Changing the title sequence

We are thinking about changing the titles to the opening sequence. This is a slightly less conventional way of presenting the titles than having the titles come up with the actual beginning scene and is more common in TV. Although this is true there are films which do it this way and We feel that this is most appropriate for our film. We are still keeping the previous scenes very similar but are just adding this to the front.

These opening titles can often be made very creepy which will immediately alert the audience that this is a horror film. 

We looked at some great examples of this including the film Se7en:

Although Se7en may not technically be a horror film this opening is still very scary and sinister and the film has got horror elements throughout it. This opening manages to take some of the smallest things and make them very sinister which is what we would like to achieve with ours. This title sequence is over 2 minutes long, for ours we are going to try to do it in around 30 seconds but we will have less titles to put on. This opening is not only there to be scary but serves a purpose by introducing the killer. I like the way they have done this without showing his face and keeping it a mystery for later in the film. It's also almost asif we are inside the killers head.

For our 30 second title sequence we will have the antagonist in a basement/shelter and show him preparing to attack the protagonist. We will not show the identity of the man as this would spoil it for later on in the film.

We are also hoping to make it a bit like the opening of A Nightmare on Elm Street with Freddy creating his claws. this feels very sinister and I love the use of minimalistic music and loud sounds throughout it.

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We want it much faster than that scene with very quick transitions between them. We are essentially trying to find a balance between the two and with a character that will make sense to our audience as the film progresses. We will create a mixture of scenes some of which we will use and some we will not. This gives us the choice of what looks best and in what order.

Recent changes

We have recently changed the short sequence. We got advice from a professional who said that there are some things that we must reshoot and shorten. We are refilling these scenes but keeping some of the original content as well. We must shorten the first scene (house scene) to get straight to the action as well as shooting some new scenes. For our final scene (train scene) we must change the story slightly so that someone else is holding the paper rather than having it on the table. This is so that the story as it makes more sense.
We will reshoot the first scene on Sunday

Time

Editing

We have finished editing the last scene that we filmed which is the train scene. We will come back to it at the end and edit it with the rest of the scenes but we have added transitions and music to the scene. We are now filming our next scene so that on Wednesday we can begin editing it.

Next Filming Session

We will be filming our beginning scene of the opening sequence later today from 6pm-8pm. We have booked in another filming session for this scene later in the week with our actor but are hoping to get it done in the 2 hour slot we are doing later today. We are filming this scene in Matthews house wh9ich we have set up for the scene.

Editing the Train Scene

We got our whole group to help edit as editing is the final stage of the production and we all have to make sure that we agree. We uploaded all the footage from both my camera and another member of the groups camera. We went through all of the footage and picked the best shots, we also cropped and changed the colouring of some shots to make them look more natural and flow better. Over four periods we have edited most of the scene adding the title as well. We just need to add music which we will get one of our friends to create for the film. We will go through it again towards the end of the production when we edit the whole two minute opening together.

First Filming Session

We have filmed our final scene in the two minute opening that we are to create. This is the scene on the train where the protagonist (Fred) wakes up from his nightmare and is on a train entering the city he dreamed about. We filmed this fist as it was the easiest due to it being set during the day.
Overall I would call the filming sessions success as we got lots of footage for the film. Both me and another member of the team filmed at the same time so we could get the most out of the session. We had to be very cautious of time as we were filming on a train which only gave us a short amount of time to film.