G321- Film Opening Research

"The most important thing that the opening of a film must accomplish is to establish a tone so that the audience fall into the same mood as the film they are watching. It doesn’t have to be a big budget explosive opening in order to grab the audience’s attention and sometimes an over the top opening like this risks upending the structure of the film with a sense of where do we go from here?"  -http://whatculture.com/film/the-importance-of-film-openings.php

A title sequence is expected to:

• set the atmosphere/tone 
• introduce the main characters 
• show the film title
• classify the genre
• use appropriate sound

Types of Title Sequence


Narrative

follows a short story of events which are related to the rest of the film.

e.g The Shining

Discrete Title Sequence 

gives out very little information but relevant to the story and gives a few clues 

for the audience to figure out themselves.

e.g Se7en


Heavily Stylised Editing

lots of effects used to make it interesting and grab the audiences attention.

e.g The taking of Pelham 123



Credits over screen

titles appearing straight over the image

e.g Arlington Road

Mia Norton