After a lot of research I finally came up with a final piece for the Title Sequence. It was quite complex to do, specially when it came down to the filming, but I think it actually worked quite well. We filmed the part with Daniel (one of the actors) on one day and the other 3 on another one due to his availability, which actually worked quite well because it helped me realize exactly the way I needed to film to achieve the effect that I wanted to create. As part of my previous research I mentioned that one of the ideas I looked at, which was the biggest suggestion from Danny (the director), was Parks and Recreation title sequence, which was the base for the idea that we wanted to create. I worked around it a lot and tried to see what kind of things I could create in order to achieve a similar effect and that is when I came up with the idea of using a 3-way split screen, in which we could show 3 different aspects of the characters. One of them was going to be a shot of them doing something related to football based on the position the play, the second one was going to be something more personal related to their mood, their personality (anger, comedy, etc) and the third one is more based on a Medium Shot of each character, turning around and smiling to the camera but with a particular smile based on their personalities. I created this design to have an idea of it'll look so I could show it to Danny to make sure he liked it. The way it was going to be split was the follow:
One of the biggest problems I had during the shooting of it, was making sure I framed it properly because the space was quite limited, specially for the number 1 drop zone. That one in particular was the most annoying one because I had to make sure that the actors stayed on the left side if the camera and didn't move too much otherwise they would come off screen. I drew a line on the pitch just so they knew what was their safe box and that helped a lot during the editing. The shot of Malik running with a celebration was actually quite fun to do, because I had to follow him zoomed in as much as I could keeping him in the middle of the frame. The shot in which Jamie is singing, was shot from a mirror, as a metaphor of showing the reflection of the type of guy he really is.
I also had a look at some of the types of fonts I could use for the titles, which was also too keep as part of the branding of the show and I found this really good one called epidemia, which fits really good because it has a filling that looks like the white line that is painted on the grass.
Here is finally the title sequence:
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