Research Into Title Credits In A Sequence

Research Into Title Credits In A Sequence

In this post I will be writing and identifying different opening sequences of films.

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Gone Girl:

Director - David Fincher 
Studio - 20th Century Fox
Release - October 3rd, 2014 

GENRE & NARRATIVE:

- The genre of this movie is a drama/mystery/thriller. We can see this by the opening sequence in many ways. I particularly like this sequence as it's very smartly done. 

- One of the ways the audience can see this is because of the soft creepy soundtrack showing that it isn't going to be romance of any source. Especially from when Ben Affleck says some dialogue at the beginning "when I think of my wife, I always think of her head, I picture cracking her lovely skull". This dialogue shows that maybe Ben is going to kill his wife, however, it turns out she is the crazy one which involves plot twist which is normally included in a thriller. 

- By watching this sequence it makes the audience be concerned on what will happen next and that is why this sequence is so well made. 

TITLES & FONTS:

- There are about 25 titles on different cast members from the film during this title sequence.

- I also like how the editor laid the titles around and the font he used which even suited what the film is about. 

- The type of font they used for the titles is I think a type of typewriter font which is sleek and clean. The editor didn't make the font huge as the audience also has to pay attention to the actual title sequence. 

- What I also admire is the way they transitions the text into a different picture. What they did was they made the title fade out quickly after it has been shown. I realised that this is probably used to show that the film 'Gone Girl' is someone disappearing like the text does. 

INSPIRATION: 

- From this title sequence I've learnt how titles can be sleekly laid our in a professional way and how I can differentiate where the titles are laid out on the screen. 
- I also learnt that using a suspicious soundtrack that isn't too fast will increase tension for viewers. 

Kill Bill:

Director - Quentin Tarantino 
Studio - Miramax
Release - October 10th, 2003

GENRE & NARRATIVE:

- The genre of this movie is action, crime and thriller. We can see this clearly in the opening sequence because of the main character whom is being tortured to death which shows the gruesome part of the movie. 
- In this sequence they used a combination of diegetic and non diegetic sound. As at the start it is mostly ambient sounds and dialogue of a man speaking which makes us wonder who it is and why he is doing this. After the woman is shot it changes into the titles of the cast followed by non diegetic soundtrack in the background. 
- The soundtrack playing goes well with this sequence as the woman gets shot and the song is clarifying 'bang' 'bang'. Which is supposedly the shots of a gun. 
- It also clarifies the narrative of the movie from the dark location of this woman and her heavy breathing. Also showing her pain by fake blood and wounds. 


TITLES & FONTS:

- There are about 16 titles in this sequence of the different cast members. 
- The titles are laid out all in the middle of the screen with all types of different fonts. 
- The transitions they used were that they slowly faded it out only a different title and left enough time for the audience to read what they say. 

INSPIRATION:

- From this sequence I have gotten ideas on how I can also lay out different types of font as well, other than only one. However, in my sequence I will most probably only use one type of font as I find it more professional and less messy for the audience's view on the film.