Examples of Title Sequence's from Previous Students

In order to gain some more ideas and get a sense of what we will have to create for our title sequence, we watched some which were made by previous Media students.  Watching them made us realise the little mistakes that could be made in ours, which we will have to be aware of.

The first title sequence we watched was called 'The Fat and the Furious'.  The title sequence uses a range of shots which was really effective, however the title sequence was too long which made it very boring to watch, as not much was going on.  We just see the regular behaviour of the male character, who wakes up, brushes his teeth and gets dressed.  I think this was completely pointless as it didn't really convey the genre at all.  For background sound all we could hear were police car noises, which had no relevance to the title sequence.  At the end of the title sequence we see a close up of the male character sitting in a car where the title 'The Fat and the Furious' appears.  I don't think the title of the title sequence was good, as it is a copy of the popular film 'The Fast and the Furious'.  The title of the film looks as if the student who edited it forgot to place the 's' in 'Fat'.  To improve this the student could have put speech marks around it so the audience know that this may be a spoof or that the editor didn't make a mistake with spelling.  The font of the title also did not convey the genre, and the title sequence as a whole did not tell the audience anything about the main character.  Overall I did not like the title sequence at all.  I thought it was boring, too long and was not effective at all.  The whole beginning of the title sequence was completely pointless, I think it could have been cut down shorter and should have shown a little more about the male character and shown if he could drive or not.  This would have told us a little more about the plot.

The second title sequence we looked at was called 'Dead Revenge'.  In the title sequence we see a female character and her actions - getting dressed, putting on make-up etc.  There were also a range of shots used but mainly close-up/extreme close-ups.  This makes it more clear for the audience to see what is happening and feel eager to know see what the female character is doing.  The title appears quite fast on the screen as the female character carries on getting dressed.  I liked the fact that it was clearly seen and the faded away.  The title sequence did tel us that the character is a woman, this was shown through the clothes she was putting on and the mascara and red lipstick.  Props like the red lipstick to connotate that the film may involve some type of death/murder.  The black clothing that the female character was putting on suggested a mysterious genre.  However the font of the the text used in the title sequence changed during the sequence, therefore this showed a lack of effective editing and also did not look professional.  Overall i thought it was a good title sequence as there were many elements used to create an effective title sequence.