Credits

As the credits are a huge part of our film we want to make them as unique and original as we can. We would like to make them stand out and we want to be quite creative with them. As our theme is “Thriller” and based in an urban environment, we want to try to capture the surroundings as early as possible, as this will give the audience a clue and feel to the genre of the film. We first shot a quick scene of “the Killer”, from behind, showing the urban buildings around him. This scene will start the opening off and set the theme. However we want the credits to go before this scene and last around 15 seconds.
Our main idea for the credits is to show the surroundings and the urban life on which our opening is based. So we first took some still images of the buildings and we were thinking of showing them in a sequence with our name then appearing over them. And then in the background we were thinking of playing a loud, thriller themed song that’s fits well with the images. However as the images are still it looks a bit life less and needs some action and/or movement to capture the audience’s attention a bit more. Therefore we tried to re-shoot the images, yet using a camera, so we could play around with it a bit more and allows us to be more creative when applying the credits.
This looked slightly better but still looked plain.
To help us with the credits and liven them up, to make them stand out and unique we chose to look at some examples from some thriller films. One films credits which caught our eye was the “Hostage”. The credits from this film screams thriller from the angles and shots used, and is something we would like to capture in our opening. I really like to the movement and colouring to the credits, yet also how the credits move with the images. The movement of the piece is a continuous sequence of buildings, guns, police, and the urban life. We like how each image moves into one another as it keeps your attention at all times.
As well, as the movement, the colour looks and fits very well within the piece. The chosen colours of red and black set the tone and theme of “thriller” as these are the colours of which are usually associated with this type of genre. The images of our buildings of which we have captured was taken on quite a dull, winters day, so the images are not bright but dull, which works quite well with what we are trying to do.
In addition, we like how the credits move along with the sequence and are as if they are attached to the buildings. As well, we like the choice of colour, white, as this works well against the black and red as it stands out.
However after trying different things and adding different effects, we settled on something different from “Hostage”. Unfortunately we were unable to create the same effect as this film credits as it includes far too many effects of which we are unable to create. Yet we have included some different effects, on Photoshop, which makes them unique. We took the still images of the urban environment and turned them black and white and negative and put, in white, the credits over the top. We felt that the white writing went well in contrast with the grey and black backing of the images. As well as this we made the noise we added to the effect as well as fading to each image.
Below is the link to the beginning credits of “Hostage”:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukabvDvZBXE&feature=related