Title sequence Evaluation

final media as level coursework - forever

- This is our finished title sequence lasting 2 minutes, I hope you enjoy!
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Final Editing

We have now got all of our footage, and are nearly finished. There were however gaps in editing so me and Emily decided to stay after school, we expected to need to stay behind for two hours. We needed to:

• Fade the sound when Jack leaves the room.
• Put in transitions.
• Make sure our titles ran smoothly.

Which normally would not take very long. However, when we tried to fade the sound we used the audio editor and accidentally faded the music out, which is not what we wanted, we wanted it to simply become quieter.Once this was saved i could not undo it, therefore I had to come into school the following morning to put all of the audio back in. This was not as simple as it sounds because the audio clip does not last the whole two minutes, and so it was repeated but cut up and put in place so that you could not notice this transition, however this was done by Prada and she was not there so I was not sure how to do that. Finally, with help from Mr Michie I managed to get the audio back into place and faded when Jack leaves the room.

Establishing shot

On our list of improvements, an establishing shot of the location was discussed. However we only had the chance to film this once, and the shot was not of good quality, so therefore we decided to go with out this shot.

Shoot 10

In this shoot, we shot 3 more scenes between Jack and Shauna sat down, these were:

These are the same type of shot to create continuity, however the first is at the beginning of the performance before it starts and the other two are during. This was a suggestion by Mr Michie, and after having placed it on premier it is really effective, and involves the viewer more rather than just having the shot of Tiffany on the piano, it also speeds the sequence up, whereas one shot of Tiffany would have slowed the pace down and bored the audience.

Improvements

After putting all of the footage we had together we showed this first cut to Mr Ford and Mr Michie, here are the improvements they suggested:

• The titles needed to all last the same amount of time, we decided on 3 seconds.
• There needed to be some shot reverse shots showing the couple watching the piano.
• An establishing shot of the location.
• Our title sequence was too full, and we were trying to put too much in to two minutes, therefore we should delete the scenes between Jack and Simran handing over the money, and just meet Simran at the end of the sequence when Jack gets in the car with her.

Order of titles

This is the order titles should appear in a title sequence:

• The logo of the production company should appear first.
• Followed by the studio.
• "A Film By" should be next, for us this would be - A Film By 

                                                                                     -Jade Dockerill

                                                                                     - Prada Nayar

                                                                                     - Emily Hardy

                                                                                    - Tiffany Leung

• This is then followed by the name of the film - "Forever"
• Then the actors should appear on screen in order of importance.
• This will be followed by:
• "Filmed By..."
• "Edited By..."
• Produced By..."
• And "Directed By..." - This title should appear last because it is the most significant.

                                                     

My research into the order of the title sequence has helped because we would loose marks for having these in the wrong order, because this is a very significant part of a title sequence.