Film Opening Title Sequences

We have been looking into film title sequences to help us with our opening scene film which we will be filming very soon. We had to create 4 time lines of our 4 chosen film title sequences, 2 of these had to be post apocalyptic films and the other 2 could be from any film genre. My chosen post apocalyptic films were Divergent and Armageddon, I chose these as I wanted to look into different films I haven't explored properly before in our lessons, the other 2 films were Monsters, Inc. and Sweeney Todd, I chose these to show how different film genres have different opening scenes. Monsters, Inc. is an animated family film and Sweeney Todd is a horror and drama film, so all 4 of my films were very different.

Preliminary Task: How did it get on?

FILMING SELFIE!

We finished filming for our preliminary task around 3 weeks ago, we ended up having to make some changes to our plan as our groups imagination at the time was going a bit overboard and on the day of filming we realised we could not actually do what we intended to do. We also had to have 2 days of filming as we did not like our idea at first due to it looking as if it was a magic trick instead of a serious thriller. After we finished all of the filming and we were finally happy with the clips we started to edit our work on Premiere Pro. We have now completed all of our editing and we are very happy, each person in our group have edited the work individually so that it shows that all of us have made an effort with the work and it allowed us to mess around with the app and get more comfortable with using it for the opening scene video which we will be starting soon. One thing I would like to experiment more with is the effects, I did include 2 effects into my task however I did not want to add too many to make the task look cheesy and childish therefore I stuck with the simplest effects such as wipe and dissolve. Overall this task was very fun to do, not only did me and my friends plan it but also the children we asked to help us with our film also gave us ideas on what to do to try to make it easy for us and for them so it was great getting advice from an audiences point of view, our parents also gave us feedback on our videos to help us improve the work (especially how to improve the magic trick kidnap). We even had to have a stunt double to pick up the child, shout out to Tom Grace, cheers! We also created a short behind the scenes video to show how much we enjoyed creating our first video as a group.