Sound is an important aspect of modern day film, another video made by my group member indicates how music and editing can change the feel of a short clip and even the whole genre.
Daniel was in charge of typography in our project and he found various fonts that could be used for our titles, another thing to consider with titles is where they are placed within the scene. By examining other clips of film openings similar to our three pitches I examined The Nightmare on Elm street opening for the Supernatural/Beast pitch. The youtube video has been disabled for embedding by request but the link is here. This is particularly good for analysing titles as almost all of the oppening uses titles in a unique way. Without going into too many details the film is about a murderer who kills his victims in their dreams by stabbing them. A fairly plain font is used in the foreground of the scene however over a dark backgrond the same thing is scratched into the background in a lighter colour. These are often anchored with a scratching sound and sometimes carry on into another clip, showing short clips of children playing and elm street. If you watch the film then you realise that these are clips of the main characters who are being hunted by this murderer's childhood. These clips are sometimes photos or sign's which are scratched up so the typography does really well to link itself with the film. Focusing on where the credits are placed in the film the director has decided to split the clips and credits into two seperate scenes, as opposed to placing the credits on top of the clips he has seperated the two.
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