Titles and Credits Research

Researching Titles and credits

Think like a man (comedy film)

The beginning of this film is starts off with cheerful unassuming music in the background while the credits are being introduced. This creates a much more laid back atmosphere to start with as the music gets louder it doesn’t alter tone.

The background colours of the first credit are bright and happy, which indicates to the audience that this is a comedic film and there shouldn’t be any uncertainty in the tone of music.

There are then credits on 5 characters, showing their roles in the movie and that they are clearly important to the story. This creates a relationship to the characters straight away because we know something about them already.

The credits showing the characters role in the film is bold and lasts for three seconds each 3 this is so the audience can read it, additionally if it becomes long it takes away from the beginning of the film and any uncertainty we have about the characters.

Takers (Heist film)

At the beginning of this film, a very fast paced sound track is used. This creates a quick action atmosphere where the audience know something exciting or action packed is going to happen straight away. It then it introduces the company’s logo. This was quick and only took about 8 seconds to be shown. This is a relatively good time to spend on one logo.

White light then fades in and then back out creating another company logo at around the 20 second mark.

When the logos are finally shown, they’re are bold and stand out, Setting a few seconds for audience to prepare for the first scene the sound goes silent.

The background colour after the first company logo is black. This might be a way to set the atmosphere as the colour doesn’t brighten the start of the film, the audience can get the impression that it is not all going to be good and something bad may be about to happen.

No other credits are introduced after the ending of the second company logo. And it starts into the first scene.

Thor (Action/Sci-fi)

The sound at the start of this film is very different from Takers. The first logo appears from a fade in from black and the sound is carried with it. It slowly builds up and begins to just get louder. This sound gives the audience a quite tentative atmosphere as it is quite slow in pace and mysterious.

The animation starts from 0 seconds and it builds into the Paramount logo. The logo stays for about there seconds and then fads out.

At this point the famous Marvel comic strip animation fades in.

The sound now gets louder and has more instruments playing in it, by about 30 seconds into the whole film the music gets even louder and becomes more of an orchestral sound. It stays on the logo of Marvel for about three seconds and then as it fades out, so does the loud music. This all created quite suspense filled atmosphere, making the film seem exciting.

Summary

We’ll be doing a heist film that genre would be more or less action/ comedy. This is why I researched a heist film, a comedy film as well as an action film. It gave me a good idea of what ours should look like, sound like and what kind of atmosphere it gives off, it helps our group think about how we should create a suitable opening to our film. I’ve learnt that the music/sound at the beginning is very important as it sets a pace and atmosphere for the whole movie, and we’ll need to pick the right type of music so it reflects in the audience’s eyes as being a comedy/action film. The font in which the credit will be presented will need to be considered as certain types of fonts represent the whole movie E.g. if it was a red and bold font with a dark background, the audience would expect that film to be a sinister / horror film. I think it would be important to create a specific logo that can relate to our chosen genre because through the research I have done into tittles and credits I have seen that it sets the atmosphere, and considering our opening scene is only two minuets long it is a good way to set a precise professional atmosphere before the movie starts, relating to our genre. We can also use different animations to make the film more exciting and keep the audience intrigued to know what will happen next.