Potential Title Fonts For Our Final Cut

I have looked into potential title fonts for our title sequence. Our sequence is a crime thriller so i don't want to get the wrong font as this would give our audience the wrong idea about our film. I looked at different fonts in After Effects as well as Final Cut to get the right feel.

The different fonts i feel fit the genre are :

Although these are quite basic, this fits the crime/simple font we need as the police in general use simple, clear font to make sure they can read important evidence. 

This one is more old horror type. This is not as appropriate for our crime thriller as it doesn't fit our theme of our film.

This one above is a potential for a thriller however, it is not per say fit our 'Crime' thriller genre. 

The one above is not at all good for a crime thriller or a thriller in general as this is too 'Disney' style and slight girly as it has a star on top of the 'i'. Thrillers are not all happy but more serious and this font is too playful for our film sequence. 

These are two fonts on Final Cut which we could use as they are simple, clear and fits the genre of the crime thriller.

Editing the group thriller opening

Here are a few images of us editing the clips we have.


for a few of the shots we decided that to make it look better they had be be slowed down a bit. To do this, you need to double click the clip you want to slow down, and then click on 'motion', the bottom option in the box viewer is 'Speed'. I adjusted this down by 10% on some clips. and on others i slowed down by a few%.

Here we corrected the colour to add a touch of green to the shots throughout the video. This was to give it that dark edginess and to give it that professional feel to it. 

Action Plan

For us to meet our deadline this Friday 10th, 5pm:

- Get our title sequence to match our opening thriller,
- ensure that are title sequence is edited to the best of our ability
- To post progression on our blogs
- To make our edit flow well with titles

Who did what.

On day 1 of the shoot which took place at school, here were our roles:

Nicole: I shot most of the footage, except the CU of matt thinking. Ashleigh shot those.

Ashleigh: I got together all the props that we needed for these scenes and did most of the prep work, i.e. making folders, investigation files. 

Max: I collected and looked after the equipment. I also got up the storyboard up on my phone and helped guide Nicole.

On the 2nd day of shooting  here were our roles:

Nicole: I did all of the shots, however throughout the day i let Ashleigh and Max give their input and help. Max helped out on the 2nd time-lapse towards the end of the day.

Max: I took responsibility for carrying equipment. I helped take the time-lapse at the end, and also stopped people from walking in the way of our shooting. I also helped with locating our destinations, as i have good map skills. 

Ashleigh: I acted as a director for our group as well as bringing the equipment to the shoot while during the shoot Max took care of it. I was also responsible for making sure we arrived on time using our call sheet e.g. train times. With this in place, we were able to get all the footage we needed. 

Photographs of Sunday 15th

On Sunday 15th, we filmed our London scenes for our opening thriller. I decided to take photographs and some video footage to show you what we did. 

Here are some of the photographs: 

Filming on Thursday 12th and Roles

We filmed yesterday in the Studio with our actor Matt. We were lucky in many ways yesterday as we found another actor called Charlie who was in business dress which helped us with having a real person interrogating the scene as originally we didn't have any one to do play this part.
Max also came to this shot as he moved his driving lesson around to a later date.

From filming this we discovered who was best at what, roles were then distibuted:
Nicole: Camera woman, this is because she has a good understanding of the rule of 3rds and has a steady hand with the camera. She also has a keen eye on what is key within a frame.
Ashleigh: Director/Equipment: I find that i help Nicole with seeing whether a frame looks good as well as helping direct the actors. I also am looking after the equipment and making sure it is all charged.
Max: Director, Max has shown to have some really creative ideas and therefore when we need help figuring out what looks best on a scene, Max helps show us different options that would look great for the shot.

We got it done in the right amount of time given and we are on schedule.
I have taken some photographs of the props that i made for the interrogation scene:

I made these props for our interrogation scene. I made sure that i got the correct kind of documents by searching on Google the images of what were actually inside police records. I also made our actor Matt actually put his fingerprints on the sheet and filled in the information to give it an authentic realistic feel to our scene. I wanted to make it feel as real as possible. Nicole borrowed a tape recorded from the modern foreign languages department which we used as if we were actually recording an interrogation on a witness. 

These key features made our scene look as realistic as possible. 

An Updated Film Schedule

Here is an updated Film Schedule as we did not get to record any footage over the holidays:

Wednesday 11th: Max, Nicole and Ashleigh pick up equipment

Thursday 12th: Nicole and Ashleigh film Interrigation scene with actor Matt (Max has a driving lesson and cannot make this session)(Nicole is free from 12.15pm-2.10pm, has a lesson at 2.15pm however we have allowed this session to end at 3pm so Ashleigh and Matt can carry on filming).

Friday 13th: ----

Saturday 14th: ----

Sunday 15th: Nicole, Max and Ashleigh record up in London with Actor Dan (Actor Matt might be coming too). The call sheet has all the times and accurate locations.