Journal: 28/01/11

In todays lesson we basically carried on editing our title sequence. We are nearly finished however, finding music to fit in with our piece of music is very difficult so we are still on the hunt for this! A thing that we did start to do today was to add our titles to our title sequence. We searched Final Cut Pro for ages to find an effect for our titles that we like but we couldnt find one. The kind of effect we wanted to use was to make them look like they are jumping and moving about in a awkward way. To do this we asked Jerry, a technician to help us. He told us to cut the titles into small chunks and move them about. This worked really well but takes a very long time to do! We hope to get this finished next lesson.

Our Final Production Logo

"With each of the previous production logo's we used a white background with black imagery and typography; in this design we used a negative effect to vary our possible options. The typography resembles the different strokes of the feather. In this design we were able to incorporate all the different elements we realised from our first few designs. The contrast of the white on the black creates a softness to the image without losing the sharpness on points of the feather. So far this is the design which we are most likely to use in our opening title sequence as it fits in with the whole look of the sequence."

We chose this for our final production logo as we could easily incorporate this into our title sequence without difficult as the black background was simple to add in on 'Final Cut pro'. 

Journal: 26/01/11

In todays lesson we continued editing by adding both our production logo, title, and the Lionsgate opening sequence. Myself and Sarah both began searching for music/sound to include in our title sequence; the difficulty we faced was making sure the music was not so dramatic to make our title sequence seem a cliché of the typical crime/thriller genre. The search for music continues....

Journal: 24/01/11

In today's lesson I continued analysing the production logo's we had created, we also continued to edit the filming we have done so far. Throughout the editing process we have realised that it is best some parts of our original idea are cut to eventually produce a better overall title sequence. 


From our original storyboard we had planned to have a scene where you could see the stalker chasing the girl in the background of a focused shot on the iPod. Firstly, we were not pleased with the original filming of the frame- this would have meant re-shooting and therefore loosing time for the editing process. We decided that we would rework the scene's to make them flow not loosing the original narrative of the title sequence. The final product itself we believe added more tension and excitement to the sequence than it would have done if we had proceeded with the original idea.


During our title sequence we have a chase scene, unfortunately when we watched it back the standard of the filming was not very high- the camera made continuos shaking movements which may have made the audience feel some motion sickness. We addressed this problem by incorporating shots of the book in between the chase sequence this meant less camera movement making it seem more professional. Even though our original concept was to have a point of view shot we felt it was best to split the frames to make them come across better to the audience. 

Production Logo

This is the very first production logo we created, the feather itself has slightly been softened, and the typography we used follows a movement which mirrors the feathers movement. The typography colour has been faded in a way which adds a softness to it again relating make to the feather image. This is not my favourite production logo because it is very basic and there is no dimension to it or fading of colours or graining of the image. 

This was the second production logo we designed; from the first design we realised the different elements we had to consider to create a production logo which was the opposite to the first one we designed. Firstly we began by strengthening the dimensions of the feather making it more darker adding further depth to it- which we did not achieve in the original design. Also we added graining over the entire logo this give's an essence of the silent movie era. I thought it would be a good idea to use a typography which resembled an earlier period therefore I chose a font which looked like it had been hand written with ink; the typography also has a motion to it which follows the feathers shapes. A criticism of this design was that the heavy graining could have a harsh effect on the eyes. 

By coming to the conclusion that the heavy graining on the image is harsh on the eyes we used a different effect where there is a focal soft point in the middle of the images and the brightness gets darker towards the corners of the production logo.Firstly we began by strengthening the dimensions of the feather making it more darker adding further depth to it- which we did not achieve in the original design- as we did in the previous design.

With each of the previous production logo's we used a white background with black imagery and typography; in this design we used a negative effect to vary our possible options. The typography resembles the different strokes of the feather. In this design we were able to incorporate all the different elements we realised from our first few designs. The contrast of the white on the black creates a softness to the image without losing the sharpness on points of the feather. So far this is the design which we are most likely to use in our opening title sequence as it fits in with the whole look of the sequence.    

This was our next attempt at a production logo, we had the idea to relate the logo to the genre of our film, so we used a dark ash grey to create a dark mysterious mood to begin the title sequence. As in previous designs we chose to use a typography which mirrors the movement of the feather, as for the colour of the font we chose a slightly lighter version of the grey we had used for the feather- first we used the same colour but found that the writing could sometimes be lost in the background; but by using the lighter colour we were able to make the production name stand out against the black background. 

This was our final design for a possible production logo; in previous designs we had used a dark background with lighter imagery. So, in this design we went back to our original design with the lighter background and then chose a varying grey for the feather and writing. We used a soft effect on the image  of the feather as we thought it created a pleasant effect as it had done on the first and third designs. As for the typography, we juxtaposed the previous idea of having the font mirror the movement of the feather and chose a sharper type of typography; although bearing this in mind throughout the different letters there are breakages which could show some of the strokes in the feather. 

Journal: 21/01/11

In todays lesson we were attempting the editing process of our title sequence. We began experimenting with different transitions and effects to try and get an idea about how to use 'Final Cut Pro'. Also we done some more work on our blogs- I focused on developing my analysis of title sequences further, to gain a greater understanding of how to structure different parts of a title sequence in order for it to flow. 

Journal: 19/01/11

LIGHTS.....CAMERA......ACTION 


In todays lesson our main objective was to finish all our film, we manage to get all the final camera work completed and managed to upload it ready for editing. The filming process itself went very smoothly although we did have to do a few retakes to ensure the camera was in the right position. The chase sequence itself needed focus from every member in our group, we were able to shoot it a few times without loosing light. A couple of run throughs made sure we were aware of what we were doing. 

Getting ready for filming