Research into opening title sequence

Fight Club

These three subtitles are surrounded by backgrounds which are interesting for the audience to watch. The text size and font go with the background. For example, for the main title, ‘Fight Club, there are boulders which squish the writing which the font size reflects. Also, in the third picture, a light is shined, the writing glows to continue the same affect. However, the text font and size are specifically for this film, as in, you wouldn’t have the same backgrounds and font style for another film.

JCVD
The next two subtitles reflect the word/theme of army, as when we think of an army writing, we immediately think of dark orange, and cracked up writing. This type of writing also shows negativity as well as the stereotypical. With this style writing and the scene behind, we would get the impression that the film is about an army, or a war which will break out.

Public Enemies

As well as unanimated films which tend to not have computer based credits, some films use subtitles in the way above which is mainly produced on the computer. This technique is affective as the patterns are subtle, but the colours are loud. Also, it favours the film as it is evident that it is about batman and superman. The font size and style looks bold and strong which gives the opening title sequence something to look at. It also gets the information across to the audience that the film is about superman as this style font is related with him as it is used in most of the films which involves superman. This type of animation and font may not be suitable for a thriller as it doesn’t get the audience in the mood to watch a thriller.

We will use this information to produce an opening sequence which portrays our theme and our style of movie. This research has helped us to think about our theme and to produce a sequence about it to warm the audience up. For example, ‘JCVD’, has an opening sequence which the audience will immediately think that the film will contain lots of blood, guns and
violence.