Film opening titles

The Dark Knight Rises

• The opening title sequence for ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ establishes an eerie and mysterious atmosphere. This is due to the pace of the non-diegetic soundtrack being played. Also, the colours in the opening only consist of black, white and grey, this again reinforces the intended atmosphere. They use flashes of red colouring to attract the audiences attention to this part of the screen. 
• During this sequence we are introduced to some of the characters within the film indirectly, as we only see pictures of them due to the opening being as if it is a comic book sequence. We see the characters through the comic book before altering to seeing them properly in the film before fades and wipes are used to direct the comic book strip back onto the screen. 
• The titles are included within the image and alter positions simultaneously with the camera movement.
•  We are only able to guess what will happen in the film as we are not shown any of the plot during the title sequence opening. 
• I like the way the title sequence is portrayed as if it is coming towards you and it makes the audience feel more involved and I also like how the action starts straight away rather than having a slow opening. 

Pulp Fiction

• The opening titles sequence for ‘Pulp Fiction’ begins dramatically and surprisingly. As we meet some of the characters of the film and they instantly threaten with guns, establishing the genres of the film.
•  The soundtrack used is fast paced and reveals the sub genre of action and crime.
•  The titles are placed in the center of the screen in a bold white font, contrasting with the black background. I like the way how the title 'pulp fiction' fades into the background as the titles are then overlapped on top of it because it keeps the title in mind and more remembered. 
•  As the plot is not revealed the audience want to continue watching as the opening has caught their full attention.
• This title sequence is simple but effective because the background music makes it catchy and interesting
• Also I like the way of changing the music towards the end of the title sequence to make it sound like a radio track is being changed rather than the opening just cutting straight from one song to another.  

Seven

• The opening sequence for the film ‘Se7en’ does not directly reveal any of the characters within the film.
• The soundtrack highly impacts the atmosphere created by it. It consists of an eerie continuous sound with occasional screeches, as the sequence progresses the music becomes louder and the tension builds.
• The titles move erratically creating a jumpy feel for the audience.
• The titles are white on a black background emphasizing the titles. The font of the titles are sharp and handwritten-like.
• The plot is not revealed to us and leaves the audience wanting to find out what will happen as we are given clues through the opening sequence.
• I like the way that each shot on the screen fades into each other so it's hard to make sense of any of the writing in the opening to base what the story line involves. 

How to use GarageBand

You can create your own music with GarageBand. There are many other features you can use within the program. GarageBand comes installed on your Mac/Apple products. This YouTube video of how to use garage band helped me to understand the correct way to use and apply sound to our project.

Launch Garageband and select "File > New" in the upper left-hand corner.Create the title for your new song and adjust the tempo and key that you want to make the song in.

Once the screen loads for your new song, click the "+" symbol in the lower left hand corner of the screen. This will create a new track.

• Note: you can also do this by selecting "Track > New Track" in the top menu.

From here, you can ad your moving image and sound effects to it.

folly's can be pre-recorded and uploaded to the mac and imported to the moving image,  or recorded directly from the macs microphone to create a quicker progress. however the area around you must be silent, the mac with pick up on every sound made in the room whilst recording is in progress.

Becky's Film Opening Titles Analysis

Anamatic with Voiceover

This is our anamatic voiceover that is what our opening film will look like once it is completed

Megan

Anamatic Voiceover Scrpit

Anamatic

We didn't upload our anamatic to begin with because of our location difficulties we needed to keep changing the drawings to match what our opening would consist off.
Even though we are still having technical difficulties with our lighting and behind on our editing because of this, our anamatic now matches what our thriller film will look like and can therefore be uploaded.

A couple of shots from the anamatic have been altered while we were filming because we felt these decisions were appropriate when we arrived at our location to make it as best as we possibly could.

-Megan

Editing sound

I'm in the media suite looking at different sound effects on garage band that need to be incorporated into our thriller opening to make it feel more dramatic.
We've decided we need the sound effects of:

•  footsteps from our interviewer
• Scream from Iona as she is dragged away
• More dramatic sound of the door closing in the beginning scene
• We have thought about using contrapuntal music in the final scenes where the flashback shows Graham Harvey dragging Iona to create a different effect. 

Megan

Deadline Troubles

The footage that we shot a week and a half back didn't come out on the camera as we had hoped, and so I have used the time since trying to change the saturation and colours so that they are a lot clearer.

However, although it worked well on some shots, others were just too dark to change and improve, so as a result we are going to have to re-film the last scene of our Thriller.

We understand that this means we will not have met our deadline, and so we will lose marks on our time management. However, we would rather this be the case than stick to the shots that aren't going to work for us and miss out on the grade that we know we are capable of getting.

Beth