Title Research: Zodiac

-

Zodiac 

1. What titles are displayed during the opening sequences?

    In this case it shows a time skip, then the studios and the production company, the name of the actors at the bottom of the screen, then the name of the movie on the bottom left. It then continues to name producers, editors, costume designers and everyone who helped in the making of this film. The last card is the director in this case it would be David Fincher.

2. What images are prioritized in the opening sequence?

    The sequence is a father rushing his child to school and himself to work all at this fast pace and the surroundings intensify.

3.  What connotations do these images carry?

    It is rushed and it makes you feel anxiety. The sequence is gives you anxiety and stressed that you want to wait until it stops.

4. How does the film establish a feeling of the genre from the outset?

    The opening is basically the father is rushing and running to drop off his kid and go to work on time which means he was most likely late. The editors added texture which made the sequence feel old and that time has taken a toll on everything. 

5. What strategies are used to ensure the film appeals to its target audience?

    It first appeals to emotion, then different demographics, and overall people who have interest in true crime. The story is based on the Zodiac Killer, which at the time it was the 60s and was a high-profile case. Till this day, the Zodiac Killer is notorious for the mystery person and for purely taunting the police. People who have interest in true crime will flock to this movie and those who lived during the time will also flock to this movie. The emotions that the opening sequence gives out is already enough to tell that this movie is going to truly going to have emotions throughout and it will try its best to carry that out. What I mean by demographics, I mean things such as age and gender. People who are typically older will have a higher chance to seeing this movie because it happened throughout the 60s. When it comes to gender women have a higher chance compared to men to flock towards true crime. That is because of different aspects such as the psychological and educational aspects of true crime. This genre has a huge weight on emotion because that is what brings it to life.

6.  How has technology been used effectively? You want to consider camera angles, transitions and editing techniques.

    The director and editors had their fun while making this. There are multiple cuts and multiple shots to convey the emotions.


Signing Off,

Kay.


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Title Research: The Eternal Daughter

-
Image
The Eternal Daughter  1. What titles are displayed during the opening sequences?      The Eternal Daughter title card, A film by Joanna Hogg, actor and actress credit, produced by,  co producers, and editor. 2. What images are prioritized in the opening sequence?     A car on a road, and trees in a bunch, greyish brown background and grey background with a title card. 3.  What connotations do these images carry?       It is slowed to makes you feel anxiety. The sequence is gives you anxiety and suspense that you want to wait until it stops.   4. How does the film establish a feeling of the genre from the outset?     By putting up a very hazy scene throughout the introduction, the movie creates a sense of the genre. It has a hazy beginning that makes viewers uncertain of what is happening and what is happening. Suspense can result from this, which contributes to the genre's sense of adventure, fantasy, and action ...
Read more

Storyboard

-
Image
My storyboard of the girl next door! Scene 1: This will be the first scene and this is where the main actor will appear. It will fade in from black to sync with the audio since it also fades in. It will be at eye level and it will be a close up to show to emphases the subject's eyes because of a lyric "red eyes". The set will be a road in order to cut into the next scene. Scene 2: After it cuts away from the close up we move into a medium long shot at eye level. The actor will be drinking a cherry coke and be stumbling along the road. The medium long shot is to show that she is still wearing the same clothes according to the lyrics. Scene 3: This scene she is up against the bedroom door looking distress. This will be at eye level and it will start at as a close up then zoom out in order to transition into the next scene. She is in this position because she is wondering about a certain thing, that thing being something unpleasant. Scene 4: The next scene will pan into her...
Read more

Almost!

-
Image
We are almost done! As of writing this we are almost finished. We had completed filming around a week ago. Now we are so close to finish editing. Like we said previously, we were to continue adding the footage together so then we can make it easier when it came to transitions and audio. We have put in the title cards, and are only missing a few. For the title cards that we have done, we have added transitions for a couple to the title cards and only a footage is left to edit and put together. Right now we are moving things around, because we are slightly worried about the time limit but so far we haven't crossed it. But again there is that slight worry! We do have a way around it if it were to happen. We have sort of an idea of which scenes we can cut from the footage. We also can speed up footage and cut down some footage in order to make time. We have thought on it, just in case if it happens. Right now we aren't over the limit but again we still have footage to add. That foo...
Read more