Order of the titles.

Titles:

• ·      Paramount pictures presents
• ·      A Paramount vantage production
• ·      A film by Daz Moz and Shoz
• ·      Starring Daisy Preston
• ·      Todd Harding
• ·      Directed by Molly Ruby
• ·      Produced by Daisy Preston
• ·      Filmed by Molly Ruby
• ·      Edited by Sean Archer
• ·      Music by Mike stobbie 

      Today Daisy and me decided on what titles we are going to use in our title sequence and what they will say. We are still not sure on the order and if they are correct so we are going to look more into the correct order. Also at the beginning of the title sequence we are going to use the actual clip of the film production instead of just text saying what production it is. 

Lighting and shot angles.

Before we started filming anything we had to experiment with things such as lighting and what angles we was going to film from. Below this post are some images we took of the different shots and angles. In these images you can see the window behind Todd and the light from outside coming in. This was an issue we faced as we didn’t like the look of the sun light shining in the room. This affected the mood we wanted to try and create as it made the scene look too open and bright which made it seem almost happy and a positive environment when we wanted it to be slightly dark and mysterious to emphasise the sadness and loss that has occurred. So we decided to wait until it got darker outside so the lamps and candles we chose to use had a greater affect on the lighting of the room instead of being disturbed by the sunlight outside. We had to make a decision between the lamps we used depending on the look of them and the lighting they created as to what suited our title sequence best. Although the look of the red lamp I personally think suited the atmosphere better (because red connotations are love etc) we decided to use both because together they created the best lighting for our shots.

Underneath this post are the new story boards for our title sequence. I think they are much better then before as we have included a lot more different shot angles and each shot does not go on for as long as we originally planned. I think these changes will make our title sequence a lot better because the different shots vary and keep it more interesting and short which doesn't allow a lot of information about the main story be shown.

Developed story boards for our title sequence.

Different shot angles.

Beginning of filming

On Thursday we started filming our title sequence at Daisy’s house. We got all of the shots done that involved Daisy and Todd, which is the main part of our sequence. All we need to do now is film the clock and then edit it all together. We came across some issues when filming such as lighting because we had to wait until it was dark outside. This was because we planned to use lamps for lighting to create a hazy mysterious atmosphere, which didn’t work when there was light coming in the room from outside. But other then this there wasn’t many problems at all. Whilst filming we had to be careful about things such as continuity. We had to make sure no props or people were moved out of place whilst filming so once we had edited all the shots together they all run smoothly and nothing is out of place which shows the shots have not all been shot at once. Above this post are images I took from when we was filming.

Ordering of the titles

As we are now starting to film and produce our title sequence we have been thinking about things such as titles. We have already looked at the font we want to use and the edits we would like to use for the text appearing on the page. When it comes to the actual title we have to make sure that they are in the correct order. The order of the titles in a lot of films usually go in this order:

1. Studio Logos
2. Production company presents
3. Film title
4. Actors names
5. Casting,Makeup,Special effects,Music,Sound editor,line producer,executive producer,editor, director of photography,writers, directors.

But in our plan (story board) for our title sequence we had planned to have the film title at the very end of the sequence which goes against the order most films have it in. The film name usually appears at the beggining of the title sequence so the audience straight away know what it is called and get some form of clue on the genre/what it may be about.
I think we need to discuss as a group if we want to change having the film name at the end because even Leanne said that this may be a bad idea. Although I personally like the way the title appears at the end and I think it fits in well with the title sequence as a whole. But I would still like the discuss with the others if we should change or keep this order of the titles.

We have decided that using invisible ink to write our titles for our films in is not a very good idea. This is because we could not find a way of doing this idea in a style that we liked and thought matched our film genre. Also because we thought it was too complex and time consuming as it doesn’t always turn out right so we would have to write out the title in the right font multiple times and make sure it was in the right font etc. So instead we have decided to have the title on the screen over the scene that is being shown (boy and girl reading/writing letter.) We still have not decided how we are going to do this whether we are going to do it on final cut or on photo shop because we still want the titles to fade in and out of the shot. We want them to fade in and out because I think it keeps the idea of time travelling and the fact Arrow leaves and comes back as it gives a sense of someone disappearing anonymously as they fade out slowly and without any warning. 

Because we have decided to use the edit fade in and out quite a lot in our title sequence I researched on the definition for fade in and fade out so we could get a better understanding of the shot types. We have used these shots where the clock is overlapping the people in the background. Also where the writing fades in and out of each shot.

Fade in:  A gradual increase in the visibility of an image or the audibility of a sound

Fade out:  the gradual disappearance of an image or sound

Dissolve: a gradual merging of the end of one shot and the beginning of another produced by the superimposition of a fade out onto a fade in of equal length.

Changes made to our title sequence plan

Today we decided to make some changes towards our title sequence as we came across some problems. We decided that there was not enough shot angles used in our plan (story board) as the shots we planned to film mainly were extreme close ups and long shots. The shots did not vary at all so we have decided to remove certain shots and add in different ones so there is a larger range of shots used.

The shots we have decided to remove are the extreme close ups that show the titles on the letter as the camera pans down the page. We decided to do this because we came to the conclusion that they would not fit in well with what previously occurred in the title sequence, this is because the titles are not the main focus of the sequence to begin with then all of a sudden they do become the main focus so it may confuse the people watching as to why the titles shown closely on the page are maybe more important than the others that are overlapped with the more narrative part of the title sequence. Also it may come across to the people watching that the man in the title sequence is reading the titles when it is meant to be him reading a letter, but because no actual writing of a letter is shown it will look like he is holding a blank piece of paper.

So now we have decided that the audience is going to see the women in the title sequence writing out sentences and they are going to be able to see exactly what the letter says at certain parts of the man reading it. We have decided to do this because it will help people understand more what is going on and what the letter roughly is about. The words written will also help the audience see the love side to the film alongside the time travelling side shown with the clock overlapped over certain shots.