Skype call with Mike Harrowes and evaluation

Here is the interview that we conducted with film editor Mike Harrowes.Mike's responses to our variety of questions helped to give an insight to what we needed to do in order to create and produce a successful opening title sequence. He made it clear that it was extremely important that the audience understands the fundamentals of the film and that they have a clear idea about what is going on in the production. Even if the audience maybe does not understand everything that is going on, they still feel the necessary emotions that are trying to be implied by the creators of the sequence. Mike also explained how it was important for our particular opening title sequence that the audience understands that the man is clearly an assassin and is good at his job as well as, showing that he clearly is stressed at his currently position of work and despises it to represent the dynamics of why he has to take this job required.

Mike gave us overall tips in order to improve the quality of our opening title sequence. He listed that the 'pace' of the sequence was a key aspect and how some opening title sequences want to give away very little about the film to try and question the audience, on the other hand, others give away a lot of information about the film if the story is attempting to run quickly. He explained how we should not shy away from cutting quickly if a lot of information is needed to be shown.

Overall, Mikes advice has helped us to expand on our opening title sequence and improve the overall quality. We will take his suggestions into consideration when it comes to the development of our sequence, most importantly, his ideologies about cutting and how the speed of cutting is a key factor to generate the right interpretation from the audience.