This is England Opening titles

Information: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480025/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqjEYfslwpA
Ratings: 7.7 IMDB 93% Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/this_is_england/
Release Date: 31 October 2006 (UK)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Age Rating: 18
Director: Shane Meadows
Writer: Shane Meadows
Stars: Thomas Turgoose, Stephen Graham, Jo Hartley
Budget: £1,500,000
Gross: £5,423,747
Synopsis: A young boy becomes friends with a gang of skinheads. Friends soon become like family, and relationships will be pushed to the very limit.

Idents:

All the Idents are part of the title sequence and dont have there own title intro.

Text:

FILMFOUR and the UK FILM COUNCIL Present - Black background, white text but fading. Text is centered.

In association with EM MEDIA and SCREEN YORKSHIRE - Black background, white text but fading. Text is centered.

A WARP FILMS PRODUCTION - Black background, white text but fading. Text is centered.

In association with BIG ARTY PRODUCTIONS - Black background, white text but fading, centered.

A SHANE MEADOWS FILM - Black background, white text but fading, text is centered.

THIS IS ENGLAND - White text but fading, bold, centered. Background shot of the English ghettos, Text grows until it slowly fades as the shot continuous.

THOMAS TURGOOSE - White text but fading, bold, text in the bottom right, background of a group of skin heads.

STEPHEN GRAHAM - White text but fading, bold, text in the bottom center. Background of the Toots & The Maytals playing.

JO HARTLEY - White text but fading, bold, text in the bottom right. Background of old gymnastics. 

ANDREW SHIM, VICKY McCLURE - White text but fading, bold, text in the bottom right. background of princess Diana's wedding.

JOE GILGUN, ROSAMUND HANSON - White text but fading, bold, text in the bottom right. Background of Princess Diana's wedding and people cheering and waving flags.

ANDREW ELLIS, PERRY BENSON, GEORGE NEWTON - White text but fading, bold, text in the bottom left. Background of  a man solving the rubiks cube.

FRANK HARPER, JACK O'CONNELL,  KRISS DOSANJH - White text but fading, bold, text in the bottom right. Background of a kid playing old video games.

KIERAN HARDCATLE, CHANEL CRESSWELL, DANIELLE WATSON - White text but fading, bold, text in bottom left.  Background of people stretching.

SOPHIE ELLERBY, HANNNAH WALTERS, MICHAEL SOCHA - White text but fading, bold, text in the bottom right. Background of a jukebox changing disk.

SCRIPT SUPERVISOR DIARMID SCRIMSHAW, CASTING LOUISE MEADOWS DES HAMILTON, HAIR AND MAKEUP SUPERVISOR DONALD McINNES -  White text but fading, bold, text in the center left. background of skinheads walking in the street.

Comparing Warp film openings to Working Titles Openings

Working Title Films

·        Pride and Prejudice

·        Les Miserable

·        Love Actually

Warp Films

·        This is England

·        Tyrannosaur

·        Submarine

Straight away you can see the difference between a Working Title film and warp film they are binary opposites of sorts. Tyrannosaur and This is England both start with a black background. The opening of both these movies start with the text flashing up on screen with a black background. This is England's font is different as it looks like its withering away. Warps Film has a more dark and realistic feel to it than Working Title films, this is clearly shown with the colours used. This is England and Tyrannosaur have dark and clouded skies, even in the morning while Pride and Prejudice starts of with blue and vibrant colours. As does Love actually, the colours are very bright and friendly while Warp use dark and unwelcoming colours.

This is England and Love Actually both have a montage in the start of these movies but This is England uses clips of violence and war while Love Actually uses clips of people hugging and being happy. Both Submarine and Love Actually use voice overs but in Submarine the tone he uses is very sad and sloppy while in Love Actually it is cheerful and motivating.

All Warp Films have text appear on the screen with a dull background while Working Title films openings text appears on screen as the movie is playing. The reason for this is because Working Title films have a higher budget so there opening look friendlier and neater while Warps is very dull, it is also because Warp films are very dark in the use of colour and story and these openings tell the audience that.

The use of music is also quite different as This is England plays Rock Jazz music while Love actually place nice relaxing music. This is to fit with the genre but It also tells the audience what company made the movie.

To sum it up Warp Films use a darker technique of editing and filming but it also looks a bit cheaper which in my opinion makes it feel more realistic, while Working Title films have a happier feel to it. Even Les Miserable which shows clips of slaves use strong colures later on and doesn’t feel as dull or sad. 

Having looked at this it tells me that my theme will be a bit darker and less colorful than Working title films, Because im a low budget company my film will lean more towards Warps film making darker tone. 

Shot by Shot list

I created this shot by shot list to get a more detailed idea of how to film my video. The way I created it was by taking ideas from other movies that i have researched. The voice over is used in both Resident Evil and World War Z, both of which in someway signifies the narrative.

Shots	Descriptions	Sound
1	Establishing shot: Far away you see main character to the right of the screen walking along the road. A Zombie walks in shot from behind the camera.	Start with Non-Diegetic sound of zombie until the zombie walks in the shot it becomes diegetic.
2	Long-shot, tracking shot of main character walking along the road, clear sight of main character costume.	VO: “Its been around 1 years and around 10 months if I had to guess”
3	Medium shot, tracking shot of main character walking while in the background you can see a zombie far away.	VO: “That’s not since it started, that’s the last time I saw them”
4	Over the Shoulder of main character you see a car in the background.	VO: “My Family that is, not the Zs, I see them every day”
5	Camera on top of car. Extreme long shot of main characters.	VO: “ The end of the world was about 2 years ago”
6	Rats eye view you see broken glass as well as main character in the background.	VO: “There is nothing left”
7	Long shot of run down car with broken backdoor window. Main character walks into shot from right side.	VO: “The only reason I’m writing this is to keep me sane.”
8	Camera looking into car door mirror from the inside of the car. Main characters head in the mirror.	VO: “If that’s even possible”
9	Camera inside car low angle looking up at main character through broken car door window.	VO: “There isn’t a lot to write about seeing as no one will read this but I might as well-”
10	Over the shoulder of main character looking In broken car door window. You see a body lying in the back seat of the car.	VO: “-talk about what the world has become”
11	Camera outside of car. Long shot of main character puts the bow on top of the car and takes of backpack. Takes an arrow out of back pack.	VO: “Not all humans are gone, the strong ones or the crazy ones are the ones that have survived so far.”
12	Over the shoulder of main character uses arrow to poke the corps. Nothing happens.	VO: “The sane ones are trying to start a new era, “
13	Camera outside of car main character walks out of shot behind the car.	VO: “They do this by creating Safe Havens.”
14	Camera inside car facing back window, you see main character walk past.	VO: “Safe Havens are places where people go to trade or take a breather.”
15	Over the shoulder of main character as he walks to the right side back door.	VO: “Dollars are useless now so the only thing they will trade for is batteries.”
16	Camera inside car from driver’s seat looking at main character open door.	VO: “You trade to stoke up on food or ammo mostly, well me at least”
17	Close up of main characters knife which is strapped to his leg. He takes the knife out of holster.	VO: “No one stays in the cities as they are over runned with Zs.”
18	Back to camera inside of car. He takes knife and stabs the corps in the head. The corps is wearing a hoody so you don’t fully see when its stabbed in the head.	VO: “I stay in the country side or small towns,”
19	He walks back to his backpack camera is behind car.	VO: “as there are less Zs and safe havens there.
20	He stands next to his backpack and takes out a bottle of water.	VO: “Seeing as sound attracts them,”
21	Close up of his face as he takes of his glasses and mask.	VO: “the smartest weapons to use are a bow or knife,
22	Medium shot of him taking a sip of the water.	VO: “a silenced weapon would also work.”
23	Long shot of him putting down the water and opening the front door.	VO: “Destroying both parts of the brain kills them”
24	Camera filming from passenger side, all in one take. He looks in the cantered glove compartment and finds a camera. He opens the camera takes out the battery and puts it in his pocket.	VO: “Well Im of to Canada,”
25	Camera cuts to an over the shoulder as he looks in the glove compartment and finds a Walter P99.	VO: “I need to get there before next winter comes.”
26	Camera outside of car as Main character walks out of the car and puts gun in his backpack.	VO: “I have a long road ahead if I want to make it to Russia
27	He picks up his backpack and picks up his bow.
28	Camera on the hood of the car as main character walks past with zombie in the background.
29	High angle camera behind main character as he continuous to follow the road. Slowly fades to black.
30	Main title fades in.
31	Fades to an establishing shot of forest. In the shot you see a campfire with the main character sitting next to it.
32	There is a close up of him writing in his diary.

Storyboard

This post includes a storyboard of what my opening sequence will look like. To sum it up it features a character walking along a road in the woods and finds a car, he opens the car and looks for anything he can take, after that he continues walking on his path.

Cameraman

Seeing as being the camera man will improve my grades the first half of my intro I will be camera man. This will not affect the intro as you don’t see the main actors face until half way through. I will have one actor play the zombie and I will have a body double to play my character when the face is covered. This will be more of a challenge seeing as how it will take longer because we need to change costumes, I think this is good because it will improve my skills as a camera man and director, as well as improve my time management skills. I have some people in mind to be my body double but I need to get there permission first. A think it will be better to cast a body double to be in some shots instead of changing the whole actor for that character as this will improve all my skills as director, camera man, producer and actor.  

(NEW)
Now that i know that acting will give me no marks i will get a person to play the whole thing instead of just the opening, this will improve my skills as a camera man and director as there is more directing and camera work to do. 

Pitch

Pitch Cards

The video bellow is a video of the locations I scouted for my opening scene. I had the video playing on a loop when doing my pitch.

This is a video of me presenting my Pitch to the class. The footage playing behind me is footage of some locations i looked at. At the end i was asked questions about my movie.