Placement of titles

Our original idea was to place out titles on white screens which we would incorporate into the 'glitching' effect that our opening already had. However, after we filmed and began editing our shots together we decided this wouldn't work as the consistency would be ruined. Therefore we decided to combine our titles into our shots to simply overlay what was going on. This also helped us to stay within our time frame as the white screens added on to the length of our opening.
The placement was a bit difficult to work out at first as we had to make sure they didn't interfere with any of the actual footage e.g making sure the colour of the title did not clash or blend with the colour of the opening

This is an example of one of our titles

Sound

We have already decided to have non-diagetic sound running throughout our opening, which gives quite an eery effect for the audience. But we have now decided to include another sound of laughing, in order to add emphasis on the flashbacks and her state of mind.
We found the sound on a website called 'free sound' in order to make sure it is not copyrighted.

This is the audio file we have decided to include in our opening as it adds perfectly to the atmosphere as it fits with the two characters in the flashbacks, and we can extend it to repeat throughout.

Font for our opening titles

We decided to focus our font on our main character in order to fit the overall plot of our film opening. Therefore, we looked for a font that resembled child-like writing. This would represent her current state of mind, as it is a bit 'all over the place' and not well structured- like the font.
We found this style of text on http://www.dafont.com and we all agreed that it was exactly what we were looking for.

Production company

As a group we decided that we wanted to include a production company to our film opening. One of the most memorable production openings we could think of was Metro Goldwyn Mayer's.

We tried to think how we could remake it and i thought of the perfect actress for this role: my dog. 

We then decided that the ring could be created out of cardboard so we cut one ring and one half-ring out of cardboard, painted them yellow, then painted our production company 'Hatchi productions' on to the half ring. 

We also decided that after my dog barks/howls,  we'd say "Hatchi productions presents". 

Change to our title

After watching back our 'trapped' reverse shot for our title, we decided that it wasn't exactly how we had imagined it would be. It didn't really seem to fit our plot either, as it didn't match with any of our other shots and it seemed that we had just chucked it into our film opening without thinking about it. Therefore, we have decided to just have our title appear in text on our footage through editing. This also meant we could decide exactly how we want it and have it fit with our opening titles.

Final day of filming

Today we shot the additional scene that we decided on. This involved the blood on Mehreen's hands. For this we used fake blood we purchased from the costume shop. It was quite hard to match the idea we had in our heads as the blood didn't seem real enough. Therefore we kept adding the blood until we were happy with how it looked and then we began filming.
The shots were somewhat challenging as we were showing a new part of the room  and we wanted to replicate exactly what we had visioned.We thought the best way to do this was with a pan, but it didn't seem quite right. So we tried filming the shot in a different way, this time involving handheld camera work, in order to portray her state of mind a bit better.
We all agreed that this worked much better so we continued to film these scenes using the same handheld camera work in order to ensure continuity.

Addition to plot

As a group we decided to look over our footage and discuss how we thought our filming was going thus far. All three of us agreed that there seemed to be something missing, something that would help our film stand out and make the audience want to continue watching in order to find out the overall plot. We all came up with ideas of what could be included that fits with our plot ideas that we already have. One of our ideas was to incorporate the ideas of the main characters mental health and further push our genre of psychological thriller. We decided that we could do this by involving blood on her hands, which is also a reference to Macbeth. The blood on her hands also links in well with our plot which may not be completely clear for the opening, but if our film was to continue- it would become clear.
Therefore, we decided that we were going to film Mehreens reactions of the flashbacks occurring twice; once with blood on her hands and once without. This would mean we can glitch backwards and forwards between the two shots while the same routine is going on (Mehreen washing her hands- to get the blood off)