Saul Bass Research

Saul Bass was an American graphic designer and filmmaker, best known for film posters and motion picture title sequence. Saul Bass was a creator in the mid-20th century. Saul Bass became widely known in the film industry after creating the title sequence. Bass first saw the opportunity to create a title sequence which would ultimately enhance the experience of the audience and contribute to the mood and the theme of the movie within the opening moments. Bass was one of the first to realize the creative potential of the opening and closing credits of a movie.

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Pitch Evaluation

Zombieland Analysis

I am going to make an analysis of the title sequence of the film ‘Zombie land’. In the opening scene of the sequence we are presented with a man falling from a building, in slow motion, with a man behind him as if he had pushed him. This opening scene creates its first enigma; this gives the impression to the audience the film has something to do with this man being falling. We are introduced with ‘rocky’ violent music. The music seems to be from a rock genre; which gives the impression that the film is horror or action. Because the music had opened up with this particular genre of music, it seemed as if it needed to involve violence or violent scenes; which is stereotypically connected with horror or action films.

A mid shot of a man covered in blood was the next scene. Maintaining the horrific look, we see blood is vomiting from his mouth, this displays to the audience that it involves some gore and violence, which is usually associated in horror films. The title sequence continues to show fear by setting up a long shot of two women, one whom is dressed in typical feminine colours, pink and white, showing the connotations of a woman and representing her as innocent or the ‘angel’, this is then supported to show her innocence as she is being chased by another woman whom seems to anger this ‘innocent’ girl. She is dressed in darker clothing and covered in blood, which creates buzzwords such as ‘evil’. 

Following the last scene a scarce man wearing a cardboard sign reading ‘the end is near’ and ‘zombies’ seemed to be running towards him. The sign implies that in fact ‘the end is near’ which mean something is going to change the world for the humans. This is reinforced by the fright shown on his ace because he realizes he is going to be attacked. A wide shot where a car is on fire, and dark smoke coming from it shows the dreadful incident that has occurred. The dark colours correspondingly suggesting violence, as dull colours such as black and red are usually stereotypically associated with this. We see the title of the name appear on screen

with a glass affect with a guy with a weapon about to smash it. In the background we notice the ‘zombie’ covered in blood running towards him, so he smashes the glass effect of the writing to pieces using his weapon. This shows fear in the film. The blood on the ‘zombie’ shows an indication that it is easy to discover that genre

of the film is horror. The next shot, we see a woman running without a top, showing her to be naked. This may show create enigmas for the audience in to whether the film is associated with nudity and sex or whether it is associated with violence. When linking the features ‘violence, nudity, blood and rock music’, it would typically be witnessed as using typical brutal connotations of a horror film.

At the end of the sequence, it shows a blood splatter on the screen, shadowed by a man falling from which seemed to be the building behind him, through something which then leads into a screen of darkness. The darkness could associate that there is no hope for the people that remain human.

The typography throughout the title sequence is written in capitals and in a typical horror colour, red. Red typography is usually used to link with danger. Using the colour red strengthens the genre of horror as horror is suppose to involved some gore and blood. Throughout the title sequence the characters are always seeming to run away a ‘zombie’ or turning into a ‘zombie’. We know just by the title sequence the film is going to adhere to the story line for the film and its title. 

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The Fantastagirls Narative

The Fantastagirls Narrative

The Fantastagirls

There are four main characters playing the roles of female super heroes.

Fire Girl (causing fires), Bubble girl (restraining people with gum), Giggle girl (deafening people), Air girl (moving people, and herself with air)

At the beginning of the film the four main characters are going about solving crimes independently, all in which reflect on their power. A crime has happened and they all go to the scene and they are all involved in a conflict where each superhero cannot solve the crime because they are not powerful enough. They are all introduced with each other and they conclude that they cannot work alone and that they will work better if they are in a team. At first, they are all apprehensive of one another, but a long the way they realise that the only way that they can defeat evil is by working together.

The evil villain is ‘Zorack’ and he builds a machine, which will steal all powers from any body that has one. His power is mind control, which can allow him to control people’s thoughts and make them give him his power. This initially can allow him to be the most superior person in the world.

‘The Fantastical  are faced with obstacles, caused by the villain ‘Zorack’ which they must overcome to save the human race. They must use their powers in certain circumstances to help them achieve this.

Zorack uses his mind control where he makes people become almost mind clones of himself. The 'sidekicks' of Zorack cause conflict for the fantastagirls as they try to think of ways to defeat Zorack. The 'sidekicks' also have powers but they use them against the fantastagirls when they are on their mission to destroy the machine. When they finally defeat the sidekicks they are faced with Zorack. Together, they set out to destroy the machine and put the magical world at peace. When they arrive they are faced with many decisions.
Zorack wants fire girls power, and says that he will only take her power and then he will leave. The fantastagirls have to choose between themselves and friendship. They realise that they need friendship as they would have never of got far alone. They continue to work together, where they finally use their powers together to defeat Zorack and destroy the machine.