AriMotion: Animated Titles Pitch

So today we gave a pitch to the film students about possible title animations and ideas.
Seeing as now that the pitches have been done and everyone is aware of each other's ideas I thought i'd share what I've done for the pitches.

Also, any feedback would be greatly appreciated, especially if you were at the presentation ~ you know, if i handled the questions ok, if i should have prepared more etc.
After all, this was our first pitch to people outside of our class.

Our group pitched for 3 films however,
I did storyboards and talked about only two films.
The first I presented was 'Error 37' so I thought, in this blog I'll start the opposite way (because i can =P)

'A Change of Heart' I believe is still debating their name but changing the title is very easy so I went ahead and added it into my examples and ideas.

I started off with doing one big drawing of a really human heart, added some textures and colours and a title. The whole thing didn't take more than 15 min ~ but deciding on font always takes me a while ~ and i always alter the spacing between letters manually afterwards ~ so overall it probably took me about half an hour ~ I had great fun making it
Here it is -

(you can click the image to make it bigger)

So what i did was just a quick sketch of the human heart, and then added some cool coffee stain textures and water smudge textures. Then i added colours and tone, followed by a canvas texture over the top.

it felt a bit empty with just the heart and text so i added some light beams, and i found that it works a lot better. Its quite symbolic of the better and worse in that, you can head toward the light/good or away from it - and at the same time it feels like the heart is 'in something' as if it were still in a human body.

I then changed it into a rough storyboard with a few examples of titles

(I blurred out the names for safety - they weren't blurred out before)

and just so that my idea makes more sense, i wanted to do something similar to this alcohol ad, in that we follow a line, that leads us to credits and as it finishes the texture comes in, we zoom out and reveal the title -

The second Film I pitched for was Error 37 -

My idea was to do a stylised, motion graphics title sequence ~ because the director said he much prefers traditional titles (white on black) so i tried to make something that is a bit stylised. However i'm not entirely happy with what came out on the storyboard but i think i supported my idea with the other examples i gave.

Technically speaking, it probably would have been more appropriate to do the graphics in illustrator or flash, but i find i much prefer photoshop so thats what i used haha

Anyway, take a look ~