Reaction Video

This video, as I mentioned before, is the reaction from our media class to the baby crying at the end of our film. From this reaction we decided to keep it because we think it adds a certain edge to our opening, weather it is pushing the boundaries too far or not…

Title

We were really struggling to find a name for our two minute film opening as we wanted something that was a twist on words but was also reasonably subtle, and this did not turn out to be easy! Even though we know that having a baby crying in the boot at the end of the opening is pushing the boundaries quite a bit, we have decided to keep it, as a lot of the feedback we had was that it was definitely a bit twisted, but people generally liked it.

 So, we have researched into nursery rhymes to find a title, and we have decided on the name 'When The Bough Breaks' from the classic lullaby 'rock a bye baby'.

Almost Finished Opening

This is a draft of our very nearly finished opening. We were recently playing around on YouTube and found a clip of a baby crying and added it to the end of the film to see what it looked like and we were quite surprised as we like it, even though it may be slightly morally wrong. So, we need to get a few opinions on weather we should keep it or not.

 

The only  things we have left to do are to finish off the title sequence, to sort out the editing on the footage where the taxi is stationary by putting footage in-between, to re record the voice at the end of the opening, to decide weather we want to keep the baby crying at the end of the film and finally add in the engine noise over the dialogue in which it is missing.

Title Sequence Research

As we are coming to the end of our editing process we started looking into title sequences separately and bringing out ideas together. I researched mostly titles of films that were of the psychological thriller or horror/thriller genre as they seemed to suit our opening well whist also sticking to the conventions of the psychological thriller genre we have based it upon.

The first title sequence I came across was the opening to 'Se7en'. I really liked the font used and the way that the words appear and disappear on the screen as it screamed psychological thriller and hooked me in right from the beginning, which is exactly what we are looking to do.



The second title sequence i came across was the opening to 'Bullit'. This was my favourite out of all the sequences i have researched as the font was exactly what i can imagine our film having as it was bold and sharp. I also really liked the fact that the font was white, as I had only considered having black font before, but after watching the title sequence to Bullit I'm more interested in having white font in our opening.
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New Music Idea

While Tara was doing some extra research she found a song that was better suited to our film, so we decided to try it on our film and we love it! The song is 'It's not for me to say' by Johnny Mathis and it fits in with our footage perfectly. We showed our media class and they were divided in their opinions and some preferred the old one whilst others loved the new one. However, we have decided as a group that we want to keep the new song, linked below:

Shaileyee's Rection

As a group we think our opening is coming together just as we planned it to, but we wanted to get an extra opinion to check that it was also appealing to other people outside Mac 4. So, we asked our media friend Shaileyee to be the first to watch the (almost finished) opening and give us a bit of feedback!

Update!

Just a quick blog to update you on what Mac 4 has been up to.