After re-watching some of The Walking Dead I have come up with a list of different shots and objects which are directly relate-able in the series, as title sequence are to set the tone and prepare the viewer for what they about to experience. A title sequence should be keeping with the film it precedes, it should not seek to overshadow or upstage it. The four main things I wanted to consider were:
- Legitability (understandable for the audience)
- Fit for purpose and suitability to the show/film
- Pace of shots/objects being introduced
- The emotional response triggered from these objects.
After conversing with Miranda about the sound, she went away and produced a very chilling track that just lasts over 30 seconds. I thought it was completely perfect for the The Walking Dead, because even though it is classed as a TV Drama, it is on the border between a thriller and horror series because of the zombie epidemic this show is based around. I have borrowed a motorised glide track from the CLR to take time-lapse shots of different overgrown abandon rooms/places. These time lapsed shots are then going to be sped up and fade into each other in correlation with the music to add the titles.
Because I am going to be filming over long period of time and sped up I decided to try out filming in HDR using magic Lantern. Magic Lantern is a firmware hack for DSLR's which enables numerous features we usually wouldn't have access to in the canon firmware, one of these is HDR filming. HDR filming is where the camera shoots between two frames which are at two different ISO's. This means one frame will be over exposed to get all the dark areas of the shot and one frame will be underexposed to get all the light areas of the shot. Then using a software it combines these two frames into one to produce an image with a higher dynamic range. With grading this can potentially produce a higher contrasted and nicer shot, which would suit the genre well.
The combination of the cold sound and the higher quality time lapse shots of deteriorated I think will work very well.
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