final decisions

As we come to the end few days of our project we are being faced with final decisions that we need to be making for example; how our ending will end (fade or cut), how  consistent we want our lighting to be throughout and how we want our credits to roll throughout or whether they should be at the end. Through the progression of our project we can take that it is heavily a horror thriller- we have used music to make it dramatic, we have stuck to those codes and conventions and we incorporated font to match what we are trying to present.

Within our group today, Prentice and I have edited the final part of our footage (which I filmed last night with Daisy) and put it into our 2 minute opening. For this part of our project we have used parallel editing to present the binary opposition for the two characters through the lighting and surroundings we have used for one character and another. For example we thought it were best if the girl (the protagonist) of the piece were to be connoted as innocent through her white walled, open and clean house which has bright clear colour correction. Against our male character who is seen setting up in a cluttered environment which is filthy and generally dull.

Finally in our piece after editing and perfecting the narrative we had our piece to two minutes and thought it all looked perfect and how we wanted- however we have not put our credits in. Therefore I have done some extra research of opening credits in horror thrillers to see if we can put the credits in which lie ontop of the filming.

My first example is The Purge:

The font is again very simple, capitalised and blocky which is reflective of my previous research. The font is small and almost missable on the screen if it was not for the colour white of it. Looking at the diegesis on the screen is very much dull and each part has its own colour therefore I think it would be a good idea if our piece's titles were white, small and capitalised. As well as this the writing of the start bit which aren't credits is the same font as the credits- therefore we must use the same font as the 'DINNER FOR TWO' so it is consistent.

All though this opening is very much different to ours it is still the same sub genre. The font here is similar to ours however the setting in general is a lot more bright and positive in comparison to ours. Therefore the red contrasts and incorporates the horror thriller idea which is something we do not need to do as ours already looks very much like a horror thriller. However I like the font they have used here and again is consistent throughout. Another thing I realised is that the opening titles in these bits are very much as the start quarter of these openings and fade out slowly.

From these two openings I can take this to our project and see that the openings credits when ontop of the film should be in the start quarter of the sequence, consistent block font, a contrasting colour to what you see and  matching the titles at the start.