Michael's Art 328 Process

The following items are pieces I chose from the original title sequence that I believe need to be included in my sequence to accurately set up the film:

1. 2 songs - One song that uses lyrics to allude to a past and present about love, the other song that's more abstract without lyrics that creates a faster pace to match movement to an impeding action. Or find one song that incorporates both aspects.

2. Scene coloring - the first part of the sequence has a dark blue coloring with skin tones desaturated. When he gets out of his car there is no modification to the natural color provided by street lights; an orange color cast from sodium vapor lights.

3. Memorable items - throws the tape out the window of his car when he becomes frustrated listening to the song.

3. Blownout lights - the streetlights and other car headlights starburst and are brighter than normal; gives a delusional appearance.

4. Disintegration of text - the titles fade in and slowly disintegrate

5. blurring - close shots stay stationary and allow the subject to drift off the frame and become out of focus.

6. texture - shots of the rain on the window and shadows of the rain on Joel's face help increase the depressive feel.

Elements from other parts of the film that are relevant to a new title sequence:

1. color red - used in a semi transparent fashion that bleeds over subjects to allude to a memory about to be erased. usually paired with a jarring sound effect like a electrical buzzing sound.

2. faces - distorted, blurred and eyes flipped upside-down to show partial recollection or mixed up memory or someone Joel hasn't met yet.

3. sound effects - echoing chamber quality to instigate a memory beginning to fall apart. background sounds like waves drift through other scenes or linger on to show that not all of the memory is erased. muffled conversations allude to Joel being incapacitated but able to hear what's actual going on in the real world.

4. time - sped up portions to indulge a creepy feeling of lost memories or to conclude a memory being erased. implying a instance of altered reality or dream-like state.

5. mirrored scenes - can't escape time as you try to walk one direction he returns to the same spot he started.

6. color as accent - mostly all desaturated scenes except where Clementine invokes happiness or love; then she brightly colored.

7. scale - during childhood memories Joel is in an adult body but as small as child and his surroundings are exaggeratedly large.

8. lighting - spotlights are used to hone in on Joel while he's traveling through his memories almost in a Nazi-like search light fashion. Gives the feeling of being terrified and trying to escape.

9. memorable items - books, drawings, collages, toys, gifts, food from dining out, quotes, hand made figures (potato beings), photos and clothing.

Now I need to narrow down which elements I want to use from the above lists in order to create a storyboard for the new title sequence.