Completion

We have finally completed our opening sequence!! Today we worked on getting the credits done and I think they are really nice because the fonts are all different colours which suit our genre of a coming of age/ romantic movie. The music is also very effective as it creates a sense of exciting and happy atmosphere which is exactly what we wanted. Overall I am pleased with the finishing opening sequence and am glad we have completed it after all the hard work we put in :)

Bloopers

During the process of creating our opening sequence we also created a side reel of the bloopers. These are the pieces of footage we found hilarious, hopefully our audience will as well.

Progress

Progress

We decided to change our credits and make them more colourful as when we put them on the film we thought the white on black background looked a little too much like a horror film. We also distorted some of the lettering and words to make it a little quirky and give a lighthearted feel to it.

Progress

As the group had different ideas for what the credits should look like, we made two different sequences to see which style looked better.

In the end we decided the second sequence would work much better as it was much clearer to read and not too cheesy, but still was slightly girly so therefore still links to the genre.

Title for our opening sequence

As we have completed editing the sequence for our opening sequence, in today's lesson we looked at creating music for the party scene and finding the perfect title for our movie. We looked at many different examples of movie titles in romantic and coming of age film genres in order to get inspired and get an idea of the types of titles that would be most appropriate. 
We didn't want anything that was too cheesy and by looking at titles which other movies had, most of them were cheesy and included the word 'Love', and so we wanted to be more original in creating our title. Here are some movie titles I found of romantic/ coming of age genres: 

  

The title we have decided to give our movie is 'Snakes and Ladders' as we thought this would be appropriate for our genre and it wasn't something too cheesy. We decided to call this because in our movie the couple would go through ups and downs in their relationship, such as go through phases which may knock their relationship down, but then they might get back together and result in an equilibrium, climbing up the ladder again. I think this is an appropriate movie title because it suits our target audience well because it is aimed at young adults, and so they may be able to relate with these realistic situations in our movie.

Final Touches

Today we finished editing out sequence, we are nearing the end of the process. Our sequence is now together as a whole and just needs a couple of tweaks to make sure the cuts are spotless.  We have now started thinking about the more in detail features of a title sequence. The key focus for us now is music and credits. We have previously had big issues with the music and making it fit our piece, but we have found several track we believe work well with the piece they just need to be added to our piece. As for credits we have experimented with several fonts that we believe will fit the genre but have had a clash of ideas. The compromise is that we have "handwritten" style of font but that it is also clear not overly swirly and extravagant.