Title Sequences

I had previously looked at the openings of thrillers such as panic room, fight club and reservoir dogs. Thought these all have very different title sequences, i found reservoir dogs and the panic rooms opening sequence the most intriguing and fight club the least interesting as I felt it was an over modernised title sequence.

In the panic room the use of the city back drop, style of titles and non-diegetic orchestral sounds were the key aspects of this opening. The titles look almost like they are a part of the building making me wonder that if we could go about making titles similar to this and think about what shots would be appropriate to pair with such titles and also would have to consider the story line because it seems more appropriate in this case as there is a metal panic room within the narrative making the titles perfect and to symbolise the room itself and the size of the titles to represent the idea of being trapped in a confined space . I thought that the lighting was quite clear in this sequence symbolising that there is a form of “trouble in paradise” and perhaps there is a normal lifestyle in the begging which is threatened by some-one.

I also considered what sort of sound we used as in the panic room opening its an eerie orchestral sound which builds a crescendo to a more piercing notes when the title is shown

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I also found reservoir dogs opening sequence interesting as it starts with a voice over which I thought seemingly unnatural of an beginning sequence however this contrasted with the group of men as they seemed very comfortable in there atmosphere. e elt that the titles were very simple which I quite liked about the opening sequence characters as the titles are not that big or colourful and are contrasted on a black background with red-ish titles possibly symbolising the amount of bloodshed .I also liked that it brought you straight into the narrative with the bloody man in the back seat showing what the movie was about and I thought this could be an option for out story board rather that building up the narrative from normal life to a crisis.

http://www.artofthetitle.com/?s=resovoir+dogs