Last week during our screening, Simon suggested that we came in too hard with our first picture, and suggested we have some kind of pre title titles.
I toyed with the idea earlier on of using some quotes from one of our contributors who we had to let go along the way.
He has released two books, one called " fast train approaching", which features his story and lots of poetry he wrote whilst in hospital.
I liked a few lines from one of his poem:
"Watch me beneath the setting sun, as I tred the tightrope, balancing between light and dark>'
I also liked the opening of a Mandela speech:
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It's our light not our dark that most frightens us."
I thought these both reprsesented the subject of Bipolar well, and would start the audience thinking.
However, once I placed the tiles in the edit with the font we are using to brand our film, I imeadiately went off the idea. I felt it cheapened everything I was trying to achieve in the edit.
So back to drawing board. I'm looking at the opening of some of my favourite documentaries.
I think I may go for the simple but dramatic:
Lau Productions and Paper People Present
A Lauren Jay Howard production
in association with Bipolar UK
