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Thursday 10th February
During todays lesson, for the first hour we put the finishing touches onto our title sequence, we concentrated on the music as all of the editing had been done.
During the second hour of the lesson we watched everyones Title Sequences and gave them feedback. We did not have time during that hour to watch everyones finished title sequence and our group and one others did not get seen. In our lesson on Tuesday we will get our feedback from our teacher as well as our class mates.

Monday 14th February
Today we got feed back from one of the Media teachers and one the media technicians. We had been told that we was there favourite title sequence from our class and we had the least improving to do. We was told that we should cut the universal clip at the beginning as this is too long at 20 seconds. AS well as this we was told that we should change the font of the titles that have the cast and producers names etc, as a different font would have a better impact and it needs to be bigger and clearer so that it is easier to see, as well as lengthening the time that they appear on screen. Another improvement that needs to be made to the jump cuts as this does not work, it just looks like we are missing a shot.
The points that they did like was the shaddow at the end, the use different shots and the use of the static shot. As well as this she liked that we made our own music on garage band.

Now we have our feedback from our teachers, we are going to improve our title sequence so that it will be ready for tomorrows lesson. We have already started to look at other fonts on dafont.com to put onto our title sequence as well as making sure we don't have the jumpy cuts out.

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Monday 7th February
Today we put the soundtrack to The Omen on to our footage to see how it worked as this is what we decided we would base our music on, and because Megan was not in, so we did not have the music that she had been making at home on her mac.
As well as this Laura and I played around with the footage and changed some of the transitions to make some shots flow better, as well as adding a fade out to the end so that as the shadow moves across the screen, the shot will fade out as it reaches the end of the screen.
We are all pleased with the work that we have done and the shots that we have, as well as the way that the title sequence flows with the music.

Tuesday 8th February
Today Megan brought in her mac and we uploaded the music to our finished title sequence. After watching it we agreed that at the beginning of the music it needs to be more lively to grab the audiences attention. Now we are all working together to make the music better and to see where improvements are needed.
Both sets of music that we have used with our title sequence defiantly work  well with the footage that we have used, and draws the audience in even more, as it makes title sequence have a more eerie feel to this, as well as the music building up first before the title "Walking with the dead" appears and again when the scene changes from Harry walking around the house, to sitting in his bedroom.

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17-01-11
Today we have uploaded the filming that Megan and Laura did after on Thursday as well as the Recce shots.
I have uploaded all of the shots to iMovie and I will start editing, taking out what we don't need and putting everything in order. As well as this I am going to finish the titles.

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13-01-10
Today we are starting to film after school at Megan's house.

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11-01-11
Today we went over our story boards and spoke to our teacher about all of our shots, together we decided that we would change the shots of the young boy Harry, to make sure that we do not see his face or his whole body in any one shot - we will only be seeing his feet, hands and back of his bad/back. We are doing this to create an enigma, and to draw the audience in so that they will want to find out who this boy his, and why his character is so dark and unknown.

As well as this I am going to be making the titles for our title sequence today using dafont.com and photoshop.

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10-01-11

Today we decided that we would start filming on Thursday after school, and we are going to go over the story board and take out shots that we don't need to make sure that some scenes are not too in your face. Sometimes being subtle has a stronger impact on an  audience that something that is more in your face.
We are also deciding on the title fonts that we will be using.

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06/01/2011:

We started to look on Garage band at possible sounds for our Title Sequence. The sort of sounds to be featured in our Title Sequence are quite eerie sounds, to make it seem quite dark and sinister. Sounds that link to children will also be featured, such as keyboard music/nursery rhymes. We have also thought about featuring a child breathing.

Also in the lesson, another idea for something that could be featured in our title sequence came about. We were discussing the ending to our Title Sequence, when we stumbled upon the idea of the main character writing a message on a mirror. We would have him actually write on an acetate sheet, so that we can also get a shot, as if the camera is in the mirror. We would put the acetate over the camera lens, and he will write onto it, so that we can see him actually writing it. For the message that is going to be written, we thought about a couple of ideas. At first I thought it would be good to say something quite dark, so I suggested 'it's all her fault' but after discussion, we came up with 'it's all your fault.'