Completed!!!

My complete sequences and the storyboards for each.

William Blake Sequence: 

Captain Cook Sequence:

Guy Fawkes Sequence:

Sound

To finish off my Cook and Guy Fawkes sequences I just need to pick a soundtrack and make sure that the animation fit with the beats.

My ideas:

Cook - reflective, classical music, quite upbeat and fast paced to convey a sense of adventure. This is the sequence I am struggling to find the music for the most but Jupiter, the bringer of Jollity is my preferred piece, I plan to cut a section from the centre as the beginning part won't work well with the appearing of the text.

Fawkes - dark, threatening, slightly sinister atmosphere

Apex Twin - Windowlicker very start of it only but mybe too fast 

Clint Mansell

This is the composer of Requiem For a Dream and I think that several other songs from him would work really 

well in my sequence as they create the tension and atmosphere I am looking for..

Lux Aeterna

so far this is my favourite although it is quite quiet so I would need to work on the volume- 

Clint Mansell Death is the Road to Awe.

Guy Fawkes Redone

Research following tutorial - Henry VIII title sequences.

I can see exactly the point about my typography when I look at this sequence compared to my own. I do really like the effect from the light writing but when I did it I was a bit concerned about the rounded shape of the letters and how it doesn't really fit with the period the personality is from. I have looked for typefaces that look like handwritten text from Guy Fawkes' time. I want the type to still look like it is being drawn out but I want it toned down and created in a more subtle manner. The typeface that I have decided to go with is 'Aquilline Two' but I want to work on the kerning slightly as it is uneven. 

Typography: 

Titles revisited

Tutorial feedback

Things to work on:

Blake - 

• Some parts a bit slide show like (esp. at beginning) try to alter this so less like this.
  
• Need to fade all things at the end together (title, series titles and figure)

Cook - 

• Slow down the quote and ending so both are up on screen longer for the audience to read. 
  
• Slow down the place names - have several appear together, add blending effect or move over long period of time so not looking like they are just stuck there.
  
• Perhaps zoom out on map only instead of following the vector paint line

Fawkes -

• Try different typography - Uppercase old style?? see prologue show reel and Henry VIII title for Channel 4 current series. 
  
• Ideas for sound - Apex Twin - dark mood, melancholy 

so far..

I am going to take the work I have done on all my titles so far to the RSA. 

This is where I think I am at with them: 

William Blake - Completed

Captain Cook - Needs some reworking of timing and sound

Guy Fawkes - Needs sound

Cook Update

I have decided to go back and change the Cook sequence as a break from Guy Fawkes. This is what I have achieved ...

 

Further work

• Sort out timing, needs slowing down somehow as the places names appear too quickly to read 
  
• Change colour of the text - black for the place names makes them stand out too much
  

More Guy Fawkes Trials

3D camera layer and basement footage

3D camera/words/flickering fire footage/streaks of light

3D camera on the words and light streaks layers. 

I don't think it is necessary to use the 3d camera or layers as it is just making things more complex. As I am rotating the images you can see the edges so if I was to use this I would need to work on this problem. Also changing the perspective of the letters distorts to writing making it more difficult to read.

I have put a sepia glow adjustment layer over all the footage which I think is really effective in removing the greenish night filming glow. The only problem with this is in some of the footage the filming then looks over exposed. This can be corrected when I pick out my exact final clips and I can do this with that issue in mind.