Continuity sequence

In this task within school, I asked to make an opening title sequence with three people and myself in class which was rather fun as, there was a great range of title sequences that we could make as it was down to us. The only thing in terms of editing techniques, which was required, was a shot/reverse shot, continuity shot and match shot.

The idea that we came up with as a group was to create a rather comical film that explored laughter without being explicit so that it would be aimed at a larger audience and could be viewed by many more people with different psychographics and demographics opening the target audience form 8-40 so, primarily a family film. So, we thought up the idea of using brainstorm methods and finally got to a slight spoof of Harry Potter. So, next we put down our ideas onto storyboard sheets to start the pre-filming stage.

Then we created the film, we shot twice for trial and improvements- so that we could see how to improve upon the original filming and if the storyboards where being followed in terms of shots and timing. Whilst filming the title sequence we followed to the best of our ability our storyboard but some was hard to follow as the filmed had to multi-task to an extent, which became challenging.

The editing techniques worked rather well to an extent as we explored the match shot twice through entrance and exit of the room. We had thought that the 180-degree rule was broke but our teacher re-watched the clip and did not think it was but there was an issue within the clip, the character playing the female role ended up missing from the seat when the male acting Harry Potter entered. The shot/reverse shot also worked well in the speech within the characters, as it didn’t feel rushed or cut too quick and followed the three points on body concept.

The effects that I added to the post filming was some sounding- I added the Hedwig's theme tune so that there was a bigger familiarity to the spoof which in this case was Harry Potter. I also, added an effect whilst in the programming device of final cut pro, which was a colour, suppressor of blue as, according to the film poster blue was the most dominating colour.

The successes of the filming has to be that the costumes where effective because it connotes Harry Potter. But, to improve this title sequence I would definitely try to have two people filming so that more would get done quicker and more input would also, work well for the final outcome.