Production Brief

Project Name: Spirit Of Christmas

Length Of Opening: 2 Minutes

Deadline: 22Nd January 2010

Group Members & Their Roles:

Jess Wright - Organiser, Director & Editor

Tisha Bibbs: Director & Idealist

Adam Mathew: Camera Man, Editor

Me: Director & Idealist

(We all play mixed roles in our group)

Brief Overview Of Content: Typical family, with a lot of history between the grandad and his daughter, she is a mum of two in which one died, and the grandad seeks revenge by haunting his daughter with her dead child, how does she come to a conclusion that her dad did this to her.

Target Audience: 15 plus, generally anyone that is a fan of psychological horrors and thrillers, believe in the supernatural etc..

What Comparable Products Have You Researched?

What is the rationale behind this product? To create a psychological horror, that twists and plays on the audiences' mind's in a unique way. Audience's will be dragged into the sinister world of our film - Spirit Of Christmas

How will you test if your production is successful? Audience Questionnaires

How will you check that it accomplishes the intended effect? Play our opening sequence to the class, and listen and get feedback

This picture is also another key element in the opening sequence, you see the man cutting out a picture of the twins at birth, as well as him tearing up the picture of his daughter and his wife.







This was one of the main pictures of which associated the most to our film plot, it is a picture of the mum and her husband with her two twins, I think this is the most convenient point to it. We thought putting candles next to it would set off an image of the picture being special in some sort of way, with this picture we have a close up of it, with one of the people's name popping up in it.


When Tisha and Jess was setting up the layout of the house, they came across this clock. They placed it on the shelf with the other ornaments, and we thought it was amazing how one small thing can quickly transform and change the dynamics of the room. Immediately they felt as if that clock transformed the house into an elderly persons home.

Group Meeting And Discussed Issues

So far as a group, we have discussed and explored the good and bad aspects of parts of our opening sequence so far. As a whole, we came together with thoughts, opinions and ideas on how to improve the scene of the girl in her bedroom. Due to some errors of which occured in the film shots before, such as the shot of the mans house, a camera shot got messed up, by the camera zooming in and then freezing and jumping. Unfortunatley we couldn't resolve this dilemma. So in which this case we may have to think of re-shooting some of those scences.

Production Company Logo

this is our production company logo. it was created by adam matthew, as he is the only one that is good at drawing and designing in our media group. we came up with several different company names within our group, and decided that "Screwed Productions" was the best out of the lot. we chose "Screwed Productions" because we thought that with a name like "Screwed", it would not anchor our company to one genre.

Film Certification

These are the film certifications for the UK. My groups film "Spirit Of Christmas" will be classified as 15, as it will contain disturbing images.

Uc & U: Unrated. Suitable for everyone.

PG: Parental Guidance. Suitable for children under supervision of an adult.

12a: Children under 12 have to be accompanied by an adult. (cinema only)

12: No children under 12.

15: No children under 15.

18: No one under 18.

R18: Strictly no one under the age of 18.

Research Into Title Sequence Designer

Kyle Cooper has directed over 150 film title sequences, and has been credited with "almost single-handedly revitalizing the main-title sequence as an art form". He is the founder of two internationally recognized film design companies, Imaginary Forces and Prologue Films. Cooper earned a M.F.A. in Graphic Design from the Yale School of Art, where he studied independently with Paul Rand. Cooper is a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale and holds the honorary title of Royal Designer for Industry from the Royal Society of Arts in London.

Kyle Cooper is the most successful modern designer of motion picture title sequences.
His work includes the opening credit sequences of Seven (1995), Arlington Road (1999), The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996), Flubber (1997), The Mummy (1999), Zoolander (2001), Spider-Man (2002), Dawn of the Dead (2004), Spider-Man 2 (2004), Godzilla: Final Wars (2004), Superman Returns (2006), Across the Universe (2007), The Incredible Hulk (2008), Tropic Thunder (2008).

Cooper became a film title designer because he was influenced by Stephen Frankfurt's opening title sequence for, "To Kill A Mockingbird".

He created the Marvel Comics "Flip Book" Logo panel that was first introduced during the opening of the original Spider Man movie; for which he did the titles. It has since been used in many other Marvel and superhero based films.