Film Title Sequence - Tess

After experimenting and researching into paper cut out design I have decided that I can no longer do this concept. I tried creating a short animation with this technique and found it really difficult to set up the camera take a picture, remove the paper, cut out the letter or pattern and then replace it in the exact same place and do it all over again. I kept accidentally hitting the tripod or my camera would turn of after i set it up to be zoomed and had to find the place. It took a very long time to complete a simple paper cut out f the title: 'Tess of the D'urbervilles' only. Therefore I have looked back at my thumbnails and other ideas and picked a different idea that still resembles the same concept (of the English countryside.)

Idea
When working in my sketchbook I was playing around with simple patterns that i could use to cut out. and stumbled upon one that looked like foliage - I continued playing with this, doodling and cutting it out. I now know that this is actually the pattern I want to use through out the title. I plan to draw this pattern around the handwritten type on paper. I played around with the colours - and decided my colours shall be: light green, white and black. I have used black with these colours as a metaphor of death and tragedy which is a large part of this English Period drama. I have used a lot of green because the drama series is based in the West - Thomas Hardy describes the scenery in the books and the series also spends alot of time displaying the beauty of the location. Below are two images of my rough experimental stage. I'm looking at how I could use both type and colour (two large focus points for my title sequence.) Before choosing my colour palette I also looked into 'red.' As this is a story about a girl having her virtue stolen. Red is also a passionate and bloody colour which also shows the love that she has for Angel Claire and her hate that she has for Alec D'urbervillle.

TYPE
For Tess of the D'urbervilles I have done alot of research into the type that I want to use. I have from this, decided that I want to use a handwritten type within in my title sequence. Originally I was going to use this type for a paper cut out however I realized with a lack of tools and time reasons that doing this was to difficult for a two week project. (I really liked this idea but have come to the conclusion it wasn't going to work out.) I looked into a very good typographical french script book. This is where I first felt that this type would work the best for the style I want to create for this drama series. During the time that Tess of D'urbervilles was set, hand written letters and messages were made and so i want to keep this raw and beautiful time alive even though the type - so when the audience are watching the titles they will understand the time period first.