Production Log: 17th September; Research

 Date: 17th September Tuesday 2013

RESEARCH: ART OF THE TITLE

The Day After Tomorrow- (Roland Emerich, 2004)

A long tracking shot of Antarctica creates a long, hostile and isolated journey. We know where we are because of the captions. It's as if the audience was riding a helicopter, if they moved, they would fall out into the cold water and hit the hard surface of the ice. It makes you feel like you’re on an expedition. The camera travels slowly to show how isolated the people are. The institutional information appears at the centre on the bottom. It looks like the font belongs on an FBI database. The white letters look like they are being reflected off of the surface of the water. Everything is a shade of whites and blues. The contrast level is high, thereby causing a visually interesting and intriguing effect of an on-going atmosphere.

All of the tracking shots are CGI, however are incredibly realistic. I think that video footage was shot before the CGI, so as to compare the CGI to something real in the Antarctic. The glistening and shine of the ice and water also create a mystical and magical world effect.

Spooks-(David Wolstencroft , 2002-2011)

Spooks is a British television  drama series featuring spies, M15 officers and the government regarding top secret issues and missions.

All of the opening consists of dark, extremely blue toned colours. The blue tone creates a sad and rather suspicious theme that is consistent in spy movies involving the mortality of someone. This conveys, immediately, that the genre is spy. We see the leader of M15 who receives a phone call from the Prime Minister? About a top secret file called Sugarhorse.