OVERCOMING PROBLEMS

While filming and editing our title sequence we experienced a number of problems, which we managed to overcome. Our first problem was that we had trouble filming the tracking shot for our title sequence as the little girl was being cut off at the bottom and the camera was quite shaky and so we re-filmed this shot a few times, each time with a different person filming and so we managed to achieve a tracking shot after a few attempts. We found that the non-diegetic music of 'Georgie Porgie' in our title sequence was quite simple and didn’t fit the title sequence as well as we hoped and so we discussed different ideas for the music and we agreed that a music box lullaby would work well as it is contrapuntal to the scene and it also adds to the idea of innocence.

We used 'Soundtrack Pro' in order to find some music to go underneath the music box lullaby and layer the music. It took us a while to find some music but we managed to get a soundtrack with violins playing long notes at a low pitch. We also managed to get some intense music which builds up towards the end. The other problem we had was that we couldn't decide where to put our titles, we thought about putting our titles at the end or at the beginning but we wanted to avoid our title sequence looking like a film trailer. We also had a slight problem in thinking of a production company that we could use for our title sequence. After watching the opening title sequence for 'The Lovely Bones' we decided that we were going to use 'Film 4' in our title sequence.

In the title sequence for ‘Seven’ the titles jump and move about and so when we tried to do this ourselves we found that the text moved about too much and so we thought that this would be too distracting. The main problem that we faced when creating our title sequence was that our title sequence wasn't long enough and so we had to come up with a way to make it longer. We overcame this problem by slowing the speed of some of the clips so that the pace of edit and duration of shot was longer. We also knew we needed to add some more clips as our title sequence was nowhere near as long enough. By filming the shots of the killer it allowed us to put the credits on and also gave us an idea of where to put the title, which was towards the end of the title sequence.