AS R+P Post 8: Our opening sequence idea,to include sound and titles

Our opening sequence starts with two title shots showing our distributor and producer (Stealth Films Ltd. and Studiocanal). We will then go straight into a master shot of the party scene. There will be a series of montage fast-pace edited shots featuring friends taking, dancing...doing all the things you'd expect to see teenagers doing at a wild party. Amongst these shots, near the beginning, the audience are introduced to Lola, our main character, in a mirror-motif mid-shot. Lola looks happy and dressed up for the night ahead. As the sequence goes on, the audience are continually brought back to different mirror shots of Lola's reflection; each time she looks less happy and less aware of herself. This will help the audience to understand something's not quite right and make them ask questions-what will happen next? Near the end of the sequence-the anti-climax-Lola sees her boyfriend, Marlon, talking to another female. At this point Lola is completely out of control of her actions and lashes out, punching her boyfriend in a moment of rage. The whole party is shocked and Lola, embarrassed and unstable, runs to the bathroom where she eventually breaks down and cries. We will show continuity in these last scenes starting from the argument to Lola breaking down and will include 2 hand-held camera tracks of Lola walking into and out of the room where the argument takes place.

We chose one backing track for our whole sequence. We felt the song reflected the London music culture of teenagers of our age and older and offers a lot of energy to our sequence. The music  will be played at he same level throughout our opening, stating to play after the 2 first titles (producer and distributor). Then, when Lola breaks down at the end, we will muffle the music and possibly add an 'outside the club' sound effect to create the feel of her being in a separate place to the party.

Titles:

For our titles, we wanted to keep them simple, short and straight-forward in terms of wording but we were thinking about them having a strobing effect where the titles are flashing on the screen to reflect on the party scene they will be run through. We want our titles to be super-imposed instead of being placed in cut-aways. This is so we can keep the montage editing style for our party scene; cutaways would feel too disjointed. 

We did some research on the Art of the Title website and found the opening sequence for Godzilla, a drama/thriller film. Below are some of the titles from the opening sequence which we will base our titles on. We like the wording and style, for example how the "a" and "production designer" is in a smaller font than the names which makes the names stand out more. We also liked the colouring: the white against a black/grey background. The placing of the titles was always in a corner of the screen where it didn't interfere with the main image:this is exactly what we want. 

After this research, we decided our titles will include the following:

•  Producer and distributor logos
• 4 character/actor names
• Director
• Music by
• And, the film title