Work By Saul Bass

Saul Bass was an American graphic designer and filmmaker best known for his design on animated motion pictures. During his 40 year career he worked for some of Hollywoods most famous film makers and produced titles for many famous films including West Side Story and Psycho.
After looking at a selection of Saul Bass' work, we concluded that his work seemed to be far to edgy and of a completely different style from what we wanted to achieve. Unfortunately we felt his work was to abstract and complex to follow, whereas we were hoping to show simple hint of what would be happening throughout the rest of the film.

The particular film titles we looked at were from the film Carmen Jones. We liked the black background with the writing over the top which was similar to our own titles but then felt although it looked arty and effective with the red colour and drawing of rose running through Saul Bass' title we felt it was an unnecessary feature that would complicate our titles.

Producing Effective Bruises

We decided it would be sensible to practice Sarah's bruising on Lara before we began filming so as we knew what we were doing when it came to it. We used a variety of eyeshadows and a lipgloss whown below.




 



We used dark eyeshadow colours, black, browns, and grey, tocreate the base to our bruise.

We then blended this to the skin using a cotton bud and a lighter shade of brown.

Once happy with the effect we added a hint of purple and blue to the centre of the bruise to create a recency effect.

We then experimented with producing cuts with the lipgloss by applying it in small amount and smudging it to look realistic.

once happy with our trial we completed the same steps on Lara's face as shown bellow.

Conflicts During Filming

Once filling in filming schedules we began to film on Thursday 3rd of February, however due to unforeseen circumstances of actors and crew being ill we could not film. Instead we decided we would use our time productively. We decided to go to our location or the alley scene and film using different actors just so we could get a rough idea of what we needed to do and to get used to the equipment we were using so that when it cam to filming it could be done as quickly and efficiently as possibly so as we do not fall behind schedule.


On day two of filming we were faced with a second problem. Our location of the school gymnasium was made unavailable to us, however we knew we could not waste anymore filming time and we could not fall behind schedule so we went in search of a new, effective location. We soon came across the school hall and thought it would be good as although we would not have the mirrors we would have a stage which would reinforce the fact that Sarah is a dance. We then began filming and we feel it went well as although we changed location we feel it gave us more variety and freedom with our shots.

School Hall