Sound Research

Music for this project is very important for an opening title sequence as in any part of a film we ely on music to tell us how to feel and act. For example slow string music might tell us that the scene is sad or if its an upbeat, fast paced pop song it could tell us this is a happy scene.




This is a very good song to fit in with the Film Noir genre. It has jazz elements like the drum beat but instead of having saxaphone

Production Company Logo Development

This is my first version of our Production Company logo. Our company name was AWA which stood for Aidan, Will, Adam, our names. So I wrote out the name and then mirrored it. The pattern looked good because the shape of the letters made triangles so they fitted together well. I then thought about adding an image as most big production companies have an image that easily identifies them. I picked a lamp. I edited a shape on top of the lamps bulb and put an Outer Glow on it to make it look like the lamp is on. To make it look semi-realistic, I put a drop shadow on the letters to simulate shadows created by the light. After all this editing I realised that the lamp is too associated with Disney Pixar.

Production Log #3

This time we have video and Adam! We are basically recapping Production Log #2 but adding Adam's input too.

Production Log #2

Disclaimer! This video is just audio

Analysis of "Priest Intro" - Sound (Draft)

Last lesson we analysed a 5 minute extract near to the beginning of the film "Priest". From that extract, I believe it is a Sci-Fi film but with classical western and religious themes and settings. I believe this as the three characters we see are all wearing typical 18th Century "Old West" clothing, they live in a old rickety wooden house with a little veranda which is quite typical of western houses. But we mainly focused on sound in the lesson so this is what this post is all about.

The first sound we hear is dialogue between the Father and Mother characters. Nothing else can be heard apart from distant wind sound.

Conventions of an Opening Title Sequence (Draft)

The opening title sequence of a film is used by film creators to credit the cast and crew of the film. It obviously involves titles while maybe involving live action scenes. Normally, the order of the credits goes:

• Name of production companies
• Director
• Producer
• Other key crew
• Executive producer
• Top billing actors
• The Movie Title

All movies do not stick to this format though as seen in the Watchmen OTS which is on my blog, here is the link

Experimental Titles

As we are having our film title at the end of our OTS, I spent the lesson on Photoshop coming up with different titles using our working title "Dog Eat Dog". We went through lots of fonts and designs, trying to find a suitable look for our OTS. These are the best ones out of that session. The third one is the one that we actually edited. We increased the letter spacing to space it out a bit.

Typical Film Noir Narratives