Thursday 12 October 2017

TITLES Titles I will use

Idents:

  • Usually 3 
Titles (Numbers):
  • Around 20-30 titles
    • however sometimes only companies and the director is mentioned
  • About 5 minutes
    • It's quite common to see a gap between titles)
  • Companies 
    • Usually about 3-4 companies are credited
Wording of the titles: (I will be using these in my film opening)
  1.  *Insert a distributor or funding agency* presents
  2.  In association with *Insert company*
  3. A *Insert production company* production  
  4. A *Insert directors name* film
  5. *Insert main stars names* (Keep them on their own)
  6. Co -starring *Insert actors name* 
  7. With *Insert another actors name*
  8. Introducing *Insert a new actors name* 
  9. *Insert duo of actors names per sequence* (For the less important stars)
  10. Casting by: ...
  11. Music composed by: ...
  12. Costumes designed by: ...
  13. Editor: ...
  14. Director of photography: ...
  15. Lighting by: ...
  16. Production designer: ...
  17. Screenplay by: ...
  18. Executive producers: ...
  19. Produced by: ...
  20. Directed by: ...
If "Based on the book" or "Based on the novel  by" it is an IP (Intellectual property)

Title design:
Depending on the genre there are many different title designs you could use. A red, serif font usually connotes a horror genre as the red signifies blood and the serif can signify sharp edges of a blade, amongst other things. If I were to make a drama, I would use Sans-serif, with a quite plain, white text as it is creating narrative enigma and setting a serious vibe for the audience. If I  were to create a comedy or teen movie I would use colourful, bubbly font as this connotes that the movie is going to be quite childlike, happy and informal.

2 comments:

  1. Good: fairly thorough + specific. However:
    - no illustration
    - no direct linkage to your research (= APPLYING research, AO2)
    - nothing on animation/movement; variable sizing; font variation for role/name etc
    - post title is long + needs editing. Use SUMMARY as a starter word for all such posts (and a tag)

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  2. See my earlier comment. This is a key post; you need to very clearly evidence a link between research + your ideas, and you're ignoring elements of the media lang of titles. It might be a good idea to do an updated post, and put a LARGE text link to it (+ explanation) at the top of this post, something I often do, where you comprehensively make that research/applied link
    As you need to mostly work with video for the Eval, that would be a useful medium. Time to address fonts - and update Techs post/s when doing so (I'm assuming you'll download a font. No time to teach it now, but you can also use Motion [companion to FCPX] if you want to try some online tutorials for advanced font FX)

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