Title Shot Rough Draft

The above shot is a very rough draft of some of the ideas we could encapsulate into our final title shot. The font is taken from http://www.1001freefonts.com/ and is called 'gun play' which is coincidentally relevant to our film and I initially liked it because it was bold and distinctive, two qualitys that I feel our font need. I decided to make the title red to make it stand out against a dark backround and because of the connotations of danger, romance and other themes that also happen to be apparent in our trailer. The image is a random silhouette I found of a girls back, behind which she is holding a gun. I think its effective as it visualises pivotal elements of our film in one simple picture; the feminine figure and the incongruous gun that intreigues the audience and hints at the action genre, just like in 'James Bond' and 'Charlies Angels' title shots. If we did choose to have a backround rather than a completely blank screen, for continuity purposes it would be better to create our own image. We could take a dimly-lit photo following the same outline (mid/close up shot of Lola holding gun behind back) and edit in the font over the top. This would come immediately after the penultimate shot of Lola 'hearing a noise and spinning round with vulnerable expression'; the juxtaposition of these two scenes would epitomise the extremes and exciting contrasts of Lolas character (for a second she could be the damsel in distress, but then we see the concealed gun and realise there is more to the story than meets the eye) which is what we are trying to convey to entice the audience.