Adding in Production Company logo

I added in Josh's production company logo into our film opening. I cut end of this clip as it showed the picture in burnt ashes for 2 seconds with nothing really happening in the clip,  therefore I decided to cut it.


In this screenshot it shows that I also cut the beginning of Josh's production company logo as it had a long pause at the beginning and it showed Josh lighting the picture. The camera also went very shaky at this point so I thought it would be best to cut the beginning.


I also decided that to make the production company logo look more professional and appealing to our audience, I waned to add sound effects to it. I decided to add diegetic sound of a crackling fire in the background so that you can hear the polaroid picture being burnt. I found a clip on YouTube which I thought fitted best with our clip and inserted the sound into our film opening. I then cut the sound so that it fit with the length of clip and so that the sound matched alongside with the production company logo.


I added a fade into the music so that there was an increase in volume when the fire was it its biggest, and as it started to go out I added a fade so that it sounded more realistic.


We later decided to play around with the lighting of the clip and adjusted it so that it was really dark in black and white other than the flame which was a strong orange red colour. This looks more effective and eye catching for the audience to watch. I also added a transformation so that it cut the brick out of shot to look more effective.

Choosing a Production Company Logo

In this blog I'm going to compare all of the production company logo's that everyone in our group have made, and decide which one would look the most professional and realistic to add into our 'slasher' film opening.

This is Lucy's production company logo that she made. I think the dropping leaves at the beginning of this looks really effective and would go well with our film opening, however if they were put in slow motion it would have looked a lot more effective as it would have portrayed the production company logo as sinister. I also think that the fire spoils the typography as it is white so it is therefore difficult to see the writing. I think that the typography itself though is really cleverly used as it is missing pieces which looks really effective. However, the ending after the text has come off the screen drags out for quite a while where the leaves are burning on its own. If we used this production company logo in our opening scene I would either cut this shorter, or make it fade to black before our film opening starts.

The next production company logo is the one that I created. Again, I have decided to burn a piece of paper to show destruction and loss. The camera in this however is very jolty at the beginning though which makes it look less professional. The typography is also very boring and plain, it would have looked more effective for our film opening if it was in hand writing in a blue ink colour. However, despite this the sped up reverse of time is quite original.

This production company logo was made by Josh. He has made a print out of a polaroid picture and added burn marks onto it which looks really effective. The picture then goes up in flames and burns into ashes. I also think the plain slab of concrete in the background looks quite realistic and effective for our film opening. However, the camera is a bit jolty throughout and the hand at the beginning looks quite un-professional. I think the unique way he has put it in fast motion looks really effective though.

Overall, I have decided that we are going to use Josh's, Silent productions, for our film opening as it looks really effective and the most professional.

Professional production company logo- Practical editing

During this editing practical I added in our chosen production company logo. We decided that we would use Blumhouse's production company logo as it fits our genre of thriller the best and portray the genre of our film opening before it has started.

To add in the Blumhouse production company logo, I found the most recent production company logo on YouTube and converted it to video to add into final cut. I added it to the beginning of our film opening as we want the professional company logo to be the first thing that the audience sees in our Film opening.              





















However, the YouTube video was too long and has another professional company logo attached to the add. I cut this out from the end of the production company logo as we don't want to use both.



I also cut out the beginning part of the YouTube video as there was a long pause of just black screen before the actual production company logo played.



Because I edited the second production company logo out from the video, there is no fade between the professional company logo and the beginning of our film opening. We will add a fade from black to begin our film opening. I am going to add our production company logo that we made, chosen by Josh, in after the professional company logo before our film opening starts. Therefore, we are going to add the fade from black after our production company logo.

AS Media - Production Company

The brief:

- to create our own production company for our final filmed piece

Idea:

Burning a Polaroid picture with the name of the company in the frame of the Polaroid.

The picture above showcases the Polaroid picture that I edited to show my production company's name "Silent Productions".

After letting it dry I then decided to teabag stain the picture to make it seem old also I decided to burn the edges slightly to make it seem more battered.

After this to make it a video I decided to burn it on the floor and make a time lapse of it so that it looked faster than it was and so that it wasn't too long whilst maintaining the same effect of it burning.

AS Media - Choosing The Production Companies

The Brief:

-To research evaluate and pick the production company to use in our film

Compass International Pictures



Compass International Pictures was an independent film production company founded by Irwin Yablans and Joseph Wolf in 1977. Their most notable film release was Halloween in 1978. The company closed down in 1981, before being remade four years later under the name Trancas International Films. They are the copyright holders of the Halloween film franchise and have produced every film in the series to date.

Produced:


- Halloween series
- Fade To Black
- Appointment With Fear
- Blood Beach
- Hell Night
- Tourist Trap
- Nocturna: Granddaughter Of Dracula

New Line Cinema

New Line Cinema is an American film studio that was founded in 1967. It became a subsidiary of the Turner Broadcasting System in 1994 before Turner merged with Time Warner in 1996, and was later merged with its larger sister studio Warner Bros. Entertainment in 2008. Currently, its films are distributed by Warner Bros.

Produced:

- Texas Chainsaw Massacre
- Night Of The Living Dead
- A Nightmare On Elm Street Series
- Annabelle 
- The Conjuring
- Final Destination
- Friday 13th (2003 version)

















Blumhouse Productions

Blumhouse Productions is a production company, founded by Jason Blum. Blumhouse produces low budget horror movies including Paranormal Activity, Insidious, The Purge, Sinister and Ouija. Blumhouse currently have a 10-year first-look deal with the studio Universal Pictures.

Produced:

- Paranormal Activity - Franchise
- Insidious Chapters 1-3
- Ouija: Origin of Evil
- The Purge: Election Year
- 13 Sins
- Insidious Chapter 4 (upcoming)




























Dark Castle Entertainment

Dark Castle Entertainment is a film production label. It was made in 1999 by Joel Silver, Robert Zemeckis, and Gilbert Adler. They are associated with Universal Studios.

Produced:

- Ghost Ship- Orphan
- House of Wax
- The Reaping

Ghost House Pictures

Ghost House Pictures is a production company that was founded in 2002 by Robert Tapert and Sam Raimi.

Produced: 
- The Grudge Series
- Bogeyman Series
- Poltergeist
- Evil Dead
- Dont Breathe


















Platinum Dunes

Created by Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form on 2001, Platinum Dunes is a horror specialised production company. 

Produced:

- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) + the Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
- Friday The 13th (2009)
- The Purge Franchise
- The Ouija Franchise
- Friday The 13th (2017) upcoming...























Rogue Pictures

Founded in 1997 and re-launched under its current name, Rogue Pictures was owned by Universal Studios up until recent years now being owned by Relatively Media. It has always and still produces horror, action and thriller movies. They haven't produced any standout, hit horror films but have been subsidiary to universal whilst making the hit action comedy Hot Fuzz.

Production company logos

For our film opening our group needs to decide which professional production company that we would want to use. I have researched 3 different professional production company logos and discussed which would be the best one to use for our groups film opening. When choosing the right professional production company logo I decided that it needs to be horror themed as we have chosen to do film a slasher film opening. It needs to be recognisable so that people are more likely to watch it if they have watched previous films that they have enjoyed with this production company.

The first one that we could use is warner brothers production company logo. I like the way it has a red background with the clouds which could represent blood. This would be good for our slasher film opening. There are also strokes of lightning which are sinister and scary which relates to our genre of horror.

Another film opening that we may use is Blumhouse productions. This is the most common production company logo that horror films use, so conforms to conventions of horror genre. We want to conform to all of the genre's common conventions to make our film opening typically slasher. I really like the typography in this production company logo and the way its presented on the wall.

The final one I have chosen is Lionsgate. I think this could be really good as it has a dark and spooky look at the beginning which could potentially go with our genre. However the typography is really basic and could be boring.

Overall I think we should use Blumhouse productions as our professional production company logo as it relates the best to our theme, the sound is really spooky and sinister and the typography is really unique and effective for a horror film opening.

Creating a production company logo

For my production company logo I decided to use the genre of horror as we are using the genre slasher in our opening scene when we create it. I decided to film a piece of paper being burnt starting from the corner for my production company logo. I wanted to then reverse this to make it look more unique and different and look as though the text was burning onto the paper.

I decided to use a font that looked as though it could be handwriting as it would look more effective on the paper. I also changed the font to black to make it look as though the text is ink.

When I was editing my production company logo using final cut, I removed the original sound that came with the video.



Improvements
If I was to make my production company logo better I would add some sort of sound of music to make it more effective and eye catching. I would also film burning the paper again and ensure that the paper is held still throughout the recording to make the recording look more professional.