PRE-PRODUCTION - TITLE SEQUENCE PLANNING

Myself and Jemma sat together and talked about what our title sequence should be. Having watched Documentary for our research, they all have simple and quick title sequences to get you into the film. Alfred & Jakobine was juts a shot of the taxi driving past and then the title fades in, Jim & Andy is slightly longer as Jim Carrey talks about being sat on the beach and we see very cinematic shots of the beach and sea side, then when he explains "What happened next was out of my control" we see original footage of Jim as the character Andy and the title types in. Dreams of a Life didn't have a title sequence, you just jump straight into the film.

Jemma and I both agreed that here is where we can reveal Tanya as a Drag Queen. I suggested a very cinematically shot title sequence where we'd get lots of Prime Lens footage of Make-up brushes, close ups on Tanya's skin and eyes as she's doing her make up but not revealing her yet and finally when she puts on her wig we're behind her and crab sideways with the camera to see the Mirror and reveal her as Miss Zodi and then the title Re-Werked comes up. 

Jemma didn't agree with this, she said it doesn't fit with the documentary and also half the shots I'm discussing will be in the documentary anyway. She wants something simple but effective for the titles. 

Next, I suggested a time lapse of Tanya doing her make up so we literally see the transform into Miss Zodi, having it so the camera is the mirror, Tanya would look straight into the camera and at the end we would see her in full drag and the title would come up. I got the idea from videos such as the one below I found online:

It's very quirky and fits with the theme that my visuals got for, it's different and it's not cinematic and more realistic which fits better for a documentary. Jemma however, didn't want to go forward with this either. She explained that we've already agreed to have this type of time lapse in the film prior to Tanya's performance and she doesn't want it to be the same, she wants something different for the titles. 

Jemma and I both planned out how we could make a quick but effective title sequence and Jemma ended up showing me this video below:

Jemma explained she'd like something like this, so it's sort of a time lapse but more of still photos showing the transformation rather than seeing all the movement which we'll be getting in the time lapse of Tanya getting ready for her performance. We spoke and finally came to the decision that we will set up a background (likely coloured to fit with the theme) and have Tanya do a layer of makeup, then take a photo, then again and keep doing this so we move between all these photos and slowly see her become Miss Zodi, this doesn't reveal to the audience how much work it is for her just yet but gets them hooked as you can already see she's a female Drag Queen. Later when they see all the effort it is for her to get ready, that's when they're shown how difficult it is and how passionate she is about doing this.