Preliminary Task

Title Fonts

Title Fonts:

JOEL BECKFORD – ON THE RUN!

JOEL BECKFORD – ON THE RUN!

 JOEL BECKFORD – ON THE RUN!

JOEL BECKFORD – ON THE RUN!

JOEL BECKFORD – ON THE RUN!

These are the fonts we were expecting to use for are opening credits. The course cause it to stand out and make it eye catching. The fonts don't portray anything like a spy film as they are very simple and basic. We were looking for a more digital like font to portray Joel Beckfords character of a hacker spy which is unavailable using final cut pro software. Overall, this font colour is ideal for us to co make it stand out from other soy films. 

Location

Location:

We have decided to film our opening scene at The Vue car park. We have decided to do this due to its dull lighting and how quite it is. In order to make sure its quite we are going to film it late at night when there are less cars and public interference so the scene is as realistic as possible. The car park tends to be quite allowing a hostage scene to take place without anyone knowing about it The lighting gives it a mysterious effect with it being very dull in places and not in others. Also, the audience will question why a car park adn where he is being held hostage. 

Casting

Casting:

In our media opening scene we only have 3 characters. This is due to it being a hostage scene and doesn't need to many people to film the scene. Little speech is said to make the scene intense and get the audience to engage in trying to figure out how Joel Beckford ended up there. 

Jack Rundle- Joel Beckford

Jack will play the main character being held hostage. This is feedback taken from our focus group on making the main character male. Jack is very confident in himself meaning it will be easy for him to take up the main role and adapt it as his own. 

Josh Worrall- Bodyguard 

Josh will play a bodyguards keeping Joel Beckford hostage. We picked Josh to play the bodyguard as he is very tall and his will make the villain be very intimidating. Josh is very serious meaning he will stick to his role. Josh will be wearing a pair of sunglasses in order to stick to the convention of a bodyguard as well as being bulky unit.

Luke McKendry- Villain

I will be playing the villain interrogating Joel Beckford and in charge of the bodyguard. I will be wearing a suit to show my importance and dominance as well as a main speaking role. i am the perfect fit as my contrast in height to the bodyguard is a convention from the genre as well as  being very confident to play the role.

Jack Davenport- Camera man/By stander

Jack will be the main camera man rotating around the cast not in the scene so everyone can say they recorded a part of the opening sequence. Jack was assigned this role based on knowledge of camera shots, angles and movements. We also assigned him a by stander role just so we could add another character to help improve our narrative.

Storyboard- Joel Beckford- On The Run

Focus Group

Analysis Of Opening Credits- James Bond Skyfall

Analysis Of Opening Credits- James Bond Skyfall

Timing:

The timing of the animation scene to James Bond Skyfall consists of the sequences being in time with the music. For example the louder parts of the song (Adele Skyfall) has more intense animations with them either being of quick pace or involving something intense. However, the softer parts of the song are on the more calm/ mysterious situations in the sequence. This is done to reflect the  mood of the part of sequence and inflect it on the audience. Timing is key here as the opening credits show as the opening scene leaves clues and hints to future events in the film with where they take place and the action that happens. 

Timing used at the start of the sequence where Bond falls into the water starts the whole credits off leading off from the opening scene. As he hits the water the song starts away to signify its a separate scene.

Style:

Not just Skyfall but most Bond films have these unique unusual credit scene. They use unique patterns, shapes and odd scenarios in animation form. This is a trademark thing remarked with the bond franchise. However, these animations include clues to what happens later in the film or past references. For, example in this credit scene there are a lot of scenes involving graveyards. This links to James Bond's childhood house where there is a graveyard and this is where the finale takes place. This leads to M dying which was a significant part of the film and highly unexpected. However, this was referenced as a clue to the audience that it was key to remember. This helps draw in the audience from start to finish with the high intense opening scene and then the credits giving clues (strongly linked with the franchise) for future events making the audience keep focus to link it back. Another, example is the Chinese dragons seen in the opening credits and later they end up in shanghai on a mission. This signifying the importance of the credits having a huge entertainment factor later on in the film.

Names:

These appear on screen by fading them in and out. The text is white and bold as well as eligible so everyone can read the name. However, people who played a more important role get more credit. For, example Daniel Craig And Judie Dench were the main actors and very well known in the film. Their names were central of the screen so they got recognition and that is where the eyes are drawn too. The director got the same treatment. However, the other jobs i.e. a location production manager wouldn't get the same amount of credit as he didn't have a bigger role as them.

Sound: 

The sound is all Non-Diegtic throughout using a song. Adele Skyfall was the song chosen. This is seen throughout the whole bond franchise to gain recogination to the movie and promote it as well as promote the artist. This is because most Bond film tracks end towards the top end of the music charts and relates back to the film. This gains more revenue for the franchise as well as being a tradition with many big artist taking on the roll.

However, the diegtic sound is used at the beginning to fish the opening scene where bond falls in the water knocked out as you hear the water move and his body crash into the water.

Conclusion:

The credits for all James Bond films are used to gain audience attention and keep them entertained and draw them in further after the intense opening scene. This done by giving clues, amazing aminations, song choice and seeing who play who.

Target Audience Survey

Spy Genre Target Audience Research

I asked for Gender in order to see which gender was the most popular. Stereotypical it was still male. I didn't ask for age due to all age categories being interested in spy films as they have been popular through the decades with all age groups.

Next i asked what genres they liked. This gave me an idea with what audience i was dealing. Spy and action were both popular making it easy to stick to the main stream spy films with all conventions being able to be used. Comedy and romance were also included in audience favourites so some scenes will consist of this in order to give an audience a wider range of sub genres. 

Also, i asked the audience of they liked spy films considering that is what i am preparing to make an opening scene to. The majority said they did however others said they didn't. Using the previous question on favourite genre it allows me to add some scenes in order to make it meet audience needs.

In addition another question was what was the latest spy film they watched. This was asked in order to see how recent they watched one and in order to make our opening scene have a bit of all of the films opening scene in order to match up to the last and most popular spy films of recent. 

I then asked who they would like to see take the main role and due to a democracy vote it lead to a male being the mine role. This is a main convention of spy films with all secret agent spies mainly being male. 

What type of scene is best for an action scene was also key in order to get ideas. A fight or chase scene was the most popular and we have took this statistic on board be using a chase scene to be in the opening scene.

The next one was location of where they would like to see a action sequence take place with rooftop chases being top however this is not possible. We have decided to do a hostage,chase scene in a car park .

These results have been published in order for me and my group to gain an idea of how to carry out our task and have been in great use to create an idea.

Sound Analyse of Opening scene- Kingsman: The Secret Service

Sound Analysis Of Opening Scene-Kingsman: The Secret Service

The opening scene of Kingsman: The Secret Service starts withe diegtic sound between the hostage and a agent. The hostage questions why he is being held hostage and declares his innocence. This makes the audience agree with him as this is the first scene of the film and they have no clue why he is there either. This starts to create a bout of mystery. The agent  sends a colleague to get the hostage a whiskey. Then there is a knock on the door. All the agents look at each other confused to who is at the door. Music is then added (non-diegetic) creating mystery to what the heck is actually happening.

The music builds up becoming more in tense every step the agent makes.agent opens the door to a British agent who adds humor to the situation by saying 'i suppose asking to borrow a cup of sugar is a step to far'. This then leads to massive gun fight 1 versus 4. This involves the British guy the minority winning. During this scene diegtic sounds of gun fire, reloading, things falling screaming e.t.c are included in the scene to make it realistic.

The hostage is just as confused as the audience to why he is being kept hostage. The British agent confirms he is here to save him. The British agent hears footsteps from the back. He then shoots him as he enters the main room and there is a loud non-diegtic sound as the bullet hits him. He acts dead casual as if nothing happened despite taking out everyone like a ninja. The music fades out and suddenly comes back in as there is another knock occurs at the door again making the characters and the audience shocked again. 

As he slowly makes a movements towards the door and the same sound effect is used as he gets sliced in half(non-diegtic). Diegtic sound of him splitting of half is added and sounds very wet. This creates more confusion to who is at the door and who the women is that killed him. This is reflected upon by the hostages facial expression as he has no clue too to what is going on.

The women gives the hostage some towels and cuts the rope keeping him tied to the chair. You can hear her metal prosthetic leg clashing of the floor every step she takes, the same ones she used to kill the British agent, as she puts sheets over the dead body. Music tension builds up as she finally walks to the door to answer to the person stood here during the hectic scene. The music fades when his face appears. The women also acts as if nothing has happened when she says 'everything is clean' vert calmly. The scene ends there.

Overall, sound is used a lot in this opening scene to create mystery of what is going on and who is who. Also, it is done to create tension and show the in the hectic scene how action packed and intense it is too. The diegtic sound used shows the realism of what it would be like to be in that situation with true sounds i.e. gun fire. Also, the non-diegtic sound was used to spice up the scene a bit i.e. tension and mystery. The use of the empathetic sound effects adds more action to the scene.