The Title Sequence.
citations. (March 2009)
The opening credits of
A Farewell to Arms, based on the 1929 semi-autobiographical novel by
Ernest Hemingway.
A Farewell to Arms, based on the 1929 semi-autobiographical novel by
Ernest Hemingway.
Saturday, 28 February 2015
The Title Sequence. 
Gorky Film Studio
In 1915, Mikhail Semenovich Trofimov, a merchant from Kostroma, established the Rus' film production unit (Russian: "Киноателье «Русь»") with studio facilities. In 1936, the studio was transferred to Butyrskaya Street in Moscow. The Rus' studio, employing many actors from Stanislavsky's Moscow Art Theatre, specialized in film adaptations of Russian classics (e.g., Tolstoy's Polikushka, 1919).
In 1924, the Rus' studio was renamed into the International Workers Relief agency (Russian: Международная рабочая помощь (Межрабпом)), abbreviated as Mezhrabpom-Rus' (Russian: Межрабпом-Русь). The first Soviet (sci-fi) film, Aelita, was filmed at this studio in 1924.
Four years later, the studio was renamed Mezhrabpomfilm (Russian: Межрабпомфильм), changing its name once again in 1936 to Soyuzdetfilm (Russian: Союздетфильм), the world's first film studio which specialized in films for children. The first soviet sound film, Ticket for Life, was made there in 1931. Five years later, the first soviet color film, Grunya Kurnakova, followed.
During World War II the film studio was evacuated to Dushanbe and merged with Tadjikfilm. Upon returning to Moscow, the studio was given the name of Maxim Gorky (in 1948). Between 1963 and 2004 its full name was Maxim Gorky Central Film Studio for Children and Youth (Russian: Центральная киностудия детских и юношеских фильмов им. М. Горького).
Since the 1950s, the Gorɢky Film Studio has been involved into dubbing foreign features. A humorous "film-magazine" for children, Yeralash, has been filmed at this studio since 1975. Until the fall of the Soviet Union, the Gorky Studio had a branch in Yalta. The studio survived the dissolution of the USSR; it is now a private venture.
By the end of the Soviet Union, Gorky Film Studio had produced more than 1,000 films. Many film classics were shot at Gorky Film Studio throughout its history and some of these were granted international awards at various film festivals.
In 1915, Mikhail Semenovich Trofimov, a merchant from Kostroma, established the Rus' film production unit (Russian: "Киноателье «Русь»") with studio facilities. In 1936, the studio was transferred to Butyrskaya Street in Moscow. The Rus' studio, employing many actors from Stanislavsky's Moscow Art Theatre, specialized in film adaptations of Russian classics (e.g., Tolstoy's Polikushka, 1919).
In 1924, the Rus' studio was renamed into the International Workers Relief agency (Russian: Международная рабочая помощь (Межрабпом)), abbreviated as Mezhrabpom-Rus' (Russian: Межрабпом-Русь). The first Soviet (sci-fi) film, Aelita, was filmed at this studio in 1924.
Four years later, the studio was renamed Mezhrabpomfilm (Russian: Межрабпомфильм), changing its name once again in 1936 to Soyuzdetfilm (Russian: Союздетфильм), the world's first film studio which specialized in films for children. The first soviet sound film, Ticket for Life, was made there in 1931. Five years later, the first soviet color film, Grunya Kurnakova, followed.
During World War II the film studio was evacuated to Dushanbe and merged with Tadjikfilm. Upon returning to Moscow, the studio was given the name of Maxim Gorky (in 1948). Between 1963 and 2004 its full name was Maxim Gorky Central Film Studio for Children and Youth (Russian: Центральная киностудия детских и юношеских фильмов им. М. Горького).
Since the 1950s, the Gorɢky Film Studio has been involved into dubbing foreign features. A humorous "film-magazine" for children, Yeralash, has been filmed at this studio since 1975. Until the fall of the Soviet Union, the Gorky Studio had a branch in Yalta. The studio survived the dissolution of the USSR; it is now a private venture.
By the end of the Soviet Union, Gorky Film Studio had produced more than 1,000 films. Many film classics were shot at Gorky Film Studio throughout its history and some of these were granted international awards at various film festivals.
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In 2009, Foursquare launched the check-in and real-time location sharing with friends. Five years later, we decided to give the check-in its own app. Swarm is the fastest and easiest way to keep up and meet up with friends.
We're proud to be funded by Union Square Ventures, O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Spark Capital, DFJ Growth, SMALLCAP World Fund, Silver Lake Waterman, Microsoft, and and a handful of angel investors.
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Convention: A widely used and accepted device or technique, as in drama, literature, or painting. Giving this a media application, conventions are the audience expectations whilst watching a movie, for example the tension in a thriller film or danger in an action-adventure movie. Conventions are similar in similar styles of films, giving meaning to the genre of the film and allowing the audience to know what to expect when seeing a movie. We researched similar thrillers in our genre, such as 28 Days Later and I am Legend, seeing what conventions they used and seeing what similar conventions we might use in our thriller.
We used music conventions in our thriller to creating meaning, and conform to audience expectations. We used a dark, ominous single note throughout the first half of our thriller. This immediately gave the audience a clear indication of what to expect in our opening sequence, they knew it was suspenseful, and that something would happen soon. We teamed this music with distorted images, and added spot sounds of TV Static, and loud distorted sounds to make the audience feel uncomfortable and alert, taking an influence from the American Horror Story TV Series, using distorted sound, colours and images to create a sense of suspicion, tension, suspense and danger.
The font we used was similar to that used in many other opening sequences we saw, it remains neutral and doesn’t contain distracting features which we researched from rom coms and comedies we should stay away from stylised and ‘girly’ fonts. It was Futura, a sans serif font, which reflects the modern, technological style of the film; computers mainly use sans-serif fonts as they display better on the screens.
Conventions ensure that the audience has a sense of familiarity, pleasure and makes certain there is potentially going to be success made from the film. Conventions cause there to be an expectation of what is going to happen, and when a convention is broken, it either causes surprised pleasure, or shock or it may not work. You can subvert audience expectations which becomes a selling point and creates a different type of pleasure for the audience.
We developed a conventional sound for the first part of our thriller and distorted it to challenge the convention which we feel worked very well. An example of challenging conventions is Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction - using the ending at the beginning is not what the audience expects which means tension and suspense builds and reaches its peak right from the start, then has to build all over again.
We used music conventions in our thriller to creating meaning, and conform to audience expectations. We used a dark, ominous single note throughout the first half of our thriller. This immediately gave the audience a clear indication of what to expect in our opening sequence, they knew it was suspenseful, and that something would happen soon. We teamed this music with distorted images, and added spot sounds of TV Static, and loud distorted sounds to make the audience feel uncomfortable and alert, taking an influence from the American Horror Story TV Series, using distorted sound, colours and images to create a sense of suspicion, tension, suspense and danger. |
| "Futura" font |
Conventions ensure that the audience has a sense of familiarity, pleasure and makes certain there is potentially going to be success made from the film. Conventions cause there to be an expectation of what is going to happen, and when a convention is broken, it either causes surprised pleasure, or shock or it may not work. You can subvert audience expectations which becomes a selling point and creates a different type of pleasure for the audience.
We developed a conventional sound for the first part of our thriller and distorted it to challenge the convention which we feel worked very well. An example of challenging conventions is Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction - using the ending at the beginning is not what the audience expects which means tension and suspense builds and reaches its peak right from the start, then has to build all over again.
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