ೃ⁀➷ TITLE SEQUENCE *ೃ༄

 Hello everyone, welcome back to my blog! Today I will be talking about the title sequence of our film opening. 

When we did our storyboard, we decided on the clips for our title sequence. Originally we had these four clips in mind for our title sequence; a clip panning over polaroids of the friend group, a clip with "sorry" written on the wall in red, a clip of burning paper, and a clip of "Mafia" spelled out in cards, with the King card being the only one flipped over with the face shown, to resemble the fact that Samantha, who had that card, has now died. However when we filmed the title sequence today, we went over some other options and altered the title sequence a little. The credits of our title sequence will be displayed over each scene, in the "Gastroline Signature" font. it is linked below.

When we attempted to do the clip of the "Sorry" written on the walls, we failed terribly. So, we decided to replace that clip with candles burning on top of a pile of cards - this makes the deck of cards engraved into the watchers brain and make them remember that this is a very important prop in this movie. We also went through some options with the last clip, with the cards spelling out the word Mafia. Here are pictures of the ideas we went through. The differences are shown in which cards are flipped over. I will explain under each picture.

OPTION ONE:

In this option, we wanted the Joker card to be flipped over, to show that the one controlling the game and ultimately the fates of the characters is the narrator - who owns this card. However, we decided that this makes it obvious who the killer is, and defeats the mystery.

OPTION TWO:

In this second option, we wanted the Joker card AND the King card to be flipped over, to not only show who controls the game like in Option 1, but to show the deaths of the characters. We also decided to not do this for the same reason as Option One - and  thought: "why reveal the killer at the beginning of the movie?"

OPTION THREE:

In this option, we wanted the cards of the main four to be shown. This makes sense as they are the main four of the movie, and they were the characters with the special roles and cards in the Mafia Game. However, we decided not to do this as it did not fit well with the movie, and we wondered if the audience would ask why the other friends cards were not shown.

OPTION FOUR:

  

In this option, we wanted all of the cards to be flipped over. This does not give any hints to deaths, any hints to who the killer is, nothing. We decided not to do this option because it seems too bland to us. Which leads me to the Option we chose...

OPTION FIVE (Chosen)

In the option we decided to choose, only Samantha's card is flipped over (the King card). This resembles how she is the only character who has died so far, and implies that later in the inferred movie, more cards will be flipped over. However, we did not leave it at just this. At the end of the pan, when the letter A is shown with the King card flipped over, the lights will flicker, and suddenly the camera will zoom in on an X over the King's face on the card. Then the lights will flicker on and off again, ending the opening in pitch black. This establishes that Samantha has died, and also adds an eerie twist to the end of the opening to leave viewers shocked.

Link to font:

https://www.dafont.com/gastroline-signature.font