Opening Title Sequence Idea 4

Description of opening sequence

Follow shots of a woman walking into a restaurant/bar and sitting down alone at a table. There are then

shots of a man sitting in a car wearing a suit and putting his hand up to his ear like he is wearing a comms unit in his ear, and looking through binoculars at her at the table. Close up shots of him opening a file with the picture of the woman he was looking at in the restaurant, we never see the man's face. Another man walks into the restaurant wearing a suit and then sitting opposite the woman. They then walk out of the restaurant and into a small alleyway. The man in the car puts his hand to his ear and says "I'm going in," and we hear a woman's voice in reply as if it is coming from the comms unit saying "no need." We hear a gunshot as the man quickly turns his head towards the alleyway they went into and the camera focuses on it, and a few seconds later the woman appears from the alleyway and walks to the car and gets in the passenger seat, they both look at each other and smile as she puts the gun back in the glove compartment, and the man drives off with the shot from behind the car as it goes, and the title of the movie comes up on a black screen, 

Summary of whole film 

Spy Thriller film. A couple who are in an independent spy organisation, and renown for killing off those who get in their way of their missions, but they suddenly need to become the heroes when they realise that the head of their organisation is planning to brainwash his spies and use them as mindless servants as he programmes a new race of robot spies to help him do what he says without any argument, as the couple learn that the head has been killing those who argue against the missions he sets. They are called by one of their friends in the organisation and are asked to join an undercover operation (5 people) in the organisation in order to take down the leader. At first they reject, but then once they learn the leader was the one who killed one of their friends already, they decide to join, and take him down so that maybe they could lead the organisation together. Once the leader then learns what is happening, he starts to hunt them down with help of a couple of his robots. In a battle with these robots, the man in the couple gets captured and taken back to the leader, where he is killed, and the leader then sends a picture of him with a letter to the woman, to threaten her that her knows what is happening and threatens this is what will happen if she carries on. She then wants to get revenge and gets the team to stop at nothing to take him down, which they then are able to do, after hacking into the robots' wiring to reprogram them. The woman then takes over the organisation and is now the leader giving out the missions, but she never forgets her partner, the man she loved, who died for her to be where she is now. 

Opening Title Sequence Idea 4

Description of opening sequence

Follow shots of a woman walking into a restaurant/bar and sitting down alone at a table. There are then

shots of a man sitting in a car wearing a suit and putting his hand up to his ear like he is wearing a comms unit in his ear, and looking through binoculars at her at the table. Close up shots of him opening a file with the picture of the woman he was looking at in the restaurant, we never see the man's face. Another man walks into the restaurant wearing a suit and then sitting opposite the woman. They then walk out of the restaurant and into a small alleyway. The man in the car puts his hand to his ear and says "I'm going in," and we hear a woman's voice in reply as if it is coming from the comms unit saying "no need." We hear a gunshot as the man quickly turns his head towards the alleyway they went into and the camera focuses on it, and a few seconds later the woman appears from the alleyway and walks to the car and gets in the passenger seat, they both look at each other and smile as she puts the gun back in the glove compartment, and the man drives off with the shot from behind the car as it goes, and the title of the movie comes up on a black screen, 

Summary of whole film 

Spy Thriller film. A couple who are in an independent spy organisation, and renown for killing off those who get in their way of their missions, but they suddenly need to become the heroes when they realise that the head of their organisation is planning to brainwash his spies and use them as mindless servants as he programmes a new race of robot spies to help him do what he says without any argument, as the couple learn that the head has been killing those who argue against the missions he sets. They are called by one of their friends in the organisation and are asked to join an undercover operation (5 people) in the organisation in order to take down the leader. At first they reject, but then once they learn the leader was the one who killed one of their friends already, they decide to join, and take him down so that maybe they could lead the organisation together. Once the leader then learns what is happening, he starts to hunt them down with help of a couple of his robots. In a battle with these robots, the man in the couple gets captured and taken back to the leader, where he is killed, and the leader then sends a picture of him with a letter to the woman, to threaten her that her knows what is happening and threatens this is what will happen if she carries on. She then wants to get revenge and gets the team to stop at nothing to take him down, which they then are able to do, after hacking into the robots' wiring to reprogram them. The woman then takes over the organisation and is now the leader giving out the missions, but she never forgets her partner, the man she loved, who died for her to be where she is now. 

Opening Title Sequence Idea 3

Description of opening sequence

Many shots of people dancing at a club/party, from different angles. The camera then starts to focus on one woman, in the middle of the crowd, who is also dancing. Looks in her 20s, a university student. Strobe light suddenly starts, which makes the shots of the girl dancing jagged and there to make the audience feel uncomfortable. Cut to close up of the girl's hand putting down her drink, and then the camera stays close on the camera so we see a shot of someone's hand putting something in her drink through the strobe lighting. Dark then light of someone's hand moving towards the drink holding a tablet/pill, then dark and light of just the drink with the liquid a bit cloudy. The strobe lighting then stops as the song finishes, goes back to normal party/club lighting, and close up on the woman's face as she is pushing through the crowd to her drink and drinks it. The camera turns around as she is dancing/rotates as new song starts again and strobe lighting starts again straight away after she has drunk it. As the camera moves towards her slowly, she falls, and it cuts to a black screen, and we just hear the glass smashing as it hits the floor. The title shows up on the screen, "Many Vs. one," with dramatic music starting to play, or the sound of cheering/group of people talking. 

Summary of whole film 

Serial killer story. Thriller/crime. A group of policemen (5, 2 male 3 female) are given a case to work on of a number of women, now a few men too, collapsing to the floor and passing away when at a nightclub after putting their drink down, and drinking it again having picked it up after a while. When done an autopsy on, the bodies all have the same substance in them, unique and not been used before by other cases such as these, meaning this is the work of the same murderer for each case. The serial killer has now managed to sneak into university parties without being detected as there have been cases exactly the same being seen in university house parties. The group keep thinking they have found a lead, and go to try to bust the person, but each time, one of them gets picked off, one of which being killed in their own home, until there is only one policeman left, along with the captain, meaning they have been sent on a wild goose chase, which could leave all of them dead. One night when the policeman (female) is in her apartment, the serial killer manages to sneak in, ready to kill her. She is hiding in her wardrobe however and manages to surprise them before they get the chance to kill her. She unmasks them after fighting them and pinning them down and it is actually the police captain, meaning he is the reason why they haven't been able to find and capture him. She has called for backup when the serial killer arrived so the police turn up right after the captain has confessed, and he is arrested, as she also recorded the whole conversation on her phone. 

Opening Title Sequence Idea 3

Description of opening sequence

Many shots of people dancing at a club/party, from different angles. The camera then starts to focus on one woman, in the middle of the crowd, who is also dancing. Looks in her 20s, a university student. Strobe light suddenly starts, which makes the shots of the girl dancing jagged and there to make the audience feel uncomfortable. Cut to close up of the girl's hand putting down her drink, and then the camera stays close on the camera so we see a shot of someone's hand putting something in her drink through the strobe lighting. Dark then light of someone's hand moving towards the drink holding a tablet/pill, then dark and light of just the drink with the liquid a bit cloudy. The strobe lighting then stops as the song finishes, goes back to normal party/club lighting, and close up on the woman's face as she is pushing through the crowd to her drink and drinks it. The camera turns around as she is dancing/rotates as new song starts again and strobe lighting starts again straight away after she has drunk it. As the camera moves towards her slowly, she falls, and it cuts to a black screen, and we just hear the glass smashing as it hits the floor. The title shows up on the screen, "Many Vs. one," with dramatic music starting to play, or the sound of cheering/group of people talking. 

Summary of whole film 

Serial killer story. Thriller/crime. A group of policemen (5, 2 male 3 female) are given a case to work on of a number of women, now a few men too, collapsing to the floor and passing away when at a nightclub after putting their drink down, and drinking it again having picked it up after a while. When done an autopsy on, the bodies all have the same substance in them, unique and not been used before by other cases such as these, meaning this is the work of the same murderer for each case. The serial killer has now managed to sneak into university parties without being detected as there have been cases exactly the same being seen in university house parties. The group keep thinking they have found a lead, and go to try to bust the person, but each time, one of them gets picked off, one of which being killed in their own home, until there is only one policeman left, along with the captain, meaning they have been sent on a wild goose chase, which could leave all of them dead. One night when the policeman (female) is in her apartment, the serial killer manages to sneak in, ready to kill her. She is hiding in her wardrobe however and manages to surprise them before they get the chance to kill her. She unmasks them after fighting them and pinning them down and it is actually the police captain, meaning he is the reason why they haven't been able to find and capture him. She has called for backup when the serial killer arrived so the police turn up right after the captain has confessed, and he is arrested, as she also recorded the whole conversation on her phone. 

Opening Title Sequence Idea 2

Description of opening sequence

Start on blackout and the sound of wind blowing, with the sentence of the production company, and as the wind builds and builds, at one point there is a close up on a girl's eyes as they open with silence as they open and the sound of wind in the background blowing quieter. She looks left to right and then sits up in bed looking tired and seemingly in pain. She looks around the room in slight confusion and here's the sound of someone calling her name as she looks to the door, also confused and surprised. Suddenly she gets a flashback of people grabbing her and her crying and screaming and gets pulled out of it when her name is yelled again and she calls back, "um, coming." So before she leaves the room she gets up from her bed and looks around the room, afraid to touch anything, with a few shots from the top corners of the room, like its security cameras looking into her room. Then she walks through the door with the camera behind her as the door closes in its' face and then the title of the movie coming up on the screen like its on the door called "memories" (working title).

Summary of whole film 

Apocalyptic sci-fi story. One day, everyone wakes up on the world with no memory of how they got there nor of their life before. except for one girl, who wakes up the same way as everyone else, but has traumatising flashbacks of people surrounding her, hurting her and pushing her around until she blacks out. The movie is about her finding out why she is having these flashbacks when everyone else seems to be happy and content with the lives they've been blindly given. When she meets a mysterious man he is able to help guide her along the way, but her flashbacks get stronger and more violent. They meet another girl as they're searching for more clues about this strange world, and this girl is one of the smartest in the world, despite her said age of 15. They are soon able to find a strange door in a building, one with massive screens of different areas of the town they were living in. We then learn, once they get to the control room and the leader's office that the head of the operation was in fact the girl who they met who said she was 15. The whole town was an experiment to see what would happen if they wiped people's memories and placed them in a town that was poor and with different families whom they had never seen before. The protagonist of the film was the only one who had memories of getting there, and therefore the head of the experiment led both the protagonist and the mysterious guy to the headquarters so that they could capture them and throw them in prison, of which they do successfully and are able to carry on the experiment. 

Opening Title Sequence Idea 2

Description of opening sequence

Start on blackout and the sound of wind blowing, with the sentence of the production company, and as the wind builds and builds, at one point there is a close up on a girl's eyes as they open with silence as they open and the sound of wind in the background blowing quieter. She looks left to right and then sits up in bed looking tired and seemingly in pain. She looks around the room in slight confusion and here's the sound of someone calling her name as she looks to the door, also confused and surprised. Suddenly she gets a flashback of people grabbing her and her crying and screaming and gets pulled out of it when her name is yelled again and she calls back, "um, coming." So before she leaves the room she gets up from her bed and looks around the room, afraid to touch anything, with a few shots from the top corners of the room, like its security cameras looking into her room. Then she walks through the door with the camera behind her as the door closes in its' face and then the title of the movie coming up on the screen like its on the door called "memories" (working title).

Summary of whole film 

Apocalyptic sci-fi story. One day, everyone wakes up on the world with no memory of how they got there nor of their life before. except for one girl, who wakes up the same way as everyone else, but has traumatising flashbacks of people surrounding her, hurting her and pushing her around until she blacks out. The movie is about her finding out why she is having these flashbacks when everyone else seems to be happy and content with the lives they've been blindly given. When she meets a mysterious man he is able to help guide her along the way, but her flashbacks get stronger and more violent. They meet another girl as they're searching for more clues about this strange world, and this girl is one of the smartest in the world, despite her said age of 15. They are soon able to find a strange door in a building, one with massive screens of different areas of the town they were living in. We then learn, once they get to the control room and the leader's office that the head of the operation was in fact the girl who they met who said she was 15. The whole town was an experiment to see what would happen if they wiped people's memories and placed them in a town that was poor and with different families whom they had never seen before. The protagonist of the film was the only one who had memories of getting there, and therefore the head of the experiment led both the protagonist and the mysterious guy to the headquarters so that they could capture them and throw them in prison, of which they do successfully and are able to carry on the experiment. 

Opening Title Sequence Idea 1

Description of opening sequence

Shots of the garden outside, and one shot of a gravestone, and an establishing shot of a house and cut to a close up of a specific window at the top. Close up of the attic door opening and the ladder being pulled down, and the sound of someone climbing up it. Mid-shot of a teenage girl going up into the attic and looking around. She then finds a box and looks through it and picks out a necklace and smiles, but then something else catches her eye. There is then a close up of a ouija board that the necklace was lying on. The girl picks up the ouija board and blows dust off it. She takes it with her and closes the box, and climbs down the ladder to the attic and goes into her bedroom and sits on her bed, looking at the ouija board. Her mum calls her name and she calls back, and quickly puts the ouija board underneath her bed before walking out of the bedroom holding the necklace. There is then a slow shot moving downwards from the top of her bed to underneath and to a close up of the ouija board and keeps zooming in to the darkness underneath the bed, where the name of the movie fades onto the screen, "Shadowman." 

Summary of whole film 

A girl goes up to her attic searching for something for her mum, but while she is up there she finds a ouija board, and texts her friends who all get really excited about it, so she takes it out of the box and brings it down to her room and hides it under her bed before going downstairs to give her mum what she asked her to find. One night her friends come round to her house for a sleepover and they get out the ouija board, and the main girl is the one to start it, and the girls are able to connect to someone who they call "the shadow man." Her mum wakes up however and starts to walk towards her bedroom, so her and her friends need to stop the ouija board and pretend to be asleep, but forget to put away the board so her mum finds it and takes it away, but the girls haven't said goodbye, meaning the shadow man is not gone. during the movie, the girls are all haunted by the shadow man, however the main girl/protagonist is not, for she is being taken over and slowly possessed by the shadow man. One by one they all disappear and are found later, dead, and no-one in the town can find how or why it happened. The protagonist is the last one to die, and the film ends in an extreme exorcism scene, for her mum also had a run in with the shadow man when she was younger and knew what to do to get rid of him. The movie ends with a funeral for all of the girl's friends, but when they get back home, her little brother finds the ouija board, and someday the shadow man will return. 

Opening Title Sequence Idea 1

Description of opening sequence

Shots of the garden outside, and one shot of a gravestone, and an establishing shot of a house and cut to a close up of a specific window at the top. Close up of the attic door opening and the ladder being pulled down, and the sound of someone climbing up it. Mid-shot of a teenage girl going up into the attic and looking around. She then finds a box and looks through it and picks out a necklace and smiles, but then something else catches her eye. There is then a close up of a ouija board that the necklace was lying on. The girl picks up the ouija board and blows dust off it. She takes it with her and closes the box, and climbs down the ladder to the attic and goes into her bedroom and sits on her bed, looking at the ouija board. Her mum calls her name and she calls back, and quickly puts the ouija board underneath her bed before walking out of the bedroom holding the necklace. There is then a slow shot moving downwards from the top of her bed to underneath and to a close up of the ouija board and keeps zooming in to the darkness underneath the bed, where the name of the movie fades onto the screen, "Shadowman." 

Summary of whole film 

A girl goes up to her attic searching for something for her mum, but while she is up there she finds a ouija board, and texts her friends who all get really excited about it, so she takes it out of the box and brings it down to her room and hides it under her bed before going downstairs to give her mum what she asked her to find. One night her friends come round to her house for a sleepover and they get out the ouija board, and the main girl is the one to start it, and the girls are able to connect to someone who they call "the shadow man." Her mum wakes up however and starts to walk towards her bedroom, so her and her friends need to stop the ouija board and pretend to be asleep, but forget to put away the board so her mum finds it and takes it away, but the girls haven't said goodbye, meaning the shadow man is not gone. during the movie, the girls are all haunted by the shadow man, however the main girl/protagonist is not, for she is being taken over and slowly possessed by the shadow man. One by one they all disappear and are found later, dead, and no-one in the town can find how or why it happened. The protagonist is the last one to die, and the film ends in an extreme exorcism scene, for her mum also had a run in with the shadow man when she was younger and knew what to do to get rid of him. The movie ends with a funeral for all of the girl's friends, but when they get back home, her little brother finds the ouija board, and someday the shadow man will return. 

'Ideas Time' Powerpoint

'Ideas Time' Powerpoint

Polly Analysis

I liked this opening title sequence because I thought it created a really ambiguous setting, whilst making it uncomfortable, so you could tell the genre was horror, or possibly thriller but horror is more likely. The whole scene was very quiet, and there was no sound, except for the non diegetic soundtrack of what sounds like very slow music from a music box to the tune of twinkle twinkle little star. I also like that the camera shots are slow which adds to the horror aspect and suspense, this with the contrast of the white tea table set and cakes set with blood dripping over it created a good juxtaposition between the two, and made the sequence feel uncomfortable, again setting the genre. This is also helped by the still shots at the beginning of the cakes laid out on the table and the tea set which gives the sense of innocence. 

Polly Analysis

I liked this opening title sequence because I thought it created a really ambiguous setting, whilst making it uncomfortable, so you could tell the genre was horror, or possibly thriller but horror is more likely. The whole scene was very quiet, and there was no sound, except for the non diegetic soundtrack of what sounds like very slow music from a music box to the tune of twinkle twinkle little star. I also like that the camera shots are slow which adds to the horror aspect and suspense, this with the contrast of the white tea table set and cakes set with blood dripping over it created a good juxtaposition between the two, and made the sequence feel uncomfortable, again setting the genre. This is also helped by the still shots at the beginning of the cakes laid out on the table and the tea set which gives the sense of innocence. 

Discussing Previous Opening Title Sequences

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_P5ZEHuHS2ZK0JTJBLGg3U7_hHzhzi6s

 I much prefer title sequences that don't have any dialogue or have little dialogue, because it makes it a lot more ambiguous and does not give too much away about the movie that's about to be shown. my two favourite sequences out of this playlist are "Polly" and "Solitude." I prefer the more mysterious, thriller type opening sequences because they create a more interesting sequence to watch. I also especially like ones that use the camera in a way that is psychedelic, because it keeps me engaged, and makes me want to keep watching. The ones with actual locations and focus on the set and scenery are also the ones that appeal to me the most, as they look more realistic, and also stick to the task of an actual opening title sequence.

SOLITUDE:

POLLY:

Discussing Previous Opening Title Sequences

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_P5ZEHuHS2ZK0JTJBLGg3U7_hHzhzi6s

 I much prefer title sequences that don't have any dialogue or have little dialogue, because it makes it a lot more ambiguous and does not give too much away about the movie that's about to be shown. my two favourite sequences out of this playlist are "Polly" and "Solitude." I prefer the more mysterious, thriller type opening sequences because they create a more interesting sequence to watch. I also especially like ones that use the camera in a way that is psychedelic, because it keeps me engaged, and makes me want to keep watching. The ones with actual locations and focus on the set and scenery are also the ones that appeal to me the most, as they look more realistic, and also stick to the task of an actual opening title sequence.

SOLITUDE:

POLLY:

Creating Ideas

A list of 10 texts I love:

1. heartless by Marissa Meyer (book) 

2. now you see me 1&2 (film)

3. miraculous: tales of ladybug and chat noir (TV)

4. will and grace (TV)

5. frasier (TV)

6. wonderland (musical)

7. Bridgeton the musical unofficial album (musical/concept album)

8. the lunar chronicles by Marissa Meyer (book)

9. good girls die first by Kathryn Foxfield (book)

10. a good girl's guide to murder 1,2&3 by Holly Jackson (book) 

"steal like an artist" - book written by Austin Klenn 

"Heartless" - book written by Marissa Meyer 

Heartless was a prequel to the queen of hearts and her story of how she became the queen of hearts. The story made me cry when one of the main characters' died, Jest, and the writing by Marissa Meyer connected to the queen of hearts, Catherine, so I felt her pain and happiness as her journey carried on through the story, and she also made me feel Catherine's pain when she lost Jest, the man whom she loved. The book was also fantasy and a fairytale, included magic and mystery. Catherine seemed happy in the book but we knew she was going to become the queen of hearts because we were given that information from the beginning, so that made me want to keep reading to find out what happens to turn her into that type of character. Because the book ended in a sad way, it showed that love is not always going to be here, and not everything is a happy ending, which did make me very very sad. It also had puzzles and well thought out mysteries within the story, which all came together and made sense in the end, but had a warning in the story for the main characters which you thought wasn't going to happen, but then the massive plot twist made it occur, which made my heart ache knowing how close they were to being happy and having that happy ending. There's a link between heartless and the lunar chronicles, they are both fantasies and about fairytale stories, also quite graphic and includes love, only one ends in heartbreak, heartless, and one ends with a slightly happier ending, lunar chronicles. 

Looking at my list 

Many other things in my list include mystery and fantasy of some way, as I do enjoy the mystery and seeing the plot twists which I find very exciting, for example all of the books and films I have put on my list are classed as mysteries or fantasies, as they transport me into that different world, as I usually watch and read all these things before bed I use it as escapism from the real world to that fantasy world. 

The TV shows I put on there are all, what I associate with as, comedies. I see miraculous as my comfort show, it is still coming out with new episodes in its new season and it still excites me, if not even more than it did when I was 10 years old when it first came out. Will and Grace and Frasier are both comedy TV shows which I watch with my parents, especially when we have dinner we usually binge watch Frasier together, and we always laugh about it and discuss the episodes afterwards, it causes us to have conversations and laugh together, as well as just being good TV shows to watch and has entertaining characters to watch and connect to. 

"What if...?" exercise 

- what if we woke up tomorrow morning with no memory of the life before, but only small flashbacks of it

- what if there was a deadly mosquito that, if you got stung by it, would kill you within 2 days 

- what if every clock stopped and the hands started turning around the clock really fast 

- what if our phones were actually spy devices for the government to listen into and secretly control our every move

NatWest pound advert 

- girl in video looks about 9/10 y.o.

- what was I interested in at 9/10: barbie and monster high movies, polly pockets, lego friends, riding bikes, cartoons/TV shows

Idea inspired by this advert:

- blackout out to sound of dinosaur sound, open on kid asleep in his bed and when he opens his eyes that's when the camera turns on, dinosaur bedsheets/jungle bedsheets, woken up to sound of dinosaur rawr in his wardrobe, we see him look over to the wardrobe 

- shot of his wardrobe glowing with another dinosaur sound

- close up of his feet as he gets out of the bed and walks across to the wardrobe, we see dinosaur toys and animal toys on the floor as he walks past them

- he walks over to the wardrobe and opens it to see a toy dinosaur on the floor of the wardrobe which he picks up, there's another dinosaur sound so he looks up to see light behind clothes, he gets up and pushes past the clothes and walks forward to see a land with dinosaurs walking around, and one walks right in front of him

- we hear the doors start to creak as he turns around and we have a shot from behind him as he turns toward the doors from outside the wardrobe and the doors close in front of the camera from the outside
- opening title comes up 

Creating Ideas

A list of 10 texts I love:

1. heartless by Marissa Meyer (book) 

2. now you see me 1&2 (film)

3. miraculous: tales of ladybug and chat noir (TV)

4. will and grace (TV)

5. frasier (TV)

6. wonderland (musical)

7. Bridgeton the musical unofficial album (musical/concept album)

8. the lunar chronicles by Marissa Meyer (book)

9. good girls die first by Kathryn Foxfield (book)

10. a good girl's guide to murder 1,2&3 by Holly Jackson (book) 

"steal like an artist" - book written by Austin Klenn 

"Heartless" - book written by Marissa Meyer 

Heartless was a prequel to the queen of hearts and her story of how she became the queen of hearts. The story made me cry when one of the main characters' died, Jest, and the writing by Marissa Meyer connected to the queen of hearts, Catherine, so I felt her pain and happiness as her journey carried on through the story, and she also made me feel Catherine's pain when she lost Jest, the man whom she loved. The book was also fantasy and a fairytale, included magic and mystery. Catherine seemed happy in the book but we knew she was going to become the queen of hearts because we were given that information from the beginning, so that made me want to keep reading to find out what happens to turn her into that type of character. Because the book ended in a sad way, it showed that love is not always going to be here, and not everything is a happy ending, which did make me very very sad. It also had puzzles and well thought out mysteries within the story, which all came together and made sense in the end, but had a warning in the story for the main characters which you thought wasn't going to happen, but then the massive plot twist made it occur, which made my heart ache knowing how close they were to being happy and having that happy ending. There's a link between heartless and the lunar chronicles, they are both fantasies and about fairytale stories, also quite graphic and includes love, only one ends in heartbreak, heartless, and one ends with a slightly happier ending, lunar chronicles. 

Looking at my list 

Many other things in my list include mystery and fantasy of some way, as I do enjoy the mystery and seeing the plot twists which I find very exciting, for example all of the books and films I have put on my list are classed as mysteries or fantasies, as they transport me into that different world, as I usually watch and read all these things before bed I use it as escapism from the real world to that fantasy world. 

The TV shows I put on there are all, what I associate with as, comedies. I see miraculous as my comfort show, it is still coming out with new episodes in its new season and it still excites me, if not even more than it did when I was 10 years old when it first came out. Will and Grace and Frasier are both comedy TV shows which I watch with my parents, especially when we have dinner we usually binge watch Frasier together, and we always laugh about it and discuss the episodes afterwards, it causes us to have conversations and laugh together, as well as just being good TV shows to watch and has entertaining characters to watch and connect to. 

"What if...?" exercise 

- what if we woke up tomorrow morning with no memory of the life before, but only small flashbacks of it

- what if there was a deadly mosquito that, if you got stung by it, would kill you within 2 days 

- what if every clock stopped and the hands started turning around the clock really fast 

- what if our phones were actually spy devices for the government to listen into and secretly control our every move

NatWest pound advert 

- girl in video looks about 9/10 y.o.

- what was I interested in at 9/10: barbie and monster high movies, polly pockets, lego friends, riding bikes, cartoons/TV shows

Idea inspired by this advert:

- blackout out to sound of dinosaur sound, open on kid asleep in his bed and when he opens his eyes that's when the camera turns on, dinosaur bedsheets/jungle bedsheets, woken up to sound of dinosaur rawr in his wardrobe, we see him look over to the wardrobe 

- shot of his wardrobe glowing with another dinosaur sound

- close up of his feet as he gets out of the bed and walks across to the wardrobe, we see dinosaur toys and animal toys on the floor as he walks past them

- he walks over to the wardrobe and opens it to see a toy dinosaur on the floor of the wardrobe which he picks up, there's another dinosaur sound so he looks up to see light behind clothes, he gets up and pushes past the clothes and walks forward to see a land with dinosaurs walking around, and one walks right in front of him

- we hear the doors start to creak as he turns around and we have a shot from behind him as he turns toward the doors from outside the wardrobe and the doors close in front of the camera from the outside
- opening title comes up 

Kyle Cooper

Who is Kyle Cooper? 

He is an American director and designer for film opening title sequences. He went to the Yale school of Art and holds an MFA in graphic design. He started designing at the age of 26, and is now 59 years old and is still designing film title sequences, with his most recent being Godzilla vs. Kong in 2021. Kyle Cooper was the co-founder of Imaginary Forces in 1996 which become one of the most successful creative agencies in Hollywood. He then left Imaginary forces in 2003 and founded another creative agency called Prologue. His first opening title sequence design was the Laser man in 1988, and his first most successful movie he designed for was Home alone in 1990. Cooper also owns company called Art of the title: https://www.artofthetitle.com/titles/

Kyle Cooper Demo Reel:

Films (some) - Spiderman

     - curious George

     - superman

     - bewitched

     - freedom land

     - Wimbledon

     - dawn of the dead

 TV (some) - Oscars  

    - ESPN (baseball)   

 

 Adverts + logos (some) - Apple       

    - pepsi 

    - amex      

    - canon

    - zildjean

 

What is interesting about this Demo reel? 

One similarity that Kyle Cooper's title sequences include is a lot of movement, which keeps the audience interested as it is very visually pleasing to watch, and also keeps the audience engaged in what is being shown so it does not allow the audience to become bored whilst watching, meaning they pay attention to the film/product that is being presented. He also includes the use of animation in his sequences, which allow for more of key aspects of the movie he is directing to be shown without needing to shoot any scenes or travel to certain locations as they can be done on a computer. Animation also adds to the visually interesting aspect of the title sequence, as it is different to usual title sequences, where the opening credits can usually be placed over scenes within the opening of the movie. His opening scenes are usually quite dark and unsettling, unless the movie has a lighter tone in which case the title sequences would be a lot lighter, however he did not do many of these lighter films. 

An example of his work - "Spiderman 3"

One of Kyle Cooper's most successful films he designed an opening title sequence for, that I found most exciting to watch, was "Spider-man 3" in 2003. What I found effective of this design was that he used the image and motif of spider webs throughout the opening sequence, and used them to show videos of key moments in the past 2 movies as well as the characters and the actors who played them while their names came up in the credits, which helped remind the audience of the storyline and what has happened previously. Halfway through the opening credits, the webs have a black substance running along them, as well as the webs turning into sand, which indicates the villains of this movie and what creates them, named venom and sandman, as well as giving the movie a darker feel, which is also emphasised by the background of the sequence being very dark, indicating that this movie is not going to be as light as the previous 2. The camera never stopped moving and it was very visually pleasing to watch, this combined with the dramatic orchestral version of the spider-man theme tune, which has been altered to be darker to mach the atmosphere of the film. 

Kyle Cooper

Who is Kyle Cooper? 

He is an American director and designer for film opening title sequences. He went to the Yale school of Art and holds an MFA in graphic design. He started designing at the age of 26, and is now 59 years old and is still designing film title sequences, with his most recent being Godzilla vs. Kong in 2021. Kyle Cooper was the co-founder of Imaginary Forces in 1996 which become one of the most successful creative agencies in Hollywood. He then left Imaginary forces in 2003 and founded another creative agency called Prologue. His first opening title sequence design was the Laser man in 1988, and his first most successful movie he designed for was Home alone in 1990. Cooper also owns company called Art of the title: https://www.artofthetitle.com/titles/

Kyle Cooper Demo Reel:

Films (some) - Spiderman

     - curious George

     - superman

     - bewitched

     - freedom land

     - Wimbledon

     - dawn of the dead

 TV (some) - Oscars  

    - ESPN (baseball)   

 

 Adverts + logos (some) - Apple       

    - pepsi 

    - amex      

    - canon

    - zildjean

 

What is interesting about this Demo reel? 

One similarity that Kyle Cooper's title sequences include is a lot of movement, which keeps the audience interested as it is very visually pleasing to watch, and also keeps the audience engaged in what is being shown so it does not allow the audience to become bored whilst watching, meaning they pay attention to the film/product that is being presented. He also includes the use of animation in his sequences, which allow for more of key aspects of the movie he is directing to be shown without needing to shoot any scenes or travel to certain locations as they can be done on a computer. Animation also adds to the visually interesting aspect of the title sequence, as it is different to usual title sequences, where the opening credits can usually be placed over scenes within the opening of the movie. His opening scenes are usually quite dark and unsettling, unless the movie has a lighter tone in which case the title sequences would be a lot lighter, however he did not do many of these lighter films. 

An example of his work - "Spiderman 3"

One of Kyle Cooper's most successful films he designed an opening title sequence for, that I found most exciting to watch, was "Spider-man 3" in 2003. What I found effective of this design was that he used the image and motif of spider webs throughout the opening sequence, and used them to show videos of key moments in the past 2 movies as well as the characters and the actors who played them while their names came up in the credits, which helped remind the audience of the storyline and what has happened previously. Halfway through the opening credits, the webs have a black substance running along them, as well as the webs turning into sand, which indicates the villains of this movie and what creates them, named venom and sandman, as well as giving the movie a darker feel, which is also emphasised by the background of the sequence being very dark, indicating that this movie is not going to be as light as the previous 2. The camera never stopped moving and it was very visually pleasing to watch, this combined with the dramatic orchestral version of the spider-man theme tune, which has been altered to be darker to mach the atmosphere of the film.