Film Opening - Title Sequence

We came up with the idea of combining the initial shots in our film of the general putting on his military uniform with the screens with the titles. By breaking up these shots with titles, we created a smoother looking transitions between the shots. We also added a unique touch to the title screens to keep things interesting and hold the veiwers attention, as in our opinion we believed that the title sequemces shouldn't be kept on the sidelines, but actually be an interesting part of our production. This was done using a typewriter effect of the text onto the background, accompanied by pictures of famous scenes and people from our era and location. The typewriter effect exagerrated the historic theme of the film opening.

 Here is an example of one of the opening title slides. The typewriter effect will be animated in.

Film Opening - Storyboarding and Animatics

This post links to the post about title sequences.
We went through a very large amount of ideas, producing many sketches and idea for storylines, some of which we put onto storyboards. The reasons for change was the problems we encountered during the production process, as locations and scenes would be impractical to film, so we had to think of shots that would achieve a similar effect without comprimising our intentions.When we felt we had come up with a good ideas that were feasible to film, we put the storyboard together and uploaded in an animatic-esque style.