Opening Title Sequence: Dialogue

It's been decided that for our opening title sequence, that it will contain no dialogue in it but instead there will be a voice over in the form of a narration. We think that this will be best because it gives the audience a better understanding of what is happening and also because it fits in well with the film noir genre of the main character (the anti-hero) giving his perspective of the events that will occur. If we was actually creating the entire film, the opening title sequence would be one of the few points of the film that has a narration rather than dialogue between characters. 

So far we have recorded the first part of the narration that is the first part to the opening title sequence. We had some discussion as to who will play the role of the anti-hero and so far it is between myself and Cal. Because of this we have both recorded ourselves reading out lines from the script which myself and Ruby wrote. We also thought it would be a good idea to read the lines in a different accent because it seems a much better idea to have at least one character from either a different location from Norwich in the UK or someone from a different country. So far we have tried a London accent, a northern accent and also a kind of southern states accent. 

To record this we used the voice recording application on Cal's iPhone. We also tried to record using the Meranz with a boom mic attached to it, but because the boom mic was broken and also because we found using the Meranz to complicated, we soon scrapped that idea and just chose to stick with the iPhone instead which has worked out quite well. We plan to select the dialogue we think is the best sounding and best suited to our original ideas to then be edited into our video.

Sound Effects

For our opening title sequence we need to find a suitable sound effect to simulate a gunshot. We decided that we would use foleying methods to get the right sound we thought would be best to use in the production. Ideally we would prefer to record the actual sound of a gun firing but due to the fact we unfortunately don't have access to firearms, we are unable to do so. However, we did do some searching on the internet for sounds of gunshots but they weren't all that good and also not of a good sound quality as some where distorted and unclear. A method we tried out was hitting a hard surface with a plastic ruler. This was tried a few times and had a sound that was somewhat similar to a gunshot but slightly a bit too high pitched. Another method we used was using a staple gun to staple a surface and then recording the sound. This method provided the best results for us because we all agreed that in one instance it made the best sound of a gunshot. Although what we recorded does sound quite good, we should probably re-record with a a recording device rather than a camera because it should be of a better quality. It'd also be worth trying out some different methods such as pyrotechnics and also to re-record some samples of hitting the ruler against a surface by changing the material of the ruler and surface and also where we hold it. 

Here's our foleying: