Tuesday, 4 April 2017

Improving Opening Scene

After getting my work graded by all of the media teachers at my sixth form I decided I wanted to improve my opening scene as I was close to getting the grade I wanted to achieve. I changed my opening scene by changing the font to something more post apocalyptic to match the genre better, I was suggested to try my film title font however I felt like this would take away the effect I wanted to create with having a bold title at the end, therefore I found another font similar to the film title on http://www.dafont.com/ , in which case I used the "28 Days Later" font where I screenshot the font and edited it on Photoshop by cropping the screenshot, moving the words to the place I wanted them and inverted the screenshot so that it would have a black background and white text to work well with my black stops for my credits. Another thing I did was edited the majority of my opening scene on Premiere Pro to create a more black and white kind of look to my opening scene, it is not fully black and white as some tones such as the red to the apple in my opening scene are shown, so it is more foggy and dusty looking to make it look very old and tiring to match the environment. So the way I did this was by taking away the majority of the contrast and by changing the brightness to be quite low to get the effect I wanted. I believe that these two specific changes have improved my opening scene majorly due to the fact that the effect of the colour in my opening scene matches the genre and reminds me of The Road as the film is very dull and gray scale. The font I am very happy that I changed as I realised after the change it made a dramatic difference in my opinion. Below are screenshots of the changes that I have made shown clearly, the left images are of my draft opening scene and the right shows the change.

On the image above you can see exactly what changes I made on Premiere Pro to create the dark gloomy look I wanted

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