Over these past few days, we have made quite a bit of progress on our opening sequence by adding titles and sound as well as refilming and adding shots. We continued the title process by inputting the titles for the studio and production company into google slides. We decided that we wanted the font to be different than those for the other titles, such as who the music is by, so we looked at the different fonts available on google meets. We collectively decided on a more vintage font with the font color of white, as shown below. Once we had figured out the font, size, and spacing we wanted, we inputted the titles into the opening sequence. Along with this, we also changed the timing of the titles so that they were a bit shorter, making both titles, the production and studio companies, stay on the screen for 4 seconds combined.
We then went onto the rest of the titles, where we started the process by going onto google slides, selecting the font we wanted, and using the selected spacing as chosen in our original title blog from about a month ago. After viewing the font we originally chose, I thought that it didn't fit the theme or genre of our final task that well, so I looked for different fonts for the titles. This led me to a font website, that caters specifically to fonts of different themes, where I found a font that still went with the handwriting theme we had in mind, but was a bit spookier. The one we selected previously was not scary enough and did not fit with the elements of the thriller genre, whereas the new one I selected from the font website did. After I showed the font to my groupmates, we all decided that it would be a good alternative to the font we had originally chosen. Along with changing the font we also altered the timing of the titles and the colors by which they are shown. The titles (not including the production & studio companies and the Enigma title) now show for about 2 seconds each, but slightly vary depending on the scene. The last thing done was change the color of the titles. When we added the titles in, as we had originally planned, we found that they did not show up in some scenes. So, we decided to put a white border around black text, as shown below.
The next thing we did was finish adding sound. We wanted to add background sound for what each of the characters were doing, such as opening the drawer, going up the stairs, and writing on the notepad. So, I recorded each of the sounds. However, we quickly found that we wanted to remove the sound of my mother going up the stairs because there was too much background noise each time I tried to record it. Once this was done, we fixed the sting at the end so that it sounded better, however, we might swap this sound out for another one, since it doesn't sound right.
After we did the sound, we reviewed the opening sequence to see how it looked. My groupmates thought it looked good, but I found a few flaws that I wanted to perfect, so I decided to refilm some shots. The first shots I refilmed were several shots of my mother. While reviewing, I found that some of the shots didn't flow together well, with my mom being in a slightly different position than in the previous shot. So, I refilmed the shot of my mother screaming, her writing on the notepad (right before she runs to the stairs), and the closeup of her looking from left to right. The next shot I wanted to refilm was of me walking towards the door, outside, right after Mrs. Maye finished speaking to me. However, I decided not to because I realized that we recently painted the door of my house from white to pink. I then refilmed, a day later, the last scene of the opening sequence. This was done because, again, some shots didn't line up or just looked odd. So, I refilmed all of scene 9. This process went well, and was done in a timely fashion. We then added all of the scenes that I refilmed into the opening sequence. However, for some shots (specifically the pan and shot where the phone is in the fridge) we decided to use the original shot, since some of the refilmed shots looked odd or the original shots just looked better.
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