During early stages of the production of Sunday League, we had a couple discussions regarding the title sequence for the show and I was very keen on having something filmed instead of all graphics, but that still made a great impact and became a bit catchy. At this point we all put some ideas in, but one of the ones that Danny Hewitt, the director, showed me, was the opening titles from Parks and Recreation, from which I talk about in a previous post of my pre-production stage. The concept behind it was to create a "windows" system in which you appreciate different images at the same time showing different areas of a persons life, this is an example of the concept I based on for the creation of this "windows" system for Sunday League:
After playing around with many different effects I came out with the final piece for the opening sequence which ended up being like this:
You can see more in depth the process of getting to this point in these posts:
http://waterflu.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/pre-production-research-into-titles.html
http://waterflu.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/pre-production-research-into-title.html
http://waterflu.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/pre-production-researching-into-title.html
The creation of the title sequence let me into bringing this "windows" idea into a theme for the transitions on Sunday League. I started struggling first with transitions and how to get from one place to the other and then I realized that what I could do what actually to add another "windows" system to move from one scene to the other, making this theme very clear throughout the entire episode. Originally the title sequence goes right at the end with a scheme in which all four character are shown wishing 4 different windows or squares. I wanted to keep it like that, but I realized that the position of them was not the appropriate one for the transitions as the screen is just divided into four big squares:
My main idea behind this was to create something in Sunday League similar to what George Lucas did for the Star Wars saga, which was to include very standard transitions like Wipe, Dissolve, Clock, the Chevron, Circle and many others. This are very commonly known among amateurs since they are the ones that are usually installed as presets on very basic and simple editing softwares. The idea here is that those transitions actually fitted with the theme and didn't look unprofessional or amateur, they actually gave life and became a theme for Star Wars. Here is an example from Episode IV A New Hope:
After getting that in mind, I wanted to achieve that with a transition for Sunday League and that is when I came out with making it as squares where the new scene starts appearing in these squares as the previous one disappears. In order to understand a bit more of what I did I have just added some images of how the process works:
First we have an image from the scene we are coming out of:
Second we have the first window coming up on the left with footage from the scene we are going into:
Third we have the second window appearing:
Fourth we have the third window appearing:
Fifth we have the fourth and last window appearing:
And sixth we see how the image expanded and loses those black lines that divide the image:
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