Art of the Title

Title sequences are a very important part of the film. They tell the audience the very important things about the film; the title, the creators, and the cast. Soundtracks and visuals can make an opening sequence stand out from the rest.They are often the thing the audience remembers.

Normally there is a whole team that work on the title sequence as it is very complicated and is a work of art. These teams can spend ages on just the start.

In the next part of this post I will break down the opening sequences to some famous films.

Catch Me if you Can:

The opening titles to 'catch me if you can' are very different to any other film, making it very unique.  it basically runs you through the entire story of the film without you really knowing it (unless of course, you already know the story). Throughout the sequence you follow a man, who takes on different jobs which he gets through by cheating and committing fraud. An FBI agent is following him, however the man is just too clever for him.

Also, the titles uses a soundtrack that gives the impression that the guy is getting spied on. This keeps the audience on edge, whilst giving them a glimpse into the future of the film. The instruments used are a violin and a saxophone.

Throughout the tiles the pace of the soundtrack flows well and keeps a constant rhythm. Eventually, when the guy has been caught, the pace changes and the rhythm goes away.

The creators of the title sequence uses colour to represent the mood of the characters, especially the guy who is being followed. Colours such as black and blue as well as black and yellow are used to show the mood.

The clothes that the animated characters are wearing emphasises the film's genre. In this particular instance the character is wearing a suit, suggesting both a spy and crime theme.  

The setting of the title sequence changes throughout as the main character travels around committing fraud and changing jobs as he does it.

In my opinion if I looked at this before watching the film I would be interested in watching it as it is very appealing to watch and look at. The colours are simple and I think that makes it look better as they have not tried to complicate it which works well.  

Deadpool:

Deadpool has a very unique opening sequence it starts off by showing the audience the company "Marvel" and then goes on to show parts of the damage Deadpool causes at the start of the film. The film opens with a huge fight scene and the opening credits shows parts of this but the audience wouldn't know this until they had watched the film.

The soundtrack that is used almost creates some humour for the audience but the song is very slow and calm but on the screen there is people in pain as well as in car crashes and in danger. This also shows the genre to the audience (Comedy).

The visuals also creates humour as you would normally expect the cast and then the creators but in this it just says stuff like Hot chick and The comic relief and Moody Teen as well as the director etc

The pace of the opening sequence is very different to what you would expect as it is very slow but on the screen there is some action shots of Deadpool fighting.

The colour that is used is mostly red which indicates danger which there is a lot of in this film. The fighting and violent scenes show why they have used red a lot.

Below I will embed a video showing you how films have evolved over the years. 

This video is by Art of the Title.

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