Title Sequence

We have finished a storyboard of our title sequence, as a group we decided that each person will take part by drawing a section of the title sequence. The storyboards had to be done by the 9th January which everyone in the group stuck to. The next stage will be making an animatic of our title sequence.

•           Universal studios credit
•           Star Productions credit 
•           JFK Archive Footage – 10 seconds maximum 
•           Leonardo DiCaprio credits
•          Tracking shot of man(1) walking down corridor  
•          Close up of shoes 
•          Close up of suit
•           Close up of gloves
•          Over the shoulder shot
•          Close up on bottom half of face
•          Colin Hanks credits
•          Man(2) looking out window (over the shoulder)
•          Man(1) approaching door   
•          Close up door handle opening
•          Man(3) getting shot – entering room, shooting man
•          Shot from behind man(3) now dead, man(1) out of focus in background taking briefcase
•          Producer credits in scene
•          Man(1) leaving from with briefcase  
•          Close up of man in window, background out of focus 
•          Man enters threw door, background still out of focus
•          Mid shot of man(2) with man(1) entering scene
•          Close up of briefcase exchanged 
•          Mid shot of man(2) with briefcase
•          Director credits in scene above 
•          Fades to Iron Curtain credits.
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Wednesday 04/01/12

On Wednesday we began to work on our storyboards for our title sequence The Iron Curtain
This would make it easier to follow how the title sequence takes place when filming and editing. From this we had to take into mind the camera angles, we want the cinematography to relate to the style of the 1950/60s. Once we have finished our storyboards we will be adding them to Final Cut to make an animatic that will be easier to see how are film will work when including times and effects.

Location

I have looked into locations in which we could use for our title sequence, I wanted to show threw mise-en-scene that the film is set in the 1950s. First, I thought about 50s style/colours that were significant at the time. The colours seems to be plain and floral which I think we could easily make or portray. The second thing that I thought about was American patriotism, we would show this by the use of guns and perhaps flags.



• Some ideas of offices that we could use for are title sequence.

Fonts are very important to set a tone for the film, it gives a identity into the genre of film the audience is about to watch. An example of this would be a history film, we would expect a font which relates to the time period. For our groups title sequence we want a font which shows the conflict between the Soviet Union and America. We may add a hint of colour to represent the two nations, this would most likely be blue and red because these are commonly used to represent capitalism and communism.    


Here are some of the fonts we plan to use.


American Style Fonts

Russian Style Fonts