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.

Progress

Today we added the music we created the other day to the sequence. We are using it during the inter cuts of the girl and boy getting ready. When the music was added the clips started jumping so we had to get the media technician to fix it. Once it was fixed it looked quite good. We also continued to edit clips and remove sound from certain clips. We also continued creating the blooper sequence.

Progress

In today's lesson we continued editing the sequence which went really well and we got about three quarters of the way through and then Nicola stayed during her free period and managed to finish the rough editing of the end of the sequence.

Nicola and I then stayed after school. I focused on refining the sequence by making the match on action perfect, re-sizeing shots and cutting out unwanted sounds etc. and Nicola had a go at creating some music since she hadn't attempted that yet, it sounded quite good however it was difficult to get the right upbeat kick to the music without making it sound too cheesy, also it was hard to find a guitar that didn't sound to dark. But it was good because it moved away from the club sounding music which we did not want.

Progress

Today me and my group stayed after school in order to complete our editing and make sure we get it to a high standard like we had before the burglary. We had struggled over the past few days with maintaining all the work we had to do in such little time. In terms of editing our sequence we are half way done, so we mainly worked on sound  and Nicola started editing our behind the scenes footage. We created good music for the part when the main girl and boy are getting ready but we struggled creating music for the party scene as it kept turning into too much like club music, and this is not something we wanted for our opening sequence. Therefore, we have tried to find some copyright free music which is more of a party sound than a club, which would also suit our genre of a coming to age/ romantic film. 

The music we had found for the girl and boy getting ready I thought was well suited because it was not only ideal for what a boy may listen to, but also a girl. Originally, we had created music similar to Legally Blonde but we were not happy with it as it turned out to be too girly, and therefore when inter-cutting with the guys parts, the music did not appear to suit with his actions. Therefore, the current music we created is much better and fits in nicely with our footage, shots and genre. 

Over the next couple of lessons we are aiming to complete our editing of the opening sequence and edit the sound onto our footage. We also need to compete our credits and figure out where they would be best to put into our sequence (i.e.. the beginning or just before the end of the whole sequence).