Hooray !

After nearly three months of hard work, our opening sequence has been signed off.

We're really proud of the final sequence and feel that we made it to the best of our ability.

There were some ups and downs, as well as times where we felt the sequence wasn't coming together but thankfully, everything worked out !

:)

Titles and fonts

We searched for different fonts that we could possibly use in our opening sequence for our titles

We used the website dafont to search for possible fonts

Production Company name/logo

For the production company we tried to think of names that sounded like they would relate to the sector of the film industry that we were making films in; the thriller and horror film industry. We came up with a brainstorm of names:

'Moonlight Studios' was the name that sounded the best, and was one that we felt could be most creative with to come up with a logo. Patricia and I both then worked to come up with some ideas for the logo, and had two initial ideas that we thought would be good. Here is Patricia's artwork:

When using the Mac the second idea was the one we could work closest to and we came up witha very good end logo to start the film off with, 'Moonlight Studios'...

We went through the same process for the distribution company name and thought of 'Black Rose Productions' which sounds like an independent films distributor that could specialise in horror films.

Editing of third shooting

After our last shoot, we have all the shots we need. However, we feel that something about the sequence doesn't flow.

After advice from our teacher, we have changed our sequence and removed several shots. We realised that it was weird for the character to sit back down on the stairs and drink wine when her friend is panicking on the phone. Therefore we had to remove that shot.

Luckily, we could fill a lot of spaces with our titles which meant we could remove shots that did not make sense.

By removing certain shots, we have increased the pace of the ending of our sequence which is exactly what we wanted. I feel that this builds up tension more and seems more realistic.

Title Brainstorm

Here is a brainstorm showing the various titles we came up with for our film

We had originally liked the title "Anonymous" because it fitted in with the plot of the film. However, we are now contemplating to use the title "Exposed" however, we have doubts that this could lead the audience to think the film is about photography.

Paperwork

Editing of second shooting

We have finished editing our clips from our second shooting.
To be honest, I think that we're pretty much there, but we have decided to have one more shoot, just to finalise things. The feedback the teachers gave us made us realise that we had a few shots missing.
Therefore, we think that it'll be better to have this final shoot, to make our opening sequence less confusing, as even though we're trying to hold back some information to make the audience curious, there's not enough information and hints to make it understandable.
We also have some continuity errors so we need to sort those out. :)