This is our new, improved opening sequence with the changes made in accordance with our audience feedback.
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Thursday
Changes made to the titles
After gaining feedback from our audience and teacher we decided that we needed to change our titles to be more in line with the forms and conventions of real media products. As it stood the titles were just a progressive scroll of 7 or 6 names in a large font placed in front of a plain black background. From our feedback I decided on a list of changes and improvements that could be made to the titles in order to better satisfy the brief given to us.
• Smaller font
• More names
• Production roles and job titles in front of the name
• More interesting font and more varied colour
When I looked at real opening sequences as part of my initial research, I found that many of the films that I watched, utilised a plain white font which is what inspired the design of the original titles, also looking at James Bond films, with the titles being played on their own, aside from the film itself. However…..
This design and style of titles, clearly did not work well within the parameters of the brief and so some changes were needed to be made.
Between the time when the first set of titles were designed, and when we got our feedback, the school had acquired Adobe After Effects CS4 so I attempted to create the titles on this new software. Unfortunately, due to time constraints, I was unable to do anything more than a simple design using the basic textbox and timeline to place them. (I hope to improve on this in time for A2, and expand this knowledge to include animation and the other features available).
After preparing the otherwise completed footage by removing the old titles in Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 and a few attempts at getting to grips with the new software and layout, I exported the film into After Effects and started to address the problems that arose from the feedback. I wanted to keep the style similar to the plain white style I had seen during research as I felt this was effective, didn’t draw too much attention from the main action, and at the same time, suited our genre. I also decided to move the production credit titles from their current position, to the beginning of the sequence, starting almost as soon as the film does. I did, however leave the title of the film as it was and in the same font. I felt that this was important and the font we had decided on for the title of the film should remain cohesive throughout the project, as it does on the DVD cover. I added yellow into each title as the first name to bring emphasis to it, but also to add a little colour and prevent the titles from becoming boring. This was also the reason I decided to use small case, bold lettering for the job titles. The sequence of the titles appearing follows how one would read text, from left to right. The positioning of the titles on the screen is arguably the most important thing to address, as if the titles closely match the colour of the scene behind, they will be unreadable.
Overall I think the changes I made were successful and I managed to address all the issues raised from the feedback. I think that the simple change I made here dramatically improved the overall production and made it fit the brief in a much more suitable way.
• Smaller font
• More names
• Production roles and job titles in front of the name
• More interesting font and more varied colour
When I looked at real opening sequences as part of my initial research, I found that many of the films that I watched, utilised a plain white font which is what inspired the design of the original titles, also looking at James Bond films, with the titles being played on their own, aside from the film itself. However…..
This design and style of titles, clearly did not work well within the parameters of the brief and so some changes were needed to be made.
Between the time when the first set of titles were designed, and when we got our feedback, the school had acquired Adobe After Effects CS4 so I attempted to create the titles on this new software. Unfortunately, due to time constraints, I was unable to do anything more than a simple design using the basic textbox and timeline to place them. (I hope to improve on this in time for A2, and expand this knowledge to include animation and the other features available).
After preparing the otherwise completed footage by removing the old titles in Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 and a few attempts at getting to grips with the new software and layout, I exported the film into After Effects and started to address the problems that arose from the feedback. I wanted to keep the style similar to the plain white style I had seen during research as I felt this was effective, didn’t draw too much attention from the main action, and at the same time, suited our genre. I also decided to move the production credit titles from their current position, to the beginning of the sequence, starting almost as soon as the film does. I did, however leave the title of the film as it was and in the same font. I felt that this was important and the font we had decided on for the title of the film should remain cohesive throughout the project, as it does on the DVD cover. I added yellow into each title as the first name to bring emphasis to it, but also to add a little colour and prevent the titles from becoming boring. This was also the reason I decided to use small case, bold lettering for the job titles. The sequence of the titles appearing follows how one would read text, from left to right. The positioning of the titles on the screen is arguably the most important thing to address, as if the titles closely match the colour of the scene behind, they will be unreadable.
Overall I think the changes I made were successful and I managed to address all the issues raised from the feedback. I think that the simple change I made here dramatically improved the overall production and made it fit the brief in a much more suitable way.
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