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More Research!!! I was totally forgetting about the title. I think it is also very importan (although I say everything is important in every blog), but I feel like the title gives a complex feeling of what the movie is about in just some decisions made. Choosing the style, the color, how it will appear, maybe special effects can be hard too. So I had to research. Not just for the title but also for the credits.

I asked Dani (Adriel) for a dystopian movie that he liked and he said “The Giver”. I’ve never watched it but I already hear of it and I think it is well known so there must be a reason for that. As I was watching the

The Giver movie - the opening scene / when the world was without colors and without feelings, I noticed that it contained similar characteristics of what I was filming about too, so I am glad I am in a good track. The voiceover while the guy is riding the bike is similar as the one I am going to do as well as adding some context in the beginning without almost no sound. Yet, mine fits better with my film as it contains a “Times New Roman” style with a orangish background, while the one in the movie is pure black and white.

When I looked at the title I knew it was coming but it was still unexpected. That is a feeling that I want to create in my film. For this I am going to implement the title in a timing that is not showing an end but is neither at the beginning, so at the time when my main character is running. I had a great idea from the group meeting we did and it was that the camera could be filming from a low angle, almost in the floor, and then as my brother is running he steps on it. The screen turns black and then the title appears. In the opening from The Giver film they use white letters with a short black outlining them mostly from one side to pretend like they are standing out and they are all in caps, which I am definitely thinking to include. While the title appears, there is a background showing the trees from the bottom point of view as the sun traspases the leaves to create a sense of being alive and an environment. I want to create the same feeling.

I’ve been just thinking about the aesthetic of the title, but what about the actual name of it?! I know it has to have something to do with the overall plot of my film, so let’s just see what it is about again. A man who is hurt and blames it on all humanity as he thinks that all that he has received from people is hate. He is also “religious” but he is misunderstanding the bible and wrongly matching it with what is happening right now as the whole world is already destroyed. Some things are coming to my mind after a long reflection of the opening of the film The Giver. I started taking some notes of my thoughts and I came up with this above.

While searching for synonyms from word to word I found the word “Pariah” meaning someone that is usually despised. It fits perfect with my plot and I realized this when I look for images of the world and found this one that looks like the shot that I filmed when he was wrongly treated when he was a child and everyone is in a circle pointing at him in the middle just as in my film. I am not sure if I want to just call my film Pariah as although it describes how is treated it doesn’t really show what his thoughts or desires are, as the film is about his purpose now in life more than his past. I would like somehow mix the two words. So, I did another list to see how this combination sounds.

I started watching the opening of this other film called Hunger Games. I need to have clear thoughts and watching this scene made me remember how important the sound is to a film and even the part where the title is implemented so I must think about something that matches and also conveys the feeling that I want to create. In this part it started in a similar way as The Giver and Hunger Games had almost the same style of letters but I am not sure if I want that. It would look so simple in my opening. I was sure that I don’t want the title to be long as the short one makes it more impactful and highlights the most. To end, I researched apps where I could design the title to see what options I have because then maybe Im thinking about doing more when I gotta see the resources I have as my budget is not high. After thinking about doing them on Canva and searching for other options I found this page where they showed some title of some songs and gave me some ideas as there was this one where it said “The Peripheral” and one letter was vertically written and matching the other from the world that is horizontally. I found this inspiring as this creates a mood of advanced society and technology and utopia. I think if I do something creative like this as making one letters upside down or the whole title reflecting like in the mirror, it could make it look less simple but not that extravagant. Great ideas.

Now, for the design I decided to use Kittl, which is a free website to design, but it wasn’t available to use on phone and just laptop, so I kept researching. I started watching this video on YouTube and I realized that the title was being created on the premiere app just that in the laptop and there were so many thing that one could change. I opened the app and started trying everything that had to do with a title and after moving things around I came up with this perfect idea. The title is “A Pariahs Belief” but the combination of styles between each word are supposed to convey a certain idea. For instance, the “A” separated the most from the 2 other words convey the idea of how lonely my main character “the pariah” feels. I made “Belief” thinner but bigger to highlight the idea that his beliefs and thoughts are the one controlling him but its not their story but the film is about him. Here you can see how it ended up looking. Hope to see you on my next post!!!