Sunday 14 October 2012

Opening Title Sequence of Film Noir.


Double Indemnity.


  • Based around (1950-1940).
  • All male cast.
  • Classy clothing and clean characters, main character wearing a suit.
  • Black people cleaning instead of white, showing that in them times people still believed white men and women were superior to black men and women.
  • General office workers looked down upon by wounded character to show he's in charge.
  • Wounded man showing signs of him being the strong silent type.
  • The man is driving a car which means high status. Especially since in them days cars were very expensive.
  • Alot of slang used to show gang potential.
  • Based in a big city, a good example would be New York City.
  • It's a rollover from silent movies.
  • The sound track is classical, so it's has a timeless sound track. An instrument for classical is piano.
  • Obsequious elevator attendant. Obsequious?
  • The male is a Juxtapostion of characteristics because he is scruffy and uses slang yet he has high status and is wealthy.

Form of an opening title sequence.

  • Studio
  • Producer
  • Title
  • Director
  • Cast
  • Production Team



James Bond Opening Title Sequence.

James Bond has many usual parts for the opening title sequence. Here's just i few i could find.


  • Usually starts off pulling the audience in with an enigma which could be with fighting, stunt or death scene.
  • There tends to be live action mixed with CGI/animation. 
  • Bond shoots you through an aperture by the looks of it and blood rolls down.
  • Guns shown - Works as an icon for action.
  • Author Ian Fleming, cast and studio in titles.
  • Sexy woman dancing and men in suits, the suits tend to be tuxedos which are typically worn to proms.
  • Song written specifically written for the movie- performed by a iconic singer and is usually a woman singer.
  • May sound strange but its rather a long opening title sequence compared to other but that because its a spy thriller movie.
  • Villains are usually non-British in a foreign country. 

Monday 1 October 2012

Audience

An audience is a group of people experience an event.

Types:
Active - Preferred - Targeted audience/ those the product is aimed at. (From an industry point of view)
Passive -Oppositional - Not the expected audience

Distribution - Method of showing films - Streamed/Cinema/DVD/TV broadcast.

Exhibition - Method of watching from industry recieved audience:
  • Buy DVD
  • Rent DVD
  • Blu Ray
  • Illeagle Streaming/Downloading
  • Legal Streaming/Downloading
  • TV FreeView
  • TV Cable
  • TV Satellite
  • Pay-to-View
  • Cinema
My top ways of experiancing the media:
  • Viewing movies from Cable TV with my girlfriend, friends or alone. Roughly for about 6-8 hours a week.
  • Paid for DVD's is not my prefered method of viewing movies but i see about 3 moviesa month.
  • I enjoy going to the cinema but i usually do it with my girlfriend or my father and see about 1 movie a month.

Pete Buckinggam suggests that 49% of our population are upmarket (ABC1's) but they make up to 66% of the general cinema audience, but that means the the other 33% are low earners so it suggests that the lowmarket view movies by illeagle streaming/downloading or from their television.




Streaming/Rental - Modern technology = cheap/easy/immediate access.