In the summer of 2008 Top Gear TV series a similar box technique was used in the title sequence. These boxes were used to create a sense of speed as top gear is a show based around fast cars. Similarly we wanted to speed up our title sequence by creating a sense of speed due to the slow passovers that could have become potentially a bit tedious for the audience and not a fair reflection of the fast paced action thriller film that we were trying to captivate in the three minutes. We thought that the Top Gear title sequence was quite captivating and almost slightly hypnotic with all the moving boxes and we also believed that this would benefit our end product as ultimately we were trying to draw the audience in so that as many people as possible would end up going to see our film. After a group discussion we thought that we would use a similar box format, keeping the order of our current edited footage the same but change the format.
As well as speeding up the title sequence it also makes it more exciting to watch as there is more going on on the one screen and when applied to a thriller it almost created a sense of the unknown by footage passing off the screen whilst still running. This sense of unknown is important to the target audience as it ultimately makes them want to watch the rest of the film. Whilst discussing the new format the group brought up the titles into the discussion and where they would fit in because after all it is a title sequence. We decided that we would put intertwining actor names here and there between the empty spaces between the boxes that were passing across the screen, similarly these names would move in and out of the frame. So another benefit of this new format was that it allocated convenient spaces in which to put the titles.
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