Spectre House Ident

After looking at the Napoleon Dynamite introduction scene, we have had an idea for our trailer ident. As it would most likely be an independent film, we wanted to create something that gave it a slightly independant feel to it. We wanted to create some sort of either stop motion or animation clip of film, where the name of our production company 'Spectre house Productions' would appear, and we decided to have a go at making a flip book. I recently bought a small book which could be used in this way, which had squared paper (to help to keep the titles the same size) and a flexible cover so that it could bend appropriately. As with the Napoleon Dynamite title sequence, we wanted the ident to have a handmade element to it, but for it not to look as cheerful as that did, so we made the font look handwritten, but not in the pretty looking curly fonts that Napoleon Dynamite uses. Also, we considered the colours of the ident - we didn't want there to be a lot of bright primary or pastel colours as we felt that it would look too much like the ident of a comedy, romance or teen movie, so considering that the flip book was orange, we placed it on a black background (orange and black are colours that, when combined, are often associated with halloween, which is linked to the horror genre). Below is the original out take of our ident (the clip looks best played in 1080pHD).

Clearly, the length of our ident is far too long, so we had a go of editing it to see what it would look like sped up. Below is the first clip that we had a go of speeding up, which was edited in Windows Live Movie Maker.

As you can see, the clip looks slightly disjointed. We later had a go of editing it in iMovie, which produced a much more fluid flow, so we will be using this for our ident. Also, when we edited the clip in iMovie, the sound sped up too (which was originally just the ambient noise of the television in the background). This created quite a creepy, squeaky/ scratchy effect which seemed to fit into the horror genre quite well. We kept this noise in the background.