Need feedback on a concept for credit sequence...

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Douglas Thigpen

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Not sure if this really fit into any of the other forums, and since it's just soliciting feedback, I figured the best place for it would be here.

Grinding that last two weeks away before I have to send off the master 'print' of an upcoming documentary to the distributor to get it into reproduction and distribution for June. Was doing some finishing touches and had an idea for a concept for the credits sequence that I thought was fun, so here's a sample. Each primary individual involved would have their own little 10 second clip like this, then it'd roll to standard crawl for technical credits, etc.

Granted, it's a very simple concept, but it's a rare bit of mild creativity for me, so I thought I'd see how people reacted to it and maybe go with it instead of the standard crawl.

All feedback appreciated. Need to make a decision soon and shoot some green screen pieces to "rotoscope" off of for each of the primary individuals involved if I'm going to go this route.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/douglas_thigpen/3510271159/

Thanks in advance for your time,
 
Chop it to 5 to 7 secs depending on how it feels, but don't change what you already have other than speeding up the text animation thing (to twice as fast). Then it will kick ass, imo.

//7 seconds with double speed on the text animation, leaving the character animation as is, rocks it for me. Cool.

(just counting secs in my head. Basically, right after the OK nod, I'd continue 1/2 sec maybe then fade out for 1/2 sec.) Anyways the idea is to trim the fat and the way I see it, it will kick butt.
Try it, or give it to me and I'll do it for you, hehe. Serious man. :)
 
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So I went ahead and shortened them to 7 seconds each (cut off the ends, paced fine afterwards) and shot the three other people against green screen and did the 'segments' for them and mocked up a credit sequence based on the style, even carried a bit of the style into the crawl for the technical credits following the primaries.

But before I make a final decision as to whether to go with this style or a crawl, any more feedback?
 
Wow, all positive so far (here and elsewhere). Ok, I guess I'll be doing the credit sequence based on that concept. Nice to have an idea work out for a change.

Thanks,
 
To me, the first half seems good. It could maybe be a bit tighter in that the text animation could be a bit faster and maybe cut another 1/2 second of the end. But as it is now, I'd try testing a sound track behind it and then see if it still needs to be tighter.

The second half, with the hat, seems about a second longer than the first half.
Maybe shorten that one up like the first half imo.
 
Yeah, still a test sequence at this point. Definitely will be a custom track composed for it in the next day once we finalize the timing. Thanks for the input, I'll speed up the text fall in a bit.
 
I'm going to edit a sample for you to show what I had in mind the way I was thinking, to give you a better idea. After that it's up to you. I'll PM you in within the hour hopefully. :)

//Edit: PM sent. Wooo, that was fun.
 
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Random idea, what would you think of a well done film burn effect to transition between each of these sequences and then into the final crawl? (Finalizing today and am not keen on dipping to white between each one and keeping it too clean)
 
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