Evaluation Part 1

Evaluation Part 1: Brief

Our brief for this project was to create a title sequence for a film. We had to create a new idea for a film and think of all the details for it including narrative, actors, director, target audience etc. as well as creating the opening sequence to the film. We were tasked to work in group of up to four to create this, I worked with Taylor Lyttleton.

The title for our film is "Disturbance" and our film is a horror/thriller. In the opening sequence a teacher walks in to a classroom where he has set up a camera to record footage overnight. He watches the footage and is shocked to find that there is signs of paranormal activity. Near the end of the sequence a security guard is shown on the footage and he disappears. The footage is heavily distorted and the main style of the whole sequence is being distorted so the typography, title and soundtrack reflects this by also being somewhat distorted. The sequence ends on the main character being shocked by a door slamming shut, the screen then cuts to black and the title pops up. The title "Disturbance" suggests that there is something disrupting normal life. This fits with our title sequence because school is a normal thing that everyone has been or goes to and is disrupted by some sort of ghost or paranormal activity.

The genre of our film is Horror/Thriller, these films are usually dark and sometimes gritty and also generally full of suspense. In our title sequence we wanted to use music to build up to an event that could cause a jump because horror films are meant to be scary. The soundtrack has a low rumble and builds up and builds up and then cuts, we used this to our advantage on our sequence. The style of the film which is all distorted and very dark also fits in with the horror genre.