Fonts and Production Distribution Company

In my spare time I have been looking at different fonts I am thinking of using in my opening scene for the film title.
For our film title I have found a few different fonts on http://www.dafont.com/ that I like for Forsaken such as these which I have put on the side to show my top four favourites. I decided to use one of these for my opening scene which was Defused due to it being not too over the top and not too simple for my film and the others look very dramatic and have a strange death look to them. I screenshot the font and opened it up onto Photoshop and inverted the image as I wanted the text to be in white on a black background, which then I saved and added on to the end of my opening scene. The reason why I decided to look for more fonts is because the fonts on Premiere Pro do not have the look I am going for.

As a team me and my filming group decided to gather ideas on what we want our production distribution company to look like, therefore we researched the most well known companies to get inspiration. Our aim was to have a classic look as we noticed many companies have blue tones to them and feature clouds such as DreamWorks, Paramount and many more. Therefore we decided we wanted to combine some of the production distribution companies looks together but to add our own look to them. We used our own photographs which we have taken recently as one of us went on a skiing trip to Italy of mountains and someone else had taken a great landscape photograph of the sunset, which we then decided to edit on Photoshop. We quick selected the mountain on top of the sunset and cropped the image down, we also changed the brightness and contrast of the image to add a dark theme to it to show off the deep tones. The aim of our production distribution company is to have something related to media and photography as we all study both of the lessons and they describe our personalities very well. On top of our edited photograph we added a film strip shape and added "LEL" in between each film block as they are our initials and we have always wrote them on our work throughout the year and we made the font simple and bold. Underneath we added on "productions" with a slightly more handwritten look to it to make it look sophisticated.

Non Copyright Sound

Before knowing this I started looking myself at different soundtracks that I thought would work well with my opening scene. I listened to some of the soundtracks from the 4 post apocalyptic films we mainly studied, there was one particular sound track I really liked which was "Deer Hunting" from I Am Legend. This is because I like how tense the music is, and that it is not too tense to the point it sounds scary. There has also been another great soundtrack I have found that I would absolutely love to use in my film if it was possible and that is Vicky Chow - Morning Tale: I. Nocturne.

 I think that this is a great song for my post apocalyptic film, if anything I would love to be able to change the order of the song, as I would use the starting 20 seconds for my film in film because it is very slow and calm, then from 21 to around 55 seconds I would use for the apple part of our film when the killer has spotted his victims because it slightly reminds me of "Psycho". From the first minute to around 1 minute and 30 seconds I would love to use towards the 2 characters noticing someone is watching them and them running away because the music gets faster, also for when one of the characters gets shot. From 1 minute and 43 seconds- 1 minute and 47 seconds I was thinking would be great for the part when the female character runs over to her partner after his death because the music is very slow and has piano which I think is great because it slightly sounds aggressive on some notes. From around 2 minutes and 20 seconds- 2 minutes and 30 seconds I think would be great towards the ending perhaps when the female takes the items of significance and the items to survival and the killer starts to follow her. The ending of the song gets slower and quieter which I would also like to fit in towards the end of my film as that would make my film sound very mysterious. I am wanting tense music throughout the majority of our opening scene, I want tense music at the start, then in the film in film I want something slow and towards the end I want something calm  to leave the opening scene as a mystery.

I decided to get in touch with Vicky Chow to ask her for permission to use her piece for my opening scene



We have been given websites that do have non copyright sound tracks and sounds in lessons which we will be using when we start to edit our work. Websites such as https://www.partnersinrhyme.com/pir/PIRsfx.shtml , http://www.freesfx.co.uk/soundeffects/fire_explosions/ , http://www.grsites.com/archive/sounds/category/16/?offset=0  for foley sounds, however we have already created our own foley sounds using our props and recorded the sounds on our phones.