Preliminary Task: Inspiration and planning

In class we watched a few examples of title sequences  to give us ideas about making our own. We found that in many of the examples the characters were introduced in unusual ways (for example their name on a handkerchief) and the genre could be introduced through the use of music, sounds and the connotations that the audience can gain ideas about the genre (for example blood used on someones face can be seen as introducing the genre of action or horror. 

IMAGES OF THE TITLES

FILM		HOW IS THE STORY SET UP?		HOW IS THE AUDIENCES CURIOSITY PROVOKED?		HOW ARE THE CHARCTERS INTRODUCED?	HOW IS THE GENRE ILLUSTRATED?
Don’t look now	Music, voiceover, red coat, photo, girl dying.		Music shot of her out of by the river and then dead.		Girl walking, boy riding a bike, two parents talking inside.		The image of the picture running whilst the father is holding the drowned dead girl.
Halloween	The titles on the screen, the shot of the pumpkin revealing it is halloween, shot of the knife.		The killer is seen to be the little boy at the end.		Shot of them through the window and the little boy at the end.		Shot of the house in the dark and the clock ticking and chiming creates a dark atmosphere. The POV shot is used for the killer (little boy).
Kill Bill vol 1	Close up of woman and only seeing the man’s feet who is standing above.		Black and white. Close up image of the woman makes the audience wonder how she got there.		The close up of the woman and the handkerchief reveals her name and the POV shot of the man standing above her.		Footsteps, blood, close up of her getting shot in the head.
Stranger than fiction	The narrator and the drawings on the screen.		The narrator in the background.		The narrator’s dialogue reveals his name.		The comedic dialogue.
Casino Royale	The writing on the screen. The flashback reveals what has already happened.		The scene is in black and white. The flashback reveals the actions of the past.		The mention of ’00’ reveals he is James bond.		The guns and violence in the flashback.