Group member leaving

Laine was offered an apprenticeship in her chosen career path, she accepted the offer so will be leaving sixth form as she will enrol immediately. This means that although she has been part of the group up until our finished title sequence, she will be unable to take part in the evaluation.

Final Title Sequence

Our title sequence tells the life of our main character Walter Murphy, played by Tom Hanks, through his sons perspective, played by James Marsden. Our title sequence relies on mine-en-scene to help establish the timeframe, narrative and style of film. As our title sequence is quite short, it would continue into the opening scene as seen in American Psycho (2000).

Wes Anderson

Wes Anderson heavily influenced our title sequence in many ways, we took narrative, sound any stylistic influence. When it comes to Wes Anderson, his unique style and design is what makes his work so different and very visually appealing. Wes Anderson uses technical precision in his work, symmetry is one of the most noticeable traits. We tried to create this by using symmetry in our work, we used the typography to help create symmetry as well as the framing within our camerawork.

Another common trait of Wes anderson is his use of patterns and prints, one of his most recent films, The Grand Budapest Hotel, shows his love for vibrant colours. We tried to incorporate vintage patterns throughout our title sequence whilst still showing yellow undertones. Below are some stills of our title sequence which show how we tried to incorporate symmetry and colour into our work.

From the stills you can see the warm undertones, we achieved this by colour correcting in Final Cut Pro. Our title sequence is also set in the past, similar to Wes Anderson's films and that they all take place in eras that are prior to the present. We tried to show his love for nostalgia by creating it in our title sequence. 

Typography change

Today we finished our title sequence. We changed our font to 'Messenger Pigeon' as we felt that Morsal wasn't working as it was too chunky. Our new font is also similar to the font in Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom, it is more elegant than our previous fonts (Shorelines and Morsal).

Editing 6

Yesterday, me and Oliver continued to edit. We added more titles and edited the colour to make the  sequence have more yellow and warm tones, this helps to create the Wes Anderson style that our title sequence was inspired by. We moved the text around to see where we felt it fitted the best, we also decided not use motion. After analysing other Wes Anderson title sequences we noticed that the text flashes up and then just disappears, there isn't movement in the text, instead its cleverly lined up within the frame and therefore has relevance and doesn't look out of place. We managed to re-create this in Final Cut Pro.

Editing 5

Me and Oliver continued to edit today as Laine and Fiona were on a trip. We edited the colour scheme and created warm, yellow undertones of a similar style to Wes Anderson's work. We also continued to use the blade tool to cut and trim some scenes and create some more jump-cuts. We are going to stay behind tomorrow to add the last few titles in motion and then hopefully our title sequence will be finished and we can make a start on our evaluation.

Soundtrack Log 4

After looking at Brancoala's profile thoroughly we noticed that the track was able to download for free. We asked for advice from people who specify in music and know more about copyright and they're opinion was that the soundtrack should be fine to use due to his profile, description and privacy settings.