The names of the individuals in the production team
The title sequence for ‘Dexter’ clearly indicates a film based under a Psychological/ Horror Thriller. The layout of the different pictures within the image represents a secretive structure which attracts the audience’s attention and engages them to watch the film. The small prints of the different images makes the title seem complicated but serious which therefore helps to relate the film to its original genre; a Thriller.
The caps lock effect on the font connotes a stronger and a bolder style which outlines the figure of the title in a clearer way and emphasis on the letters also by using the colours red, white and yellow to present this effectively. This title sequence also helps to attract more of a male audience rather than a female scene as the pictures are rather disturbing and anti-feminine. The titles appear in different times and having various placing in the frame makes the whole sequence a more interesting and a suspicious piece. The names of the actors are presented in an attractive way being noticed almost the same quality as the pictures printed in the background, which therefore helps the audience to understand each actor has an important role within a particular scene and event during the film.
Suspense is cleverly exposed in this type of title sequence. The pictures within the image is not quite obvious which therefore leaves the audience in a mysterious situation that places thoughts about what type of storyline would be dressed in the film to support the whole sequence.
This type of title sequence can be classified as being very extraordinary in a way where it replaces reality into curiosity for example, in the seventh picture where the inside of an orange is stuffed with bleeding flesh and is rubbed against a sharp surface. The same way where the fifth picture questions if the rapidly torn dented scratches are on human flesh or on animal meat. The first picture however is a spider crawling on a mans arm, using extreme close-up to inform the audience in what it is. This picture could be placed first to the reason where it is designed to create a feeling of goose-bumps adrenalin around the body before the film begins. The last picture being a man having an emotion vulgarly displayed on his face creates a troubled tension that can possibly indicate the film should be watched intently until the last scene. The last scene can be described as the main section of the film because the name of the writer Clyde Phillips is presented to be the final actor in the sequence.
Many close-ups and extreme close-ups are used within this image to emphasise the meaning and the short story of each picture. Basic information is fed to the audience by this way, with the art of not spoiling the spell of the film.
This title appealed to me because it has an extremely psychotic storyboard presentation, leaving the audience distinctly worried about the abnormal shots in the pictures which therefore makes the title not clearly perceived in mind and insists on wanting to watch it.
Strange days is a nourish thriller the movie tells the story of an ex-cop who now deals with data-disks containing recorded memories and emotions. One day he receives a disk which contains the memories of a murderer killing a prostitute. He investigates and is pulled deeper and deeper into the world of blackmail, murder and rape.
In the Title sequence the style of the title Strange Days is in a Sans Serif Font. Titles fall on black before the shots begin. The shot types that have been used are closeups, high and low angle shots.
The Title Sequence appeals to me because it is fast-paced and each shot shows a theme of action and movement.
Being one of my favorite films, '300' was originally a comic and so the whole film was created to be as close as possible to the same comic format. The location the filme created by CGI, in a studio, to create the comic effect. The pictures as you can see are all cartoons along with the font which is the exact same style found in a majority of comic books. Blood is something which is emphasised throughout this title sequence and the main title itself is written in a blood style font with a black background to portray the darkness in this film. In addition, the cartoon figures in the title sequence are all pitch black with no attention to detail or colour whereas the only colour is in the background and the colour red for the blood.
The title sequence appealed to me becasue its very fast paced and gives a rough idea of how the film is, having watched it myself I would say it does this to a good standard.
Story board- Aylin the main character is a bully who enteres the room, where her class mate is sitting doing her work. As soon as Aylin enteres the room her class mate stops her work and immediately turns away from her work and looks at Aylin. Aylin walks in very slowly and sits next to he frigtented class mate, which she then chucks her work onto the floor and asks her to pick it up. Her class mates feels intimidated and reacts to Aylins intructions.
The match cut we used was when aylin walks into the room and we get a match cut of her class mates reaction.
MATCH CUT: Technical term for when a director cuts from one scene to a totally different one, but has objects in the two scenes "matched," so that they occupy the same place in the shot's frame
By using Soundtrack Pro, I created a timeline of different sounds and effects to create my desired sequence. Moreover, by selecting different styles of sounds on the search engine in Soundtrack Pro, managed to find various forms of sounds from guns cocking to an airplane taking off. I selected for the start a gun to cock back and then shoot, this sound was then followed by a hip-hop beat which carried on to then be overlapped by sound of a war siren. This all made up to be a sinister type of sound.
I used Soundtrack Pro to create my soundtrack by going through instrumentals, genres, discriptors and sound effects. To create an action thriller I used a variety of sounds from different tabs such as rock bass and bass drum to create a fast-paced soundtrack. I extended and shortened different sounds to create different effects and each sound is at different times.
Suspense is a feeling of excitement, adrenaline and uncertainty. This happens when one is unsure about the outcome of most actions, which is largely related to an event or dramatic tension which occurs in dramas, films etc.