Wednesday, 1 April 2015

Thriller titles


After the IDENT use a FADE IN. The titles should then be in the following order:

(1) 'Your Production Company' Presents
(2) A Film by 'One name - usually the director'
(3) Starring or With
(4) Male star
(5) Female star or other way round
(6) Title of film - or could be at the end
(7) Also starring - 2/3/names - each on separate title
(8) Then 3/4/5 of the following - you choose - each on separate title Editing Music Cinematography or Director of Photography Casting Set Designer Costume Designer Script
(9) Then Producer(s) - can be more than one
(10) Always finish with Director - one name, usually the same as A Film By ...
(11) Could put title here Remember to use LiveType and try to make titles interesting. They can be either over black or superimposed over your film. Space them out over the two minutes of the film.Give the audience plenty of time to read the titles.
(12) Finish with a fade out & fade music out

Se7en
The Se7en title sequence is rather unique in its style of showing the audience the cast and crew of the film.
 In order, the appearances in the sequence goes:
- No Idents (this keeps the theme of the sequence)
- New Line Cinema Presents
- An Arnold Kopelson Production
- A Film By David Fincher
- Morgan Freeman
- Seven (also kept with the theme of the opening)
- Gwyneth Paltrow
- John Cassini, Reginald E.Cathey Peter Crombie
- Many shots for other people such as editing, sound and costume

- Produced By Arnold Kopelson & Phyllis Carlyle(these are only a few producers of many; These are the leaders)
- Directed By David Fincher

 The opening shows a man who has not been introduced to us yet removing dead skin from his fingers with a razor. This obviously seems a weird thing for a man to do, keeping the sense of tension and confusion with the audience until we understand why he is doing this. A razor blade is a strange tool to use for this already strange act, and is used to add a sense of violence and danger to the scene.

Psycho

Psycho's opening scene is very effective in putting across its message for the film. This is due to the name of the film being linked to mental unbalance, and the use of the sliding and changing bars ti bring in names and taking away parts of the names at different times would suggest almost an incompleteness about the scene. Not only this, but the constant slight shaking of the names fits well with the films plot, as the shaking would imply an energy or unstable quality to the names, relating to the plot by making the main character constantly seem strange and uncomfortable in many scenes. Not only this, but the musical score to accompany the visual placements suggests an uneasy or rushing tone, once again corresponding with the plot of the film.

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