Pictures of our shoot

Account of Shoot Day

On the 21^st of January, we began filming our title sequence in the studio. Our set-up consisted of a living room, which wasn’t fully furnished seeing as we were only using extreme close-ups. We started off filming the simplest shots that didn’t involve any focus pulls or movement.

When shooting this sequence, we faced several problems which pushed us to think and work out a way to shoot a specific shot or figure out an alternative. The problems we faced were of a higher level than those we faced during our prelim task shoot. One of the main problems we faced was to do with the fact that we used a lot of glass objects in our shoot which caused unwanted reflections. This led us to spend lots of time composing the contents of our frame until we eventually worked it out.

Unlike in the prelim tasks, we had more complicated shots involving focus pulls and different camera movements. We had to pay special attention to lighting to make our sequence look cinematic especially since it wasn’t narrative. 

A huge part of our sequence relied on post-production. The editing required to make this sequence a successful one, encouraged us to improve our editing skills.

We started off by watching all our footage and dividing the shots into two groups: useful shots and useless shots. After achieving this, we labelled all the shots to make it convenient. We chose the best option of the few choices of shots that we had, cut them and then placed them in order on the timeline of FCP.

Since our thriller was more of a title sequence than the first scene of a film, we didn’t need to film with sound but instead we were required to compose a score to complete the sequence.

We decided to focus on designing fancy titles to enhance the thematic idea that flows throughout the sequence. We’ve decided to opt for moving 2D titles that travel around the objects in our frame. These will have a specific font that tie in all the different ideas together to make them more coherent to the theme.