On Monday our group met at Erics house and began to finalise the 2nd draft for presenting the following day, the main focus of the day was to create typography for the main title of the film placed on the top of a title board, we originally had three fonts planned for this title, however unfortunately after effects (the program we were creating the title board on) was not compatible with these fonts. So we had to search for another similar font with the capability to be used in our editing software, the following is a brief walkthrough of how the title board and title was created (editing primarily done by Eric Hesselbo and assisted by myself).

The image on the left shows the After effects work behind the title. This features two lens flares, floating particles floating vertically and camera movements. All of these help to create the atmosphere needed to help to sell the effect.

This image shows the initial text. The text flies in from the screen and begins to rotate in the position of seen in the screenshot. The text is 3D and created in Cinema 4D. the lighting on the scene is created by the global illumination added which creates the reflections of the alpha channel scene which is not present in its surroundings.

Although this might be almost impossible to see in the titles this is a 'CC Lens' effect added to the text in After Effects. This creates a transition between the two texts from 'Infinite Presents' to the Missing title.

The main film title 'MISSING' the font used in this is 'double feature' I found this font while searching for a horror font on dafont.com, I thought the font suited a film logo/title as it helped to create a unique and original logo design. The font features drips and i think they help a lot with the three dimensional aspect of the title.

Finally this screenshot shows the movement of the title, this is the final part before entering the scene once again. the title flies towards the viewer or 'camera' with 3D effect. Perhaps this will create an opening atmosphere to the film with a fast moving title.

[walkthrough and images taken from http://goo.gl/QTri9]

Future of blog/project.

Our second draft is due to be presented this Tuesday (31st of January), after this I will make a blog post publishing the results and what needs to change for our next draft. Our next draft which is due in on the 6th March will be the alterations of the middle of the opening, we will refilm the scenes from (01:05 - 01:48)

We also plan on changing the teleport scene at (02:06 and 02:12) in order for this to run smoothly I have planned on testing out some possible options of effects we could use for this teleport. We may also begin recording/editing together our sound board for the final film (due in 20th March) however we want to be completely happy with the visual section of the film opening before moving onto audio as a lot of the audio will of course be dictated by what is seen on screen.

Second draft presentation.

We have made our second edit and have included typography within this one, we have made a prezi together as a group, with the "edit together" feature. Overall I am pleased with the results and I will make a more detailed blog post of the results of our presentation/draft once I have audience feedback. Our project is near to a final product, left remaining is to add a full soundboard with ambient/diegetic sounds, and touch up on the effects within the film (this includes some refilming for the scenes in the middle that we're not happy with and want to redo)

The embedded links below follow to a YouTube video of our second draft and our presentation which we will be showing to our audience on Tuesday.