Practicing with the Production Logo

Prodution Logo: PRACTICE

Today the group and I experimented with creating the production logo for our opening sequence. We began with filming the background video to where to logo will be displayed. Our initial idea was to get a hand to smack a glass window with the ambient sound of the hand to be heard and the logo to be viewed as possibly a tattoo on the palm of the hand. We could add in the logo by either writing it on the hand before and it then it being shown on the screen; or to super impose the writing on Pixelmator and place the image onto the hand.

On our first attempt we shot the video very poor. As you can see our reflections are shown in the glass, this looks really unprofessional and tacky. Another issue with the first shot is that you can see part of the actress' body and underwear strap (pretty self explanatory). Thirdly I strongly disliked the dragging of the hand across the window, it connotes that the person is really weak which is the opposite of what we wanted to achieve. This shot is very unsuccessful because it appears as if it was not thought through and it doesn't make the audience jump as it should.




Contrasting that, our final practice production logo went very successfully, there were no reflections in the window, in fact you can't even see the window until the hand hits it, in addition to the hand appearing from below. I like the fact that there are trees and wind blowing in the background and producing ambient sound. It works well because you don't see the hand coming and it is very jumpy. The hand stays fixed to the window until the end of the clip, this denotes that it is strong. It creates an enigma code, who? what? where? why?, which links into our opening sequence as that is what we wish to achieve. We would make the hand slapping on the window sound more amplified and imprint the logo onto the hand itself.