The Flashbacks

In order to make our flashbacks stand out against the rest of the opening we altered the colour of the shots. By dimming the flashbacks it made a clear cut between her memories and reality to ensure the audience know what was going on. The dull tones also reflected the patients thoughts as she reflects on their time together in a negative way this informs the audience that they are not fond memories. To edit the picture we altered the exposure, brightness, contrast and colour saturation in the settings.

 

 

Duration Of Titles

At first when we applied our titles to your opening they appeared for various duration's of time ranging from about 2 seconds to 4 seconds because we were inserting them to fit in with the duration of certain shots. After re-visiting them we realised that the inconsistency of the tiles made the opening seem rushed and poorly constructed, as well as difficult to read because they were so short. Although the conventional duration for a titles to be on screen is 4 seconds or more there are some openings that have their titles up for less even though it is not conventional in the film industry, an example of this is 'The Last Panthers' (2015) where the title appear for 2-3 seconds:

'Gone Girl' (2014) is another example of this, as the titles barely appear for 2 seconds before slowly fading out. This is half the expected time for film titles however they get away with it because the majority of their titles are short so you can read them before the text disappears: 

   

Through doing this research we concluded that although our titles do not necessarily have to be the customary 4 seconds long, they do need to be consistent in their duration. It just so happened that the agreed duration was 4 seconds because they aligned nicely. 

Applying The Font

Applying the font to our content was a little more complicated than expected because it was not one of the default ones that iMovie provided, it was downloaded from an external website. So we had to research how to do it from YouTube. This clip assisted us by talking through how to put our font onto the iMovie software.

This is how the fonts looked once we applied it to our opening:

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Font For Titles

When making the titles we wanted to continue with the theme of the opening with the unsettling mental asylum and the unstable patient. In order to achieve this we decided to use a unconventional font that reflected that of a child's handwriting; something messy but still legible. The website: 'http://www.dafont.com' was extremely helpful when it came to finding the perfect font, it had a massive range of of fonts that fit our theme. After looking through many different options, we decided that this font by Michelle Pha would be suitable as it was fairly subtle so it did not take the limelight away from the opening but it still looked rough enough to reflect the patients disorganised mindset. 

Our Camera

We filmed our project on a Panasonic SD90. The camera quality was average, we were able to have a clear image who filming however, the picture was not high definition once uploaded onto iMovie. Also the battery life was not very reliable as we could not see the percentage of battery life, this meant that the battery often died whilst filming which prolonged the process. The overall experience with this camera was mediocre because I was able to operate it but if I had the option to film with a different one I probable would.

Our Production Company

In order to present our opening professionally we decided to add a production company to the beginning. The idea was to remake the Metro Goldwyn Mayer logo with the lion roaring inside of the gold ring, however we were not able to find an available lion so we used Rachel's dog as a substitute. As for the animated ring around the lion we constructed our own ring out of some cardboard and painted it yellow with our logo across the middle. The final product with the  dog together with the ring was exactly what we were going for.

Final Day Filming

Today we shot our new ending with blood on Mehreen's hands. It was an interesting experience because it was difficult to make the blood look authentic, so we had to use a lot. Filming her walk to the sink was challenging because we planed to do a pan following her across the room but it was hard to capture the whole movement, also we didn't feel it captured captured her frantic mindset. Eventually we decided to follow her with a handheld shot as we felt if was rough and messy- parallel the patient. Also we wanted to maintain continuity throughout by not including parts of the room where the filing cabinets were and we felt we could control this best with a handheld shot. The final film was shot in one swift movement which made it even more organic.