Project no.2: create a film title sequence

After easter we were given a new brief: to create a film title sequence. From a given list of films me and my two assigned teammates Jack Browne and Clodagh Cahill, chose to do the film Gladiator by Ridley Scott. The reason we chose this was because we thought it had alot to offer with lots of textures such as the sand of the arenas, the rust of the warriors armour and the mud of the battlefield. As well as this there is also the abundance of ancient roman artefacts which can be incorporated into the sequence.

With this as a base we each through up ideas as to what we could do in the 'experimentation fortnight' where we are allowed to experiment as much as possible with new materials to use in our final production.
From this we gathered materials. This was mainly between me and Jack where we got things such as ink, spray paint, rusted metal, glass and sandpaper etc.. then we decided to do some experiment, some of the main things we did included making old tapestry-like paper using teabags and rust which will become maps of rome, and experimenting with ink drops in water. Jack also built a cardboard house which we burnt in reflection to Maximus' house being burnt in the film. Throughout this week I was mainly in charge of documenting everything we did through film and ink although some has to be redone using blue screens as these initial ideas were only very rough.

Following on from this week and a tutorial with one of our tutors, we agreed that although we shouldn't have a storyboard, we should have an inclining into what role our experiments will have within the sequence. So, we came up with one of the main portions of the animation which was character introduction where we will have each of the main characters as a bust such as the ones featured throughout the film. It is unknown yet how we will definitely do it but we are experimenting with modelling clay with a view to making them on a 3D modelling software.

we will look later on in the week as to what else will happen within the sequence and how to introduce the fire/maps as well as the names of the directors etc...

here are some of the videos of what we have done so far:

I will upload more experiments tomorrow when I have them off my memory card