BLOG 25: OPENING CREDITS VISUAL

BLOG 25: OPENING CREDITS VISUAL

Hey, sunshine🌞, welcome back to my blog! 

    Today's blog will mainly focus on the title sequence for our film opener. I will walk you through our brainstorming process, which includes our choice of font, colors, styles, as well as the titles. However, to make things easier for you guys, I will include visual aids to help you visualize it better😉. With that being said, let's DIVE straight into today's content!!🌊

Make-up scene title sequence

    The title sequence has been finalized early on in the project, along with the film opener's idea. The process was straight forward, as we know the vibe we're trying to achieve. The first idea that got brought up is to corpoprate the title sequence with the make-up scenes, where Gigi's getting ready for her humble coming-up-age party. Since we wanted to achieve a Hollywood CINAMETIC effect, we were thinking to do something that was different than anyone else. Little Miss Barbie and Little Miss #2 suggested doing close-up shots of the make-up products, then adding in the titles as the products being closed or open. Personally, I think this is a CLEVER idea, as I haven't seen any student utilize it (ORIGINAL😝). 

Stair scene title sequence

    Despite that, we are still open to more ideas. Little Miss Cleongy then came up with an idea where we would add the titles toward the middle, specifically when Gigi walks down to the kitchen room. Little Miss Cleongy thinks it's a decent idea as we plan to capture multiple angles of this movement so adding the title would make it feel more NATURAL since it will flow with the action. Lastly, I suggested something even simpler; I wanted to add the title sequence as soon as the opener started (just like how others movies are). Unfortunately, this idea got rejected immediately since the others said it "doen't fit the standard."🥲

We chose the one on the right

    After carefully weighting the pros and cons of each option, we finally decided to go with the title sequence that happens at the transition to the kitchen simply because we all agreed that this option is the most INNOVATIVE; it fits Hollywood's standard perfectly😁. Furthermore, we thought this unique title sequence might appeal to some graders and help us secure some extra points😉. Besides, as an effort to match with the Y2K vibe, we chose to go for a retro font (such as  vintage signature) with some brighter color to ISOLATE the words from the dark background. For title, we wanted to keep it simple with a maximum of 2 roles for each member (but preferably 1 for each member). At this moment, we have Little Miss Barbie as the film director, Little Miss #2 as editor, Little Miss Cleongy for creative director, and myself as co-editor and camera operator.