Saul Bass

Saul Bass

Saul Bass was an American graphic designer and a filmmaker, probably best known for his film posters and opening sequences. During his 40 year career he created the opening sequences for films such as "James Bond", "Cape Fear", "Vertigo" and "Psycho". He has worked with Hollywood's biggest names such as Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick and Otto Preminger. He became well known in the film industry for creating  "The Man With the Golden Arm" by Otto Preminger in 1955, he has also worked on "Psycho" by Alfred Hitchcock.

                 Saul Bass was born May 8th, 1920 and died 25th, April, 1996 at the grand age of 75 years. In Bass's lifespan he was most famous for his film posters, title sequences and his corporate logos. He has made an astonishing 49 film opening's.

   Saul Bass' has influenced film titles and openings of our generation today such as X-men-first class.



Continuity Piece

Continuity Piece

we had to film a continuity piece involving filming and editing a character opening door (me), crossing a room, pulling out a chair and sitting down in the opposite another another character(Alex), and exchanging a few lines of dialouge. This task involved the 180 degree rule, match-on-action and shot-reverse-shot.

   The continuity piece did not go to plan the first time, because we did not follow the storyboard that Miss had gave us. We thought that you could make up your own story. So we had told Miss and she had said we had done it wrong. So know we know to Always folow the story board.

180 degree rule;

This is a picture of the 180 degree rule.

The 180 degree rule is a filming guide linethat participants in a scene have the same right/left relationship to each other, with filmikng only taking place within the 180 angle, this is maintained in and/or during conversation. I used this in our continuity piece when me and alex were talking to each other on the table.

Match-On-Action;

Match-on-action(or cutting on action) is an editing technique for continuity editing in which one shot cuts to another shot portraying the action of the subject in the first shot.

Shot-Reverse-Shot;

This is a picture of the shot reverse shot rule.

Shot-reverse-shot is a continuity editing technique simply used in conversations or characters looking at differrent objects.

  

The Brief

Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom he/she then exchanges a couple of lines of dialouge. This task should demonstrate match-on-action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.

Main Task.

                    The titles and opening of a new fiction thriller film, to last the maximum of two minutes.