LIVE EVIL is Now Two Actors Short

Today Me and Anika received some bad news regarding the actors playing the roles of Rebecca's friends in our movie.
Mr Razwan who was supposed to play the role of 'Kevin Taiwan' in our film, will no longer be able to film with us because of our filming schedule conflicting with his own schedule for his media project film. This problem ties in with the fact that his college ends later than our sixth form causing him to arrive much later than the other actors and when the day is much darker because of the season. All this factors have made it impractical for him to continue being a part of our film.
In addition Ms Rubina who had previously shown an interest in taking part in our movie as 'Amber Begum' has just recently started working part time so she will no longer be able to act in or film.
These individuals will not need to fill in a withdrawal form because they never got to officially sign an official contract, they only verbally agreed to take part and haven't yet acted in any of the scenes.

Making the Opening Title for our Film

After it was exported.

Creating the 'Presents' animation.

Creating the 'Live Evil' animation.

After exporting the final version.

When making our film title we decided to split the film and company name between ourselves in order to speed up the making process.
I was given the task of creating the animation for film title `Live Evil` as well as the `presents` while my partner Anika was responsible for creating the animations for the film company name.

In order to create these titles I had to use a software I was previously unfamiliar with, Live Type, Luckily the software was very user friendly, which meant that I learned to use it quickly without any problems.
I really enjoyed using this software as it provided a range of effects and fonts which I could play around with before finally finding the one which best fit the image of my film.

Adding a mirror affect onto 
the 'Live Evil' animation

After creating and exporting both of my files, I opened a new program called iMovie.
Here I imported all of the files including Anika's 'Pandora Pictures', in order to place them, starting with the film company and ending with the film name.
This program provided me with new features that I could use on the opening title, such as background music and sound effects.
I decided to apply a different background song to each of the animation in order to add individuality to them and make sure that they each have a song that matches their transition. For example the song used for the company name mirrors the movement it makes and ends with a 'bam!' to illustrate that the full name is shown and that it's the end of that animation.

Exporting the finished opening title.

The presents has a more mysterious sound that mimics the way it slowly creeps into the screen. Half way through the presents I also added the sound of foot steps to match the pace the blue shadow appears in. This foots steps continue into the film title to represent the movement from one animation to the other.

The finished opening title.

Finally the I decided to apply an unusual background sound to the film title, the sound of a volcano erupting. I chose this sound because it matches well with the movement of the font, its shaky and unsettle like the animation.

In addition to the sounds I also added a mirror effect to the film title in order to take advantage of the fact that 'Evil' is 'Live' backwards. Adding this effect means that the public will have to read the letters backwards because of the distorted image, which shows that something isn't quite right and mirrors the film itself.

This is the final finished film opening title.

Creating Our Logo

Within our group I was given the task of creating the logo for our film company 'Pandora Pictures'.

Initial Draft

At first I did a very simple and draft idea for the logo, based on our initial thougths on what Pandora was and what it represented.

Draft idea after development

 We decided to incorporate the idea of something being released into the world, which in this case would be the opening of our new company and the films we would produce. Another initial aspect we explored was the fact that pandora was a box so I tried to apply this into our logo.
We also chose to use colours that reflected the genre of the film we produced for our coursework, dark and dangerous such as black and red.
In order to be sure whether we wanted our logo to explore those ideas we decided to further develop the initial draft and make it more polished. We decided to keep the box idea but changed it's colours since the previous colours were too strong and clashed with the film title. We also changed the form of the box to make it look more magical. However the end result was too 'light' making it not very suitable for our film company, it looked more like a jewelry brand logo.

 This print screen shows me working on our logo using photoshop.

After my earlier attempts I decided to completely scrap the pervious box idea and turn the focus of the design from what the term pandora meant into what we stood for as a company.

This time I decided to make the logo resemble a woman's face because of the fact that our company is run by females, me and Anika and our films try to give female actresses empowering roles e.g making them the villain or the only survivor.

This is our final logo.

Also, I tried to incorporate the fact that we are a film company, which is why I added 3D glasses to our logo, in order to make it more suitable for the product. Over all the logo is simple and presents this idea of our audience ready to watch a film (with their glasses on)

My logos - slideshows

These are the other logos I created before arriving at the final design.