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7. Analysis of my favourite film

The film I am choosing to analyse is Hairspray.

The way that the title sequence is presented is in animated versions of camera works for example. Cartoon versions of camera or any type of technology.

Te way the font is presented, it is all in different colours depending on the background which is always based on light colours. 

The order in which the title sequence is presented in is:

Director and choreographer

Screenplay

Producers 

Executive producers 

Executive producers 2

Executive producers 3

Music by

Lyrics by

Director of photography

Product designer 

Editor 

Costume designers

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Analysis of 2 Title Sequences

ANALYSIS OF 2 TITLE SEQUENCES  

Die Hard (1988) - 

0:00- 'A Gordon Company/Sliver Pictures Production' 

0:15- 'A John McTiernan Film'

0:22- 'Bruce Willis' 

1:37- 'Die Hard' (words fly in from opposite directions)

2:00- 'Alan Rickman' 

2:08- 'Alexander Godunov' 

2:14- 'Bonnie Bedelia'

2:20- 'Reginald Veljohnson' 

2:48- 'William Atherton' 

3:00- 'Paul Gleason' 

3:09- 'Hart Bochner'

3:21- 'James Shigeta, Bruno Doyon, Andreas Wiseniewski, Clarence Gilyard JR., De'Voreaux White' 

3:40- 'Music by Micheal Kamen' 

4:51- 'Casting by Jackie Burch' 

4:57- 'Costume Designer, Marilyn Vance-Straker' 

5:11- Visual Effects Produced by Richard Edlund'

6:08- 'Film Editors FRank J. Urioste and John F. Link' 

6:14- 'Production Designer Jackson DeGovia'

7:11- 'Director of Photography Jan De Bont' 

7:16- 'Executive Producer Charles Gordon'

7:31- 'Based on the novel by Roderick Thorp' 

7:42- 'Screenplay by Jeb Stuart and Steven E. De Souza' 

7:49- 'Produced by Lawerence Gordon and Joel Silver'

7:56- 'Directed by John McTierman' 

In Die Hard, a narrative title sequence is used. This means the producers, directors, actors,etc. are shown over the film playing. There is no separate storyline for the title sequence. We establish the location in the 8 minutes that it is playing, we are not quite sure what the film will be about but we know the background information about the characters to draw us into the film. The first text is telling us about the production company used. We can see this is a high budget film as it only has two production companies. The main characters name appears first before the title. All the font is the same; white, sans and bold. However, unlike the title of the film which has a special effect added to it, this allows us the pay attention to the name of it. After this, the names of actors are shown in order of importance. It is only then after this, that the names of the production team are shown. The most important names go at the very end; the producers and director. I like it as it shows us who is the most important in the movie. 

American Horror Story (2011)

0:23- 'Dylan McDermott'

0:30- 'Connie Britton' 

0:37- 'Evan Peters' 

0:40- 'Taissa Farmiga' 

0:45- 'with Denis O'Hare' 

0:48- 'and Jessica Lange' 

0:53- 'Created  by Ryan Murphy & Brad Falchuk' 

0:59- 'American Horror Story'

Unlike Die Hard, the title sequence for American Horror Story was much shorter (lasting only one minute). Here they used a discrete title sequence which features a range of creepy objects in tins and 'old-fashioned' pictures. This reflects on what we expect to see in the TV Show. There was also no mention of a production company as the text went in straight to the actors, and also only showed the names of the creators. This kept it quick and snappy. The fast pace allowed us to become more and more eager to watch the show. The frames of actors names changed rapidly. It finally ended with the title of the show. When any type of text came on, there was a plain black background. The show also used their own font to become recognizable if seen (or advertised) anywhere else.

Who makes title sequences?

There are hundreds of people that make title sequences, for example Saul Bass created a lot of title sequences, he was a graphic designer and designed a title sequence for 'The man with the golden arm' in 1955. He had a lot of ideas because he worked for Hollywood's greatest film-makers and because he was a graphic designer he chose to be more visual than anything else and his graphic skills helped him accomplish that.

Another designer is Onur Senturk, Onur has worked at Prologue Films, collaborating with Kyle Cooper and Danny Yount. He produced concept and typography designs for the opening titles of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo at Blur Studio. Blur Studio was founded in 1995, Blur provides animation, effects, and design for a wide range of media including feature films, marketing, commercial advertising, digital platforms, large format films, concept art, game cinematics, broadcast, and branding. Notable clients have included ABC, Disney, Universal Pictures, CBS, Microsoft, Electronic Arts, Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Sega, Activision, Nickelodeon, FOX Sports and THQ, among others.

Imaginary Forces is a design-based production studio with offices in Hollywood and New York.

 Founded in 1996, Imaginary Forces has created the main titles for films such as Se7en, Mission Impossible, Mad Men, Boardwalk Empire, all three Transformers films, 500 Days of Summer, and others.

Favourite Film

I chose to do Scott Pilgrim vs The World. At the beginning of the title sequence it shows the Universal ident but they've changed it to fit the movie as they've made it pixelated and game-like.
I think that this title sequence is a narrative and a stylised sequence because the action helps you understand what is going on and in the beginning a narrator actually begins the story with 'Not so long ago'. However it could also be a stylised sequence because it's been edited a lot. The title popping up has been edited and the little boxes of information next to their heads.

Then at 3:02 the credits begin with 'Universal Pictures presents', then at 3:04 ' A Marc Platts Big Talk Films Closed Mondays Production', Then at 3:11 the title of the film 'Scott Pilgrim vs The World' comes up.

At 3:14 the cast members names begin to show, first its Michael Cera. Then at 3:16 Mary Elizabeth Winstead, 3:19 Kieran Culkin, 3:22 Chris Evans, 3:25 Anna Kendrick, 3:28 Brie Larson, 3:30 Allison Pill, 3:33 Aubrey Plaza, 3:36 Brandon Routh, 3:39 Jason Schwartzman, 3:41 Johnny Simmons, 3:44 Mark Webber, 3:46 Mae Whitman, 3:49 Ellen Wong, 3:52 Satya Bhabha Keita Saito Shota Saito, Casting by, Music Composer, Music Supervisor, Co producers, Costume Designers, Visual Effects Supervisor, Editors, Production Designer, Director of Photography, Executive Producers, Produced by, Based on, Screenplay, Director.

There is a lot going on behind the text like action from the movie and for every cast member they have doodles and scribbles on it that represents them for example Ellen Wong had a chinese word in her background. In the action they always had the speech actually written out for example 'Yeah'.
Its more visual than anything else with bright colours and big bold texts but also they chose to show the sound as lightning next to the drums rather than making it much louder they showed it with animations and again, this gives it a game-like effect.