Title Graphic

Obviously the most straight forward and essential feature of a film opening is the title.  It helps the audience know what to associate the content of the film under; similar to how a book has a cover page that the reader has to look at before viewing the content of the story.  I'm going for a similar idea in my film with the title graphic I just created.

(The first 10 seconds of the film)

This is the first shot of my opening, and I want the audience to know (from the beginning) that they are watching a film about a SuperHuman.  It saves time and gets the title out of the way in the film so that the audience can be fully engrossed in the story and not interrupted by the title.

This graphic was super simple to implement in my film.  I knew I wanted the title to be on one side of the frame and Ivan to be on the other side.  During filming, I made sure to communicate my vision of this opening to the cinematographer, who composed the shot with me in the left corner so the title can appear on the right third.

In WeVideo, there is a tab that grants me access to text functions over my film. Upon entering this folder, I can see different text options that I can select for my film.  I chose a different style in this clip but for my film, I chose "puff", which is a cool (and brief) fade effect (this can be seen in the first video).

(how to access the text tab in WeVideo)

To reposition the location of the text on the screen, I used the x and y coordinates to alter where the title would be displayed.  This allowed the text to be in the composition I wanted.

Now to work on the timings of the dialogue. Hopefully the clips I got don't make the film run over time.

                                 - Jake

TODAY'S HERO: THE FOX ACQUISITION

In this section of "TODAY's HERO" I actually didn't want to talk about a specific hero, but an entire group of them.

This past week, Disney recently acquired 21 CENTURY FOX.  Although this purchase was fueled by the desire to fill their upcoming "Disney Plus" streaming program with more properties, many fans of the Marvel franchise have raved over this event. This is because FOX previously owned the rights to a multitude of beloved Marvel characters, such as The Fantastic Four family, the X-Men, and popular film franchise Deadpool. 

In the 1990's, Marvel had sold their properties online to a multitude of studios so that they could create films with their characters in them.  However, Marvel Comics realized their error in losing access to their roster of heroes, so they created their own production company and slowly tried acquiring production rights to their characters such as Spider-Man and The Incredible Hulk (who are both partially owned by Marvel at the moment). 

This recent merger allows for fan's dreams to come alive on the big screen and give them the ability to see the Fantastic Four partner with Spider-Man on missions as well as see the X-Man fight the Avengers. 

The next 10 years of Marvel will definitely be exciting years for the fans because they will see (practically) all of Marvel together as a family telling the same stories they did in the comics.