Final chosen typography

                                                 Chosen typography for title sequence:

We chose this typography as we thought that it had a slick and youthful vibe to it. It also looked like a Chinese style of typography. It looked like it would fit well within the theme of the triad within our title sequence. It was also very bold this stood out to us as it demands your attention straight away. We thought this would be good for enticing viewers in to our title sequence. As they will be captured straight away by our typography.

Stills of Our Settings and Locations

 

These are stills from the scene where we see our suspect handing someone drugs. These are our location shots, we chose to film outside school as we thought it would be best. As there were bushes and fences, in which our investigator could hide behind. This looked affective as it connoted a trapped and insecure environment that the inspector was in. Also filming after school meant that it would be dark outside, this was a plus for us as the darkness connoted danger and that evil was near. We chose this location in particular as our investigator could hide behind the bushes and yet be in perfect view of the suspect and his associate. The fences work well within the frame also as they add these gritty blurs in front of the lens. Thus creating a sense of being trapped or perhaps that the victims future is of him behind bars. We also chose to see the deal going on outside some normal houses, as it showed that they were in some sort of disgusting estate were things like this happen every second. Therefore creating a creepy environment for audiences.

Stills of Our Settings and Locations

 

These are stills from two of our scenes, firstly and interior shoot of our investigators office. This was some re-filming we had to do. Which involved our investigator walking in to the room and him walking back out with a camera. We chose that office in particular because it was very plain it showed our investigator as a sensible man. The next lot of pictures demonstrate us filming exterior shots, of our suspect selling some drugs and handing over some money. This is where our investigator is stalking our suspect and taking pictures of his illegal acts. Today we filmed everything we were supposed to we were able to re-shoot the investigators office and the scenes with our suspect and his associate. We did not stray away from our earlier ideas that we established within our storyboards. As for the exterior scenes of our suspect we followed our storyboards, we showed how the investigator was stalking our suspect behind a fence. We wanted to get in the fact that the investigator was behind a bush, and that the fence would show on the stills that the investigator took of the suspect. Our office scenes were rather exact in comparison to our title sequence, although we did stray away a bit as we cut out certain shots. Such as him walking in to the office, and the fact that we have a point of view shot swiping across the items on the investigators desk. Other then those we followed our story boards exact, so overall filming went well. We were able to shoot in the office and the exterior shoots we got lucky with also. As we were able to get in the bush and the fence, we were also lucky with the dull weather. The rain made the title sequence feel more dark and brooding. 

Props

These are the props in which we will use for our title sequence. Firstly we are going to make a file on our suspect and the main sheet shall have an array of different articles in which we found on the internet about triads. We have simply changed the name to our suspects name and we have written vital info about our suspect on it. Such as his whole name, his age, where he lives and other criminal offenses he has committed. It shall have a picture of him at the top of the sheet along with this vital information, the photo is of Si Hin and it is one of his most recent passport photos.

Another prop we shall use will  be a professional camera in which the investigator will use. He will use this camera to take pictures of the suspect, in a sense he will use this camera to stalk him. To document what he does in a day to day routine, and how this makes him look like a criminal. We shall show him picking up this camera in his office, then him using it in which to take pictures of the suspect with.

We also made fake drugs out of potato starch and we have used these when filming in the meat packing factory. We have also used an envelope of money as a prop, all the money was Si Hin's savings and it made him look more powerful and like a real triad within the title sequence. We use this envelope in the meat packing office scene. Then re used this envelope and shot it in the scene where our suspect hands something to one of his "associates".  

To do list

- Editing shots from the investigators office and the triads hangout, so that the music fits in with any dialogue.√
-Film exterior shots of the investigator stalking the suspect.√
-Re-film scenes from the investigators office.√
-Do audience research, get their feedback.√

Possible footage for title sequence.

Si Hin went on holiday a few years ago to China whilst there he filmed a lot of skylines, buildings and streets especially in the Hong Kong area. We are hoping to use the footage in which he has and incorporate it in to our title sequence. As we feel the title sequence will work well if we present the film straight from the opening as having a Britain and China as the main two countries the film will be filmed and set within. This is a great way of getting around this using footage a group member has filmed previously themselves within this other country. That way we do not have to venture to places such as China town to be able to create this imagery. We are also deliberating between using a Hong Kong skyline then the skyline of London, to properly connect the two cities.
Below is the footage of Hong Kong that Si Hin filmed that we are thinking of using for our title sequence.

To do list

-Eliminate any footage we don't need and finalize any footage we definitely want.√

- Edit footage.√

-Get pictures of the office in which we used as the investigators office as a source of evidence and to show planning.√

Stills of our settings and locations

On Sunday 16th January we went to a Chinese meat packing factory in Charlton, once we arrived we scoped out all sorts of settings we could use within this location. We chose the outside of the factory to act as an meeting place and entry. We used an alley way to signify the danger and destruction on the triad gang. As the crumbling old alley way connotes well the misery that can come from being within a gang. We also chose this particular alley way opposed to the many others within the area because it backed on to a garage. This was good to signify that these triads are not just young men they can afford nice cars and they also connote that they are always on the go, busy and off to places to collect things. Another setting we chose was the office within the factory, we chose to use the office to present how powerful this particular triad is. As if to be an example of his wealth, We thought it would show that he is like a co-partner in charge of the business. We also chose a setting behind our alley way setting that was of an old and broken down racing car. We chose this as we thought it was a rather comical element to the title sequence. As if to give a brief indication to the triads life as if to say they don't take life too seriously and thy do mess about. 

 The Entry Way Setting and Meeting Place

For the entry way setting we shot characters entering and leaving the premises, we also shot Si Hin's character going within the premises. We also caught some workers loading up cars and interacting with each other within this setting.

                                                                

The Alley Way Setting

 

Within this setting we shot Si Hin's character walking down this alley way and going to the meat packing factory. 

    The Office Setting 

Within this setting we shot Si Hin's character working for e.g. counting his money dropping off drugs and taking out more packets of drugs to sell on. 

The Race Car Setting 

Within this setting we shot Si Hin's character on the phone to his clients and to his gang members, he is also talking in Chinese in this shot so we will consider possibly putting in this dialogue and enhancing it. We also see him look at some bags of drugs that are in his bag, then we see him get off of the car and leave for the meat packing factory.

Stills from our settings

This image is of the entrance to our meat packing factory location. Si Hin took it when he visited them to ask them if we could use their premises, we really like the front of the meat packing factory as its bright red metal doors and Chinese writing above the door will give our title sequence some real authenticity. We will take more photo's from all the rooms and corridors we shall use here on Sunday and we shall upload them as soon as possible. More location and setting shots shall be on our blogs from our filming that will happen tomorrow.

Storyboards

Here are our storyboards, we have now edited them as we had a few location changes. We had to change a few certain shots as we wanted to put Si Hin within a Chinese environment that we could make look like a triad setting. Our original storyboards featured Si Hin within his own Chinese take away, we were not given permission to film here thus we chose another location. We went with a meat packing factory in which is a Chinese owned factory, we felt as if this would be a great hub for our triads. As the blood from the meat and the fact that carcasses of dead animals will be around the factory, will connote a distressing and a disturbing sense of danger and death.

Typography for main titles

I looked at these two types of typography as i thought they would give the title sequence a rough edge, and it would connote as if the investigator had written them himself through either anger or stress. I liked the idea of him writing the title sequences himself as it to connote that this is his story this is the closure that he needs for his life. This idea would work really well alongside the rest of the title sequence. But i wanted to carry on with the Chinese element to the title sequence so i went back on to Da font and looked at some more font types.

There was a particular font style on Da font that was called Chinese/Japanese style writing, so i chose that particular font and found these ten fonts. There are certain ones that i am more drawn to than others, but i shall show the group all of these fonts during the week and hopefully we might choose one of them. I thought this style of writing would be best fitting for the title sequence as the triad theme is already very apparent throughout our title sequence. As a group we decided against using a type writing style typography as we feel it would not fit in with our title sequence anymore hopefully this one will be more best fitting.

Chosen typography for title sequence

We have chosen this typography to use in a part of our title sequence were we will shall put it onto a business card which will be placed upon the investigators desk.

Possible typography for title sequence

These pieces of typography are the ones in which we looked at to appear on the investigators business card. I played around with all of them for e.g. by putting a target in the "o" of investigator. They all connote a very posh and an intelligent essence, therefore we thought this could be best fitting for a business card. We have now chosen the second typography in this list to appear upon the investigators business card.