Font: FOUND

I THINK I'VE FOUND THE FONT I'D LIKE TO PUT IN OUR FILM!!

As I said previously, the BBC really do know how to do title sequences and Being Human is no exception!
The simplicity of it is absolutely amazing and if we can get this, or one similar, in our film, I will never moan about anything again.

Here are some snap shots:

It's simple, lower case and in the bottom left hand corner of the screen.

Similar to the one above, but you can see where it is in the shot.

AND MY PERSONAL FAVOURITE:

Isn't it just so effortlessly brilliant?!

The background for our credits is black too, and our text is white. But after seeing this, I think I'm going to ask Athena and Lucy if we should try the text in lower case as well, because at the moment, our names are like so: Alice Winter, Athena Periclis, Lucy Nagle and Joshua Cann... So maybe no capitals? 

I shall ask them tomorrow and change it and then blog about it. 

WE'RE SO CLOSE!!! :D

Ripper Street

The credits for Ripper Street are absolutely fantastic and they really remind me of the Se7en title sequence.
I've always thought that BBC programmes have the best credits and this one is no exception!

I can't really describe it but here it is:



There's a few silhouettes in there and the text kind of newspapery..? I can't find actual words to describe it to be honest, but they're fantastic and really fit with the nature of the programme!

Regarding our own credits, I'm still a bit dubious about the text. For the sake of getting it in, we just picked a random text and decided to come back to it later, but when Athena and Lucy changed the film into black and white, they picked a different text. Admittedly, it's A LOT better but I'm still waiting to find a text and get that "OMG YES THIS IS THE FONT I WANT IN OUR FILM" epiphany. Maybe I never will and the font will just have to be something we agree to disagree on but I am still searching.. And so far I am unsuccessful.

Maybe the BBC will let us use their font for Ripper Street? :D

Black and White

We've made a few changes to our film, how exciting!!!

LAST VLOG

THE TIME HAS COME.

This is our last on-set blog from Team Mac 1 ft. Josh.

More credits.

The vlog should be here tomorrow, the SD card is playing up with Athena's laptop (Technology these days, SIGH) so we're going to just pop it into the Mac tomorrow in our lesson.

HOWEVER, I have some credits to blog about
I don't watch this programme, Utopia on Channel 4, but I was recommended to check out the credits and that's exactly what I did; they're VERY simple but I adore them. They're just effortlessly sophisticated, something Team Mac 1 have been trying to get for our film.

Flicking through texts is getting tedious and it'd be brilliant if we could just type in "THE FONT THAT THEY USE IN UTOPIA" but alas, life is not as simple, so we're just going to have to keep flicking.

So yeah, I'd like to go for something like this:

Obviously, we're not going to have this ghastly yellow in the background. We're going to go for black/dark navy. Probably black. 

This screams sophistication, I love it! Simple, capital letters, let's hope we can find something similar!

Nearly there!

And so, the time has come when we're charging our equipment and reminding Josh about filming for the LAST TIME. Emotional.

Tomorrow, the team are off out to film:

- The Bump Shots - where Athena and Josh bump into each other, which we shall slow down and make it all dramatic. This is the shot that changes the whole tone of the film opening; the music is going to go from fairly upbeat to eerie
- The Final Shot of the Lift - so we can do the credits properly - in the midst of Athena losing her iPhone in the lift and a random woman giving it back to her and after untangling the headphones and Athena nearly stealing the poor woman's oyster card, we didn't actually get the shot we wanted.


We will have a very emotional last vlog with Josh on set for you (whoever 'you' is, I can't stop addressing a random audience) to have a look at. Tissues at the ready, the end is in sight kids.

MOOSIC

Initially, this as the list of tracks we had down for what Athena's character was going to listen to through her headphones. At the start of our media journey, we agreed that the music was going to change with the shots, so it would have been very choppy. But we all thought that would sound "cool" and "indie" and "different":

 1. Charlie Simpson - Sundown
 2. Klaxons - Golden Skans
 3. Grimes - Oblivion
 4. Imagine Dragons - Radioactive
 5. Joy Division - Disorder
 6. Temper Trap - Love Lost
7. Alt-J - Interlude 3 & Dissolve Me
 8. Passion - Little Secrets
 9. Kings Of Leon - Closer
 10. (Music towards the end) Florence + The Machine - Seven Devils/ Instrumental?
 11. (Overhead shot - beginning and then getting onto the train) Foals - Blue Blood/ Instrumental?
 12. (Slow motion shot) Foals - Spanish Sahara
 13. (Lift closing at the end, fade into black) Foals - Fuge
 14. (Getting on the train) New Order - Ceremony / Beginning of track

Luckily, we've come to our senses and realised that the 'choppiness' isn't going to be so good after all. So we knuckled down the tracks to these beauties (at the moment... they could change at any point):

Foals - Blue Blood; for the credits and right the way through till the lift shot when it turns to Kings of Leon - Closer. 

We all got Media-Goosebumps when we saw/heard it all come together. It was a very special moment.