4 different types of Film openings

Title on a blank screen

The main conventions and reasons for use:

• Historically, this is the most common type of title sequence

• Involves different kinds of type face on a background 

• Usually a white background on a black background to create high contrast

• Clear font,  easy to read

• Low budget

• Institutional information which makes it not complicate

   

• Black background,  yellow writing

• Then later white writing

• Edgy yet simple, readable font

• No spacing between titles

• White writing,  black background

• Simple clear font

• Title> graphic> title 

The main conventions and reasons for use:

• More elaborate than simple text on a black background

• Title cards were developed

• Can super impose titles over images

• Way of incorporating text with visual images

• Shows what the films genre is and what its about

• Clear, readable font

• Credit sequences were made longer

• Music/still images gives you a hint of the genre.

• Tennis related

• Title over still images

• The titles moved from one side of the screen to another like a tennis ball

• Used many still images which makes it look liie a moving image

• incorporated sound (no dialogue) only soundtrack,  sound effects, pre recorded (narrative), and moving imagery

• Can categorize into metaphor and narrative thread

• These help introduce the tone, story line etc

• Of the beginning of the film

• Sound effects throughout/music

• Title on top of moving imagery

• Fancy, bold, white and red font

• Moving imagery that relate to the film/ in the film

• Music shows the location/setting

• Links to the rest of the film

• No establishing shots, straight to close ups

The main conventions and reasons for use:

• In 1990s 

• Titles becoming part of the moving images

• A lot of stylize editing, digital technology

• Moving images with text

• Animated

• Sound track

• Abstracts that are involved in the movie like fighting

• Animated stick characters doing normal, everyday things in a usual setting/location.

Examples: 

                  Pulp fiction

                 

 Psycho 

Title on still images

Examples:

               

  Kyle Cooper, Wimbledon

Titles over moving images

The main conventions and reasons for use:

Examples:

                 
Rear Window- Narrative thread

                 
 City of God- Metaphor

This is my favourite sequence because it gives me a good insight of the film just in the first few minutes, this allows me to see whether I'll like the film or not depending on the title sequence. 

Titles using Animation or Motion

Examples:

                  James Bond

                 

Catch me if you can