Day One

Hello! I am Elizabeth but my friends call me Bess, so feel free to do the same. I am no John Hughes, but I too am untrained and have stumbled into this movie making business. With this blog I hope to show you how my team’s title sequence came to be. I will show you our decision-making process and how we dealt with the inevitable struggles faced along the way.

Yes my team! Or partner rather. I am working with Adaline, but I call her Addie because we have been good friends since the end of middle school. We plan to work together on every part of the movie if possible, instead of assigning specific jobs to one another, but this may change during the production process. If you would like to see her side of our creation process you can view her blog at https://adalinemediaproject.blogspot.com/.

When it came to what we wanted to do for our title sequence I turned to the movies that I loved most. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off directed by John Hughes was the first to come to mind. It was a feel-good movie that managed to make important statements about life in fun artistic ways. I loved the style created by the bright scenes, odd but original costuming, and frequent close ups that created a movie experience that was uniquely personal. I wanted to create a title sequence that drew people in, created a personal connection with the audience, and made them feel good, just like Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.  I began doing research into what genre would be best to convey this effect in our title sequence, and in my next few blog posts I hope to show how we came to choose our genre of comedy drama. 

Sources:

“John Hughes Quotes.” BrainyQuote, Xplore, www.brainyquote.com/authors/john-hughes-quotes.