Analysis Of The Opening Titles For Coraline.

 

 

Coraline

1.     How does the title sequence establish genre, character and narrative?

2.    How does the title sequence attract an audience’s interest?

3.    What do you consider to be the target audience of the film and why?

4.    Who has produced the film and how is that evident in the title sequence?

The doll in the opening titles is the main focus because it seems to be the main object in each bit of the scene. The doll is quite strange and scary and the weird odd like music adds to the strangeness of the doll.

It is obvious that someone is working on the doll and planning to do something with it. When the person who is working on the dolls hands are revealed, they are not ordinary hands, they are made from metal and they seem to be quite large and scrawny like.

The doll is being ripped, torn shredded to pieces and as the doll looks like a person, in our heads we imagine this to be a real person so it could be quite disturbing.

The enclosed kind of workshop place makes it feel weird as it could be a really weird psychopath that has his own workshop/study that keeps all these strange little dolls that allot of people could find scary or abnormal.

The lighting is very artificial because the whole film is cartoon/play dough based but the lights seem to be a dark green/yellow kind of colour.

When the sewing and piercing and ripping is taking place the noises are quite strange and really do add to the effect of a strange atmosphere. Even though all the movement is in cartoon it is still really life like and weird.

The title sequence attracts the audience because it is an on-going project on the doll and they want to see what the end product will look like, also the audience will want to know what this thing/metal handed thing that is making the doll looks like and the audience will want to know what the doll has been made for and if it has a purpose.

The target audience of the film could be either children or adults. It could be suitable for children because it is cartoon based and kind orientated, as well as using the doll, allot of children have dolls. It could be targeted at adults also because the strangeness and weirdness could intrigue the adult to want to watch more.

The producers of this film are callled LAIKA, they show that they have produced the film by introducing them , here is a screenshot of where they are mentioned in the title sequence:

 

MANAMANA - Acting Practice And Shot Practice - Me,Joe,Ryan

 

 

With Joe and Ryan we were asked to practice our filming and editing skills. We worked as a team to practice camera shots and editied it so that we would have smooth transitions.

Although this was a relatively quick practice we were actually able to learn alot about contiuity.

We were very happy with our end product:

LESSON - Video Timelaps.

In this lesson we was planning what location and characters we was going to use for our preliminary task. This lesson was 55 minutes long but we accidently picked the wrong camera setting to the video only lasts for about five seconds.

This was the first time we used the camea and the first time we had included it into our work.

How is sound used within my extract? ~ 'sean of the dead'

In lesson me and my group chose to watch a scene from 'sean of the dead' (horror/comedy film).
We was asked to look at how sounds effect the scenario.
We watched the scene where there is a fight in the pub with the zombies, some of the sounds i noticed was:
~ when they are hitting the zombie with the pool stick the noise has been added in as a loud whipping sound. The noise has been over reacted so that the main focus is them whipping the zombie.
~ while this is happening, the song "dont stop me now" by Queen is playing on the jukebox ... this adds the comedy side to the fighting and the fighting seems in time with the music.
~ but the horror side is still there because of the groaning zombies and the dark and gloomy pub atmosphere.
here is the scene, this is not my video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB98-NOO9Ug&feature=youtube_gdata_player

My Own Camera Angle Shots -LESSON-

In our lesson we was taught the different types of camera angles.. Which are;
~ extreme long shot
~ long shot
~ medium shot
~ close up
~extreme close up
~ birds eye veiw
~ high angle
~ eye level
~ low angle
~ canted angle
~ pan
~ tilt
~ tracking shots
~ zooming lenses
Once we learnt these camera angles we was told to take some shots of our own to show our understanding. So here are some of the shots i took with the help of my friends modeling for me.

-LESSON- Genres & Audiences

In this lesson I learnt about the different genres of films and what different audiences they attract. I learnt two key words "mass audience" & "niche audience" , these are just two names for a very large audience (mass) .. And a smaller audience (niche). Its not just films that can attract different audiences .. Its all kinds of media.

-LESSON- Camera angles.

In this lesson i learnt about the different angles off a camera shot, in the lesson sir gave us a couple of sheets of paper to jot down notes and sketches of each angle so we can rememer them easily. I did this then stuck both bits of work into my book. This lesson helped me understand why and how some of the angles are shot and what effect the give and how it attracks the audience.