title sequence pdf

Research into title sequences

Main features of a title sequence…

No scrolling titles

Only key people listed (the main actors/ producers etc.)

Features the production company

Helps set the mood for the film (must be in the style of the film)

Will often have distinctive music

Se7en

Features of se7en’s title sequenceSubtle reveals of events in the play with photographs of the deceased

A menacing underscore with very unsettling industrial sounds in it

Scratchy psychotic looking text to display the credits

peculiar actions foreshadowing key info e.g. shaving the skin off of fingertips

Low lighting and fast shot changes

Memento

Features of momento’s title sequence

A creepy photo of what appears to be a bloody crime scene taken on a polaroid camera

A dramatic depressing string underscore

Throughout the course of the sequence the you notice the polaroid is not developing but is undeveloping and the video is in reverse

Fight club

Features of fight club’s title sequence

Fast pace raucous metal metal music to create tension

A blue modern colour scheme

Background patterns that resemble biological features through a nano scope

the way the text flies in from the background portrays it is going to be a fast pace exciting film