Editing so far and our Title

So far all of our shots have been placed in the correct order and we've played around with each of them and the overall sequence and made a few very slight changes. Firstly, we have moved our flashback nearer the beginning of the opening because we feel it is better for the narrative sequence. Furthermore, after revising the research we did on the placement of titles we have moved out title into the middle of the sequence allowing us to show the titles of our actors beforehand and crew members afterwards. In addition, we have decided to place our titles over the top of our shots instead of on their own with a black screen because otherwise we felt we were likely to go over the time limit. During our editing session today though we had to overcome a problematic issue of the fact that when two of our shots were joined together they created a jump cut effect ruining the continuity of our editing. Hence, we had to see which other shots we had filmed and spend a lot of time deciding how we were going to resolve the problem. In the end we simply used another one of our shots and changed the sequencing slightly and luckily it worked.


 Above is the title we have created and are contemplating using in our opening sequence. We have still not finalised this decision because we haven't received any advice or feedback on it but we are hopeful it will be positive. The reason behind the idea is that the smoke can be used as a metaphor for the brother because his sister can't catch him the way you can't catch smoke as he drifts away from his family. The use of sans serif font is bold and eye-catching drawing the audience into the rest of the film and overall I am pleased with this title because I feel it achieves the mysterious and ambiguous tone we wish to create during our opening sequence.

Overall I believe my group have been working really well together in order to finish the project as soon as possible and meet the deadlines as we've each taken on different roles to help the project move forward. Once the titles have been finished and the last bit of filming is completed tomorrow all we will have to do is finalise our choice of music. However, this is will be an important feature which we will need to carefully consider and spend lots of time on.