Voiceover

This is our final voice over that we made for our title sequence. This voice over had the girls voice (Maria)
and the mans voice (Dr. Thompson). Merging both of our voices one after the other on its own sounded amazing. However after our teacher feedback had our group thinking if we should keep the voice over or not as the feedback says that the voice over doesn't fit in with the title sequence. It is not that the quality is bad because we did with a Mac computer with all the necessary equipment needed so that the quality is good. 

For our title sequence, it wasn't giving the whole the creepy confusing vibe we wanted to give an audience, so we decided to not include it in our final title sequence. 
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Thriller Title Sequence

Thriller title sequence: Outbreak

Sound
On of the first things you hear in this title sequence is an explosion noise. This gives off that this is a war film and people are getting hurt. As the explosion sound goes on we hear the background track of fast drums, drumming at a beat starting. We are starting to become intrigued with what the title sequence is about. As the title sequence goes into present day, the sound is of little shakers shaking fast. This sound creates suspense as we want to know what is happening. We start to hear people talking and beeping like when a door is locked and you need a special code to unlock the door. Level 2 in the title sequence, the music changes to a low drumming sound. At level 3 the music drops to a light flowy sound. As soon as someone in the title sequence goes into a place that is important the music changes. We hear a lot of diegetic sound e.g. the beepers and the doors opening. We only hear one piece of dialogue 3/4 of the title sequence which suggests that the title sequence is not about people talking a lot.       NEar the end of the title sequence when the camera is in the house, there is no music but dialogue from a mans voice.  Lastly non-diagetic sound as the man is washing the dog.

Editing
One of the first edit i see in this title sequence is cuts between the explosion scene.

Cinematography
We see wide shots and an areal shot at the start of the title sequence so that we can see that we are in a jungle away from civilization. The camera fast tracks forward outside of the building creating long shots. In this title sequence the camera movements through out are stand stills, tracking forward or backward to give a continuous feel to the title sequence. As the tracking goes on, we see some mid shots but they are quick as the camera movement is moving. We get a semi close op of the authorization  gadget the man has to put his finger prints on to enter past a door. Over the shoulder shot is done as we follow closely behind the man that went through the authorized door. A two shot is shown when the man and woman are about to go and see what the unknown diseases are. Lastly a mid shot to show the man bonding and washing his dog.

Mise-en-scene
At the beginning of the title sequence we see a man in a soilders attire on so we assume that this title sequence is about war. Then we see a plan fly past to let us know what maybe someone is on the way to helping all of the people that were in the explosion. We think danger as we see fire and monkeys running away. Guards are shown to tell us that we may be going into a secure building with something valuable kept inside it. everyone in the building is wearing some sort of uniform (like navy wear).  People in lab coats are shown to tell us that this title sequence may be set in this lab. The text on the screen tells us where they are and what each room is about. We briefly see some of the equipment that they are using to maybe try and fins a cure for all these diseases. All of the equipment looks advanced and expensive so we get the feel that everything is legit and serious. People in the space suits like, are perhaps in contact with an unknown disease.  Lastly at the end of the title sequence we see we are in a house which looks like the person has just moved in due tot he boxes around the place. Two dogs and a man are in his bathroom.

Title Sequence Update

This is the title sequence after our feedback. There was some problems to this title sequence as we realised that some of the names have too many people featuring in it. I redid the text so that it is only one person so that the shots can be seen clearly without writing on top of it. Also i realised that when i was doing the text for 'Photography By' i forgot to put the 'h' in, so i went to remake that as well. 
It was suggested that we make some additions to the start of the title sequence, so we added some more doctor suggestions in the begining of the title sequence. 

Teacher/Peer Feedback

In this lesson, we had teacher/peer feedback. Everyone had one of these pieces of papers to give some feedback to the other two groups like what we liked and what they could have done better. In order to do this feedback sheet we had to show the whole class and our teacher our different title sequences. These are our feedback sheets: 

I think this feedback was very helpful to our group regarding out title sequence as we got the opinion of how a small fraction of our audience would react to this title sequence. We read off the feedback sheet that the person was confused with what our voice over was trying to reveal/say. Also that they didn't like the effects we put in our title. We were told to add more suggestions that the man is a Doctor to create a more psychological feel to the title sequence. I felt that the feedback was very useful as we as a group made some changes to our title sequence. We took out our voice over as after the feedback none of us felt comfortable to keep it in the title sequence, we shot more footage of the man being a Doctor (him doing some experiments in a lab) My group felt like the feedback that other group said was valid and made sence. In all our feedback was positive with a few things we improved or changed completely.

Fist Draft of Final Title Sequence

This week, we had to preview the first draft of our title sequence. We had to make sure that the title sequence is presentable to show the rest of the class and our teacher. Me and Megan realised that the photography on our text was spelt wrong. Since the text is my job, i will fix it by our final draft. We had a year 13 boy and our teacher in our lesson to give us some advice on how to improve our title sequence.





We got some feedback and we will take that into consideration.

Over the Holidays

This is the first bit to our title sequencer where the camera pans across one shoulder of the doctor to the other as he is writing some notes down in a smart environment. We went to a teacher's meeting room as it was the best room that was best suited to use as a doctors office.  




We filmed and then a week after we filmed in our half term holiday in 2 days, we got over a hundred clips altogether. On our first day we went to Megan's house to film.  We filmed all the indoor shots that we needed. On the second day we went to Lucy's house to film the rest of the indoor shots and the outside shots. 

Feedback Title sequence

Teacher Feedback

Emily (our teacher) didn't like the first part of our title sequence she said that the lighting was bad that that there are a lot of shadows. She suggested for us to re-shoot. We decided to re-shoot one day after school for the girl getting ready. We changed her from putting on her necklace to putting on some lipstick to make her look more innocent and feminine. 

Our other teacher Sinead liked our idea of a girl getting taken for Captive. She liked the pace of it and she thought that the music fitted well with the footage. She also thought that we needed to re-shoot.

Both teachers were a bit confused about the differences we were trying to create so they both suggested that we make more hints of the two characters and what we are trying to accomplish.

We needed to get that feedback so that we know what to improve so that our title sequence can be successful. 

Production Plan Update

These are all of the date of the time spent and what we have done for our title sequence more or less. 

Mise-en-scene

Another brainstorm was created on Bubbl.us for what we will need to get or have for our title sequence. We made a not of what we may need but we might not be able to get all of the stuff. We all contributed to what we can bring and what we wont be able to bring.

Start of Editing

When we came back to school, Lucy put all of the footage on her Mac account form my cameras memory stick. She is the one mainly doing the editing with the help of myself and occationally Megan and Christian. We decided to put Lucy in charge of the editing because she did graphics for her GCSE's and is more familiar  our software whaich is Final Cut Pro.

To create the dark black and white, Lucy used the filters 'saturation' and levels' secttion. Lucy put the saturation on -1 so there is no colour and to brighten up the black and white effect Lucy played around with the levels. The levels of the clips are:

• Input: 50
• Input Tolerance: 100
• Gamma: 1.41
• Output: 43
• Output Tolerance: 68

Lucy added transitions to a few more of the clips so that it  has that natural flow between scenes. The transition which was used was a 'cross dissolve', I believe this creates a slow peaceful atmosphere when at start when the contrasting shots are shown of Maria and the Doctor, compared to stalking, following second half of the title sequence. Transitions like dissolve and cross dissolve were used.

Start of Making Text

As Lucy was starting to edit our footage, i began to start to create out text for the title sequence. I wanted to do the text as i did Illustration and Communication at GCSE and i know a lot about composition and where the text should go to get the audiences attention.
the first thing i did was go on the website 'dafont' as it is a copyright free website and as we all liked the font on our test creation of making the text, i decided to go with the font called Old Newspaper types. I used the software Photoshop Elements. I tried diffrent font sizes and different positioning of the text to see how it would look as a png. document which i could see where the positioning of the text will go.



On Photoshop Elements, i put grid boxes to help me position my text properly and neatly. I made 16 different text with all the different titles that appear on the screen of title sequences. The order of the titles are inspired by the title sequence Se7en.



The only thing that was a problem was that we transferred the text onto be edited and the text was black and we thought it would be better if it was white so that it stands out and also so it can be seen as our title sequence is in black and white. Me and Lucy figured out how to change the colour of the text form black to white without starting from scratch. The composition of the text in the title sequence is coming along and i think it is going to look really good at the end.

This is how they looked as a png. image document.

The composition is to the bottom left of the screen so that the text is not in the way of the footage.

As you can see, i made the endings of the text in line with each other so that everything looks neater and more professional.

I am happy that i can use my previous skills to help make this title sequence.

Sound Effects

Lucy and Christian decided to look at some sound effect that we can use for our title sequence and i continued to do our text edit as Megan was on a school trip.

Chris found the Jump sound on a copyright free website. They played it to me and i liked the creepy mystery effect that it gave. We are planning for the sound to be played throughout the title sequence.  I especially like how they found a piece of music that had a perfect ending which is a high pitched bang where the girl gets taken.

I used Lucy's Soundcloud because it was shared for us all to used from our online group chat on Facebook. 

Crew List

Megan made a cast and crew list as i needed it to create the text for the title sequence and posted it on our 

Facebook group chat. She took the list of the titles from the Thriller title sequence Se7en. Although the titles are the same as Se7en, she looked at some other Thriller title sequences and took some names from there. 

The order of the titles:
> Production companies – Lionsgate and Silent Studios
> Star Cast – Emma Watson and Leonardo DiCaprio
> Title of the film - Captive
> Casting by – all of us
> Music by – Clint Mansell ( Black Swan)
> Costumes designed by – Trish Summerville (the girl with the dragon tattoo)
> Edited by – Lee Smith ( Inception)
> Production designed by – Dante Ferretti (Shutter Island)
> Title sequence designers – all of us
> Director of Photography – Derek Vanlint (Alien)
> Co-producers – Amy Herman , Joseph Reidy (Shutter Island)
> Co executive producer – Richard Saperstein (Se7en)
> Executive producers – Stacey Testro and Peter Block( Saw)
> Written by – Ari Schlossberg (Hide and Seek)
> Produced by – Barry Josephson (Hide and Seek)
> Directed by – John Polson (Hide and Seek)

Megan didn't have to look for a directer as we as a group already decided  that the directer would be John Polson who is the directer of Hide and Seek.

Production of Voiceover

                          

In Wednesday's lesson we made a start with our voice over which we all created by writing a script of what would be said. We decided for the girl and the Doctor to speak. I did the girls (Maria)  voice as my group said that i have a soothing voice as we wanted the girls voice to sound nostalgic.

                                                                      

Christian did the Doctor's voice as we wanted all of the roles for our title sequence to be between our group of four. We wanted the males voice to be like he is normally talking but in a voice recorder kind of. As Christian is familiar of how to record voices, we went to the music department in school, to the recording studio and the booth for it.













The software we used to create our voice over is Logic Pro on a Mac Computer. We played around with our sound, we tried to distort and change the pitch of the voices. In the end we just decided to give the voices an echo for the girls voice for nostalgia.

In the production of the voice over, at first we couldn't get the voice over to play on a normal computer so we had to go back and figure out how to do that. We realised that the levels of the two voices were not the same when it was played from a normal computer and the files had to be bounced before all of the sound can be saved. When we got that situation sorted out by just redoing the voice over so the levels were the same. I feel like our voice over sounds really natural for the type of genre we are trying to produce.

Creator of Se7en

Kyle Cooper

We based our title sequence on the ideas of Se7en. He has done a few other title sequences such as:

• The Mummy (1999)
• Dawn of the Dead (2004)
• Superman Returns (2006)
• Sherlock Holmes (2009)
• Ironman (2008)
• Spiderman (2002)

Typography Research

Typography 

In Wednesday's lesson we looked at different typography title sequences as a class. We looked at the following:

• Zombieland (2009)
• Forrest Gump (1994)
• Lord Of War (2005)
• Catch Me If You Can (2002)

As we are looking to make our title sequence point of view-ish, the title sequence that relates to our group idea is 'Lord Of War'  because it also does point of view but as an object instead of a person.

We then looked at the term Serif and Sans Serif during the lesson and we now know the differences between them.

Serif: a slight projection finishing off a stroke of a letter in certain typefaces

Sans Serif: a style of type without serifs.

The typography in Zombieland is in contrast of the killings to become a zombie. The color red connotes and foreshadows death and blood being somewhere in the title sequence. This text does not have any Serif text which would make it Sans Serif. 

Practice Pan

Practice Pan Shot For Title Sequence

We thought that we should get a feel of what filming a part of our title sequence would be like so we practiced a part of our title sequence that our group is going to begin filming the shots for the title sequence next week during half term now the locations and props have been decided and the storyboard is finished. We decided to practice shots using the Steadicam which I found difficult and frustrating.

We decided to take a demo shot of our first shot of our title sequence, I think she worked well for a first attempt and when we film next week it will be better because we took this shot in a cramped area which made it hard to move with the camera.

I'm glad our group did some practicing with the pan shots because I have realised how difficult it is due to the weight of the Steadicam. We decided that we can't change the Steadicam for a Dolly because a lot of our scenes are quite closed in and low and the Steadicam is more ideal for that. We also found tightening the Steadicams for the different shots quite difficult aswell as there is many different places where you can loosen and tighten parts.

This is our first practice shot of our first scene of a pan-shot of the girl's legs underneath her desk. When filming this for the title sequence, the setting will be better dressed, darker and the actress (Megan) will be dressed to fit to the theme of our film.



Start Of Planning

Lucy decided to make a brainstorm bubble of what our ideas were so far regarding our film idea. Lucy used Bubbl.us to create this brainstorm bubble for all of us to put on our blog.
Here is the first draft of planning me and my group produced: