Evaluation of 'Dope and Diamonds' title sequence (part 1)

I was working to the brief of creating a title sequence for a film of my groups creation. In my group there is myself, Emily and Julia. We came up with two initial film ideas, one would be based around the after events of a party and the other on a group of girls who become very successful drug dealers. We decided to go with the second idea as we wanted the other ideas sequence to be the party, which would have been extremely hard to film. Our title sequence sets up for the rest of the film by straight away introducing the four lead protagonists. The sequence shows them being joyful as they get ready to stealthily leave the country with their recently stolen money.This way the audience can perceive what the girls are like and how they interact with each other before the main feature starts. The title sequence sets up enigmas for the audience to ponder, such as where the money came from and why are the girls are dressed like they are and why are they going to Las Vegas in the middle of the night. We chose for our title sequence to show this because the film presents the girls downward spiral as they become more involved in the world of drugs, so it seemed fitting that it should start when they feel at the top of their 'game'. The title of our film I believe sums up the films narrative and the girls struggle, as we envision the girls to be the 'diamonds' and their whole life style to be the 'dope'. The dope and diamonds are binary oppisites in their world but if diamonds are owned by "bad" people they too can become corrupted. The genre of our film is action/drama and the subgenre is teen, the subgenre is teen as the film is like a coming of age for the four protagonists. 

Title Sequence Final Cut

This is our final edit of our title sequence. It combines features from both of the draft versions which we previewed to the class to gain constructive feedback. 

Rough Draft (2)

This is the other draft we showed to the class to get feedback on, the one we made as a group. 

Draft Video (1)

This is the copy that Julia made, it's on of the ones we showed in our class to get feedback on. This is the video we will make the changes to to be the final cut.

Setting and Locations

These are pictures of the locations we used to shoot our title sequence. They are in my house and road which was convienent for when we had to re shoot. Also for when I had to set the room up and add in the props, it was easy for me to re do each time we filmed.

Editing the Song

Also today we found a new song and added it to our title sequence. Me and both of my group members edited the music and footage sound at the end of the sequence. We wanted the effect of the music fading out and the actresses foot steps getting louder. This came out really well and we are happy with final effect as at this  point we want the title to appear.  

Colour Correction

Today me and group member Emily were editing our footage as the last time we filmed the cameras white balance was off. So we used the 'colour corrector 3-way' effect on FinalCut Pro to correct the warm orange hued footage colder to fit in with the rest of the footage. Today we also inserted the new song we found into our footage.