Title Sequence

Title Sequence


Adelle and myself needed to create a short Title Sequence to advertise and announce our film name. This appears at the 15th second of the film opening. We decided to have it early on in the film opening because of the atmosphere created by non-diegetic music 'Monkey Man', the tune of the song builds up and hits a climax. This is the point we chose to display our title sequence.

Our original idea for our title sequence consisted of moving image; using effects from 'Cam Pilot'.
One being a long-shot of a city at night, with the text reading 'Chance' across the screen fading in and then out. The second idea we had was to have a playing card move toward the screen after being thrown. This would have more relevance then the city idea. The text 'Chance' would be written on the card and shown clearly in slow motion in front of the camera.

Storyboards for original ideas

Examples of previous title sequences from Crime based genre films;

Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
This Guy Richie film has a simple title sequence where the name of the film is 'typed' in with the typewriter effect. This is available with the editing system we are using; Final Cut Express.

Snatch
This is the Guy Richie film 'Snatch' title sequence, a diamond in someone's fingers. The shot turns a full 360 degrees and continues onto a new scene. The scene is moving image and is also used as a connection to the next scene.

After deciding that we wanted a still image to fade in and out instead of moving image we decided to design a title sequence image on Photoshop CS4. We used a fanned hand of old fashioned poker cards from Google images, we duplicated one layer of card to add an extra card on the fanned hand of cards to give 6 cards fanned out. The reason for creating a sixth card was in order to spell out our film across the cards, 'Chance' has six letters. Using the healing tool we got rid of the letters 'K', 'A' and 'Q' in order to put our own on top. In the top left of each card we placed our own letters spelling out 'Chance' using a font from 'Dafont' called College Crimson. The word 'Chance' was also written along the facing side of the front card. This is the initial text the audience will be drawn to. We used the colour green for our text and background as this was supposed to give the impression of a poker board. Green is also associated with money which is a code and convention of the Crime-Heist genre'. Using the rubber to create transparency, we feathered the background to give a more rustic look which links in with the archaic cards. To finish our title sequence, Adelle and myself used the 'Fade in, Fade out' video transition to give the sequence a smooth connection to the film.

This is our Final Title Sequence;