TITLE: Forrest Gump
INSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION- Paramount Studios, A Steve Tisch/Wendy Finerman Production,
JOB TITLES: director - Robert Zemeckis, Casting - Ellen Lewis, Co-producer - Charles Newirth, Executive Music Producer - Joel Sill, Vusual Effects Supervisor - Ken Ralston, Casting Designer - Joanna Johnston, Edited - Arthur Schmidt, Production Designer - Rick Cater, Director of Photography - Don Burgess, Screenplay - Eric Roth, Producers - Steve Tisch, Wendy Finerman and Steve Starkey.
MUSIC and OTHER SOUND: Music - Alan Sivestri.
MAIN CHARACTER INTRODUCED: Tom Hanks
MOOD SETTING THROUGH SETTING/LIGHTING: Mellow
INTRODUCTION TO ACTION/STORY: Tom Hanks picking up the feather and putting it into his suitcase.
SOMETHING TO CAPTURE AUDIENCE INTEREST: The feather floating.

In the opening to Forrest Gump the titles of each job title fades in and out as the feather is floating in the background before being introdced to the main character.

Feedback

Tilly- this does not represent the amount of work that I suggested you need to put in on the blog. Where is the other task?

We found it particually hard to remake this part of the opening. However, we found a wall which we could stand on and hold the camera up high, this helped us create the birds eye view shot.

Original Juno

Juno

This is our re-make of the opening to Juno, our task was to get it to look as close to the original as we could. However, i found this hard as we were not allowed to take the cameras off the Colleridge campus, so it was hard to find places to shoot some of the scenes, such as the scene that has a van drive past, so instead we found a parked van on site and used that as part of the background. Also the birds eye view of Juno were hard to achieve, however we managed to move around this by finding ramps and using the tripod and lifting it, but this did leave the shot a little wobbly. We had to plan this carefully, and make sure that we had all the shots carefully planned out in a storyboard, this was a long process as we had to stop at each scene, draw it and time how long each one was. I was pleased about some of the work we achieved, that we managed to fit it all together, and we did finally find places to shoot some scenes. It was a good experience and it gave me more of a chance to fiddle around on Final Cut and do some more fading and cutting in and out. All in all i found this activity a good experience and fun to do.

Updated feedback

Good choice of clips and points about them

pete

Student Film

Strengths

The opening titles are really well presented, with the movement across the screen.

The setting is good on the bridge with the graffiti.

The background music, and the muffled effect on at the first bit of proper dialogue.

The fading between each a shot and an opening title.

The high camera angles when the boy is pointing the gun at the other boy near the start.

Use of blur.

Weaknesses

The backing track at the end could have been something a bit more sharp than mellow.

Some of the lighting was a bit off.

All in black and white.

Film Opening

I really enjoyed this film opening, as the chase really gripped you and wanted you to watch further to see what may happen in the rest of the film. I liked the camera work, with all the different angles of shots and the quick, snappy enterchanges from shot to shot.

I also liked where the opening was set, in a busy crowd of people to begin with, which gave more of a thrill factor to the chase, and then they move away from the crowd to give more of an intense feeling, which are both used to really grab the audiences attention, and want to watch on to find out why James Bond is chasing this guy and what he has done.

This blog will be the evidence of your research and planning for the AS coursework, so there needs to be lots on it and lots of detail to it.

All the tasks set will help build up this evidence, so if you don't complete them you will not be able to access the higher marks/grades.

Please complete the tasks set. I shall expect to be able to give you feedback on them tomorrow.

Pete

I chose two different images from flickr and 'photoshoped' them to create this new image. In photoshop, i used the warp technique in the background to make the original pattern a little more distorted. I then cut the camera out of my second picture and placed it on top of the, now warped, image, and then changed the saturation to give it the greenish tint. I then added some text to the new image in the middle of the camera and then at the top of the camera as well, however, before adding the text at the top of the camera, i had to get rid of some already existing text there, i did this by using the box tool and putting it around the text and painting it black ready for my new text.

My Video

When making this film i learnt how to cut short bits of film down and fade them together along side music, and also how to speed bits of film up, and also how to add text, and get that moving across the screen. I enjoyed fiddling about with Final Cut, and learning how to do new these things. I think that what Tom and I have have produced is fair for my first time, and it will be interesting to see what else i may produce as my knoloedge of Final Cut progresses.

Mood board for Shifty

This is the mood board i created with my group for the film Shifty.

We chose cut outs of mugs shots and and words like 'addiction' 'solid' and 'dodgy' as they relate to the topic of the film. We have a few images and words which relate to drugs and the effects it can have on people, such as addiction. And we have a lot of different men who could fit the roles of the charaters in the film.

welcome