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

How To Create Convincing Bruises And Cuts

We looked around the internet for instructions of how to make a convincing bruise or cut and instead found a video tutorial on YouTube which give a really convincing effect and uses materials which we have easy access to.

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Finding Our Music

Whilst browsing Youtube as a group we came across an artist named Ed Sheeran, we knew of him through a friend. We listened to a few tracks 'The City' 'You Need Me, I Don't Need You' and 'Firefly' we thought they were good as they had a strong beat to them, we thought 'You Need Me, I Don't Need You' was our best option as the lyrics fit well into our film's storyline. We then contacted the artist through Facebook and explained that we would like to use his music for our A Level media project. He replied to us to say that he was not signed and giving us his permission to use his music, he also let us know the music was not copy write. Once he informed us of this we edited the track through IMovieHD to make it fit the length of our opening sequence and to cut out any irrelevant aspects to it.


Below are the 3 songs we considered for our music.

Proof of Ed Sheeran giving us permission to use his music and stating that it is not labelled

Changes In Our Plans

In class today we evaluated previous opening sequences and have decided against the idea of having a heartbeat as our soundtrack as this has been generally used in the horror genre and if it is not used effectively then it can ruin the hard work put into the opening sequence.


Also we have decided we no longer need a four way split screen from '4321' to link our characters together as we feel our characters are now linked through our establishing shot on a sofa and so the split screen would no longer be necessary.

Casting Roles

Cut Loose consists of four main characters; Mel, Sarah, Rian, and Tyrone. Casting these roles was a more difficult task than we had anticipated as our storyline deals with sensitive issues, so we needed actors who felt comfortable with their characters background and would also be able to perform to a good naturalistic standard.


After auditioning a variety of actors we have settled on four whom we feel will be strongly capable of fore filling their role.


Sarah will be played by Lara Edwards, a calm and collected actress who is also a dancer. She will be able to perform the choreographed dance scenes with ease and has experience in playing characters from a violent background.

Rian will be played by Rian Formon, a strong and competent actor. With his acting experience Rian will be more than capable of fore filling the needs of his character. He will not struggle with the physical demands of his character as he regularly deals with roles which require high levels of fitness.

Tyrone will be played by Tyrone Mijberg, an actor whom is familiar with playing homosexual characters. With his past experience he will be fully capable of taking this part in his stride comfortably.

 Mel will be played by Melina John, a relatively new actress with a lot to offer. Melina can easily adapt to a variety of roles and after auditioning we felt she fit the role perfectly she feels passionately about her character and this passion is shown in her acting.

We feel that these actors are more than capable of fitting their characters personas and will perform well to produce a good end result.