Evaluation, part 4

Our title sequence focuses on the main features of an intense,jumpy thriller. We haven't given too much away or made it too obvious what our film could be about. We have just shown a chases which should hopefully draw the audience in and get them thinking why is she being chased? and then they will want to know more. Our scenes are dark and eerie which are typical code and conventions of a horror film. Also Meany horror films have a chase scene in them to build up tension so if we put that at the begging in the titles then it will make people want to watch on.

Firstly we had to choose the genre of our film to then get an idea of what location, settings, sound, lighting we would need to include in our sequence. Our genre was fantasy/horror/thriller. At first I was thinking of dark alleyways, small narrow streets at dusk or night.In the end we filmed in a forest as it was going dark. I feel as though it gave our title sequence a mood, it made me feel helplessness and isolation for the character. I find that I feel that way when I watch horror films and a character is on their own, for example in 'The Orphan'.

There is a scene in Twilight where there is a deer chase, this gave us a few ideas on how to set up the camera for example high and low angles, point of view angles. In our title sequence we used a point of view angle. I had to hold the camera while running this puts the audience in my eye view so they are seeing what I am seeing. And we done the same with the vampire's point of view, so he can see me running in front of him. There is a shot in the sequence which i really like, it is when i run and jump over the camera. This is a worms eye view.

The typography in our sequence is now simple. At first we choose a medieval font and filled it in with the colour red. Our font now is much more improved, we didn't want it too be red because it was too obvious because it associates with blood and danger. Also it did look a bit childish. I really like the slow fade in and the fade out it looks as though it is seeping thorough the screen, that on its own seems eerie. From research I noticed that in the title sequence for 'Se7en'the font was white and it gave it a neat simple look but it was still effective.

With the music we had a few problems. The first idea was to use the song 'Creep' by Radiohead but we wasn't allowed to because of the copyright. so we managed to record the instruments of the song by the school band but we was never able to record Helen's vocals because she was never in school. We asked another person but he didn't seem to keen on doing it. In the end we decided not to use creep anymore and went on a web sight and found a similar piece of music where it was non copyrighted, it starts off slow pace and then builds up. It is quite a rocky kind of song but that is what we wanted. We also recorded our screams because our original one wasnt effective enough. And now we have a better one.

With the editing the hardest part was keeping the shots in time with the music. We had parts that we wanted to be in slow motion for the slow part of the song. Also it took us a long time deciding on what effects and motions we wanted on our footage.