We have asked Christopher Higgs to write us some music for our opening sequence. He created Midnight Madness and Straight Through It for our opening. I will post two versions for our film openings with both the opening sequences later.
Thursday, 19 February 2015
Thursday, 5 February 2015
Fonts: Typography
We decided on using the Benchnine font because the other two fonts had more childish connotations and gave a less professional look. Also the shape of Benchnine was much more compact making the font easier to place on movie opening. Here is a segment of what the two fonts look on screen.
The Stainy font is what will be used as iconography for our film such as the title on advertisements. The Benchnine font is what will be used for credits because of its simplistic shape. Click here to see my original post about each of the fonts.
Wednesday, 4 February 2015
Plot
Here are some bullet points explaining the plot of the whole movie that are opening will be a part of.
- Layla had to pay a shark loan for the new apartment
- Sophia thinks that Layla is cheating
- Sophia commits suicide making Layla look like the killer
- Layla thinks Sophia was murder
- Tries to find out who the culprit was
- Layla is also dealing with the trial and she is the prime suspect
- Layla finds out the truth
- Layla is found guilty of murder with a life sentence
Friday, 30 January 2015
Opening sequence: Our draft
Click "Read More" below to see our draft on our media product.
Thursday, 22 January 2015
Fonts: Title
While looking for suitable fonts for the title we found this font called Stainy, here is a picture of it:
We chose this font because it resembles writing in lipstick. We felt this helps to highlight the scenes which have the lipstick and to help represent the femininity of the two characters. This also helped to give a bit of an edge to our opening as women are often seen as weak, and the feminine font helped to portray this but the opening sequence is showing a murder scene.
The main font we will use is called Benchnine:
We chose this font because it resembles writing in lipstick. We felt this helps to highlight the scenes which have the lipstick and to help represent the femininity of the two characters. This also helped to give a bit of an edge to our opening as women are often seen as weak, and the feminine font helped to portray this but the opening sequence is showing a murder scene.
The main font we will use is called Benchnine:
We chose this font because it is a much cleaner and more simplistic font. This has a cold feeling towards it to help give an unfriendly look. This represents the themes that will be coming up in our film and help to suggest that the characters aren't as innocently girly as the seem. Also this particular font is very close together and this makes it very easy to put onto our movie opening.
Saturday, 17 January 2015
Avoiding Lesbian Stereotypes
Upon research, these are some of the lesbian stereotypes that we found, and want to avoiding in the film opening:
We have decided to avoid these stereotypes in our opening sequence and create something that fits a more modern representation of homosexual women. This helps to break out of the current conventions that are in film and to appeal to young adults who are helping to break out of these conventions and are wanting to see homosexual characters used in normal shows without having their sexuality as the main theme of the show or character.
However we have decided not to subvert every stereotype that both females and lesbians portray. This is because trying to fit every subversion will give an unnatural feel the film. To fit both criteria we decided to avoid the stereotypes we found in secondary research but to include the stereotypes we found in our primary research, our interviews.
- In every lesbian couple, one has to be the man.
- Lesbians all dress like men.
- All butches have short hair and are overweight.
- All lesbians hate make-up, shaving, bras and dresses.
We have decided to avoid these stereotypes in our opening sequence and create something that fits a more modern representation of homosexual women. This helps to break out of the current conventions that are in film and to appeal to young adults who are helping to break out of these conventions and are wanting to see homosexual characters used in normal shows without having their sexuality as the main theme of the show or character.
However we have decided not to subvert every stereotype that both females and lesbians portray. This is because trying to fit every subversion will give an unnatural feel the film. To fit both criteria we decided to avoid the stereotypes we found in secondary research but to include the stereotypes we found in our primary research, our interviews.