The document discusses the process of constructing an opening sequence for a film or television show. Research was conducted online to analyze styles of other popular sequences. Planning involved deciding on ideas, scripts, and equipment. Construction included filming with different cameras, editing shots together using software, and adding effects, transitions, music, and sounds. The finished sequence was uploaded online and received positive feedback, though some suggested composing an original soundtrack.

1. What have you learned abou
technologies from the proces
of constructing your opening
sequence?
Eleanor Flower

2. Research
We conducted lots of research before deciding what genre and style of
opening sequence that we wanted to make. We did this mainly through the
internet and websites such as www.artofthetitle.com. This website was
especially useful because on it, there are hundreds of different TV and film
opening sequences. We used this to look at the opening sequences of
‘Seven’, ‘Dexter’ and ‘Hannibal’. These opening sequences gave us
inspiration and ideas of the style that we wanted to follow.

3. Planning
Planning was another key area that we had to look into before filming our
opening sequence. Firstly we needed to decided what we were going to film.
For this we gathered lots of ideas and formed a script and a shot list of what
we needed to film.
Props and locations were other aspects that we needed to consider as well.
For example, we decided not to use my camera because it does not record
sound. Although we needed up recording the sound separate, in our initial
ideas we wanted to record the speech and shots together.

4. Construction
Constructing our opening sequence began with filming. To film, we used a variety of
cameras such as hand held video cameras and DSLR’s. We did this to help create different
effects for different scenes.
Next we had to edit the different shots together to create the basis for our sequence. For
this we used final cut pro. This editing software is professional and helped us to make our
opening sequence look professional. The editing software can be a challenge to use at
times but luckily one of the members of our group knows how to use it.
Afterwards we had to add effects and transitions to our sequence to help the continuity
and to create the dark and mysterious effect we were going for. On a lot of the shots we
added a dark boarder to keep the claustrophobic theme and added a red tint to the
shots of blood to make them look darker. We also kept our jump cuts simple with the effect
‘fade to colour’, this allowed us to create a chaotic title sequence but didn’t make it jump
around too much and look too fast paced.
We then finished off our sequence with music and sound effects. We chose the song ‘Ain’t
gonna drown’ by Elle King because it sounded mysterious and the lyrics fit perfectly with
the narrative of our film. We tired to sync the lyrics up with the shots on screen to help with
the narrative. For sound effects, we used the ones provided on final cut pro and found an
ambient piece, sounds of waves in the water and the sound of a camera flashing. We
used these to help the audience to understand what was happening in certain parts of the
sequence. These sounds also helped to set the location of the film, such as the water
sounds in the scene with the swimming pool.

5. Evaluation
We uploaded our final opening sequence to YouTube
which allowed for public feedback. We did receive one
comment from some one that said “Good media piece”.
This shows that our opening sequence has had a positive
feedback.
We also gave a few people questionnaires which asked
them for their feedback on our opening sequence. The
overall feedback was positive but we did receive a few
improvements, for example composing our own
soundtrack.

6. Evaluation
We uploaded our final opening sequence to YouTube
which allowed for public feedback. We did receive one
comment from some one that said “Good media piece”.
This shows that our opening sequence has had a positive
feedback.
We also gave a few people questionnaires which asked
them for their feedback on our opening sequence. The
overall feedback was positive but we did receive a few
improvements, for example composing our own
soundtrack.