RESEARCH Blog Post 9 - Beatricse Lazar - Four types of film Openings

 what are the four different film openings?

1) TITLES ON A BLANK SCREEN

• Most common type of Title Sequences
• White type face and black background 
• Clear font type so people can easiely read it
• Low Budget because it an be produced easiely
•  Example: Pulp Fiction (Yellow writting, black background, credits are spaced out randomly: after the other)

2) TITLES ON STILL IMAGES

•  More elaborate
• Include hand drawn borders and other images
• Incorporate text with visual image to  give a hint of the genre and tone of the film
• Started to get longer and so credits getting longer too
• combining different media such as: music, visual, text (comporating three different features)
• Example: Wimbleton (relate to the theme, titles over still images)

3) TITLES OVER MOVING IMAGES

•  Moving images behind titles
• Sound (Pre-recording narrative, music, sound effect) but no dialogue (usually)
• Example: Rear Window (moving image in the background, credits are spaced out nicely, start of the film)
• Example two: City of God (straight into closeups,metaphorical representation of what's going to happen in the film, metaphorical content)

4) TITLES USING ANIMATION OR MOTION

• in the late 1990s it became popular
• all compurates
• lots of digital editing
• highly styleised
• Example: James Bond 007 (graphical content at the background, actor has been edited/animated, relating to the film's story) 
• Example two: Catch Me if You Can (black shiluettes walking, blue background)

Adventure Time

I extremly enjoy whatching cartoons and animated films, but this is one of my favourites!

My "favourite" type of title sequence is TITLES USING ANIMATION OR MOTION because I find them eye-cathing. People can do loads of thing with animations which can look fantastic and there is no limitation.

  

http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/adventure-time/