Film Titling

Adding the Title

Placing the title in a way that blends smoothly into the film was a bit of a struggle. I felt as though every placement of the title seemed unnatural and took away from the importance of a scene. 

My first attempt at placing the film's title, Intertwined.

The font chosen in all capitals gave it a simple, yet bold and intriguing appearance. Initially having it placed in this scene felt right because of the clean-cut rule of thirds used in the shot, however, since it was an important flashback scene, it looked random when put together alongside the rest of the film and took away from details that the audience was meant to focus on here.

The revised title placement at the beginning of the film.

Many of the film openings I watched had the title at the very beginning of the film for a short amount of time, usually over a setting. Because this was an establishing shot that pans across the girl's room and was not too significant in terms of attention needed to be paid to its surroundings, it felt more natural to be here. I wanted the title over something of the girls and as this was a scene depicting a home video the girls made during their friendship, it added meaning to the title that could be connected later in the film having that it went on beyond an opening.

This time, I also took sound into consideration when determining the title's duration. The audio is internal diegetic sound and at the clicking on the Nikon Coolpix s3700 zooming in and out, I put the title to pop up with no transition and had it removed when Pam says 'Ok it's recording.' This addition and removal of the title in sync with the sound aspects make it flow seemingly into the film without disrupting the audience's attention. The duration of the title ending once Pam begins to talk transitions the audience's attention from the title to what Pam is recording.

Credits Placement

The credits rolling in scene 2, early on into the film to not take away attention or time from the opening limitations and requirements.

 

To maintain some anonymity, only our first names were placed into the film in the credit titling. I decided to hold each credit per person for around 3 seconds and appear with a transition, as I noticed most credit scenes appearing at the beginning of a film are for relatively short durations. At first, the font size was a bit small and when requesting feedback from my peers, it was suggested I increase the sizing. I took this advice and had each role for the credits have a section in which it popped up on; left side for my director, right side for myself as editor, and the middle in capital letters to showcase the actresses starring in the film.