When thinking about the title sequence for our opening, it was important to consider the colours of the typography as we're doing a Film Noir, meaning we had to carefully think about what colours would look best on black and white. We were undecided on whether to use a black font with a white outline, or a white font with a black outline; we needed to use a font that would be visible over the action, but we didn't want the text to be too obvious that it dominated the screen/shot. We decided that the shot should be roughly 15 seconds long, but over the top of the images; we felt that having the text on a plain black screen for 15 seconds would cause our target audience of young 15 year olds to become agitated and lose concentration.
For our storyboard we made sure we focused on the camera angles and distances when drawing the images, we felt it was extremely important to have the images drawn fairly similar to how we pictured the opening to look. However, at some points we struggled to show that the images were drawn at an angle making it more difficult for us to recognise the angles we wanted to use. As well as this, we made sure we had alternative options of certain shots; this meant that we would have a larger choice of shots to use, hopefully meaning there would be less reshoots needed. On the other hand, alternative shots made the process of creating the animatic a little harder as we were unsure which of our alternative shots to use, without having to make more than one animatic.
For our storyboard we made sure we focused on the camera angles and distances when drawing the images, we felt it was extremely important to have the images drawn fairly similar to how we pictured the opening to look. However, at some points we struggled to show that the images were drawn at an angle making it more difficult for us to recognise the angles we wanted to use. As well as this, we made sure we had alternative options of certain shots; this meant that we would have a larger choice of shots to use, hopefully meaning there would be less reshoots needed. On the other hand, alternative shots made the process of creating the animatic a little harder as we were unsure which of our alternative shots to use, without having to make more than one animatic.
what styles of typography did your research of Film Noir convey? As well as this Heather, with a little thought in my head, what conventions of Noir are you using in the opening sequence? and which are you subverting? It will be well worth you exploring this in your posts as you begin to analyse and evaluate your filming and post-production work. The opening needs to clearly show these. It is so important for you to show me a sequence of images (not necessarily in lesson time) so I can comment frequently.
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