Title's Analysis

Titles are used in many different ways for the opening credits of films. Different fonts can be used and the way they are portrayed onto the clips can vary quite a lot. For example, in the opening credits of the film "The Final Destination" the whole entire clip slows down when the titles appear on the screen, almost like slow motion. They also use quite a block font with no serif but a line above and below the words, this maybe done to tie in with the theme of their film.

Another way in which the titles can be shown on the screen is in the simple form of just words on a screen for some of the credits. For example, in the film "The Dead Zone", it shows the studio name at the beginning of opening on a plain black background with white text. This method seems to be quite boring but it can show some reason behind it. The studio name is a very important part of the credits, and to show it with big letters and contrasting colours of the text and background is a good idea for the first credit because of the viability and simplicity it provides. This effect is only used on this first title and the rest of them are overlaid onto the clips. 

The way in which The Dead Zone reveals its title is quite clever and different to other openings that i have watched. The title is revealed very slowly throughout the whole of the opening credits with different black shapes that appear on the screen. It is not until the very end of the sequence that the title is revealed in a gorgeous looking font tying in beautifully with the theme of the film. I found this a very interesting method of inserting the title into the opening sequence.

Another interesting opening sequence which had decent titles in was from the film "The Teeth of the Night". In this film i found that some of the titles would be overlapped by some of the images on screen. For example, with the image above, the titles are coming out from behind the tree. It shows that the titles that are coming onto the screen are actually interacting with the environment of the images on the opening sequence.

In the film "Intimate Enemies" it fades from an establishing shot of some mountains into a page full of different words and letters. On this page of letters different words are highlighted to show titles and actors for the film. This is a good effect as it ties in with the theme of the film and because of the contrasting colours between text and background. Also it makes the audience read the titles because they are looking for the next words to appear on the screen, this means they are actually paying attention to the words that pop up on the screen.  Whilst these titles are appearing there is also different things going on in the background.