Titles

After looking at what both Jonny and Henry have suggested i feel that we do need a shorter title and i like the title 'unknown'.

I feel that if 'the' was added before it then it draws attention away from the one word effect.

I agree with what Jonny said about one word titles bringing fear and suspense.

I like this and think for the purpose of our film it would be the best title to go for.

The Dilemma - Part 2

Henry has bought up a very good point here regarding the conventions of a thriller and the way thrillers are named in conjuntion with these conventions. In the research which I did about the titles of a thriller there were two main catagories that I could see:

1. short names, often one or two sylables that convayed a sense of fear, intrigue and mystery, and;
2. longer titles that have words relating to high-octane action and often to the main action sequence of the film.

Henry has put forward title ideas before and the two best are Hunted, (The) and his latest one Unknown, (The). I am also putting forward a variation of a previous title, Details (In the).

Title Dilemma

After we decided our title needs to be changed, (in order to better fit thriller conventions) I came with an alternative title:

- (The) Unknown - this few syllables than 'Attention to detail', has links to the plot (unknown antagonist, stepping into the unknown) and leaves the audience guessing as to what this might involve.

I have also added this post to my "possible titles" post which I wrote on 01/02/10 because of its relevance.

Titles

After group discussion on friday and Grace and Jonny's discussed titles I believe:

DISAPPEARANCE would be my first choice: this title is an polysyllabic abstract noun so I believe has more of an impact on audience, there is one obvious link to the plot (the girl) and then one slightly more subtle (the antagonist).

ATTENTION TO DETAIL my second: I am less sure where this fits into the story. I see this as more generic but I would still be happy for it to be used as our title.

The title to our film

After spending sometime looking at the outline to our full story to try and make a decision on the title, we decided to make to lists. One for the main male character and one for the female to try and put some words together to make our title.

Him - hunted, death, night, disappearance, strange, cloak, chasing, shadows

Her - disappearance, thoughts, stronger, psychic, happening(s), hidden

Film - meeting, details

After looking at these words we we thought about the story details and the part where her things disappear and other things reappear and came up with the title

'ATTENTION TO DETAIL'

Titles

I was thinking about Henry's title idea Shadows and The Deathly Silence and thought the may work well together to make 'The Deathly Shadows'.

However, I dont know whether our title should refer to Amy rather than the attacker.

Meeting 17 (Lesson Update) - 08/02/10

Unfortunately both Jonny and Grace were unavailable because of 'drama production' commitments.
So the only thing I (Henry) felt I could do (that we hadn't already covered) was to practise more editing techniques in final cut express, as my skills in editing needed to be improved.

I will take a look at the footage shot from re-filming when we meet again on Wednesday, and again begin to edit through the appropriate shots. We may also finalise a title for our film.

Titles

It is very hard to come up with a title as most that come to mind that will fit in with our storyboard have already been taken. However i have managed to come up with some:

The Dark Stalker
At Nightfall
The Follower

Possible Titles

We have already posted a video on our chosen title sequence, thinking about the layout/order and several texts creating a variety of different effects. However, as yet no one has come up with a title for our opening sequence and I had a moment of inspiration today. I realise that this title decision is small in comparison to rest of the filming process, but it is something that needs to be considered.

Here are some possible titles that I came up with for our film:

- Shadow, (In the) Shadow
- Silouette
- Target
- Disturbed
- Hunted, (The) Hunted
- Dead Silent, The Deathly Silence

On 04/03/10, after we decided our title needs to be changed, (in order to better fit thriller conventions) I came with an alternative title:

- (The) Unknown - this few syllables than 'Attention to detail', has links to the plot (unknown antagonist, stepping into the unknown) and leaves the audience guessing as to what this might involve.

Opening Title Sequence

Below is the opening title sequence that we have come up with.

Logos

Below are the logos that we constructed for our opening sequence

As a Note - Title Credits

At the very start of the film we must include:

For the benefit of the Exam board, on the first screen we have to put:
the centre name and number
each of our names and individual candidate numbers

Fonts

Here are pictures of the fonts that i showed you just as a reminder of ones that we have access to that are not on the school system. These are the ones that interested me. I know that some are not appropriate but these were the ones off of the CD that we interesting and not just simple and basic like the ones that are already on the system at school. I will bring in the CD so that you can view the other fonts in it incase you prefer any others.

Titles

I had the same sort of idea as this but i think that rather than having the titles placed in the centre at the bottom i was thinking to the right nearer the corner to make them even less obstructive as in our opening we have much action which requires more of the image to be seen. I have to say that i don't like the fact the the word 'Staring' stay on screen throughout. I think it would be better if it was to fade in with the first name and then fade out again.

I like the slanted 'A' in the title and I think it may be worth thinking more about detail like this when it comes to editing rather than just having plain font. As Henry said, as we have little time to achieve putting in our credits i think that ours would have to move at a slightly quicker pace than this, however i did notice that the pace fitted in with the music.

Titles: 'Altered States'

Watch from 2.20 onwards. My focus on this video was purely the text used and how it was done, not the title sequence storyline. I hope to bear my findings in mind when we come to choose our final title/opening sequence.

The first thing I felt was quite interesting was the way the actors names flashed up after the word 'Starring', this made the continuity of the sequence much better. It also saved time as the names were shown on the same screen. If we wanted to progress our film within the sequence, and get alot of information across in a short period of time, this might have to be changed. But we could still use the flash effect whether or not the names appear on the same screen.

Also, it is in a small text making it fairly unassuming. This does not dominate the audience's view and allows them to follow the story easily whilst the credits are rolling. This is, I believe, is the effect we are trying to create because when researching titles we felt big texts took something away from the film.

I like the originality of the text, shown very well at the end of the clip. The 'A's are slanted, giving the title of the film some extra interest aesthetically and pragmatically.

Titles: 'Altered States' Video