Problem with the titles

Unfortunately we noticed a slight flicker on the letter 'd' during the production of the title sequence. For some reason this blip was unfix able, as much as we tried to solve the problem. However it can only be noticed for a slight second. We also had various different issues with the typewriting effect we used for the credits, as the quality of the font kept being changed without our control. However many times we tried to solve the problem from starting from scratch the problem still remained the same. In the end we found out a way to stop the credits from glitching, even though it took some time to do so.

Saturation changed

We decided to bring the saturation down on the scenes we shot during editing due to the colours being quite bright which was not as intended. This is as we wanted to impose a more sinister atmosphere and represent that the character was in danger to the audience. This helped capture the grim surroundings of the setting it was in, and therefore gives a glimpse at the mood for the rest of the film itself.

Storyboard animation for opening

This was my group's first storyboard animation draft for our opening. It is clear to see now how many changes have been made during the actual production especially having to do with the music, as well as some of the shots we initially planned on doing.

The making of the opening

This video shows myself and my group working on the opening for our film project.

Production companies

Before our opening started we knew that we had to place a few production companies in to help give the opening a more realistic feeling. We decided to be quite adventurous and choose the first piece of footage from my own camera roll on my phone. Using previous video footage of myself on a motorbike. However we had to cut down the footage due to myself screaming my friend's name! In the last couple of seconds, however we still wanted to include the motorbikes itself sound during the beginning. We also decided to name the first production company as 'Fast lane productions' due to the evidently fast pace that the bike was going. Our second production company was a lot simpler being named 'Stained glass films' with an background image of a glass window. Our editor Sophie firstly attempted to have the text circling the glass window however due to the overall difficulty of this challenge we ended up with a simple yet sophisticated straight line animation.

Recording sound

We had to use foiled sound over the top of some of the action sequences in the opening. This was necessary due to failure of being able to hear the phone we used for the ringing and the message sent to voicemail sounds. We also added sound to where i had filmed myself receiving a call and hearing a voice to suddenly then declining it. Luckily my reaction time to the voice we recorded separately fitted perfectly within the editing, making everything look in sync.

Music

We decided from the beginning that we wanted our music for the movie to start off as quite simple and then suddenly turn to more dramatic. It started off as quite a difficult challenge considering each member the group was imagining the sound we wanted to use quite differently. However to find the music that we required, we pressed on and found a website called epidemic sound that to our opinion gave the largest amount of choice and variety. We looked through most music choices for dramatic and running music and ended up choosing: