Monday 22 December 2008

This music is from a famous composer, based in Istanbul, Turkey.
As we have planned out something which is concentrated on the main person on the role, so we have thought some music which might be suitable for the film, I have looked at some musics without any singing, instrumental mostly use of violin and as the minutes pass the tension reaches higher and higher.

Thursday 18 December 2008

I have researched some of the movies which can be relevant and combine with the work we will be undertaking as it's another example of a teen type Horror/Thriller. 'I still know what you did Last Summer', 'House of Wax' and 'When a Stranger Calls' have different storyline of horror concepts, but have something in common which is getting the viewer right into the movie.

Tuesday 2 December 2008

Saul Bass

Saul Bass was an American graphic designer and a Academy Award-winning filmmaker, During his 40-year career he worked for some of Hollywood's greatest filmmakers, including most notably Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger, Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese. Amongst his most famous title sequences are the animated paper cut-out of a heroin addict's arm for Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm, the text racing up and down what eventually becomes a high-angle shot of the United Nations building in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest, and the disjointed text that raced together and was pulled apart for Psycho.

Saul Bass designed the 6th AT&T Bell System logo, that at one point achieved a 93 percent recognition rate in the United States. He also designed the AT&T "globe" logo for AT&T after the break up of the Bell System.

Bass became notorious in the industry after creating the title sequence for Otto Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm (1955). The subject of the film was a jazz musician's struggle to overcome his heroin addiction, a taboo subject in the mid-'50s. Bass decided to create a controversial title sequence to match the film's controversial subject. He chose the arm as the central image, as the arm is a strong image relating to drug addiction. The titles featured an animated, black paper cut-out arm of a heroin addict. As he expected, it caused quite a sensation.

For Alfred Hitchcock, Bass provided effective, memorable title sequences, employing kinetic typography, for North by Northwest, Vertigo, working with John Whitney, and Psycho. It was this kind of innovative, revolutionary work that made Bass a revered graphic designer. His later work with Martin Scorsese saw him move away from the optical techniques that he had pioneered and move into computerised titles, from which he produced the title sequence for Casino.

He designed title sequences for 40 years, for films as diverse as Spartacus (1960), The Victors (1963), It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) and Casino (1995). He also designed title sequences for films such as Goodfellas (1990), Doc Hollywood (1991), Cape Fear (1991) and The Age of Innocence (1993), all of which feature new and innovative methods of production and startling graphic design.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xksrUeuvako

Wednesday 26 November 2008

'House of Wax' is one of the other movies, that has inspired us to have an idea on making a movie, in Bexleyheath School. The theme that House of Wax shares with our THRILLER, is the alonelyness, fear and etc.


For this project I have decided to work with Deepak on the production of the Film Beief - to create an opening title sequence for a new fiction film of our choosing. Our initial thoughts in terms of genre were leaning towards 'THRILLER'. However we are eager to combine this with the 'Teen Movie' and pssibly some Horror conventions and move away from traditional 'pure' thrillers into a more spcific audience focused film.