These are our ideas and thoughts for what our title sequence is meant to turn out like, and why we chose certain cinematographic aspects over others.
Mise-en-scene:
Costuming: white and innocent for victim, lighter colors for male detective, darker colors for female detective
Props: pieces of evidence to show murder, police tape to show crime scene, newspaper to provoke conflict
Decor: bedroom and vulnerable feel, office for a working feel
Setting: bedroom and office
Hair and makeup: victim made to look dead, detectives made to look official
Lighting: dark for evidence, normally lit for office scene
Blocking: victim looks powerless, female detective has somewhat little power over male detective
Framing: open for both evidence and office scene
Cinematography-
Establishing shot: door in evidence, newspaper for graphic match in office
Close ups: evidence to show entirety and vulnerability, close up of newspaper to show conflict
Mid-shot: shows conversation between two detectives
POV Shot: from drawer to show less power
Over the shoulder: between two detectives
High angle and low angles: during the conversation to promote power between female and male detective
Canted angle: tilted on male detective to show that he’s in the wrong
Pan: across crime scene to show it
Pedaling shot: across evidence to show all of it
Handheld: show nervousness of person observing evidence
Center framing: to keep the audience’s attention on the middle of the action
Editing-
Cuts: lots of cuts to show the movement of one scene to the next
Pacing: slow throughout most of it to provide easy story-telling
Graphic match: between newspaper and door, then between drawer in multiple areas
Continuity: purposefully kept
180-degree system: kept well
Shot-reverse shot: conversation from detectives
Dissolve: between evidence
Fade: fade to black at end of each scene
Sound-
Diegetic: dialogue, door, ambient sound
Non-diegetic: soundtrack for evidence
Offscreen: office sounds
Onscreen: dialogue, door
Synchronous: purposefully kept
Ambient sound: printer, phone ringing, small conversation
Incidental music: music during title card
Into The Truth 