Chosen Typography

This is how we want it to appear on the screen, a black background with blood red font. With this title that will be the last thing to come up in the sequence there will be the sound of a heart beat that will cut out right at the end. Like a few films they have had a chase scene then the screen goes black which I thought could happen at the end of our title sequence. The colour of the font connotes to blood which relates to our film. The serif font looks sharp and edgy connoting to vampire's teeth. 

The rest of these are our titles that will appear in white font as we want the title sequence to be a bit dark. I think they work quite well because it creates a sense of uneasiness.

Twilight - Deer Chase Scene

This is a scene from the start of the Twilight film and it relates to our chase scene. Throughout this it is a point of view shot, from the predator's point of view. This is where our chase scenes differ as we want to either keep it as the prey's point of view or even swap them. It's clear as to where the location is and that will be very similar to ours. It makes many close-up or extreme close-ups to the deer's legs or face and because of the extremely fast pace it makes it more tense and "on the edge of your seat". We want to have a fast pace in our chase scene.

Journal Post 07/01/11

Today we started to take our photos that are going to be going on a wall to show that the girl is being stalked, and tried to take our continuity sequence pictures. However, this didn't quite go to plan because when we were taking the photos we wanted to have them zoomed in because it would give a better feeling that she is being stalked, but half of the photos we took were blurry and many of our ideas of were to take them were interrupted by the rain. We plan to retake the photos using a much better camera that has a very good zoom as we want the continuity pictures to be perfect. Below is evidence of us taking photos for our wall images.

Journal Post 05/01/11

Today, we spent our time getting our storyboards on our blogs and making sure all our blogs were up to date. We finally chose the font for our typography and decided that the title would be red on a black background but the titles (written by... etc.) would be white so that they would be visible over our sequence. In our next lesson we plan to start taking photos for our wall of photos in the title sequence and we also need to get our "continuity sequence" perfect as it will be going at the start of our title sequence. We've also been finding pieces of film that will relate to our sequence.

• Analyse Twilight (deer chase scene)

Bitten Storyboard

Typography

1. We liked this one but thought it might seem a little boring, but we did like the pointed edges which I think is vital for our font.

2. Then we decided to look at a more fun style but this just looked too childish and we didn't want this film to look like a child's film. 

3. This one is ok, but it seems too faded and not right to fit in with our film.

4. It was a hard decision to choose either this one or the one below because we liked their boldness and the edges were quite pointed.

This is our chosen font:

5. We chose this one because we thought it went well with our genre the edgyness of it goes with our vampire part of the genre and then the bold capitals give it the action part of the genre.

Analysis of 'The Lost Boys' Title Sequence

It starts with it tracking along the ocean which is dark with light at the side which we gather is the moon so we know it's at night. The title comes up quite quick, and the font seems gothic and sinister while being in the colour white there is a line and a dot inbetween the words which is red which connotes to blood and death. This connotes that the film is going to be dark and that there will be death involved. A first setting is introduced with a fairground and then on a merry-go-round in the fairground we are introduced to some of the characters, and from their behaviour we can assume that they are going to be the "villain's" of this story. It isn't until a member of staff intervenes from their trouble-making and tells them, "I thought I told you to stay off the Board Walk," this tells us that they frequently cause trouble and lets us know that they will be the danger to other characters in the film. Slowly all the lights are being turned off at the fairground because it is closing and with the creepy music leads us to think that something bad is going to happen. We see the same member of staff being chased to his car from something in the sky and is then lifted into the sky and we hear him scream, this makes us think of vampires.


The title sequence then goes dark and suddenly its daylight crossing over the same body of water, and we are introduced to the other main characters. It shows that they are moving and from a billboard we see that they are going to a place called 'Santa Carla', and on the back of the billboard we are shown some graffiti that says 'Murder Capital Of The World', this makes us think that there will be many deaths there because of the vampires. It then goes on to show 'Missing people' posters and there are quite a lot of them, this suggests to the audience that these people have all been killed by the vampires. However, there is a contrast to all the sinister hints and this is shown through all the people having fun on the rollercoasters and arcade games. This suggests that even though all these deaths and missing people are going on that life still goes on, and it would make it seem like they actually know what is going on.