10th Janurary

Today we filmed 4 more shots. We have slightly changed our filming from the story boards as we found some shots or choices off scenery were not right to film in. For example one shot was planned to have a person walking down the street with a phone to show the mobile app, but the over the shoulder shot did not show the app well, instead we have changed it to a person in a office, however it is still an over the shoulder shot.
This means the storyboards will have to be changed to fit this. The shots we have changed are for good reason. We feel they fit in with the title sequence more and there is less risk of the footage looking bad when we go to edit it. The purpose of the women walking and looking at her iphone app was to show that the girls are famous all around the world. Iphone apps are hugely popular at the moment and shows we could also be appealing to a wider audience. Although the footage has been changed it still shows the original purpose but focuses more on the app itself rather than what the character is doing.

Typograpy Survey

This is the survey we created for our typography. We narrowed it down to four and made a survey. We wanted to see which one the audience thought would be better suited for our film. These were found from dafont.com to avoid copy right. Results will be posted soon to determine which one will be the one in our title sequence.

The survey was made on surveymonkey.com which will automatically collect the results and give a percentage to help us see which one the audience preferred.

9th January

We have created the storyboards and are happy with the way things are going. We have also made a time scheduled of when we will be filming and what time. This will hopefully help us to stay on task and to make sure we have enough time to edit. Our locations have been chosen and we feel these are perfect for our genre. An example of one is danson park. This is were all the girls come together, if we get the filming right we could have a nice shot of the girls standing by the river. This way the sun will be shinning behind the girls and reflecting on the river to give the girls a more pwerful affect. This would also be the last shot as the girls would have come together and the title would layer over the top of the image.
So far we've filmed about 6 shots. We still have quite a bit to do and we will be filming again tomorrow. Hopefully we can get all the filming finished  tomorrow.

Typography.

This is an option for our typography. We like the fact that it looks as if it is hand written. It doesn't show the narrative so were not sure if this is the right one for our film.

 This is our second option. We like this as it looks magical and gives our hint at our narrative. We like this the best out of the four but we want to know what the audience think.The typography relates back to our superheroes.

Our third option. This reminds us of comic book writing and this is suitable for us as our film is a superhero film. It is also very easier to read and eye catching.

Finally, our last option. We liked this because its different and we'd hope it would make them question what its about. However, we feel its not as easier to read as the others.

Danson filming.

This seemed the perfect location for the four girls to final come together. However we may have to re-shoot them to match the lighting and weather as the other shots in the title sequence.

Some of the pictures show the weather issues. We needed a sunny day to film our sequence as it determines the mood of the piece. Luckily the film does not show that the lake is actually iced over. We picked the area with the least amount of ice to film.

The shots worked out better than we expected, we had hoped before hand to have the sun reflecting off the river, however we ended up with the sun in the shot as well. This makes the girls look more powerful. We used an establishing shot to show the girls in the distance but not show their faces until the very end. Tomorrow we are hoping to put all the shots together to see what they look like as they are at the moment.  

7th January

Today we decided to film, it seemed like the perfect time as the weather was nice. We had to change our original location that we had planned as it wasn't affordable or practical. We also wasn't sure if the location had the resources that we needed to film.

Instead we decided to film by bexleyheath train station. This was mainly because we knew that they had a newspaper stand, which meant we could clearly show a ordinary person pick up the newspaper and read about the fantastagirls. This would show how widespread they was and how popular they was. We tried a pan of her walking which we felt didn't work so we then tried other shots such as her walking into the shot and picking up the newspaper. we then had an over the shoulder shot of the actual newspaper.

We had some trouble filming. We couldn't have any cars or buses in the shot as we felt it would draw off the focus. We could ask people to stop walking so many people got in our shot so it was very time consuming to re-shot and wait for the people to get out of the shot. 

Typography 

Common order of titles:

•  Name of studio
•  Name of production company
•  Producer name
•  Staring (starting with the main actors)
•  Featuring (featured actors)
•  Casting director
•  Composer of music
•  production designer
•  Editor
•  Director of photography
•  producer
•  writers
•  director

Looking at typography in existing productions.

Catch me if you can

• Titles are integrated into sequence (become part of the action)
• Exit screen smoothly looks elegant and could resemble the character who plays the police officer.
• Typography looks stylised and works in sync with music.
• High production value
  Font is sans serif
  
• 60's styled which hints time era of film/setting
• Informal font suggests film wont have a consistent serious tone and elements of humour could be present.
• Smaller words are serif which resembles an old typewriter which again references the 60's and suggests significance of the object in the film.

The genre and the target audience to be identified through the typography. The typography is well used throughout, but would not be suitable for our groups title sequence. The shapes used are similar to Saul Bass' work with title sequence.