Shooting Locations

For our title sequence, we as a group have decided long and hard in terms of the variety of different locations in which we are going to shoot our title sequence. Initially, we want to shoot at London's Shard building in order to have an establishing shot for where our Government meeting will be taking place. This proved to be highly effective for out title sequence because it is essentially a very busy place, involving lots of busy people trying to get to their destinations.

For our Illuminati sequence/Evangelist sequence, we decided that we want to shoot these scenes within our school's drama room. This proved to be a very good setting and location for these scenes as the room has many features in terms of lighting that we could mess around with and alter to our likings. We used low-key lighting for the Illuminati scene and we then contrasted using high-key lighting for the Evangelist scene. The drama room essentially provided an essence of eeriness and darkness, which is the route we were looking for for our title sequence. 

For the actual government scene, we used our school's main library named the 'iBrary'. This proved to be effective as it had a wide and long table for all of our government/actors to sit on. We also had a projector which displayed the map behind the main government leader. 

Finally, for our Scavengers and Rebels scene, we went to Fanny On The Hill park, creating a wooden stick hut and involving our actors climbing upon trees. We then went around the corner to shoot our Rebels scene, which featured a graffiti wall and had a gritty essence around the location, which me and Danny thought was perfect for the theme we were going for for this scene.

Our Fonts

For our font choices for out title sequence, I have done a bit of investigating into which fonts in particular best suits the dystopian theme of our genre for the titles. After spending multiple and countless times searching through the website 'Dafont.com', I came across a font in particular that I felt really stood out and fitted very well for the font on our government's map. I used the font style of 'Orion' to achieve this as I felt as though it was bold and eye-catching, which is essentially what I felt was needed.

For the titles and names that appears during the title sequence, we again investigated and looked into different fonts within 'Dafont'. We finally came across a font in particular in which we again felt fitted the theme of our title sequence, with this font being the 'Dark Underground' font. We chose this font as we felt it appeared to look very gritty yet bold and again, eye-catching.

On Thursday 18th February 2016, me, Danny and Jacob decided to meet to shoot the scenes for our Rebels and Scavengers for our title sequence. Unfortunately, due to miscommunication, Jacob wasn't able to come and film with us on the day. So, me and Danny brought the tri-pod and the two cameras with us. We decided to use the location of Fanny on the Hill park in Welling for both of our scenes. Luckily, we managed to get 3 actors to act the parts. In the park near the woods, we managed to build and create a mini-set of survival things such as: shelters made of twigs, an amateur clothing line and an stack of twigs for a fire. We then shot this and took multiple angles and camera shots to achieve the vision we wanted for this Scavengers scene.

For the Rebels scene, we went to a back road near the park in Welling. Down this road, we saw a wall covered in graffiti, with the road looking quite desolate. We came supplied with 4 fake guns for our actors to use for the Rebels scene, along with scarfs and bandanas to create an atmosphere of mystery and, to make them look the part for this particular scene. We also experimented with different camera angles and different camera shots to help achieve the visions we had set. 

On Tuesday 16th February, me, Danny and Jacob traveled into London in order to capture the two establishing shots that we needed: The Shard and a Church. We took a tri-pod and two cameras. At the Shard, we recorded using both the cameras on the tri-pod and, the camera seperately to give a hand-held effect. We panned left and right to try and get the full effect of the Shard and, we titled the cameras going from top to bottom and from bottom to top. As we traveled deeper into London, we also decided it was necessary to record the outside of a church, again using the tri-pod and camera together and then the camera seperately. These two establishing scenes that we shot were for our government scene and for out evangelist scene in our title sequence. 

The Soundtrack

For the soundtrack for our title sequence, we decided to go on to the un-copyrighted website 'audio'. We managed to find the soundtrack that we wanted from this website and use it as the soundtrack for out title sequence. Personally, I like this soundtrack because it is a soundtrack that builds, grows and develops as our title sequence progresses. The soundtrack at the beginning of title sequence begins very dramatically but slowly, but as the sequence progresses further, it becomes more intense and dramatic. Whilst editing, I purposely ensured that when each cast members names appeared on screen, it fitted well everytime the song peaked at particular points.

Production Log

In order to know when, what time, who will be there, where we will be shooting and what equipment's I will be needing, our group has decided to use a production log in order to maintain our time well and prioritise things that needs doing. We have decided to use a production log so that we can all agree on the dates and times for our shooting for out title sequence and we can all keep up to date on any recent information regarding this.

Storyboards

We have storyboarded our ideas for our title sequence by hand-drawing each different scenes. We have demonstrated roughly our ideas on the basis of what we kind of want each scene to look like. Although this isn't necessarily the final copy/version of the way our title sequence looks, it is a rough idea as to how we want the finished version of our title sequence to look like. 

Our Map

For our title sequence, we have decided to create a map consisting of the different names of our cults and groups. It features a futuristic outtake of a city and includes highlighted areas of where the different cults are staying. We created the map using Photoshop and we managed to find the font of 'Orion' for the typography used on our map. 

Yesterday, me, Danny and Bobby decided to go to the drama room and film our Illuminati scene for our title sequence. We made sure that Bobby was dressed in a dark black cloak, and with the advantage of using the drama room, we had access to the lighting equipment within the room. We used a standard camera on a tri-pod and we thought that it would be interesting to use the crane equipment to try and make a high angled shot. We used match on action to show Bobby walking towards within the dark room. We tried to use a focus pull at the beginning when Bobby emerges from the darkness. 

Today, me, Jacob and Danny managed to gather a group of people who were willing to act and be a part of the process for creating our title sequence. Today we began to shoot the first essential scenes of our title sequence: The Government. Today we managed to shoot our main leader/minister of the government and his secretary escorting him in to the conference room in which a meeting was being held by the member of governments (MG's). As I created and finished the map for our title sequence, we were able to upload my map on to an interactive whiteboard and essentially have that present throughout the scenes. Today we managed to use a variety of different camera shots/angles (without break the 180 degree rule) and, used a variety of math on action shots, close ups, tracking and, zooming in and outwards when necessary.

Today, me and Jacob decided to start work on the map for our title sequence. We managed to find a photo off of Google of a futuristic city style map and, we decided to put this on to Photoshop using the iMac's and begin editing the image to our specific tastes. After putting the image of the map on to Photoshop, we decided to use Google Images to search for symbols that could represent the different cults (The Evangelists, The Rebels, The Illuminati, The Scavengers and The Government) located around the city map. After this, we used 'Dafont' to find a font that we felt was appropriate and fitting to the style of our map and, the style of our title sequence. The font that we decided to use was the font 'Orion' taken from Dafont.

As we are getting closer to the production of our title sequence for the Dystopian themed move "Genesis: The Uprising", i will be documenting mine and my groups' process through Blogger in the form of a diary/journal. Every time we make a decision or creating/adding something new to our title sequence, I will update this process through Blogger. 

The Actors

The actors in which we will be using for our title sequence varies in terms of star power. It consists of well-known actors and a couple of unknown actors. We decided to use approximately 3 well-known actors because we don't necessarily have a huge budget range, meaning that for our film, we need to limit how much we spend on our budget.

• Director = Ridley Scott 

• Tom Hardy = 

• Idris Elba = 

• Gemma Arterton = 

• Matt Bomer 

To act within our title sequence, we managed to gather a couple of our friends within our sixth form, with the majority of them used throughout our title sequence and ourselves (me, Danny and Jacob) also in a couple of our scenes. 

The Budget

For our title sequence 'Genesis: The Uprising', we have decided to go for a budget of $156million. This is what most common dystopian-actioned theme genres budgets consists of (with the likes of The Matrix and I,Robot). This budget will allow us to venture deeper into the action themed route and will allow our movie to have a greater use of CGI and be able to cast the ensemble cast of famous actors like Tom Hardy and Idris Elba, resulting in star power. 

Research into Sounds

Our title sequence is shown to be very fast paced, full with different scenes happening. So, we fill that the soundtrack to go along with our title sequence should be adventurous and dramatic in order to go along with the events taking place within the sequence. 

• The first piece of music I have been looking at that I feel fits our title sequence would be "Crime Against The Person" which i found on the website ' https://audionetwork.lgfl.org.uk/production-music/crime-against-the-person_11243.aspx '. I have taken this soundtrack in to consideration as I feel as though it is dramatic, eerie and fits well with the direction in which our title sequence wants to go in. 

• The next soundtrack I have taken in to consideration for our title sequence is "Stratosphere". Again, I found this on the website of  ' https://audionetwork.lgfl.org.uk/production-music/stratosphere_25278.aspx ' . I have decided to consider this one as it is also dramatic, suspenseful and creepy, which also fits with the direction in which we want to go to for our title sequence. 

• The last soundtrack I have decided to look at for our title sequence is "Death Blade". I again found this on the website ' https://audionetwork.lgfl.org.uk/production-music/death-blade_3328.aspx ' . I have decided to also consider this one as again it is gritty and eerie, full with suspense. 

Genesis: The Uprising Pitch

We decided to create a pitch for our classmates, outlining the plot of the movie, the casting, similar movies within our Dystopian genre and, what studio company would distribute our movie and, how much it would essentially cost to make our movie whilst having a set idea of how much money we will make.

The Production/Distribution Company

For our title sequence and for our movie 'Genesis: The Uprising', we have decided to use the production and very famous distribution company of '20th Century Fox'. The reason for this is essentially because this company is part of the 'Big 6' movie distributing and production companies. 20th Century Fox is the company behind many successful films such as: Deadpool, X-Men, The Maze Runner and the prequel Star Wars trilogy. We feel as though using a company as big as 20th Century Fox would be most highly beneficial for our movie as this company has proven to be highly successful in terms of producing and distributing huge and worldwide blockbuster movies. This company has also demonstrated its success for our direction for our movie. 

Movies similar to our title sequence genre

As part of my research and planning into the genre of my title sequence, I have done some looking into and some research into other similar movies that I believe the genre of my dystopian movie/title sequence fits into.
 
I,Robot (directed by Alex Proyas) was released in 2004 and starred a very successful actor: Will Smith. The movie had a budget of $120million and managed to gather a total of $347.2million on the movies box office. This movie is about a detective who lives in a dystopian future who has a certain view point and stigma upon robots and machines - which has begun to take control over the futuristic city of Chicago. As the movie progresses, we see the robots eventually begin to take over control of themselves and causing anarchy and chaos on the streets.

The Matrix (directed by the then known 'Wachowski Brothers') was released in 1999 by Warner Bros. studios. The movie starred Keanu Reeves and Lawrence Fishbourne. The movie had a budget of $63million and managed to gather a total of $463.5million on the box office. The narrative of the movie is about a future dystopian world being run by machines with humans remaining as the charging power for the machines, remaining alive in a vessel. The humans body's are kept serving for the machines, but their minds are transported to the computer-fake world: The Matrix.

 

 

 

Equilibrium (directed by Kurt Wimmer) is a 2002 movie. The movie had a budget of $20million and managed to gather a total of just $5.3million. This means that the movie heavily underperformed and failed to make back any profit at all due to the very little revenue that the movie managed to generate. The plot of the movie revolves around the year of 2072 after the 3rd World War and we - as the audience - see how a dystopian society recovers from the traumatic experience and, how the world lives through the strong hold and control of the government and their rules.



 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Audience Profile for 'Genesis: The Uprising'

Title sequence designer + Saul Bass research:

Kyle Cooper:

Kyle Cooper is a famous title sequence designer and, is best known for the amount of distinctive title sequences in which he has created over the many years. He was born in 1962 and studied graphics design at Yale University - Massachusetts. He created many iconic title sequences over the years, ranging from popular TV shows such as: American Horror Story, Scream Queens and The Walking Dead, to famous movies such as: the Spider-Man trilogy, Mission Impossible, Seven and Dawn of the Dead.



Saul Bass:

Saul Bass is a famous title sequence designer and, is best known for his distinctive and recognisable style. He was born in 1920 and died in 1996. He was a graphics designer and was solely famous for his classic logo styled designs. In his earlier life, he studied graphics design at the Art Students League in Manhattan. He then went on to work as a freelance graphic designer. His posters consisted of bold and strong colours but, with basic shapes. Once he became discovered, he managed to take on 60+ title sequences. The title sequence he was best known for was for the movie 'The Man With a Golden Arm' and 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World'.

What Actually Happens Within Our Title Sequence?

Our title sequence revolves around the idea of the Government (set in a Dystopian futuristic world) opposing and keeping track upon the different cults within the society and observing them, plotting a way to take each cult down one at a time. Our sequence involves shots of the map displaying the whereabouts of the cults. We then cut between different montages of the different cults with the names of the cast, production companies and the title of the movie being displayed throughout.