Planning Opening Credits - Miss Georgiou

Opening Credits

Introduction

The purpose of opening credits is to introduce your film title and actors names. You may also add everyone that is going to be involved in making your opening sequence. For example the directer may be another name that appears on the opening sequence to show

his significance within the film.

The opening to Seven has many aspects that remain to be conventional to a thriller. The font of the writing is very messy almost like handwriting. This shows that it would've been rushed and written in panic like a unstable character would do. The sparks of red really show how there could be elements of death and danger within the film. The white writing and black background are very conventional to the thriller genre as they represent that the characters involved in this film could be evil and innocent. Meaning this film follows the character roles of the antagonist and protagonist. The character seems very twisted and unstable, this is shown through the very disturbing images that are portrayed throughout the credits, for example the man cutting his skin with a blade other repetition of using the scissors and showing him cutting up various things. In addition to this the images can almost be presented as someone planning a murder, there are pictures of people involved and a range of different tools being shown. All convincing the audience that the use of iconography is going to be present in this thriller, often conventional weapons such as knifes and blades. There is low-key lighting through-out all of the film, which is another typical convention of a thriller as it heightens the shadowy effect in the scene and concentrates on only certain aspects of the scene, making the scenery appear as if something is hiding in the shadows. The sound effects used in this continue to be very erie. The noises here often sound like a record player being scratch. Which resemble to a scream. This is a common convention of a thriller as the high pitched noises in these opening credits are similar to someone in distress, building tensions within the atmosphere. The production name comes first in this opening sequence followed by the directors name and the main characters. Often most important first such as Brad Pitt, which is something we will take in to consideration when rearranging our own opening credits.

My opening title

 

I have used the red outline of the writing to demonstrate the danger and death within the scene, The colour red is a typical connotation of the danger and murder that's to come in our opening sequence. The words come in muddled and confusing to show the different sides of mental behaviour in our opening sequence, for example Cameron's spilt personality, he remains to appear very disorientated and in his own little world which is why I have chosen the letters to come into shot this way.This part of the opening credits remains a white colour and the spaces between the letter are fairly spaced apart this is to portray the suspenseful atmosphere within the opening sequence all the characters in our opening sequence remain very isolated from each other although they are all family/friends. There relationship is not what you would expect from a 'normal' family bond. They remain very distant from each other, even though they believe they are close and the mother continues to question Cameron about his life, meaning she knows little about it herself. The words then fade out and turn to black and the scene continues. The use of this soft fade supports the narratives idea of the main character Cameron losing his own identity. Eventually the boys own identity is fading away and being overthrown by the dark side of him, just like the font in this opening

credit.

Claire's Opening Credits

Claires opening credits appear to be very bold. There is a dimmed red colour within the letters and the outline of the letter are white against a black background. The red that she has added contributes to the convention of a thriller and is successful as it works

 to represent the death and danger within our thriller opening. It could possibly suggest a brutal murder that may take place in the film, this is due to the connotation of the red meaning blood, which causes the audience to become fearful of whats to come. The white and black colours contrast against each other as they display how innocent people could be at war with the antagonists in the opening sequence. This may resemble Cameron's mental state. battling with innocence and evil. She has been very successful at following the theme of conventions. Her colour schemes are very good when trying to represent the narrative within our opening sequence using black and white as contrasts with a slight hint of red. One weakness of her opening credits would be that they remain very structured and we are trying to present a very disturbed opening thriller sequence. 

Jake's Opening Credits

His font is very bold and remains thick and white. The colours work well together as white and black can represent the good vs evil that our character Cameron has to battle within himself everyday. The font used here is more likely to be suited more to the adventure or fantasy genre as it remains bold and cartoon-like, which is one weakness of this font. It remains to look like it should appear somewhere more suited for child. Something with adventures and fantasy as this font often reminds me of a cloud like scenery. Jake's credits also hadn't have a fade in and fade out. Which meant the opening title credits would just appear very rapid onto the screen, again not following the storyline of someone who is mentally ill, as the font and fades remain too structured.

Conclusion

Overall as a group we decided to use my own opening credit title as we all agreed that it was the most convention to our thriller opening and thrillers in general. This is because of the way the fade in was very scattered and appeared jumbled up. In addition to this our opening credits will appear with the most relevant and important actors first. This will be Morgan Brown (Cameron), Grace Wingrove (Grace/Mother) and Molly Emmerson (Harmony). This will then be followed by the director and other actors names and part of the production team. The title will be shown around halfway through the opening sequence with the words 'Disturbia'.