Entry 6:

Today 3 members of our group, James, Ghanshyam & Thomas, went up to London, Southbank, to film our establishing shots of the iconic landmarks. Shooting went well, the weather was perfect and so was the lighting. We managed to film the majority of the shots on our storyboard with relative ease. Some of the shots came out blurry but we made sure that we filmed each shot at least 2/3 times.
 There was one issue with the Houses of Parliament show however. We didn't know beforehand that there was construction work on the Houses of Parliament. This meant that we couldn't get the shot we wanted to get originally and meant we had to improvise and change the shot when we got there. We weren't able to find out when this construction was due to be finished so we will have to go back at a later date and re-film the shot regardless. We managed to film in all the locations we wanted to including; the Houses of Parliament, Mi6 building and the River Thames. We also filmed our time lapse shot in Trafalgar Square with relative ease.

Entry 5:

On the 16th of February in half term our group has planned to go up to London in order to take pictures of our locations and start filming for our title sequence. We will film our establishing shots which open our sequence. The locations we will go to in order to film these are: Vauxhall Bridge (MI6 building), Houses of Parliament, Big Ben and the London Eye. There may be other places where we decide to get a shot of during the time we are there but the places stated are locations we will almost definitely visit.

Entry 4:

FONT DESIGN RESEARCH & PREPARATION:

Today we begun to research into different typographies; here are some we discovered that we are all particularly fond of - all have been sourced from www.DaFont.com.

In spite of today's research, we are still continuing to look. The font choice is significant to us because it is one of the most crucial pieces of iconography within our sequence, we feel it necessary to perfect. Whilst these fonts are all good to differing degrees, they all lack the significant aspect that we are seeking, which is why we are continuing our research.

Entry 3:

LOCATION SCOUTING:

Today the rest of my group scouted out possible locations within London (our key setting) to film our remaining shots at, the largest segment to our title sequence. I intended to go too, however, was veered by issues.


Here is evidence of the location scouting:

'AGENT-X' Title Sequence - First Edit

This is the first edit for our title sequence production:

Entry 2:

DESIGNING & FILMING THE WALL:  

In our storyboard, we planned to film numerous shots of the antagonist building on his manhunt profile of the protagonist, Agent-X. In preparation for filming this, we started creating and organising the necessary props needed for the shots, for instance, the printed photos of Agent-X's associates, which we used to create the manhunt profile today. After the wall was configured, we then proceeded to filming our needed shots.


Here is evidence of our note board being configured:

Entry 1:

STORYBOARDING:

During today's media lesson - after having produced our group's audience profile and film pitch - we began the construction of a storyboard for our title sequence assignment. Our storyboard is a basic sequential illustration of what we want/predict to film as footage for our title sequence within the next few days/weeks, essentially an organised plan.

Every member in our group contributed towards the creation of it and we ended up finalising it completely later the same day, again as a full group. We found ourselves particularly discussing how we wanted to employ the micro features - mainly cinematography and mise-en-scene - within our sequence and we ultimately prioritised this the most when creating it. I found myself playing a significant part in the discussion of this due to my broader knowledge of micro features having studied Film Studies at GCSE level, unlike the other members of my group.

Our storyboard shots took heavy inspiration from other relevant film texts within our focused genre, texts such as 'James Bond: Skyfall' (2012) for instance. We took inspiration from how effectively it used settings as iconography to communicate its genre, specifically the establishing-shots of iconic British landmarks within the disruption stage of the film, shots like where the M16 building is seen exploding through pyro-techniques.

Journal

Here I will be recording all contributions me and my group make towards producing our 'AGENT-X' title sequence and how we overcome any issues/obstacles in the process: