Continued Work on Titles... now with sound!

There have been several discussions about the titles. Are they too different from the rest of the film? Is it an advantage that they are different? Do the colours work with the style or should they fit with pallet used in the opening sequence?

I am not precious about the titles I have created. I quite enjoyed making them but if they need to be changed for the film then so be it. That said, I struggled a little on Friday when Pete wanted to change them but wasn't entirely sure how he wanted them. We went through several variations of colour but I really didn't feel that the "earthy" colour scheme from the Library fitted with the compter-style of the action.

In the meantime, I recorded some sound effects with Richard. There was supposed to be a group of us learning about Foley, but for some reason this didn't happen. Instead, as Richard had already set up the studio and I was ready to record, I got a recording session to myself. For the opening of the titles we had talked about having some typing effects as the lettering appeared. I recorded several versions of typing; fast, slow, individual letters and heavy handed. I was really pleased with the results - the sound was so clear and sounded, well, exactly like typing! Once I had the file in Audition I could chop it up so that I had individual sound files for different key presses. I could then load the film and the effects into Premiere and line up the key strokes with the appearence of letters on screen. I then decided to add a couple of seconds to the beginning of my sequence where the screen was black (before the curser appears) where I used the sound clip of fast typing. And I was pleased with the result. I'm not sure what else I can say about it.

So, back to Friday afternoon. Whilst Pete weighed up the new colour choices, I asked if he'd like to hear it with the sound effects added. And once he'd heard it he decided that infact we should stick with the original sequence, keep the background black throughout and I should keep working on the sound effects for the end of the titles...