Why title sequences are so important to the film industry..

Title sequences are produced to promote a film or a television programme. They present their title, main casts, production members and sound. The reason why title sequences are so important to the film industry is because it attracts the audience's attention to the movie and makes them wonder what it is about.
One artist I looked at was Saul Bass, he used illustration within most of his title squences which made him well known within the film industry.
Title sequences are also important to artists such as Saul Bass as they are all competing to be well known.
Title sequences tell a little about the movie, these parts that are shown are quite abrupt, this is because they want to grab the viewers attention.
This is why my group and I are working very hard in making our title sequence look attractive and eye-catching. Hopefully our title sequence will have this effect on the viewers.

The Ring

This title sequence was produced for 'the ring'. However the title sequence wasn't produced by the creators of 'the ring'. My group and I found this video on youtube and liked some of the features from it. For example, the video shows some flicky shots (one scene to another). We liked this idea, so therefore also used it in our title sequence. We didn't exactly know what we was doing but we got there in the end, after askin Gerry for alot of help. We have a few flicky scenes as when we tried it with the whole title sequence being flicky it looked abit too much for our story line.
We also used many other techniques such as a fuzzy television look, the fonts changing size every milisecond, this look was very effective to the title sequence as it made it look more like a thriller opening title, these ideas came from the above video. There are also alot more idea which we got from video shown above.
However, there was an idea which we got from the video above. This was the idea of using blood spreading in water. We experimented quite alot with this idea but we didnt find it very satisfying as it didnt look as freaky as it does in the video. In the video above the blood shot stood out the most, as it is the only shot which shows colour (Red blood). This gave us an idea of making the title sequence black and white. After finding out that the blood spreading in water sccene didn't work out for us, we deciding to keep it all in colour. However, we still tried out the black and white look but we didn't find it very satisfying. When we turned the title sequence back into colour, we found that it was more effective as it was the colour that made the title sequence look more 'thriller like'.

Images of myself and my group making the model...

These are photographs of my group and I making the model for the murderer. We used this model in our title sequence. We also made little plastacine models to go with it. The model wasn't used alot in the sequence, there were only a few shots of it.

Pictures of my group/Cast

These are pictures of the people in my group, Leah, Emily, Nichola and Me. We also played the parts in our title sequence as we didn't want to involve other people, as we didn't want the stress of people not doing as we ask or finding the people to act for us.

Problems uploading!!

My group and I have completed the continuity piece and the title sequence., however we have had trouble uploading. I am going to find someone to help me upload them all, and hopefully it will be up soon!
We also filmed a storyboard for the title sequence but unfortunatley the it has been misplaced on the computer systems. Therefore we will be re-shooting and uploading it ASAP!

Photographs of the jewellery box

Photographs at Samuel Montagu Centre

Here are shots of some of the scenes. The pictures dont look too good as we used flash on the camera. The room looked much darker than theses images, as we blacked out the windows.

Updating

We had a little situation were we had to find a back up plan for the location (Samuel Montagu centre) as there was a problem. They alerted us that we still had a chance of being able to use the location, but just to be sure my group and I, started looking for back up loactions. We looked at the changing rooms at welling school, this location wasnt entirely what we was looking for, as they didn't look abandoned or dirty. However, there was a room in the school that we could have used. Although it wasnt a chnaging room it was still dirty and abandoned. The group started having a few disscusions and debates about the location. Luckily we got told that we could still use the original location. So we was quite happy about that!

After all the problems with the locations and such, we went to the original location and filmed our title sequence for 'The dolls house'. We had a few problems while we were filming but nothing too bad. So we sorted them out.
One of the problems was the fake blood! In the post below i mentioned that Emily was going to make the fake blood. This didnt turn out to well as it looks too fake and we wanted a more realistic look. Nina Moore had some left over fake blood from another group she helped out, but this also looked quite fake. We resolved this problem by mixing tomato ketchup with the fake blood. This was very fortunate as it happened to look realistic, as the blood thickened up and bit more and the coloured changed into a more blood-like colour.

There was also one shot were Me and Leah had to run down a corridor to try and escape. We was hoping for a long dark corridor to be located somewhere in the rugby changing rooms, but there wasnt one. Although there was one corridor which wasnt what we quite hoped for. We still filmed this shot at Samuel Montagu Centre, just to note it down as development and experimenting. When we came back to school to edit the film, we found that there was too much light and there was no chance of us using that clip. We then found a long dark corridor which matched our description and we filmed that shot again. However, It was a little too dark and we could really see anything on the camera so we used set up lighting, it turned out exactly as we planned because we intended the corridor to have very little light. Thankfully it looked alot better!

We used a dark room with black walls to film the scene with the jewellery box and the scene with the killer making the model of "The dolls house". We used little light because our main aim of that scene was to make the camera focus on either the jewellery box or the killer making the model of the murder victims. We also had a problem finding a dark corner to set this up in at Samuel Montagu Centre, so we found an alternative in a drama room at Welling School.

We are now at the stage of editing the film sequence. We are thinking about experimenting with different effects and audio sounds. Our main idea for the title sequence is to give it an old fashioned look.