Journal for last week

This week we have been working on all of the footage, we have been trying to shorten down the sequence as much as we can. So we have been looking through separate scenes and separate shots, deciding where jump cuts will fit. Such as the scene in which Si Hin is counting his piles of money, we have added jump cuts here to speed it up. So it looks very clean cut and speedy, this makes it look far more high tech. It goes along with the crime and triad theme, as it makes it quick as if they have to be quick and get out of the way,otherwise they will get caught. I liked this idea, it also makes Si Hin's character look more of a professional as if he has counted this massive amounts of money lots of times. As if it is completely normal to him. Thus making him look more like a criminal.

Journal 04/02/11

Today we have been working on editing our title sequences, we have got rid of all of the footage that we do not need. We have also got all of the footage from Hong Kong that we wanted. We feel like this footage will make our title sequence feel more authentic and original. Today we have decided permanently on using Paramount Pictures as our distributor. We have also finally decided on our production company it is entitled "Triad Pictures". We have added sound effects and made the text jump on to the screen, this along with a gun sound effect makes it look very professional and effective to us. To be honest i hope that this sound effect would connote to audiences the violence surrounding a triads life. That this will merge together with the triad symbol and show people how it all works and corresponds together.

This decision made will hopefully affect the ways in which audiences will respond to our title sequence. They will hopefully think it looks more professional, and it will be the first indicator to them that the film is all about triads and crime. The gun shot will hopefully just merge all of these ideas together and make the whole thing seem more cohesive to audiences. This idea was an earlier of mine that i suggested to the group that perhaps the title "Closure" should appear on the screen with an animation of a bullet and a sound effect of a gunshot. Yet this did not fit well so we decided against it, especially as the animation would make light of the film. This would make our title sequence look a bit like a spoof, and perhaps enable people to not take it seriously. Yet i suggested the idea again when we made the production logo ideas, i suggested that perhaps this time we should have just the sound of the gunshot appear with the text.
The group liked this idea and we messed around with all the possible gun shot noises and the ways in which it could appear on the screen through transitions. It looks really well just popping up on the screen, as this creates a quick and sudden effect. We also decided upon using the sound of a shot gun, as Si Hin this is a typical triad gun. WE all did like the sound that this gun had and decided upon it. We are still working on the production logo and how it shall appear. I shall post as soon as it is done.