the educator broke and said "it could prompt undesirable pregnancy" and others which demonstrates that there may be sexual exercises included.

Task 14 analysis of teen and high school drama

High School Title Sequence
Not Another Teen Movie

Camera
Mid - Shot
Close-up
Panning
Tracking

Mise en scene

Geeky clothes
 jocks In sports gear
Cheerleaders
Title
Ghetto / Urban Clothes
Promiscuous Outfit

Edit
Titles
Shot Reverse Shot
glowing light on the female
Jump Cuts

Sounds
Non -diegetic
Music
Over-sound
Diegetic
Conversation
Car
Radio Music

Youth Drama
Bend It Like Beckham

Camera
Tracking of the football
Birds Eye View
Mid shot
wide shot
 Close up

Mise En Scene
London
Sports wear
dresses
Shops

Editing
transition
special effects
Jump cuts
Placing the girl there to header the ball

Sound
Diegetic
Commentating Cheers from crowd
conversation
Football transition sound ( non - diegetic)
Music
Cars sounds

Who Makes Title Sequences

Saul Bass was an American graphic designer  and title sequence proficient and Academy Award-winning movie producer, he is best known for his outline on energized film title sequences.

Saul Bass was the most astonishing maker of the title sequences, dealing with so much movies as, North by Northwest, Anatomy of a Murder and Goodfellas.

He initially prepared as a graphic designer, and was dispatched by executive Otto Preminger to assemble a notice for his 1954 musical show/musical.

Preminger was so inspired he requested that he make a title sequence as well, and Bass went ahead to spend significant time in the region.

15 Analyse a teen drama

American Pie 1 was made in 1999,  it is a teen sex comedy. It's original budget was $11 million however after it was released it made $235 million on the box office.

(4.58 is end) 

In order of titles 

1. Universal Pictures 
2. Warren Zide, Craig Perry Production
3. Title of the movie
4. Main Actors
5. Casting 
6. Music
7. Music Supervisor 
8. Co Producers 
9. Costume Designer 
10. Editor
11. Production Designer 
12. Director of Photography 
13. Produced
14. Producer 
15. Writer 
16. Director 

Camera 

At first there is a panning from the floor to a close up of Jims shoulders and head. thought out the whole title sequence there is a lot of short reverse shot between for example Kevin and his girlfriend in the chair and Jim and the TV. There is also a big number of wide shots, for example the nerds playing there instruments and the boys walking through school. The camera moves fluidly through the set and the arrives at a specific shot such as a mid shot or a wide shot 

Editing 

Throughout the whole title sequence there is a lot of shot reverse shots and a lot of match cuts to make the movie fluid so it makes it seem like it is real. To be honest there isnt a lot of editing apart from the complete basics, i believe this is due to the fact that it is an old film when film wasnt that big.

Sound 

The sounds start with a bass guitar  based sound track suggesting something mysterious is going to happen, there is also an erotic women in the background that gives out digetic sounds because the voice is coming from the tv. However as soon as we are shown the title of the movie we hear another song that is sounds a lot more bright, this have a very big link to the storyline because it suggests that the boys are going to break some rule and get themselves into a lot of trouble. Other sounds do include dialogue and other digetic sounds such as walking and normal day to day sounds.  

Mise en Scene
The Title is mainly based first firstly in Jim's bedroom, and in a high school. The lighting in the film is normal and because its based in a high school there is no lighting. The key props in the title sequence are the sock that Jim uses and the remote that he struggles to turn off the TV. In the next scene the key props are the university papers that Kevin looks at to tell his girlfriend if she got into university. Those are the key props in the title sequence.

19 How to make a soundtrack on garageband

1

Open GarageBand 09 and a window with different project types will appear. Select the Songwriting project under the New Project tab

2

Name your song (or leave it and name it later) and leave the tempo, signature, and key settings on default, unless you would like to change those.

3

Hit Create. You should now be on a blank GarageBand project

4

Click the View/Hide Loop Browser button in the lower left (it looks like an eye). This will allow you choose instruments and certain loops to mix and match and create a song.

5
Create your song , A good place to start is with a drum
tip - Use a combination of instruments playing with each other and/or solo by spacing them appropriately on the timeline.

6

Save your song and enjoy!

13 Reserch into Title Sequence

High School Drama
Not Another Teen Movie

Not an alternate teenager film is a secondary school show. It concentrates on social gathering inside the school.
Moreover the characters are presented on secondary school stereotypes
Toward the begin of the film we see the diverse social gatherings that see in the while we are taking a voyage through the school.
These gatherings are shaped because of the stereotypes of there appearance.
Social Groups

Jocks 

Misfits 

Cheerleaders 

Geeks 

Social Outcast

Teen Drama
My brother the devil
Two teen siblings must face their own particular preferences head on the off chance that they are to survive the risks of being British Arabs experiencing childhood with the boulevards of gangland London

Social Groups 

Gang members

School kids

Boxers

Gang members

School kids

Boxers

9 Extension Task, who makes title sequences?

A title sequence is the method by which films or television programs present their title, key production and cast members, or both, utilizing conceptual visuals and sound.^[1] It usually follows but should not be confused with the opening credits, which are generally nothing more than a series of superimposed text.

 Billy Hanshaw. With over 27 years of experience as an Expert 2D/3D Graphic Designer, Animator and Illustrator , who designed The Doctor Who 2014 title sequence.


His Ideas and inspiration came from 'I’ve heard the comment that the use of clockwork is wrong because it is too ‘human’ a way to represent time travel. My answer to that is that as far as I’m aware, humans make up the entirety of the viewing audience, and so will immediately understand the analogy. After all, a title sequence is meant to reflect the show’s core themes.'

His relationship with  writer and director Stephen Moffat is a good one as he was a fan of his work and approached him about the chance to work on it . 

12 Analyse the order of title sequences.

My Brother The Devil
A Wild Horse Film Company and Rooks Net Entertainment Production 
In association with film clinic 
Said Tahmaoui
Introducing Fady Elsayed
Aymen Hambouchi
Ashley Thomas
Anthony Welsh
Arnold Oceng
Letitia Wright 
Amira Ghazalla
Elarlca Gallacher
And Nasser Memarzia 
Mohamed Hefzy, Sally el Hosini - Executive Producers 
Producers: Gayle Griffiths, Julid Godzinskaya, Michael Sackler
Written and Directed: Sally el hosini 
My Brother The Devil

Mean Girls (Mainstream film) 

Main Actors

Casting 

Story Based on

Music supervisors

Music composer

Co-producer

Costume designer

Editors

Production designer

Director of photography

Executive producer

Producer

Screenplay

Directer

As you can see that mean girls a main stream production has a lot more credits than the independent film of My Brother the Devil, this is due to the fact that Mean girls had a lot more budget than the independent film so they could employ more people to make the film better. Mean Girls had the budget of $17 million which shows that they're a mainstream film that was funding by a conglomerate company.  So the differences are that the low budget film has less of a film crew than the more mainstream film of Mean Girls. It misses people such as costume designers and music supervisors and director of photographies. However some of the similarities are that they both have the core and compulsory people in the film crew, such as the directors, producers and writers.  

8. What is genre and what is a teen drama film?

Genre is A style or category of art, music, or literature

A Teen Drama Film
The teen drama is a bona fide classic genre in 2013. At some point, everyone's had to deal with the trials and tribulations of adolescence. From the awkwardness of puberty, to the excitement and terror of falling in love--there's nothing quite like it  .They usually lead to the coming of age were the child will learn to mature and become a adult. They are usually set at party's, the streets , park , beaches etc .

My Brother The DevilA Wild Horse Film Company and Rooks Net Entertainment Production 
In association with film clinic 
Said Tahmaoui
Introducing Fady Elsayed
Aymen Hambouchi
Ashley Thomas
Anthony Welsh
Arnold Oceng
Letitia Wright 
Amira Ghazalla
Elarlca Gallacher
And Nasser Memarzia 
Mohamed Hefzy, Sally el Hosini - Executive Producers 
Producers: Gayle Griffiths, Julid Godzinskaya, Michael Sackler
Written and Directed: Sally el hosini 
My Brother The Devil


Mean Girls consisted of a lot more as High School dramas are viewed as more convectional , therefore more likely to make money , so they require a bigger budget to make the film which leads to more people getting hired

4 Analyse 2 Title Sequences !!!!!

Batman
We are faced by different yellow content on dark/blue tones, which reverberate the strong bat-wing logo. We are then left for over two minutes, unsure of what we're seeing. Is it true that it is Gotham City? Is it accurate to say that it is the bat-cave?
"The slow camera pace symbolizes the measured clearing movement of a bat taking off over its prey, joined by extreme and suggestive sound
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l11BPzYehUE&feature=player_embedded

Star Wars

The ideal timing of the hard cut between 'A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...' and the bombastic reveal of the title emulated by the 'story as such' abstract crawling over the screen (a pleasant homage to old mash serials) make no qualms about the fact you're about to see something of amazing magnitude
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7jK-jZo6xjY

19 How to make a soundtrack on garageband

To start on garageband you click on the program and you are shown this window
Usually if you're with an instrument instrument instrument instrument instrument instrument in a studio you choose "Empty Project", this allows you to start a new project.

As you click this, you receive another window;
These options allow you to plug in your own instrument and this allows you to record it and even record your own voice through your own microphone or the Macs microphone.









After all of these click you arrive at the main menu of the program, you see a timeline on the top right corner, you can see an amp for a guitar or a bass, an audio file for vocals and drums which is done automatically, and you can change your drummer by clicking on the profile picture which in this case is Ian, also you can switch between music genres, (Rock, Alternative, Songwriter and R&B)
You can start recording your song by clicking the red button (record button) and this records your song, likewise you can do this with guitar and vocals.
In this program you can switch between different amplifiers to reach different sounds.

After youre finished with your song you click, and save as to save your project into your hard drive.

Editing For Room For Romeo Brass

We required extra diegetic sound such as

• Bird Tweeting 
• Paper Rustling 
• Crunches as he steps n the dirt 

This will be required by looking for the sounds in the sound effects. 

The soundtrack was found On youtube , it was converted by clip grab and will be applied to the clip later  . 

Editing is being completed on Final Cut Pro . 

Categorizing Title Sequences

1. Discrete title sequences - separately edited sequences that are apart from the film. It is like a mini film before the film, it helps to get the audience into the mood of the film. 

2. Narrative openings - the title sequence comes together with the narrative of the storyline. Example: 'The Shining'


3. Credits over a blank screen - this the of title sequence simply consists of a blank screen and the credits coming up.

4. Stylised editing - this is a heavily stylised film opening with amazing editing. Example: 'Mezrine'

Lessons learnt from Room for Romeo Brass

I learnt from this cover of Room For Romeo Brass

1. Panning must be consistent as this can make the film look unprofessional and clumsy 
2. Mise En Scene must fit in with the context of the scene , as when we filmed in college , it was far from a shop  therefore  this gave a comical effect , which is not what we wanted . 

3 . Transitions are very useful to make the film flow well ,  such  as cross  dissolve
   
4. a Wide range of camera angles must be used but only when  necessary  such as doing a mid shot to display shot reverse shot

A Room For Romeo Brass Evaluation

Camera -

This area was very well done as we showed a variety of match cuts such as when the child  entered  the gate and when the bag was handed by the man into the shop. A wide shot were very well taken during with scene where they are sitting on the bench and at the start of the scene . Mid -Shots were also crucial here during the part where they are ordering food.

Camera  improvements-
The panning speed wasn't always consistent this made the title sequence look unprofessional

Sound

We required extra diegetic sound such as
Bird Tweeting ,Paper Rustling ,Crunches as he steps n the dirt 

This will be required by looking for the sounds in the sound effects.  The soundtrack was found On youtube , it was converted by clip grab and will be applied to the clip later  . 

Sound improvements - Perhaps we could of used a boom stick to get better sound quality . 

Editing 

Editing was done using Final Cut Pro .This was  consisted of us  organizing  the clips correctly and creating match - cuts . This also allowed us to add the titles and music so this was vital in our production 

Editing  Improvements  - we could of made the shots flow better using Transitions , this would have made it look less jumpy . 

Mise En Scene 

 The areas we used for the filming were the college, Holloway Road and the park across the road of the college. We used a HD camera, a tripod and a  figring for the filming.  We didn't film this in chronological order of the scenes in the film, we did all the outside scenes without the bag first, then we did all the outside scenes with the bags and chips and then we filmed all the in college scenes. 

This was due to not having the time to organize any real arrangements as this was just a trial , to give more filming  experiences   

Group 16; Title Sequence for The Room For Romeo Brass

Filming a Room for Romeo Brass title sequence

We had the choice out of filming The Breakfast club title sequence, which is a a High school drama, but we chose the other option, which was A Room For Romeo Brass due to the lack of actors we had.   Also we chose this teen drama, because it was easier and also we didn't have sufficient funds for props also most of the filming was outdoors so we had the space to do it.  The areas we used for the filming were the college, Holloway Road and the park across the road of the college. We used a HD camera, a tripod and a  figring for the filming.  We didn't film this in chronological order of the scenes in the film, we did all the outside scenes without the bag first, then we did all the outside scenes with the bags and chips and then we filmed all the in college scenes.  once filming we went up stairs to the class and start editing.

13 Research in title sequences

11 What are the sub genres of Teen drama films?

Teen dramas can also be sub-categorized into genres such as action/adventure, science fiction,mystery and fantasy.
These are examples of professional films with those specific genres. 

Action/adventure:

Science fiction:

 Mystery:

Fantasy

9 Extension Task, who makes title sequences?

Saul Bass was an American graphic designer  and title sequence professional and Academy Award-winning film-maker, he is best known for his design on animated motion picture title sequences.

Saul Bass was the most amazing producer of the title sequences, working on such films as, North by Northwest, Anatomy of a Murder and Goodfellas.

He originally trained as a graphic designer, and was commissioned by director Otto Preminger to put together a poster for his 1954 opera/musical. 

Preminger was so impressed he asked him to create a title sequence too, and Bass went on to specialise in the area. 

 Opening title for Anatomy of a Murder by Saul Bass. 

5 extension activity, Watching documentary.

When does Thomas Sutcliffe means when he says "Films need to seduce their audience into a long term commitment. While there are many types of seductions, the temptations to go for an instant arousal is almost irresistible".
That a film needs to catch an audiences attention and to draw them in to want to carry on watching.

According to Director Jean Jacques Beiniex, what are the risks of "instant arousal"?
Explain why "a good beginning must make the audience feel that it doesn't nearly enough yet, and at the same time that it doesn't know too little"
The risks of 'instant arousal' is, if you start a film opening too powerful, the audience maybe asking questions which would lead to the plot of the film being discovered and also the ending.This is so that the target audience can be prepared, without discovering the whole story.

What does critic Stanley Kauffman describe as a classic opening? Why does it work?
A classic film opening would always tell us the location of the film, who the main character is, what type of the film this is and it introduces the story to the audience,

Why is Kyle Cooper's title sequence to the film seven so effective?
The title sequence of 'Seven' is very effective because it set the audiences mood, ready for the atmosphere of the film as suspends disbelief and makes the audience a part of the film. It foreshadows whats going to happen in the film and shows the audience the main character.

What did Orson Welles want to achieve with his opening to the film A Touch Of Evil? What did Universal Studios do with it? Why? 
Orson Welles didn't want any titles or credits in the beginning of a film because he wanted to suspend disbelief. However Universal studios didn't take his idea and put in the credits. 

What is meant by a "a favourite trick of Film Noir"? What is the trick? 
The trick of 'Film Noir' is that the introduction of the film is similar to the ending of the film.

How does the opening to the film The Shining create suspense? 

Suspense is made by the camera while it is following the car, the audience see that the car is being followed and it is trying to get away. The scenery is overlooked as there is this suspense is drawed the audiences attention to the fast paced moving car; therefore a sense of urgency is almost created.

16 storyboard and props, practical remake activity

Storyboard

Props

Chips – buy from chicken cottage down the road

A table - college

Two chairs - college

News paper – tube station

8. What is genre and what is a teen drama film?

Institutions that produce teen drama films.

Genre: a type or a category of film or art or literature.

Teen drama: This is a specific genre of film that focuses on teenage characters.

Teen Drama Title Sequence

My Brother The Devil
A Wild Horse Film Company and Rooks Net Entertainment Production 
In association with film clinic 
Said Tahmaoui
Introducing Fady Elsayed
Aymen Hambouchi
Ashley Thomas
Anthony Welsh
Arnold Oceng
Letitia Wright 
Amira Ghazalla
Elarlca Gallacher
And Nasser Memarzia 
Mohamed Hefzy, Sally el Hosini - Executive Producers 
Producers: Gayle Griffiths, Julid Godzinskaya, Michael Sackler
Written and Directed: Sally el hosini 
My Brother The Devil

However Mean girls on the other hand, has a lot more credits due to the fact that they had more budget which therefore meant that they could afford to pay more people and have a larger crew.