Title Sequence Introduction

Today we looked further into title sequences. A title sequence is the method a film credits production and cast members using visuals and sound. Many title sequences aim to establish character, setting, genre, mood or atmosphere.

Common Credits are:

Production Companies
Producer
Title
Director
Other key crew 
Executive producer
Top billing actors

There are also different conventions for title sequences which are usually split into three parts:

Technical convention: Actual techniques used, e.g: cinematography, mise-en-scene, editing, sound.

Symbolic convention: Objects shown with deeper connotations/meanings.
Genre convention: Things that hint what genre the film is.

We looked at several title sequences.  These were:

The Avengers (1998)
Hulk (2003)
Se7en (1995)
Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
Juno (2007)

We discussed how the elements of mise-en-scene, sound, editing and cinematography all come together to set the mood for the film. We found they sometimes tell the story and give hints about what is going to happen. However, the audience may not always see the hints as they tend to be really slight so that it is hard to see.

We then looked at the credit timeline for Juno (2007). This showed us what credits appeared on the screen and what time.

We then went to the Mac room and analysed a title sequence of our own choice and did a credit timeline, I chose to do one for True Blood which is one of the TV Programmes that I watch.