Timeline of opening title sequence CAST

Here our task was to go onto the website 'The Art Of Title' and watch a 2-3 minute title sequence noting down the time of each of the frames and the names, also noting the soundtrack timings. I chose the the film CAST. I found this task tricky to understand to start off with, however became more clear to me after fully understanding what to do. I found it helpful overall as I am aware that we will be creating our own title sequence, so being able to watch a published title sequence first and note the ways the frames flowed, the timings in between each frame will enable me to relate this to my future task of making my own title sequence.

Devising a film production company name

We (Bruno, George and I) decided to do a mind up to come up with an appropriate film production name to suit our genre choice. As you can see above in the photo, we though of Heatwave Productions, but decided that it didn't sound so edgy, instead more dangerous, maybe more associated with movies like Fast and Furious. Ripper Productions and Trap Film productions came next to our mind. However we all agreed that Ripper Productions actually sounded too gory, and would associate more with horror films rather than a psychological, real-life thriller. Trap Film Productions however, was one of our favorites. This didn't sound too dangerous, neither too gory, and actually the name 'Trap Door' could mean multiple things, such as the audience get 'trapped' within the film, also relating to being trapped in a room. However our final idea that we stuck too, was Dark Feather Productions. We thought that this sounded quite mysterious, and also edgy, which is just what we wanted. Quite a symbolic name as the feather is dark, however it floats very lightly which can lead to multiple thoughts, such as secrets within our film choice.

OCR Preliminary Task

For our OCR preliminary task, we had to produce a short film which had to contain the following: shot reverse shot, 180 degree rule and match on action.

Scenario: we decided to base our video on was a youth from school, stealing a school laptop, and making a run for it. We tried to give an effect that the audience was chasing this youth, creating excitement and building tension within the video. We added the soundtrack He's Just A Rascal by Dizzee Rascal as we thought it was at an appropriate pace when the youth was just about to make a run for it, the music suddenly picks up adding to the tension.

Location: The Cherwell School 

Shooting Schedule (AM):
9:10 - establishing shot of youth walking towards gate with laptop
9:15 - shot reverse shots out of school gate
9:20 - match on action shot of youth running from school
9.30 - tracking shot of youth running down alleyway
9.40 - reverse tracking shot of youth, from round the corner of the alleyway facing youth



We used a small portable camera to film our task, which was not ideal but we made the most of it. I found the process quite tricky at times, such as getting the 180 degree angle rule right, which I am not sure whether we accomplished smoothly within our task however we had a go. Filming the chase down the alleyway was very quick paced and fun, Bruno cycled after the youth running holding the camera upright to get the tracking down smoothly. However the reverse tracking was much tricker to overcome as I had to sit on the handlebars while Bruno cycled forward, enabling us to get this shot. The editing was not so tricky either as we just edited out the parts that were faulty, and merged together smoothly film that was worthy and flowed well. The track that was added in (He's Just A Rascal - Dizzee Rascal) fitted well as the tempo and pace matched the task, with the track's pace speeding up as soon as the youth makes a run for it. Overall I think that my group did well and learnt a few things in this task, getting an overall grasp of what filming and editing is like.

Draft shooting schedule