Spectre House Ident Filming

As our film would most probably be an independent film, we wanted our ident to reflect this nature and to draw inspiration from the 'Napoleon Dynamite' introduction scene. We were quite lucky in the fact that we are both really into stop motion animation and so we wanted our ident to have this kind of feel of film, where our production company name 'Spectre House Productions' would appear but also something, given our time constraint, would not take a relatively long time, as stop motion animation can take hours to film. Our final idea after talking was to create a flip book that in intervals spelt out our ident name. To be able to do this, we bought a book that had a flexible cover, to bend backward and look effective, and squared paper to allow us to get the font as close to identical on each page as possible. To cater to our horror themed trailer, we didn't want our font to be as curly and fancy writing as that seen in the Napoleon Dynamite example and so we tried to make the font look just handwritten which added a raw element to the scene. In addition to this we wanted to write the font in black biro, as the front of the flip book was orange, we didn't want the colours to be really bright primary or pastel colours as this would not correlate with our horror genre and give more of the feel of a teen movie. to also over come this look and so the focus was on the writing itself, we placed the flip book on a black background to denote more mystery for the horror genre.

The video below is our original take of filming;



This out take is obviously very slow and we intended it to be fast but still resemble a stop motion film and so we uploaded it in to iMovie and right clicked and selected 'show speed editor' ro quicken up the pace of the flipping of the pages to make it more fluid.



Above is the first sped up version that we created, however we felt that it was still too long and disjointed to watch and so we then sped it up even more to our desired effect. We also noticed that the ambient sound in the background of the clip (which was the television) that we were going to cut out became this scratchy almost creepy squeaky sound that we ended up really liking as it fit with the horror genre well and so we kept this in the final version of our clip.