PRE PRODUCTION
The easiest way of getting information nowadays is to 'Google it'. While there are other browsers like Yahoo, Eocsia or Duck duck go. Googles algorithm is probably the most advanced plus all of googles additional online services made it an incredibly powerful tool for research about opening title sequences and planning our own sequence.
One of these additional services and probably the most prominent is YouTube a video streaming website acquired by Google in 2006, amongst step by step tutorials for basically all of our questions, most opening title sequences have been re-uploaded onto YouTube which enabled us to analyze sequences of similar products to ours in order to detect conventions which we could use in our own sequence.
In terms of location scouting Google maps and its street view and satellite function were the greatest tool imaginable. As we weren’t really able to visit our locations before the shoot day. Through Google maps we were enabled to plan where we could film each scene of our sequence and get a feeling for the location which made it easier on the shoot day to be organized.
The largest encyclopaedia was especially helpful when we did our research into the history of opening title sequences. Wikipedia therefore was a great way to grasp the concept and educate ourselfs on the context sorounding sequnces.
The International Movie Data base (IMDB) was a great tool to use to double check facts e.g. release dates and thereby historical context of movies and the ability to search for specific genres helped me to be made aware of similar products to what we tired to produce. IMDB offers a grat insight in the connections and similarities between movies allowing for a better understanding of the film industry. This was off curse very important as part of the goal when producing our sequence was to make it really resemble an actual opening title sequence. The reason why titles are the way they are is of course due to contracts. Therefore the overall understanding of the film industry was very important to us so we could create a sequence as close as possible to titlesequnces form real movies.
The art of the title offered highlighted in detail the wide variety of titles in movies. It also spotlight’s the artists who create them instead of simply the director of the film. You can therefore analyses an artists style, which is great to understand the creative impact titles can have.
At last Netflix was another website great for research, its wide range of content offers an easy access to films like the product we wanted to create which allowed me to gain a greater knowledge of genre conventions.
As previously discussed on this blog putting decisions and ideas in writing was key to the production of our sequence. I chose Word to do so due to multiple reasons. Its autocorrect is great, which enabled me to write messages and notes that would be easily understandable in the future. Also word offers a wide variety of how to display text with a easy to understand and simple interface.
Another Microsoft product we used was teams. An application I downloaded onto my laptop. Thanks to teams we were able to communicate while Pablo was in quarantine or when we all had to stay at home during a water shortage. Teams was great as I could easily use it on my laptop allowing me to share files from my computer or share my screen.
I used outlook to communicate with potential cast members. It is a personal information messenger and allowed me to simply integrate other documents into Emails. I communicated through email with most of the cast because it was a simple way to communicate them but also because it was easy to stay organised thanks to the design and the option to search for key frasses from previous messages.
I also used Instagram to talk to the actress who played our victim and if I wanted to talk about something ergingt with Bert or Pablo as they checked their Instagram inbox more often than their email inbox.
During the preproduction process I also used Sketch book, an app that functions as a digital Sketch book which was great to display my ideas in a visual manor.
I used the editing software Final Cut to edit our test shoot so I could get a better feeling for the look of the final sequence. Its colour correction tools stood out to me in the process and how versatile it was.
Finally I used my Phone an iPhone XR to film parts of the test shoot, message through outlook and Instagram as well as researching on the internet. For everything else I used my Lapto, a MacBook Air (Retina, 13-inch, 2018
