We took inspiration for our titles from the film Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012). They use a typewriter style font to suggest that the film is an account of Charlie's (the main protagonist) life; similar to a diary entry. We also wanted to use this font to convey a sense on enigma; it could convey a similar idea of this being a diary entry from the main character, but it could also be seen as something similar to a police report for the supposed murder/ disappearance of her best friend. As we divided some of the editing work, Lucy was given the role of making the titles. She did this by using Microsoft Powerpoint, creating an individual slide for each letter (in the font Courier New). She then transferred screen shots of each slide into imovie to create the effect of the letter being typed. We then used an MP3 sound clip from youtube and added it to the clip to make it appear as though the words are being typed onto the screen by a traditional typewriter. She then exported this individual imovie file and we added it to the end of our final film.
We wanted the credits to convey a similar effect. Therefor we used the credit option in imovie. We considered animating the letters, however we could not a suitable method that did not make our film look cheap. We chose to use the font 'Courier New' due to feedback from a focus group that we conducted. We also wanted to make literature a theme of our film with the titles and the inclusion of book in one of the flashbacks; enforcing the fact that our film is a story, told through memories and recollections.
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