For our film we wanted to include titles which were relevant for our film genre and that fitted the sequence of the film opening. From our research we wanted to use similar titles from the film 'The Notebook', as it is our most influential film in making 'The Ripple Effect'. The titles used in The Notebook are very simple looking, and don't stand out emphatically. They enter the frame in a fade which is very smooth and hardly noticeable, and last about 3 seconds for each title which appears. The length of the fade and in which the title appears creates a peaceful and soft mood for the opening which is what we want to incorporate into our film opening. The colour of the titles are white in each frame in The Notebook, which is what we wanted to use in our film. However because our location is quite bright and colourful, it would've been difficult to include white titles as they wouldn't have been easy to read. Because of our environment in our film we have decided to use black titles as that is still a very basic and crisp colour, and it will be much easier to read than white would be in our film. The size of the titles is also relevant for us, and we've decided that the titles will be relatively small however still clearly visible to be able to read.
Another key element of the titles we want to include is the position they are put in for each frame. For some scenes we tried to incorporate a place where the titles would go when filming - for example we made sure you could see the path in some scenes so that the title could appear there quite smoothly. However for the scenes where we didn't incorporate a place for the titles we've decided to put them at the corners of the frame in the best place they suited. This means that the titles are not the main focus of the opening however they are still clearly visible which is key. Lastly we wanted to use an effective font. The font needed to be very simplistic, formal, and easy to read. That's why we've decided to use the font (Georgia) for our titles as it fits the idea we were looking for in a font. We have focused a fair amount on the appearance of our titles for our film and we hope that they come across as effective as we intend them to be.
For our titles used in our film, The Ripple Effect, we followed the conventions used in our influential film, The Notebook. In The Notebook, it initially begins with the actors names early on and uses 3 different people per title for the less important characters, and one name is on one title for the most important actors. Therefore we used the same convention and included it within our film. Further more our first initial title was 'New Line Cinema Presents', which is also the first title in our influential film.
As well as this, the titles including the 'director of photography' and the 'casting by' titles came at the end of the opening for The Notebook and we again followed that convention and reflected the same in our film. I believe that our conventions are very similar to that of The Notebook's, however we did change little things that we believed suited our film more as we didn't want to copy it exactly.
Group Roles
Barney Flood - For this post I basically summed up the idea of the titles that I came up with when editing our film. I followed ideas given in the opening for 'The Notebook' and used them in creating this post. I checked with other members of the group to see what they thought of the titles and they both agreed that they suited our film and overall we are pretty happy with the result of the titles we have invorporated in 'The Ripple Effect'.
Zak Jakubowski - My only contribution to this post was to simply aid Barney in any way possible, this could range from reminding what a title was or even helping with some of the wording but apart from that this was Barneys post.
Elijah Potter - My role for this was to contribute my ideas for the title of our film. I suggested that our title should be 'The Ripple Effect'. With this suggestion, the rest of the group were happy with this suggestion and overall happy with the result of our title.
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