CONSTRUCTION: PRODUCTION COMPANY IDENT

The production company ident was very difficult to make. We had a very set and solid idea in our heads of how we wanted it to look. But unfortunately when we tried to make it our idea was almost impossible to create. Our idea was to have a snake prop slither across a snakes and ladders board several time before the title then appears. 
We planned to create this as a stop motion animation using iStopmotion but this proved too difficult. 
After trying and failing we moved forward and continued with the rest of our practical project. We left the ident until last to give us time to think of a new idea.
Our idea then evolved into having dice roll across the board and a hand come into frame and pick them up and as the hand moves away the production company name appears from behind it. To create the ident we printed off a snakes and ladders board to save money instead of buying one, gathered two dice and set up a tripod with a camera for a bird's eye view of the board. We then took several takes until we got one we liked. We then imported the footage into Final Cut Pro and created an effect that makes the title look as if it appears from behind the hand and viola! We have a production company ident.