Final Version Of Title Sequence

This is our final version of our title sequence with the corrections made by the comments of the class and the teacher.

Making Corrections To The Title Sequences According To The Comments Made By The Class

The elements that worked;

• The typography come in nicely 
• The cuts are good between shots
• The music works well with the overall flow of the sequence
• The pace of the sequence and how the music and pacing of edits matches the overall theme of the sequence
• The way the titles appeared behind some things within the room
• The music connotes comedy which shows the genre of the title sequence

Things that need developing;

• The end titles (film name and production company) can come at the beginning
• Foley sound from within the sequence itself
• Titles at the end didn't work well
• Shot was too long at the end of the film 
• Bigger titles (change the size of the titles so they are easier to see)
• Final typography and transition for the title of the film looked like a PowerPoint presentation

Things that didn't work at all;

• The class did not find anything about our title sequence that did not work at all

As you can see below this is our teachers review on our title sequence, we made sure to do all corrections and make all improvements according to his feedback as it was the most valuable feed back that we received.

We will now use all of this information and feedback that we have been given from the class and go back to our title sequence and make the necessary corrections so that it looks more professional and like a much better title sequence.

Exporting Title Sequences For The Class To View

Here we have now finished the first version of our title sequences and have now exported theme to quick time movie player and i have also uploaded our title sequence to youtube so that you can see our work as a working progress and also so that you will be able to see the changes that we have made to our title sequence according to the comments that we are about to be given by our class once they have watched it.

The Difficulty With Our Titles

Finally me and Mike have now finished the titles for our title sequence, after labouring after school and during lesson for a good week, the effort has finally paid off as the titles look to be next to almost perfect within our title sequence. Our title sequence will now be exported and will be ready for class viewing in next weeks lesson, so that they can review our title sequence and give us feedback on what works, what can be improved and what doesn't work at all. We as a group feel that we have tried our hardest and put 110% into the making of this title sequence and we hope that this has paid off when it comes to the class watching and reviewing our title sequence.

The reason why our titles took so long too make even with the amount of effort put in by me and Mike is because we needed them to be perfect and not have one mistake within them. The tricky thing with making titles from scratch and adding your own transition like we did is that you can run the risk of harming some of the shots and smoothness of which they run at, also with what we was trying to do was a big ask from final cut pro but it prevailed and showed us that with a lot of dedication to the work you can come out on top even if what you was trying to create did seem impossible, me and Mike showed that anything can be made possible if you put your mind to it.

Finishing The Editing And Starting To Add Titles

After the fiasco of our first shooting and up hill struggle of getting use to final cut pro, me and Mike were now going full out in spending time after school to get the editing of our title sequence finished so that we could move on to  doing our titles, as this is what we felt was the most important thing about our title sequence. When it came to making the titles me and Mike worked hard on perfecting them so that when something moved within the frame a title would appear. When looking at where the titles should be placed within the scene we thought that it would be best if we was to place the titles so that the audience never expected to see them when they appeared on the screen, in some cases this worked perfectly however we did find it hard to do it for all.

We are halfway through finishing all of the titles now and we are still making tiny edits to some of the ones that we have already done, the tricky thing with what we are doing is that the positioning, timing and effect/transition has to be perfect on each title for it to work and this isn't easy, however me and Mike are working our up most hardest to get these titles done and looking professional for our title sequence as we feel this is what will make our title sequence one of the best. We are now going to carry on with the titles and finish them along with the title sequence to the best standard possible ready for viewing in class next week.

Re-shooting And Editing Our Title Sequence

After the problems with the first shooting of our title sequence we was very wary with regards to re-shooting it as we did not want another day of no footage and with nothing to edit as the deadline day is only just around the corner. However things turned out to be different when we re-shot as it actually went okay when we looked at the footage just afterwards.

Our original plan was to use the dolly to shoot a 360 degree angle of our main character sitting on a couch however this plan did not go right as when it came to our first day of shooting, we found that there was problems no only with the floor of the setting, but also the space in the setting. So we as a group put our heads together and came up with a new plan that involved a tripod and not a dolly and we put this plan of action into re-shooting and it turned out to be better than we had originally thought. There were no problems with the footage that we re-filmed and we even thought that this could be our final footage if we edited it perfectly. What we had shot within our group turned out to be better than we had expected and now that we have also started editing it is turning out to not be a disaster like our first day of shooting was.

Now that we have shot this footage and have something to edit, here we now begin the process of piecing together the puzzle that we are trying to create. Watching an advanced person in Final cut pro use the software looks easy, but when i came to editing the title sequence and cutting up footage and putting it together i never realised how hard it was. As i edited more and more of the footage and pieced it all together i struggled to give it that little spark that it lacked in order to give it the wow factor that i wanted people to see in our title sequence. I new when editing that our title sequence wasn't going to win people over for the amazing angles that we had used or the superb acting by our main character played by Mike. So i knew that when it came to me and Mike doing the titles, i understood that they had to be the best anyone has ever seen and that the wow factor about our title sequence would come from them.