For my group's title sequence, we wanted to keep the tone consistent with our genre, so in terms of fonts and styles, we didn't go with anything too wild.
Our title sequence will go in this order:
- Production Company - Swift Pictures
- Actors - Tori Ragin as Betty, Daniel Morales as James, Ashley Polo as August
- Producers - Tori Ragin, Melanie Reynoso
- Edited by - Melanie Reynoso
- Screenplay by - Daniel Morales
- Directed by - Hannah Barnes (me)
Our production company name, of course, is made-up, but we had to name someone as producer so Tori and Melanie volunteered to be our "producers". Melanie was (and is) the main editor for this film opening, so we put her name there as well and Daniel, along with some of our input, wrote the brief dialogue and voiceover from the character of Betty. And I, being the main cameraperson, filming most of the shots, was just given the name of director, although the actual directing of filming was more or less a group effort. As you can see, some of my group members took on dual roles (thank goodness for them and their work ethic!)
We finally decided on our fonts for the opening and out of the ones that we narrowed them down to...my group and I chose one, called Quita, for the title, because we wanted a fancy-looking, cursive font as it would match the tone of the film opening and the subsequent scenes of the actual movie (if we were filming that). We also chose a different font, Kinuta Shin StdN, because we wanted a simple, yet legible font, because the credits are very important so we didn't want something distracting. I tried to upload a picture of the fonts we narrowed them down to but it would not work, although at least one of my groupmates does have this picture in their blog post.
The credits will probably appear relatively small in the bottom left corner so that the audience's focus is on Betty's bedroom and the props that represent her heartbreak. However, the title will be front and center, displayed over the shot of the sky that we have at the very end of the opening.
So far, the text being displayed with these fonts should be in the color white, mainly because most of our shots have dark lighting, so we needed a light color to make the credits and title clearly visible. Melanie tells us there might be issues with the white text of the title blending in with the white clouds in our last shot (a tilt up to the sky), but if anything, she can always use black or another dark color to display our film opening title.
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