Tuesday 3 December 2013

Opening Titles Development 2; title names & storyboard



Final Main Task Idea
Short Summary:
The entire world’s computer systems are being hacked by an unknown source. As data on practically everything is being taken, police forces are struggling to stop it. Shortly, a space satellite picks up something and investigators are sent to the location to find the source. Upon arriving, they are able to pick up a signal… directly above them.
Title Suggestions
Reasoning
Beyond
The hacker is from an alien source up in space, with technology beyond human capabilities and is literally beyond their reach. A title this vague also makes the film seem more mysterious.
Hacker
So you get the general idea of what the film is about before seeing it- and it is basically simple. The audience and their expectations are going to be surprised to find out what the hacker is/ where it is.

Titles and Opening

The film starts off with British police on computers actively working on computers as they are being hacked.  A police chief is yelling angrily such as ‘hurry up, track the IP!” and then a scene is shown in Hong Kong as they receive something from a space satellite showing something in Britain. They phone the British police and tell them of this. Investigators are seen walking over to where it is, one carrying a laptop, and a signal is picked up right above them. They camera then cuts to a point-of-view shot of the investigator as they look up, and an object is seen for a split second before cutting to a black screen with a title.

Here's a storyboard I have made to convey me and Sam's Hacker/ Beyond idea. This mainly displays the story and several ideas for the camera shots and the audio (music increasing volume when the scene becomes tense).
 I haven't included much on the titles appearing throughout the opening, but we'll be improvising the font/ style and the transition of these titles when we finally come to the editing where we would obviously pick a font to be c
onsistent throughout the 2 minute opening.

Thinking about the task at hand, we considered the fact that this is an opening to a film, and plan to make it start off in an office like room as if nothing out of the norm was happening then with the sudden shutdown and corruption of computers worldwide in an instant the whole atmosphere is going to change. Our idea is that the Hacker hacking worldwide authorities is actually from out of space, but is only slightly implied right at the end before the film title as a police squad notice the signal has taken them into the middle of nowhere and realize there must be something above them...
If the film was ever fully made, it could delve into a very typical alien invasion story, but for our task we don't even need to mention that.










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