In Class Activity-Art of the Title

As a class activity we walked through "Art of the Title" to get some font, color and title ideas for our genre of film. I learned that comedy genre films have more colorful and bold fonts that pop out at you; while, mystery genre films have more neutral colors and simple fonts so that the background is captured. Since my group is doing a drama, mystery, suspense film, we looked at multiple opening credits to movies such as "Skyfall", "Split", and "Grease". A title sequence that I thought was done well was "Skyfall" because it was basic, yet eye catching. This sequence consisted of white letters, bold font, and very colorful and adventurous backgrounds. The website provided additional comments to the title sequence such as "following the new direction of the franchise: modern, relevant, big." This comments aids to explain why they chose the plain, white font for their titling. Additionally, Daniel Kleinman, the main title designer for "Skyfall", states that he does these title sequences for fun, messing around with the background to have those images appear later in the film. He also has very eclectic taste, so he loves trying new ideas and colors when title sequencing for a film. In my film opening, I might use the use of bold font to capture the attention of the audience, and the use of bright colors in the background to off-set the text and create a story. A colorful background will keep the audience engaged and make them think about how the movie will proceed. Lastly, I will use a simple text so that the titling will not take away from the background images.

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Third Quarter Submission

For our quarter three submission we revised some parts of our film. We re-shot the beginning of our film to slow down the pace of the film. We also added new fonts and coloring in the beginning of our film for our names and opening title, to have special effects and make it more personal. Our original titles were red and had no effect, so this time we added a pop-in special effect for "Girl's Night" title to create a theme for the film. Additionally, we added incidental music at the end of our film to create suspense and mystery. All these revisions were made to add a sense of reality and more suspense throughout our film. Throughout this new submission I learned how to edit sound and put it in the film, how to add special effects to titles, and how to work with PremierePro at a higher level.

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