Title sequence group project final

The final version edited and compiled by Noah Serafin (additional animation credit to the former, Jessica Wright, and Zoe Early). Full production report below.

The title sequence project was a rather challenging prospect since the beginning, as being grouped together with people I didn’t know was slightly difficult to adjust to. I took the initiative in setting up the group chat to help everyone introduce themselves (Noah Serafin, Jessica Wright and Zoe Early) and organise meetups. Although our group had a slow start, we decided fairly quickly early on that we would be choosing the “Yesterday’s Tomorrow” task as everyone agreed it would the most interesting to do. Although our group consisted of 2D students, there was some debate as to whether we were going to implement stop motion and/or live-action segments.

Getting the people in the group to decide on who would be doing what for the first few weeks was difficult as one of our members was absent for personal issues in a few group meetings, although it didn’t put any major detriment to the project as a whole. We also set up Google drives to make access to our work easier. I can say that our group managed to get along fairly well and didn’t have that many disagreements on how to do the project.

Our group got a fully realised idea of what we were going to do around midway through the project after I created a rough animatic to show how the sequence would play out. We had each contributed ideas in rough draft before this and I attempted to compile their ideas as well as mine to create the basis of the sequence. There were points during the making of the project where we debated using colour or black and white for the whole sequence.

After a few group meetings, we were able to conclude on how to split the workload and decided who would do what. Everyone had a clear idea of what they were supposed to do, and this made it easy for everyone to concentrate and focus on their segments. I decided to do more of the animated 2D segments and design the intertitle borders as I believed this was what I was most comfortable with to produce. Everyone else also managed to be in a position where they would be comfortable with what they were producing for the project. Editing and sound in particular was handled nicely by Noah as we were all confident he could do it right.

In conclusion, the title sequence project was certainly a challenge at the start but over time became easier to get into once everyone settled on who was going to do what. Luckily for us, this was a simple matter. I learned a lot from this project, as I went into it thinking I wouldn’t be able to get much work done due to miscommunication with unknowns. Providing a clear explanation through animatic helped clear these doubts and problems. If I could change anything about the project, I would put more detail into the animated sections, as I believe at least my sections could use have used more colour, lighting and detail. If anything else I’d say I managed to bulk up my team-building and communication skills.