Rough cut 2 evaluation

Rough cut 2 evaluation

 




For this blog post I will be evaluating the second rough cut of our title sequence and evaluating the strengths and weaknesses and what to do in order to improve our title sequence.

Overall, I believe the rough cut our group has created is successful as we have followed the criteria we created in order to have a successful title sequence. As planned we wanted to have the preachers voice in the background through out the title sequence in order to keep the theme of religion and christianity running through the title sequence, this gives the audience context to what the movie may be about as well as the genre. The audience will mostly likely realise the genre due to the use of lighting, this is because the lighting is kept very dim and dark, which is often seen in thriller and horror movies. Also the mise en scene gives the impression of a psychological thriller also, this is because we have included objects such as the bible, various jewellery and trinkets, a cross drawn on using a lipstick, all these objects are not commonly seen in comedy movies nor romantic therefore i feel as if they fit well in the psychological thriller which we have created. We have also tried to create eerie effects using the demo light, this is shown above in the screen shot in this post, we tried to create the impression of a character looking for someone or something, therefore he is using a torch to insure he is able to find what he is looking for, again, giving the impression that this movie will be a psychological thriller.

However, I am able to recognise the flaws in the rough cut and see what I need to do in order to improve our title sequence. One of which is the credits. I believe that the credits need to be done, one reason is that when doing credits they should follow the rule of being within one section of the screen rather than having 'starring' in the top right side and the name on the bottom left side for example. Therefore I will be fixing these credits as well as the effect used on these credits as I feel that it looks out of place especially with the music as the effect is a lot faster compared to the slow pace of the background music. Also I noticed that the actual title of the movie 'Bible Belt' is placed at the end of the title sequence which needs to be changed immediately as this does not follow the conventional order of title sequence, therefore I will be changing this and placing the title at the beginning of the title sequence. Also I realised that the last shot of the title sequence felt weak compared to the other shots prior, the last shot is one of the shots taken inside the church, I feel as to make a bolder ending I will be replacing the last shot with another shot of one of the church windows where we used the demo light behind the window creating an eerie flickering effect which would go with the title sequence quite well. Also I think the font of the credits could be better, so this will be changed to a more simple typography, possiblely  a font that may appear as if it was written using a type writer. We have tried to create the impression that the movie is set in The United States also, this was done by showing the globe and using a pin to pin down a location which happens to be the bible belt region, we have also tried to take shots of american style churches and dry cleaners etc.

Overall, I feel as if so far the title sequence is going well, we have tried to follow the criteria and we feel as if we have done everything we could in order to give the impression that not only that this movie is a psychological thriller but is also set in the bible belt region of the United States.