Titles Sequence

Titles on a blank screen :

• Most common type of title sequence.
• Involves different kinds of type on a blank background.
• Usually a white type face is used on a black background.
• Creates high contrast - studios use them
• Low budget

Titles on still images :

• More elaborate than a simple white text on a black background
• Hand drawn borders
• A move pas, just text but a way to incorporate text with visual images to hint tone/gesture.
• Development of titles accompanied by still images
• More than just the name of the studio and film maker
• Combining different media
• Introduce the tone of the film

Titles over moving images:

• Incorporates the credit titles with moving image behind titles, sound
• Usually no dialogue
• Offers; 1; Metaphor, 2; Narrative thread
• Helps introduce tone or story line of the film
• Some way begin with the film itself

Titles using Animation or Motion:

• Late 1990's use of animated text in the title sequences became part of the moving image
• Integrated together with the images we see
• Requires lots of digital technology and stylized editing.

Narrative Title Sequences:

 

• The titles are intergrated with the beginning of the film

Discrete Title Sequences:

• A stand alone sequence : series of images that may be related to the film in someway but not an actual part of the narrative / film

Stylised title sequences:

•  Can be a mixture of the two ( narrative & Discrete title sequence ) , edited yo create a combination effect/fliters,motion and SFX