Title and Credits

         As soon as we finished the final details regarding sound, me and Violette took advantage of being together to get to work on our title, credits and everything that has to do with fonts. 

        Thankfully, we had done some experimenting towards the beginning of the project with the type of font we would like to use for our title based on the research we made on the genre, so we had somewhat of a clear vision of what we were looking for regarding that. However, we had not visited the idea of credits yet. This is the font we had chosen for our title many weeks ago. 

        Using what we already knew, we got to work on finding a font that looked similar to the one above (which was created on Canva) on iMovie. After trying countless fonts we settled on one named "Georgia." It is simplistic but elegant, and doesn't let itself reveal a lot, just like we wanted for the suspenseful side of our production. This is when the choice of where and at what point of the opening our title would be placed. We knew we didn't want to put our title at the end of the opening because of our teacher's advice against that, but also because we thought it would take away from the suspense we wanted to leave the viewer with. This is why we decided to put it at the beginning instead; in fact, it is the very first thing the viewer will see. Another choice that was not foreseen for us was starting the opening with a black screen with the title. After showing what we had of the opening to our families after finishing sound they manifested that it was kind of hard to understand from the funeral scenes that it was happening at the same time as the change of appearance. This was a huge problem for us because it really was important for the narrative and the thriller side of the opening, so we got to think of solutions to this issue. We decided on the black screen so then we could put a date and time on the establishing shot that followed (stating that this change of appearance was taking place the same date as the date that appears on Grace's funeral card). We could technically have put both the title and date on the establishing shot, but we thought this looked too crowded and rushed. Then the only thing left to do was choosing the color of the title which naturally took the form of a goldish brown to go with the title and heart necklace. 

        This is how it ended up looking!

        Much less work went into choosing the credits' font. Although we hadn't discussed it before, when we did we were on the same page: they have to be as simplistic as possible. We chose a very straight lined, uncomplicated font and made it white. Our choice was simply based on the fact that we wanted the viewer to not be so distracted by the credits as what was happening on screen was important to the rest of the opening. We also chose to keep credits rolling only until the voice over started, so nothing took away from that. Since both me and Violette divided the production jobs pretty much in the middle we just alternated between our names because we didn't want to put both of our names for every one; and then of course we credited our actress. Keeping it simple, as I said before, we just have the credits slide in and out of the screen.

Here are some examples:

        I'm so very proud of how close we are to the end. This has genuinely been one of the most challenging but also rewarding projects I've worked on so far. See you next blog to talk Creative Critical Reflection ideas and answers!!