Thursday 17 January 2013

Music

For our music we have a nursery rhyme over the top of our dream sequence. This is because it reflects the youth and innocence of the boy. When nursery rhymes are sung by children in a slow pace, it gives the audience a sense of unease when listening to it because the normal tones associated with children are upbeat and happy. This immediately makes the audience uncomfortable.
When looking for ideas for our nursery rhyme, we had a look at other examples such as:

The Woman in Black




Pirates of the Caribbean 



When it came to choosing the final music for our film, we wanted to use a nursery rhyme that linked in with our film. Originally I suggested we create our own but completely from scratch but we decided to choose one that people had heard before so they could relate to it. 'Row Row Row Your Boat' linked in with our stream aspect as it is a key theme in our film. However we decided to change the second part slightly to foreshadow our characters death.

Original lyrics:

Row row row your boat, gently down the stream,
Merrily merrily merrily, life is but a dream.
Row row row your boat
If you see a crocodile, don't forget to scream

OUR LYRICS
Row row row your boat, gently down the stream,
Merrily merrily merrily, life is but a dream.
Row row row your boat, gently down the stream,
Don't forget to watch your back, no one will hear you scream.

Our song is sung by Emma Bradshaw and was edited by myself and Emma Bradshaw

Wednesday 2 January 2013

Film Institution Logo research


Here is a research mood board of some major film institutes and their logos.
These are 9 major film institutions and their logos. This is to give us ideas for designing and building our logo for our own film institution 'Pandemic Pictures'. It also made us realise that the majority of Companies choose images that are linked with their name.
For example;



Universal, Dreamworks and Paramount are prime examples of this. Paramount includes mountains in their logo to link with their name, with Dreamworks and Universal doing the same thing. Universal having an image of the earth and stars in the background and Dreamworks including clouds, a moon and a night sky reminiscent of dreamlike scenery.


Something we also noticed with these logos is the scale of these objects. We noticed that they all use large and vast things. This has the connotation of endless possibilities.