Compositional ideas

Having looked into documentary film title sequences, i was left feeling like anything goes. In the main part, it was left to the imagery of slow live action to direct the narrative with the credits and text, usually of a small font size, tucked neatly into one corner.
I decided i wanted to use this approach but i wanted, partly due to the brief, to have a lot more going on. I wanted to try and root the sequence in its era, use a diluted doc film process as well as being able to introduce characters.
In order to achieve this, the page needed to be divided up somehow and organized so important bits of information stood out from the rest.
It was looking over at Kens monitor and seeing him browsing some comic strips, that instigated a look at 60's comics.
Comics really aren't my thing, but the way the pages are broken up to sequentially tell a story and certain images are larger, or more detailed than others highlighting importance of the 'event' appealed to me and this is the reason and formula for why and how the sequence is composed how it is.






Though playing the sequence to tutors, i have already been told it looks more like a flag than a comic strip so obviously i havent been able to capture that feel as best i could. Hopefully with further tweaking it can be achieved
The scrap book feel has really come into its own. The rough and ready images and sometimes awkward layers make it look, in part, like its layered on a light box, stuck together with tape. Although its not the exact theme i had intended for it, i really like how it has ended up.

I still have no idea really how to start or end the sequence. I fear that the cliche fade in and fade out will have to be used. Though i would like to emulate a keyhole effect for the start, running over a quote from William Blake. This i feel needs to be made a feature as its an integral piece of the Jim Morrison puzzle.
"When the doors of perception are cleansed, things will appear as they truly are..... Infinite."
This is where the name The Doors originates, it illustrates a mythical and metaphysical emphasis, literary interest and was a closely guarded beliefe Jim Morrison supposedly adhered to.
The ending i want to have the title.. "No one gets out of here alive" a fade out and the oil and water effect to be present. But experimentation and time is needed to think a logical ending through.