Title.

While finishing off editing in class today, we decided to move onto our title, thinking about the font we wanted to use and where to add it in. Our original title was 'Bella', however after some thought about the title we decided it did not fit the genre and we would struggle to notify the audience why it is called this in our opening. We decided to look for some more possible titles, after some research we found it hard to come up with a name, but we knew it had to be something related to the audience and obvious to the viewer. I thought about finding a synonym for the word 'spread' as in our movie an infection spreads across the globe. Our new title is now 'Proliferation' a synonym for the word spread. The audience will understand the reason for this title and it also fits with our genre. We thought Bella did not fit with the conventions as it is too nice and didn't fit our film.

After deciding on the final film name we looked for some fonts on the web and used
http://www.dafont.com/. This was a useful website as it gave us lots of different choices. Our initial idea was to use an eroded font, for example scorched earth, stone bird and Birth of a Hero. We decided as a group we liked stone bird the best and went on Photoshop to edit the title and then add it to our opening.



However when we added it to our opening we soon realised although it looked good, it didn't suit the conventions of our genre. This font suited more of a horror/physiological thriller. Most titles in the post-apocalyptic genre use bold sans-serif fonts, for example like in the Last of US and in Children Of Men:

Because of this we chose a title font similar to these as it suits the conventions of our genre.

The final font we chose was Bebas. We felt this font looked the best and is clear so the viewer. We edited this font in Photoshop and added it to our opening. It looks great and fits with our genre.

Shots used - Abbie with the gun.

After our ending wasn't up to scratch we decided to add in some action and our character handling her rifle. We did a variety of shots to show that Abbie can kill and survive however also to show her fear and innocence. The shots we used where...
Two extreme close ups of Abbie with the gun.
A close up
Full shot of the actor kneeling down.
These shots were used to give the viewer a hint into the story to come and to show the depth in the character. The extreme close up's were mainly used to show the characters fear. One was an extrame close up of Abbie's finger slipping of the trigger showing she is scared/nervous anticipating the battle.
The other was an extreme close up of Abbie's eyes to show her emotions.
The final full shot was used to show the viewer that even though she is nervous she knows how to handle herself and keep alive.

Overall the shots contrast each other and look good as it shows the characters personality and charactersitics. It implies that she has fear but is a born survivor and will kill if necessray. Furthermore we also decided to challenge the conventions of the genre by adding fear to the character. On many post-apocalyptic films manny characters dont show fear and vunrability that often, however we have displayed it in this instance. Here is the clip!:

Shots used - sun/smoke.

The last shot of the film was going to be Abbie walking of into the distance, however as the fire was still lit i had the idea of putting it onto the rubble next to her so that the viewer could see the smoke as she walked off into the distance. We carried out this shot and it looks great! The smoke notify's the viewer that there is destructuion in the viewer and it also fits into the conventions as a post-apocalyptic world would have loads of wreckages and destruction. The somke also repressents the bad things our character has done (such as kill people) and the devestatoion in the post-apoclayptic world, however we also caught some sunlight beming down onto here which represents that alothough she has done bad things she is really just innnocent and fighting to survive. The sun, along with the somke blowing towards Abbie was perfect and it is a good ending for our post-apocalyptic film. Here is the clip!:

Shots used - striking match.

One of the shots used in our film opening is an extreme close up of Abbie striking a match. We wanted an extreme close up so that you could see the match lighting. We instructed Abbie to try and light the match twice before being sucessfull this is to show the frustration she has in a post-apocalyptic world, it is also to implie that things will go wrong throughout the movie. When the match finally lights it shows that there is hope for the future. I like this shot becuase it is simple however has a lot of meaning...

Bird shot.

Last weekend when filming I spotted some birds flying over us, I thought it would be good to film them as it would look good in our opening so we did. We have alteast 5 seconds of good footage that we can add into the opening. We can use the birds after the gun shot to show that it has been fired by the reaction of the birds. Birds flying above (especailly crows) are a convention in a post-apocalyptic films thats why i thought it would be good to capture the footage. Some exmaple are in 'World War Z' in the opening. Birds are used to symbolise death ect so it will look quite good in our opening.  Here is the footage we managed to get!:

Audience feedback on our film opening.

Today in lesson we went out and got some audience feedback on our film opening, we asked a few people what they thought of our film opening so far after they have watched it, we got some postotive feeback and also some things to improve on. Doing this will help us make our opening look better, here's the feedback video! :

Production company.

Here Toby has drawn up some of the ideas we had in class for our production companies. A production company is a company that makes the film or promotes it. They all have a logo and a trademark, some well-known companies include Lions Gate, Warner Bro's and Universal studios, however there are many more. I came up with the idea Iron Gate, as this would fit into our genre of post-apocalyptic films. The gate represents the character going into unknown areas scavenging and hunting for survival. The gates are also quite spooky. However after coming up with the idea we soon realised that the idea that we had couldn't be created with the software we had. The idea was too complicated and needed a lot of work. Although we had a back up plan and it was a very good idea. We decided to make a production company with the name coming up but in the background there would be splashes of blood. This fits in better than our original idea as in our opening the character shoots a person and would do throughout the film to survive. We played about with the software are created an awesome logo that looks very good in our opening and also fits well with the genre.