For our opening sequence we have to create a production company which will appear at the beginning of the clip. we have researched into existing production company logos in order to receive inspiration in preparation for making our own logo.
Here is an example of a company logo named 'Red Letter Studios', the text in this logo shows a sense of tension due to dark colours. We will make our logo using dark colours as it portrays the genre of film we are making, and for the text to be distorted as our main character has a dark twisted past. The main character is also in a lot of danger, the colour red symbolises danger so this would be an appropriate colour to use in our logo.
Here is a second logo that we have researched. It is a company called 'Twisted Pictures'. This company produced all the saw films, it is associated with only horror films, which is one reason why it has inspired us for our own company logo. The font in this logo is eye catching, as there is a strong contrast between the colour of font and background. The text is in the middle of the screen highlighting its importance. The twisting feature gives a sense of being trapped, which gives the audience an idea of the genre of the film.
The universal logo is simple, yet effective. The company is one of the most successful in the 21st century, who target their films world wide- hence the image of planet earth, and its title 'Universal'. The title appears very bold, emphasising its world wide target audience. For our own production company logo, we will also create a bold title to entice the audience and give them a sense of what our film will be about.
This is a preview of the production company logo we have produced for our opening sequence. We decided to call our company 'Twined Studios' as it relates to the genre of the film. The eery adjective 'Twined' creates a spooky feel relating to the horror genre. The title is effective and simple, holding a short 2 words making it more memorable.
We produced this logo using 'Motion', an app on the macs designed to create titling for film and video production. It allowed us to choose from a range of fonts and graphics, best suited to our opening sequence. We aimed to use the red as our main colour, due to it representing danger, which also relates to our horror genre. We made the background black, to show enhanced contrast between the background and text, meaning the title appears bold enticing the audience. The title appears by fading in from the left, until all text and shadow is present, in then slowly fades out from the right leaving a black screen. We added a whining drone sound under the appearing text to help create a creepy feel relation to our genre.
Throughout our opening sequence, only 2 characters make an appearance - Kayleigh and Jason, who remain the main characters through the entire film. Our Actress that will play 'Kayleigh' the young girl in our opening sequence is our friend Tara Long (above). We feel that she will play a good role in our sequence as she has long hair which will drape over her face, and looks reasonably young. She is best suited to this role.
Our actor that will play 'Jason', the young caretaker (father of Kayleigh) is Fred Sturley, Lotties brother. He feel he is well suited to this role as he is at a suitable age and looks like a typical, up to date character.
Here are some snap shots of our possible location of filming for our opening sequence. This location will hold the scene of Jason waking up from his series of flash backs, and at the end of his bed stands kayliegh. We think this may be a good shot for this certain part of our opening sequence. It is a normal bedroom with not much in it, as kayliegh will be at the end of the bed we want her to be the main focus of the scene so we think this location would be most effective. Another location shot is held on the streets of our local area. We feel this might give our opening sequence a spooky atmosphere due to the dim red and black lighting. It is located next to a pitch black park and has no noise, this would be perfect for filming as no extra noise would effect our film. This location will hold the appearance of Kayleigh in the flashbacks
