Whilst putting the student protest footage into the title sequence, it was noticed that the red splatter, being used to compliment the introductory text, could be composited onto the student footage using a colour key. Given the look of the piece, using the splatter and text in this way looked much more effective than what was intended in the storyboard.
Another problem faced was removing the Dr Johnson quote (‘He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man’) from the Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas title footage. The quote is to be used as seen in the storyboard, before the suitcase dialogue. In the original the text appears behind the text as it drip off screen:
A colour key was again used to try and remove all the white text. The colour key alone did not remove all the white without distorting the text i wanted to keep. Using a mask with a path enabled the white dots to be blocked out and keep the definition in the Fear and Loathing text.
The suitcase scene from the film contains dialogue that i want to begin the film with. Using this scene at the beginning means moving around the audio to fit the visual. The end of the dialogue, seen below, occurs with the shot of the car pulling away, in the original film. In my title sequence the scene is cut up so that the end of the speech (‘the tendency is to push it as far as you can’) is spoken with a blank black background. An mp3 file was created using the audio from this youtube clip:
Raoul Duke: “We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a saltshaker half-full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers… Also, a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get into locked a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can” (imdb.com, 2010)
References:
HAPPYSMOKES (2007) fear and loathing Available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWdKWr6_N9A (Accessed 6 January 2011)
Imdb.com (2011) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) – Memorable quotes. Available at: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120669/quotes (Accessed: 6 January 2011)
Motion Graphics 