True Edge | Opening Sequence

This is my groups final opening sequence:

All the music in this video are pre-sets from Apple (iMovie 11)

----Software's----
iMovie
Sony Vegas Pro 11
Adobe After Effects CS5 Extended

Split Second Films [Intro]

Today I made this production line intro because there are many films with more than one production line in it, such as Marvel, DC Comics, Columbia Pictures etc...
This took me about 30min to make, I think I could have added a few extra tweaks here and there to make it have a better aesthetic look, but I was in a hurry so, I couldn’t add them as I was eager to finish it.

Now im proud to present Split Second Films:

 

Flash Film Production Intro

Well here is the production line that I made for my group. I estimated it would take me around 30 minutes to make the intro, but it took me 1hour 30minutes because I tried different techniques to see what looked better.
I used the following programs to make it: Cinema 4D R13, Adobe After Effects CS5 and Sony Vegas Pro 12

In Cinema 4D I created the text and animated it, this was the main part of the intro giving everything a good aesthetic look.
Here is a screenshot to give you a little understanding of what I did:

 

Secondly I used Adobe After Effects to give the intro a professional look, I used plugins such as: Trapcode particular, Trapcode Shine and Optical Flares.

Here is a screenshot to give you a little understanding of what I did:

 

Lastly I used Sony Vegas to add all the sound effect creating the final footage

Here is a screenshot to give you a little understanding of what I did:

Flash Film Productions:

Production Line Name Idea's

Today I was thinking of a few names for my film’s production line like: Warner Bros. Pictures., Columbia Pictures, DreamWorks Animation, P I X A R, 20th Century Fox, Universal Studios and Walt Disney Pictures.

I was thinking to make a production line with the name of, Flat Line Editing. However this was taken and wasn’t convenient because we were not editing. So I came up with Flash Films Productions. This was a good name because it wasn't taken and it was an original name and no one had a similar name to it.

I thought about making it a still image, but then thought to myself it would look really boring, so I decided to make it a 5-7 seconds animation. As it would be unique in my class, because everyone was doing still images.

Filming Problem [Resolved]

Today we filmed a part of the opening sequence of our film, as we were filming the weather start changing and it was getting darker as the evening was drawing closer and closer. This meant what we filmed couldn’t be used because of these big changes making such an impact on the footage we recorded.

However I came up with an idea making it look like our character was going to the same place every day, making it look like we were filming on different days. Also we didn’t finish all the filming on the same day, and the next time my group met up to film one of our characters/actor was wearing different clothes, this was resolved by making it look like the character/actor was turning up on to the same venue on different days.

Analysing Other Media Films [Lesson]

In today’s lesson we analysed other peoples media films from other years and made notes on them exchanging ideas with the class on what the previous years could have done to make there film better. The films we watched had good storylines but obvious mistakes which they could have prevented, such as costumes that did suit the part the character played. Another problem was the non-diegetic sound, which was really good and fitted most of the situations they used them in. The problem was it was mixed with diegetic sound, this is because when there was a little background of the footage, it came into play over the non-diegetic sound making it pointless that they used the technique. This lesson was really helpful because it helped me see the main places a lot of thing goes wrong, so when I start filming and editing I can try my best to avoid them same errors.  

Props

We are going to use suits to make the characters seem high classed. This should automatically give the audience a feel that the character is important and plays a key role in the film.

We will also be using phones for communication in the scene, preferably we are going to use a smartphone so the character looks sophisticated with his suit

These are the props/costume we will need in our film.