This is the Blue print of the 'creation tank' we realised that it would be much too hard to create something like this to use as a prop so in the early stages of planning we decided to infer the creation of the clone rather than try to film any of it, it makes the film much, much easier to do and it allowed us to run with the idea we had for a clone film.
this document is going to be used a profiling document, to give a little bit of personaility and character to Alpha 7
This document is to highlight the clone side of Alpha and the succes of the clone creation.
This document highlights the failure of the pervious test (alpha 6)
this document highlights the use for the clone if it were to become an industry for Preston.
after Creating these documents, i used word to create them.
the written documents i did a little research on the topic and then wrote something that sort of makes sense. The check list documents i used a book that looked at the different 'systems' in the body. The blueprint document i created by first copying a blank blueprint background from google, i then drew the shape onto it using auto shapes in word. I later screen grabbed the pictures and converted them into JPG to use i the film sequence, we also filmed some simple background shots of documents on a desk, this was using the same documents i had made printed out. This i how i edited the titles together:
Note (rather than doing this work on how i edited the sequence whilst i was editing it it has been done afterwards)
this is perhaps the most complicated part of the documents:the way i created the effect with the clone document moving over with the important information hylighted. the important information has been highlighted and 'jumps out' at the audience this is done because we wouldn't have time to let them read the whole document and that would be ineffective so i hylighted key words to give them a vague idea, it works very well. if you see the picture above you can see i have 'stacked' the document multiple times. on the original document i have the key words in bold, here i put the original document up once and on top of it i put more documents i then cropped the documents on top so they were effectively only the bold words, before i did this i key framed the original document and then copied it, this meant all the documents moved in exactly the same place, rather than doing it again and again.
now all the documents followed the same 'path' i then put a blur effect on the bottom document this created an effect where the only readable words were the ones in bold, the key words i had planned for people to see. I also changed the opacity to make the document transparent this meant i you could see the keyboard in the background, the four point matt and the soft edges helped make it less 'bold', it had a very sharp look to it when the document had harsh straight lines, now it's feathered it blended with the background documents much better... the keyboard in the background is meant firstly to replace a blank black background, but it also added to the title sequence subtly by revealing how the document may have been made. in the middle we see a close up of the key board and in the top left we see an extreme close up on the keys, i did try changing shot in the background but i looked messy and drew the attention from the document, the cluttered look of having two shots on screen also adds to it, we tried it without and most people agreed it looked best the way it is now.
The way i made the bold words even clearer was by making them 'jump out' tis was fairly simple to do using key frames.
The titles are key framed to appear in time with the music, rhythmic editing. This was not planned originally the music i found for the titles happened to fit very closely to where i was going to put the tiles anyway, i happened partly by chance. i found the music from the audio network CD's we have available at college.
I created a shiny metal effect for the titles this was to go alongside the genre of the film we found that Sci fi films often have a metal feel or look to them so we tried to re create this effect throughout our film, this was one of the ways we achieved this. i used a mirror effect to double up or 'Duplicate' the titles keeping in theme with the film. the shiny metal effect was done by using a bloom effect.
I have put a sepia effect on the whole titles to help infer that it is past rather than present. it also highlights the documents, i found that when i put this blueprint document on (the one i was most proud of and spent most time making) that firstly it looked very bright unlike the others which were dark and it was static, which doesn't look right, i solved this rather simply by darkening the blueprint so it wasn't so bright i then using key frames slowly zoomed in on the document, this made it flow better.
i used the same effect as the titles on the film name, but to give it extra effect i also put a 'light rays' effect on the title so it shone, this just looked awesome, and put emphasis on the film name it's self helping to establish it.
finally i overlapped the end of the titles with something we created when filming, we had a lamp on a dest for the documents, owen held the document in front of the camera lens making it black and then threw it down causing the camera to 'flash' as it auto adjusted to the light, this was done deliberately because i used to to remove the titles, it works nicely as i remove the titles in the flash, it is subtle and works very well rather than a fade or a cut, i tried to find ways to more creatively cut and fade between shots rather than the usual cuts and fades that would be present throughout the film.
