Journal-Sound

We researched music to go with our title sequence because our genre is thriller we are going to need a slow and eerie soundtrack to create a creepy atmosphere.

As a group we decided to add an audio to our sequence influence from the Gone Girl sequence. We choose to have one of our group member to say a few sentences from the Brothers Grimm story Hansel and Gretel as it links to our narrative of the missing boy this is effective because it adds suspense and tension towards the audience.

Journal

When planning to reshoot the scenes of the attic and looking through the evidence we needed a really dark room so we booked out the schools drama room as its all black which is perfect on what we needed. We decided that having just a spot light on the protagonist and props will draw the audience and will make no distractions but also gives it a more creepy and thriller look.

Journal-Cinematography

From our feedback we decided to remove the montage of arrows and road signs as it didn't go with the sequence as we was told it was random and didn't go with the narrative of the title sequence. So instead of road signs we changed it to the main character planning her journey for looking her missing brother we shown this by having maps, train times and tickets. These shots are much more successful as its more clear on whats going on. I filmed the protagonist writing the train times and a close up of her looking and drawing on the map then i filmed all the props together by moving the camera in one smooth motion showing the audience the props then the camera ending on the picture of the missing boy.

Title Sequence final cut

influences

Gone Girl

We are taking influence from the 2014 mystery thriller film Gone Girl Dir.(David Flincher)  Because our film idea is about an old case being reopened of a missing boy. We will be showing this through our title sequence by having props such as missing posters, clips of the news report, montage of locations.
In Gone Girl there is a scene in the beginning of the film of a persons speaking about the protagonist with an extreme close up shot of her. We are going to use the idea of an audio telling a narrative at the beginning of our sequence to add enigma.
In the Gone Girl montage there are locations of the city in the film, the shots have been filtered with a blue tint this creates a sinister mood.
In our title sequence we have decided to add a montage at the end with it including road signs such as arrows to represent her journey, signs of locations and maps of the area.

The typography is faded onto the screen and is placed on the bottom of the screen, the colour of the font it white it stands out from the shots which changes the viewers eyes to the text to read but as its also small

Journal-Feedback

On our feedback we was told that the shots we filmed looked quiet dull because we decreased the brightness and played with the saturation and highlight we done this because we filmed the scenes on a sunny day so the shots were bright which doesn't really go with the codes and conventions of thriller as it needs to be dark and eerie. The typography also didn't really go with the scenes as it being really dark then the shots being dull it didn't look very appealing. So overall we decided to re shoot the scenes.

Stop Motion typography

This is the first draft of our stop motion, we created this by writing the name of the actor then taking a picture of every step on opening the paper making sure to take a photograph of every step then we imported it onto the computer and added all the photographs onto final cut pro then changed the duration to make it faster so it flows better. This draft needs to be speed up because in the middle of the motion is drags on for some time.
The set up onto creating this was placing the paper onto a black sheet of paper and having a spot light slighting facing onto the writing. On final cut pro we darkened the shots and increased the highlight.

Journal-Production name

Our production name was created using final cut pro. This will be placed at the start of our title sequence. SSBC productions, this name is created by having the first letter of our names which creates SSBC We wanted it to be associated with the thriller genre so we choose to do it in a typewriter style, typewriters are associated with thrillers because they are mainly set in time when they are used then actual computers so everything like documents and reports in investigations are written on typewriters. We found a typewriter font from Dafonts called 'Moms Typewriter' then searched for sounds of a typewriter.


 Typewriter Sound Effect - https://youtu.be/VP2WctM2tzU

First draft of Title sequence

This is the first draft of our title sequence.

Storyboard

Journal

We have finished the first edit of our title sequence I've uploaded it to YouTube to add onto my blog. We still have some improvements to be made but this was just a first draft to show to our peers for feedback. This will also give us more ideas to improve our sequence and overall better our final edit.

Typography

As a group we decided to have our title names to be a handwritten font as it links with the sequence. We decided to have it actually written then having done on computer as it looks more authentic. We wrote on the paper of the producers and actors and scrunched the paper to make it look more rough amd effective, then we scanned it onto the computer to add into final cut pro. We initially decided to have the names just appearing on to the screen with a black background. But we then had the idea of using stop-motion. To create stop motion we took photographs of the paper opening up in stages. Once we done evryname they were imported into final cut pro and put all together , we had to change the duration to make it quicker and it makes it overall look better fast.
When it was imported to final cut pro we chnaged the highlight and brightness to make it darker as it looks more errie.

Detective Card (prop)

This is the detectives business card we are going to use for our title sequence this is going to be in the shot when our protagonist opens the evidence box to show who was apart of the missing boy investigation This was made from photoshop, we also laminated it once it was printed so it looks more legit.

Missing boy poster

This is one of the props that we made on photoshop for our title sequence. We made this because its gives the audience an insight on what the film is about and shows who's missing.