Title Sequence Project

Firstly we thought, how are we going to introduce the characters? Our first idea was to have 2 shots for each character: The initial shot setting the scene. The 2nd shot will zoom to the character in the scene and the character will react to the camera, thus introducing him. So i drew out a few images for each character; heres an example below of David Archer who's a farmer. The first shot will slowly pan across a farm with a mystery figure standing there. Then the camera will suddenly zoom to the second shot (below) in which he turns to the camera as if we are trespassing. Above i've put together a basic, short animatic of a few of these scenes introducing a few different, shady characters.  

                 

The title sequence project: Our group is working on "The Archers Reloaded" which is a remake of the Archers (radio), for television, but directed by Guy Ritchie. The Archers is one of the most well known radio programmes ever, but particularly amongst younger people it's known for its dullness, the impression we get from it is its just a bunch of farmers chatting with no real problems. So we thought that it would be interesting and funny to do our own remake of it in a Guy Ritchie style, mainly thinking about title sequences of Rock n Rolla, Snatch, Lock Stock etc. known for being: stylish, 'cool' and rock n roll. Our project won't be made intending to be a comedy, but there will be comedy in the juxtaposition between peoples perception of the Archers and the much more high octane, action packed style in which this title sequence is portraying them. 

It turns out after a bit of research that a lot of the Archers characters have issues that are quite extreme. For example a few characters are drug users, another is in prison, another a child abuser, another an adulterer, another one is a gambler etc. We can emphasise these issues in our title sequence. Guy Ritchie usually uses the title sequence as way to introduce his characters and tell you a little about them. so this is what we want to try and achieve.