Completed Opening & Reviews...

We have now completely finished the video, and we are no starting the evaluation. This is our finished piece:

After watching the finished video, we got some reviews from the other group. We found that some shots needed to be re-shot and cropped to hide the prop, we found that the titles and the music were effective, however we thought that the ending music did not sound right, so decided to edit the music. The Mise-en-Scene was effective, but some of the camera handling was not perfect, but was slight effective. It was appropriate for the task and audience, and was evidence of proficiency in the creative use of many of the technical skills. We have applied all the edits to the film opening, the opening in this post was shown to the group before the edits were added. 

We have listened to the criteria given to us, and we have tried to apply the improvements to make the opening the best as we can get it. We are pleased with the results, and have worked so hard with great results.

Titles...

These are our titles for our opening. We decided to go for a black background, with a graduated silver colour, and a sci-fi style font (as shown in a previous post) We also used colour fades to transition into one shot to the next, to make it look smooth and professional. We used a fly animation for the text, again to give it that professional look. This is the order the titles with go in:

A Three Lions Ltd Production

A Marnie Senior Film

Actors:

Graham Trotter

Sarah Adams

Todd Rae

Ashley Wood

Executive Producers:

Armarnie Senior

Sarah Adams

Filmed By: 

Sarah Adams

Screenplay & Costume Designer:

Graham Trotter

Music Producers:

Kenny Nettlingham

Jamie Carter

Zak Riley

Ms. Stretton

Deadlines...

Rough edit with music - Tuesday 12th March

Blogs are up to date for assessment - Friday 8th March

Final edit of opening sequence - Friday 22nd March

Fonts & Colours for Our Opening Credits...

Now that we have finished filming, we are now starting the editing process. Firstly we started by decided on a font and colour for the titles. We looked at different fonts, and played around with different colours until we created a look which we thought fitted well with our film's genre and our actual film...

This font we looked at, shown above, wasn't right we felt. We thought it was too sci-fi, rather than action like. The colour was too light and airy, and needed to be darker. We looked at lots of different fonts, similar to this and played around with the colours until we found the font and colour we liked.

We then found this font, we liked the style of it as it looked like a font which would fit in an action movie. It wasn't too over the top, and you can still read what the text says. We then added colour, we decided to stick with the metallic grey colour scheme to match with our production company logo, and used a gradient style to create the metallic look. We also decided to stick with the black background as it went well with the metallic colour of the font and the logo.