Questions for alex brown & James Leader

ALEX BROWN QUESTIONS

•  Wheres your favorite spot/place? (what makes it your favorite)
• What makes you skate ?
• what inspires you to do what you do?
• How would you describe your fashion sense?
• Whats your music taste like?
• If you ever had to move to one place in the world? (and why)
• whats the most important item you own to you?
• What do you aim to be in about 5 years  ?
• whats the next thing you plan to film / make and help in ?
• whats your idea of a perfect ?
•  What era would you have loved to live in?

JAMES LEADER QUESTIONS

• what sort of art would you call your art?
• what music genre  gets you going for the day?
• If/ you made music what genre would you make?
• Out of all the sub communities youve seen / known which one strikes you as the most welcoming and least transparent?
• whats your favourite memory?
• if you had to where would you move anywhere in the world?
• whats the most precious item you own?
• where do you want to be in 10 years time?
• whats your favourite time period ?
• how would explain your fashion sense?

Powerpoint Bibliography

Powerpoint Bibliography

Bibliography

Website:

MTV Website    http://www.mtv.co.uk/

Wikipedia          http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV

BARB                http://www.barb.co.uk/viewing/weekly-top-10?

Magazines        http://style.mtv.com/category/magazines/
 

In this we used james's style guide as mine was based on 'Film 4'

MTV Style Guide  http://jamesleadermedia.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/unit-32-style-guide.html

Notes From Client

WWW

• A good use of logo throughout the ident 
• Music links to target audience, upbeat 
• Strong cooperate identity, spray paints and music links to the target audience and suits the channel 
• Works well with different scenes behind it 

EBI

• Speed the tempo of the ident up as its too long 
• Do all the sprays at once instead of stopping to clip to add the next part of the stencil on 
• No green to be visible, fuzzy in some areas 
• Music variation needs to be a faster beat if the tempo is sped up  
• Need to look at better backing video behind spray ident to improve who its aimed at 

Justification Of Chosen Idea

This is the chosen idea that we have decided to proceed in and use as our project. We chose this idea because it incorporates MTV's target audience in it relating to them. As a student i know that Graffiti is a interest or catches the eye of many young people so it would be ideal for the target audience. We also want to bring something new to idents and include something that hasn't been produced before thats why we want to use this idea. We have changed the plan a little bit though, instead of spraying onto a wall or acrylic in from of a wall, we have decided to film the clips of locations around London that relate to the target audience e.g. skateparks, shopping centres etc. Once we have the film clips we have decided to record us spraying the MTV logo onto a green screen so therefore if there are any mistakes we can just rip of the green paper and lay a new one down to spray on. Also we chose to do this because if we done it outside there is a risk of the paint flying with the wind and not actually going onto the paper with detail. Whereas in a confined room the spray would be perfect and go straight forward onto the sheet of paper and then we will cut the green out of the paper and put our clip of London in the background. The editing will be difficult but it can and will be produced to a professional standard. This Ident represent all of what MTV music has to offer to its audience and its fun which also promotes individuality yet being close to those which are not like you : Collaborating with all those around you

Ideas Mindmap

Ideas Mindmap

Pencil troubles

We are going to do the life of a pencil. We are going to do a voice over of a stapler giving a pen a interview about the stress and things it goes through daily. 

e.g. pens get chewed, thrown, snapped, the ink blows up inside, half of it breaks, get puts through johns ear, gets disowned by the owner, borrowed and touched by loads of people, sharpened, led breaks, treated like rubbish

we will do it in the style of a charitable cause, like creature comforts but we are asking people to donate money to save the pencils. 

we will act like shops that sells pencils are like concentration camp

interview lots of different style pencils and the characteristics they convey 

Whilst the pencils are being interviewed we will show clips of pencils getting damaged etc whilst the speaking is going on. 

The pencils will be expressing their feelings to a stapler because staplers will resemble power and not a object that gets abused. 

1. dramatic music playing whilst we play a clip of a pencil getting bullied (like a charity advert) macklemore otherside remix
2. Starts with a pencil sitting down getting interviewed by a stapler 
3. whilst pencil is getting interviewed talking about situations a clip of them situations will be played but the voice over will still be able to be heard
4. after the interview we will end the movie off with a foundation set up to 'save the pencils' that people can donate to by ringing the number on the screen 

Subjects to talk about 

How ronnie got his scars Which then has a group of clips to go with it which ;leads to the end where the Stapler begins to cry from what Ronnie (pencil) has been through.

Development of Ideas

Development of ideas

 This ident Intros with a black wall and three spray cans sitting on the floor, The next clip is of a man representing Dance and sprays the first blue part of the MTV logo. Then another man replaces him representing Rock and sprays the second part of the logo in red. Then another man representing Bass comes in and finishes the logo off by spraying the TV part. We will use special effects to make the logo turn to life in lights and start flashing and then soon after it will fade to its original logo and the background will be a blank screen.

 This ident is just a person walking along casually and comes across a box, the box then starts to rustle softly and catches the attention of the man, it then rustles more violently until and woman pop out of the box looking scruffy and overjoyed. After that a man pops out of the mystery box but for a head he has the MTV logo so special effects will be used to produce this. Once the man that witnessed it is on his own and theres nobody else around he looks inside the box and get dragged in.

In this ident there is a man doing up his shoelace, a random girl just stops and stares at the familiar man, the man finishes off his shoelaces and puts on a coat from side view. A man joins the girl at staring at the mysterious man. The man then turns to face the two people staring and has a MTV logo on his shirt, he then winks at the two people and out of nowhere and they just faint. This connotes MTV's craziness and randomness in its choice of shows and recemnt idents.

Interviews and analysis

This is what had people fill out for our personal interviews,

OveOOverall For this page the people who gave us the answer 'South Park' was 16-25. Our entire audience for the Interviews was 16-25. 

Questionnaires and Analysis

This is the full questionnaire and analysis that we had people to fill out for our ident.

Logo Powerpoint

The powerpoint could be put on the blog so here are screenshots from it.

Unit 26 LO1- Genre Pictorial Analysis

Western

The good, The bad and the ugly

In this Western Film Poster, the title stands in front of the main characters , for each character their stereotypes in the film are dictated in front of them. the title is in a bold black western font with white outlining The words 'good' 'bad' and 'ugly' sit directly in front of each of the main characters therefore corresponding with the character which it relates to. However all the other words are placed between vertically essentially splitting up the major 3 words. The Character portraits are in 4 tones of lemon yellow and black to fill in the deep shadows and overly dark parts of the character portraits, also the protraits are canted to the left , showing it has an unnerving feature to it also in the poster of films its usually have the directors and other known stars listed below. In this poster The Characters Themselves are iconic, with their western conventional looks due to their stereotype displayed in front of them.

Fist full of dollars (1967)

In this landscape western film poster, There is no title, no

 cast list, showing that this has a indie feel to it. The film poster has a rustic/ stained paper as base , and a reddish orange border on the inside,this same colour is used on the images on the inside of the border, there is 3 landscape rectangle hand drawn images, the images have slightly different tones to their background colours, also the images seem to be from the same picture only on some parts its zoomed up on to emphasise on the writing below which corresponds to it, On the first image/ cut ( staring from far left) it focuses on the short cigar in the mans mouth, in which the tagline mentions short cigar, The next image/cut (middle) it focuses on the mans hand holding a long gun, in which the tagline mentions this long gun, and in the final image /cut (far right) you see the mans torso which is covered by his poncho, in which the tagline makes reference to this in the tagline. In all 3 tag lines, they follow a very simple structure in which only the specific item in tagline 'This ______ belongs to the man with no name'. This structure is more like a child's first reading book as it is easy to read by first glance. The font of the tagline seems to be in a simple 'times' font and is white, then below the images is what seems to be the main tagline, which is in a bigger font and is in black makes reference to the man in the images and an adventure, which means that this man is the main character relating to this film, he is iconised by the three specific in the other three taglines which makes him different from others in the film. The icon ism in this poster is the 3 items which the tagelines refer to.

Thriller

In this portrait thriller film poster. At the top of the page a 'V' , the base coloring for the poster seems to be a tea stained-like brown, and around 3/4's down the page the V joins the rest of the page in in black with orange writing in it. the style composed on this poster reminds me of a World War 1/2 war poster with its tea stained and bright coloring. Inside the V there is 3 images :the higher two are in a pale green, However the third image which is lower down in the V is a orange which makes it stand more than the other 2 iconic things. On the far left there is what seems to be a Guy Fawkes mask which in itself is a iconic in rebellion and revenge, which gives the idea that this film revolves around rebellion and revenge, the middle image which is a character and because of its color stands out much more, seems to have a large effect on the film itself, the image on the far right seems to be a place which is the same color as the the mask meaning it had/ has some sort of impact on the mask which is the icon of rebellion. 

In this freeze frame the main character (Right) is up in a police officers face, as he is wearing the mask and in the film is the leader of the rebbellion this would be a plain example of the convention of the icon in the film.

In this freeze frame the Main character and another are sitting down and still he's wearing the mask, So from this the main character seems to only care for his revenge and to rebel against the regime in the film.

Inception (2010)

In this poster for Inception it follows another 'Indie' theme with nothing but a title and a set of images relating to the film itself. The background is a simple warm yellow/orange to cold yellow, with what seems to be a maze in a couple darker tones than the background. There are 3 odd specific items which are used in the film that are used to check if the characters are in a dream or reality. This shows that they have big relevance and makes them iconic as people that have seen the film knows who uses them and how they use it to check, so these items therefore are the icons for the characters in which they are used by and icons for the film itself. 

In this freeze frame Leonardo DiCaprio is using his item to check if he's in a dream or not, in the film he is the only one using this specific item so its a symbol for him in the film making it a simple symbol to use for him on posters relating to the film.

Horror

In this film 'The Divide'. In this Horror poster, There are cast names at the top , a tag line in the middle to the left  and the the title is below this with all the other information about directors and etc. You can see in the background alot of rubble as it seems to give the effect that something devastated the area. Onset is a woman in a cracked protective suit from this image. Her face looks tired and bruised and she is alone. The tagline says 'to survive the end of the world they must first survive each other' This gives some sort of idea that she is the survivor of the survivors. As a horror, you would expect alot of violence from it and weird things happening and this film these conventions happen.

As a Horror this film has alot of traumatic scenes and images as this is a convention the films characters go through alot of traumatic things which have changed their appearances in the image above is one the characters traumatic changes during the pace of film, as you can see he looks more sick and sinister as the film goes on.

In this scene from the film the character above is having his throat slit with a can lid, and in the scene you can see he is struggling. This  death/killing scene itself is a convention  horror which happens during the plot of the film.

Friday the 13th  (ALL)

In this  3D Horror film poster, there is no cast lists or anything except the title which gives it an indie feel, The layout of the poster is really simple : There is a window in the middle and the main antagonist is smashing through it, All the glass and wood splinters come out the frame making it look much more dramatic the artist has made most of been shown below where the axe is, instead of above where the axe swung from. From this poster you can tell there is going to be a film full of deaths and gory scenes.

This scene is from the newest reboot of Friday the 13th and this enforces the convention of jumpy scenes and window smashing. 

This is a screenshot from the oldest version of Friday the 13th, from this  mask you can see its the same character that is causing all this horror and misfortune for all the others.