Footloose, Herbert Ross (1984), Mood Board - Notes

Footloose, Herbert Ross (1984), Conventions mood board

Titles

• White with slight black border
• Used to show main members of production team

Mise-en-scene

• Lots of different people wearing different shoes and dancing in different ways (Shows that each teenager is different)
• Looks as if there is a stage setting

Camerawork

• Only close-ups of people's ankles and feet/shoes

Music/Sound

• Famous/Popular song "Footloose" made especially for the film

Voiceovers

• No voices aside from singer

Characters

• Multiple people dancing (not all of same ethnicity)

Editing

• Short clips of about 5-7 seconds of people dancing (Fairly fast paced)
• Titles fade out after a few seconds

Footloose, Herbert Ross (1984), Title Sequence Analysis

Footloose, Herbert Ross (1984), Title Sequence Analysis

 

 

Start - Paramount logo appears

1 second - Clip of man tapping feet with brown shoes and music starts

7 seconds - Clip of man dancing with brown shoes and jeans

8 seconds - Titles "Paramount Pictures presents"

12 seconds - Clip of woman dancing with white high heels

13 seconds - Titles "A Daniel Melnick production"

19 seconds - Clip of man dancing with white shoes

20 seconds - Titles "A Herbert Ross film"

24 seconds - Clip of man dancing in bowling shoes and chorus starts

26 seconds - Film title "Footloose" appears as if made out of shoe laces

32 seconds - Clip of woman hopping with white shoes and titles "Kevin Bacon"

37 seconds - Clip of woman dancing with black high heels and titles "Lori Singer"

43 seconds - Clip of woman dancing with black high heels and titles "Dianne Wiest"

47 seconds - Clip of man dancing with red shoes and titles "And John Lithgow"

53 seconds - Clip of man dancing with white shoes and titles of team members

59 seconds - Clip of woman dancing with white high heels and titles of team members

64 seconds - Clip of man dancing with brown boots and titles of team members

73 seconds - Clip of woman dancing with white trainers and titles of "Casting by..."

78 seconds - Clip of man dancing with brown shoes and titles of "Costumes by..."

84 seconds - Clip of woman dancing with red high heels and titles of "Music supervised by..."

89 seconds - Clip of man dancing with brown shoes and titles of "Score adaptation by..."

95 seconds - Clip of woman dancing in silver shoes and titles of "Choreographed by..."

101 seconds - Clip of woman dancing with red high heels and titles of "Edited by..."

106 seconds - Clip of man shuffling with socks and titles of "Production designer..."

110 seconds - Clip of man dancing with white trainers and titles of "Director of photography..."

117 seconds - Clip of man dancing with white shoes and titles of "Executive producer..."

123 seconds - Clip of man dancing with white boots and titles of "Written by..."

128 seconds - Clip of woman tapping with stripy socks and titles of "Produced by..."

135 seconds - Clip of man dancing with brown trainers and titles of "Directed by..."

140 seconds - Music stops and film starts



Clueless, Amy Heckerling (1995), Mood Board - Notes

Clueless, Amy Heckerling (1995), Conventions mood board

Titles

• White with black border which contrasts with white border/bright background
• Flash with a border of bright colours
• Made to look like text from computer (slowly appears) (Representative of teenager's love for technology)
• Include many important production members including: title design and director

Mise-en-scene

• Computer (Scene takes place inside)
• Images of: Clothes hangers, shirts, skirts, lips, gum, shoes, scarfs, hats, phones, a car (Show objects that teenage girls are associated with)
• Pixelated image of teenage girl (Could suggest that previous items are a part of her as she also appears on the screen)

Camerawork

•  No camerawork (as all is animated) apart from slow zoom in and out at start and end

Music/Sound

•  Sound associated with computer at start - beeping
• Catchy music plays throughout (Would have been more popular at time of film's release)
• Someone can occasionally be heard singing

Voiceovers

• Only from music, but is very faint as the music is louder (Represents teenager's passion for music?)

Characters

•  Pixelated teenage girl at the end is only character

Editing

• Almost entirety of scene is animated
• Fairly slow paced (to represent a computer at the time of the film's release)
• Items appear and disappear via pixilation
• Bright colours (Representative of teenager's personality/mood swings)

Se7en, David Fincher (1995), Mood Board - Notes

Se7en, David Fincher (1995), Conventions mood board

Titles

• White (Contrast to the black/dark background)
• Sporadic (Adds to the overall mood of the trailer)
• Various sizes
• Title starts small but grows
• Font looks sketchy (Also adds to overall mood)

Mise-en-scene

• Newspaper
• Sharp objects
• Dark lighting
• Photos
• Pens
• Books
• Blood
• Darkroom
• Camera film

Camerawork

•  Only (extreme) close-ups of what the person is doing

Music/Sound

• Very creepy (slowly builds up by adding more and more instruments)
• No sound effects
• Particularly weird at about 1:00

Voiceovers

•  No voices

Characters

• Boy in photos
• Person's hands (Enigma effect)

Editing

• Very fragmented - lots of things going at same time (adds to sense of chaos)
• Very fast (starts slow but builds up)
• Titles mainly shown on black screen (sometimes on clips)
• Made to look like an old film

Preliminary task

͒Preliminary task

What we did:

We worked in groups of three and followed a storyboard which included descriptions of shot types and actions we were required to follow. We altered this by adding speech in order to make a scene. In order to make a higher quality product we filmed each shot at least twice as to ensure that we had a back-up in case one of the shots didn't work as planned/become corrupt for example and also to see what worked best such as when we filmed the door being opened; we were unsure as to what we should have done before that, so we that tried about three different ideas before deciding on the final shot. This is also true for the idea behind our short clip - someone forgets to tell someone of an event and returns to the classroom to tell him. In the production of the clip I was the one being told about the event and also helped towards the start of the filming when the other two group members were acting.

What I've learnt:

I have learnt that the setting is quite important this is because in the other areas we tried to film in before our final choice there was a lot of echoing of sound in the background which made it difficult to make the speech clear. I have also learnt the importance of taking multiple shots (as I mentioned) as in one of our shots, the main actor started smiling towards the end, so we decided to use the other clip as he wasn't laughing and it looked of higher quality. Furthermore, I have learnt the importance of editing, as without it the shots looked very untidy and some of the clips looked unprofessional so we cut some of them to remove the undesirable parts - this would have been a suitable alternative to the previously mentioned scene of the main actor smiling but as we had a higher quality shot we decided to use that instead.

Shot reverse shot, 180 degree rule, match on action: 

We used shot reverse shot during the conversation between the two students which made it look as if the camera was from the perspective of the person speaking in order to add immersion when viewing the clip. While we were doing this, we had to take the 180 degree rule into account. This meant that when we were filming the shot reverse shot we could not go beyond the 180 degree mark, this lead to us filming both shots on the right shoulder of both actors as to incorporate this rule. We used match on action when the main actor was entering the classroom this made the two shots of him pushing the handle and entering the door feel more fluent.

Clueless, Amy Heckerling (1995), Title Sequence Analysis

Clueless, Amy Heckerling (1995), Title Sequence Analysis

 

 

1 second - Image of computer shown with gradual zoom

5 seconds - Image of clothes hangers appear on screen and begin rotating

8 seconds - Clothes hangers disappear, camera zooms in and light blue background appears

10 seconds - Image of skirt and dress fade in with arrows on both sides and "select" in bottom right corner

12 seconds - "A film by Amy Heckerling" appears over image

15 seconds - Shirt changes to match skirt

18 seconds  - "Alicia Silverstone" flashes on screen followed by "Selected"

24 seconds - Screen fades to black and text "Produced by Robert Lawrence and Scott Rudin" appears

28 seconds - Screen turns pink and images of lips fade in

29 seconds - One big lip appears blowing bubble-gum and screen turns peach with text stating co-producers

35 seconds - Image of shoes appear in similar fashion to skirt and shirt

37 seconds - "Screens goes slightly darker and "costuming by Mona May appears

38 seconds - Hat appears

39 seconds - Editor and music team appear

42 seconds - Scarf appears

46 seconds - Director of photography and title design team appear

49 seconds - Screen fades to black "Paul Rudd" appears in centre alongside multiple images of phones

52 seconds - "Stacey Dash" takes the place of "Paul Rudd" after fading out

56 seconds - Screen fades to peach and image of car appears in similar fashion to skirt and dress

58 seconds - "Brittany Murphy and Donald Faison" flash on screen

61 seconds - "Selected" appears on screen and screen turns pink

62 seconds - Screen fades to black and text shows "in"

66 seconds - Camera zooms out revealing computer and screen turns light blue alongside title "Clueless" and pixelated image of girl
68 seconds - Image of girl disappears and computer screen turns black

69 seconds - Entire screen fades to black and sequence ends

Se7en, David Fincher (1995), Title Sequence Analysis

Se7en, David Fincher (1995), Title Sequence Analysis

 

 

2 seconds - Close-up of book pages turning and creepy music starts playing

6 seconds - Still image of book containing "new line cinema presents"

10 seconds - Distorted black and white hands

14 seconds - Contrasting white titles on black background (which flicker slightly) with name of actor "Brad Pitt"

18 seconds - Close-up of fingers covered in mud and blood and sharp object shown presumably scraping skin

22 seconds - "Morgan Freeman" text flashes on screen

25 seconds - "Se7en" flashes onto screen and gradually fades out

31 seconds - Shadow appears alongside name of actor "Gwyneth Paltrow"

34 seconds - Close-up shows someone writing something alongside two photos (one of which is made to look like a shadow) and name of actor "Richard Roundtree" appears

37 seconds - Blurry pictures and random writing flash on screen with red filter

41 seconds - Close-up of scissors cutting up photos

46 seconds - Black and white photo of boy (maybe teen) appears

50 seconds - Close-up of newspaper cuttings from birds eye view whilst blood is splattered onto the page

56 seconds - Name of three actors "John Cassini, Reginald E. Cathey and Peter Crombie" appear

60 seconds - Extreme close-up shows thumb smudging ink

62 seconds - POV shows black marker crossing out words

67 seconds - Writing in background accompanied by blood smudges in foreground with black marker

71 seconds - Drawing of boy's face is shown with black marker concealing his eyes, alongside "casting by..." in the foreground
74 seconds - Red filter appears again, boys face is completely covered in marker
77 seconds - Top half of shot has red filter, bottom half contains photos, "music by Howard Shore" in foreground
87 seconds - Close up of hooks and fingers with dirty nails, alongside "production design..."
90 seconds - Upside down pages of books
94 seconds - Photographs in background, dirty filter
99 seconds - Extreme close-up of fingers playing with needles
103 seconds - Multiple flashing images and cuts
Last 15 seconds - "produced by..." and "directed by..." along with flashing images
128 seconds - End

Teen Angst Research (Title Sequence)

Teen Angst Research (Title Sequence)

 

 



Juno



The title sequence of Juno is fairly long but still manages to keep the viewer entertained with the use of many different conventions such as: the catchy and upbeat music which stops the viewer from becoming bored because of how captivating it is. The titles are also bright - consisting of primary colours (of light) - and quite messy which makes them look eye-catching but different. The whole scene has a comic vibe about it (both in the comedic way and comic book way) due to the style to make it look like it has been drawn. The scene starts live but clearly transitions to the comic book style shortly after which gives the scene quite a carefree vibe which represents a teenagers carefree attitude. Only important production members are mentioned in the opening title scene. The editing pace is mainly quite fast but slows down in some places.
 

 

The Breakfast Club

The title sequence of The Breakfast Club is quite boring; there is a lack of action as the entirety of the screen is black and the titles are in a bright, but boring, yellow colour. Similarly to Juno, only the names of important staff members and companies are shown. The song accompanying this is 'Don't You Forget About Me' which is fairly catchy but would have been a lot more popular when the film was released. As the titles are quite boring and serious I don't think it would attract the target audience.

 

Clueless

The title sequence of Clueless is animated and takes place on a computer with various images of items associated with teenage girls such as shoes, make-up and phones. The titles themselves do stand out because of their unique style and contrasting colours. They too state the names of important members of the production team. This creates a very light-hearted atmosphere and a reflection of the life of a stereotypical teenage girl - it is very effective of reflecting the genre of teen angst. The editing is very faced pace in comparison to the previous two examples. The music is very fitting for the reflection of teenagers in the mid 1990's as it represents the type of music which was popular at the time. The start and end of the title sequence is clearly shown with the zooming in and out on the computer screen and appears to be separate from the main film.

Teen Angst Research (Opening Scene)

Teen Angst Research (Opening Scene)

 

 

Juno

The titles are made to look like they've been drawn which ends up looking quite childish and cartoony which could suggest that the main character is not a stereotypical teenager. They are also in red and yellow which are bright/eye-catching and therefore more appealing to the younger generation. The girl's clothing reflects that of a typical teenager - tight/skinny jeans and a hoodie. Whilst the music is fairly simple, it is also quite catchy and uplifting which could be a reflection of a teenager's stereotypical carefree nature. Personality is also connoted with the editing where the editing flips between various different settings and themes. The main setting is a town which is again typical of a teenager; they are shown to spend a lot of their time in town/shopping.

 

Easy A

The main setting is a school which is where teenagers spend most of their time. The editing also shows various different locations including the school, town, somewhere to do with nature (as leaves are shown), etc.. Similar to Juno, the music is quite upbeat and catchy which will attract teenagers due to it being similar to the music they are shown to enjoy. The titles fit into the scene, often being hard to see as a result of them being in obscure places such as: on the ground and in trees. This could link to what the main character says in her voiceover about not wanting to stand out and fit in. The titles also appear in different colours (red and white) and are in capitals which makes them stand out. The voiceover I mentioned consists of her stating the struggles of life as a teenager which is relatable. Her friend is shown to swear which is also fairly accurate in representing a teenager's rebellious attitude. The only characters shown are students, teachers and parents which are probably the people most associated with teenagers. The editing starts smooth and fairly quick but slows down to a point which it isn't too slow or too fast.

The Breakfast Club



The opening of The Breakfast Club is quite boring as it only consists of titles (which are also quite boring, but eye-catching, due to font being bright yellow and quite basic). There is music playing over this which is fairly catchy and would have been quite popular at the time of the film's release and therefore would have made it more appealing. After the title sequence a school setting is shown which is familiar to the film's target audience of teenagers and the characters are introduced with the use of a montage featuring various other clips such as shot reverse shot. The characters shown are teenagers and family members and the teenagers shown are presumably from different groups of social status (e.g. popular, nerdy, etc.). This means that there is a character who appeals to everyone.