Opening Titles Research

By Georgia, Stacey and Jaimie

Horror

These are the opening titles from the horror film The exorcist. As the titles appear, shortly afterAnother font appears behind the original writing, almost as if someone else is writing over it. ThisIs foreshadowing the events about to happen in the film, as Emily Rose gets possessed by the devilAlmost as if someone is writing over her life, taking control of it.

The last title, showing the name of the film is inSimple writing, with a black background. Straight Away setting the genre of the film as horror .It as Well has the bigger font written on top of theOriginal writing, foreshadowing the upcoming eventsIn the film.

Click for the title sequenceFrom the exorcist.

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As well, the titles start with the production name and then goes on to who produced the film.Later then following onto the main actors in the film. All the main information The audience want to see.

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The titles for Avatar are a lot more simple and plain compared to the exorcist. As thereIs a lot of action in the film, they just skip straight to that and want to get the titles out theWay. They go straight into the producer then include the names of the main actors. And then later on Add titles for the music producer and cinematography producer.

The last title to appear is the title of the film, the font of it is quite cartoony, like the film, as them characters are made to look animated and cartoony. So the font relates to that. The colour Of the font is also blue in most of the titles, which relates to the characters as well, because there skin colour is blue.

CONVENTIONS OF FILM OPENINGS

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Film title openings always start off with who produced the film or what company the film belongs to.

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They mostly always go straight to a title of the main actors in the film. Sometimes,If there is a really mainstream actor in the film they will start with that title atThe beginning of the film, just to get the audiences attention straight away.

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The last title of each film title sequences is usually the full name of the film, howeverThis can sometimes appear at the beginning of the sequence. Although, they usually include It at the end, to keep the audience hooked and to find out what film it is.

WHY THESE TITLES ARE GOOD• The titles of both Avatar and The Exorcist are both good titles because…

• The titles are clear and not too complicated

• All of the titles relate to their genres

• They provide the audience with the key information they need to see the film.

WHAT EFFECTS WE WANT FROM OUR TITLES• We want our titles to be clear and simple, so they can be seen easily and stand out

In the cinema if someone goes to see the film.

• We also want them to relate to our genre, which is psychological thriller.

• Also, we want to give the audience the key information, for example who produced it, who

the main actors are and just information so the audience know what they are watching.

• We want people to remember our titles and to remember the opening of our film.

TITLE STYLES WE LIKE

We think that this title design is affective because this typography looks like its been roughly writing with a sharpie pen and when people write quickly with sharpie pens it creates a high pitch, annoying sound that generally makes most people feel uncomfortable. This will give connotations of a psychological thriller because they also are made to make the audience watching feel uncomfortable to add to the effectiveness of the film.

This typography gives strong connotations of something evil or twisted going on. Because the lines go thinner in odd places when you look at this typography it just doesn't look or feel right. This is effective because it creates a sense of unease for the audience which already connotes a psychological horror genre/ theme to the film introduction.

This typography is also effective due to the missing lines at the bottom which connotes something that you don't know about that it vital to see the whole picture. It also connotes that this story is up to interpretation because of the missing lines so everyone could think of a different way that these should be. The bold text in capitals also connotes some sort of warning which connotes a psychological thriller because you have to look out for signs that something isn't right or that a character isn't being completely honest or normal.