Conventions of a title sequence

A title sequence needs to include:

The title of the film

The font, style and colour of the writing must be appropriate to the genre of your film, therefore as mine is a thriller my font colour can be blue, red black and maybe green. The font style may be an unusual font to help evoke that it is a thriller.

A slower pace of the credits adds to the suspense and suspicious effect giving little away but allowing the audience to view enough tension to keep them in their seats.

Rest of the sequence

For the rest of the sequence, the speed of each clip may change depending on what type of film it is. Some shots may be quick and sharp showing that the thriller may be a bit jumpy in some parts. The font style may be the same if some more credits are being shown.

In this 9 sequence frame I have sumed up the following:

• The opening title
• Setting/Location
• Costume
• Camerawork/Editing
• Title font/Style
• Story/ How it is set up
• Genre of the film
• How characters are introduced
• Special Shots/effects
  
  

The first shot shows the title. It is bold white writing and is going backwards up the screen making the viewer confused and wanting to know why. The second shot is of the location. The lady is running down a road and the first shot is of her feet. This makes us want to know why she is running. The next shot is of the costumes and as you can see she is wearing very little apart from a coat

Kiss me Deadly and Sixth Sense sequences and analysis

In this 9 sequence frame i have sumed up the following:

• The opening title


• Setting/location


• Costume


• Camerawork/editing


• Title font/style


• Story/ How it is set up


• Genre of the film


• How characters are introduced


• Special shots/effects

The opening title is quite simple, it is located in the middle of the beginning credits. It appears for around 3 seconds and fades out. I found the fade out quite affective as it almost unravells the story and that it may be about ghosts and spirits because they tend to fade out. The story is set in a house down in the cellar when the lady goes to get a bottle of wine. this shows that it is located in quite a scary dark house, and that the characters must be celebrating something. The costumes are quite simple and smartly dressed, again emphasising that they are celebrating something. For the camera work i chose the panning shot which zooms into the award frame, this is a good shot as it shows that this is an important part of the film otherwise it wouldnt zoom into it. The title font is quite simple and the colour is white. These gives little away as it is simple and unrevealing. The natural white colour symbolises spirits and ghosts and then leaves the rest up to our imagination. The character is first introduced when she goes down to the cellar to get some wine. One special shot is the one where the characters are reflected through the mirror award. This is an unusual shot as it again explains that the award frame plays a big deal in the film