Typography

What fonts, size positioning are we going to use in our opening:
I used these two websites to help me decide on which fonts, sizes, roles to include, and title styles to use.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opening_credits

http://titles13group22.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/different-thriller-film-opening-examples.html

originally overlaid typewriter, but changed to on black- more professional.

Originally our idea was for the titles to be a mixture between a stylized edit, as we wanted the text to appear using the typewriter tool, so that the text is "typed" onto the screen, reflecting our theme of technology. We would also have elements of discrete edit in our titles aswell, as tht titles appear before the action has happened, and so do not distract from the plot.

We tried this editing out, but it did not look very effective as, although it did not distract from the plot, it did distract from the stablishing shots that we were using to set the scene and create an eerie mood. It also made the frame very busy, and gave the impression of movement within the cinematic world, which we did not want. Overall though, this style of editing looked very amature in our case, and so we decided against using it.

We re assesed our opening, and decided that titles over a black screen would be the most professional option we could try. We did this, and found out that it worked very effectively, as not only did it look miles more professional, but it also broke up our clips, and so slowed down the pace of our narrative at the beginning, which we wanted to achieve, so that there was a dichotomy between the slow paced "deserted" shots and the fast paced "inhabited" shots.

We decided to use a very simple text font, so that it was easy to read, and fairly neutral, as to not give away too much about our plot, as we wanted to keep the twist we are planning to have at the end a surprise. We also decided to use black and white, as they are polar opposites, and reflect both the "good guys" and the "bad guys" in our plot, due to the connotations associated with them.

In order to actually insert the titles, we used this tutorial video to help us:

This video helped us a lot, as it explained clearly how to do what we wanted.