A Tale in the Sting

For this brief, I have chosen to work with the "Titles" choice, because I love the idea of giving a book its own title sequence. This idea was appealing to me because even though I am taking the story from my chosen book, the title sequence itself will be something completely original and not yet done.

My Chosen Book

A lot of the books I have read have already been turned to the big screen, however I have recently been reading a new psychological ghost story called, "The Haunting of James Hastings" by Christopher Ransom. It is about a young man who lives in LA with his loving wife of five years, later to find she has been tragically killed after being hit by a van. The story begins 12 months later, when strange things begin happening around the house and in James's mind. He starts to think he is loosing his sanity, but he also begins to ask the question weather or not his wife is back to haunt him.

I thought this would be a rather interesting title sequence to produce, because I want to create something quite dark and sinister. Also, the descriptions from the book have allowed me to visualise the surrounding environments and characters and the fact that this book hasn't been adapted to film means I wont be influenced by somebody else's visual response to it. I am simply going of what information the book has given me and the way in which I have interpreted it. I watch a lot of supernatural films and series so I will have a lot of examples to use for research and inspiration through out!