Intro:
The purpose of opening credits is to let the audience know of the different roles. Allowing you to see the director, editors and casting to give you a sense of what the film is like. The font and colours of the credits are essential as it produces the mood of which the film is set in, for example if the colours used are quite dark and dull, it could mean that the film is quite sad and depressing where as if you use more upbeat, bold colours and a well stated font, its highly likely that you are about to watch a happy film.
Se7en:
The colours used in the opening sequence to this film are quite dull colours, mostly in black and white. As the eerie music starts to get louder, the light flashes onto the images to make them stand out, this shows how disturbing the pictures are and that due to it being in black and white, the images needed to stand out to get the audiences attention, this is important as it gives us a taste of what the film is like. The style of the credits was used with an italic font in white placed over a black background, this was to make the credits eye catching and bold to show the audience that this is quite an intense film, for that reason this is how i'd like my credits to be layer out in my sequence. The main picture that the sequence kept referring back to was a persons hands holding a needle, this is a convention of a thriller as a sharp weapon is used as part of the iconography.
My Credit Design:
This is my idea of how the credits would be layer out in my groups opening thriller sequence. I took my inspiration from the film Se7en in order to create this. I like this design as its big, bold and eye catching. I like the way that the font shadows itself under as if it was symmetrical, starting to die out and dissolve into the background. I thought it was a good idea to use this as it fits in well with the plot of our story, how the two victims start of laughing and having fun to one of them being killed, this i feel reflects will on to this style of credits.
Summary:
Our credits will start of by saying 'a film by..' with each members of my groups names being included, then adding the production and company which we will decide on, with the victims names Holly and Gemma, and the antagonist who is still at this point unknown.
This post demonstrates a basic understanding of what the purpose of credits are and this is because you have not fully explored the examples of Se7en in enough detail.
ReplyDeleteTherefore, you need to refer back to your notes and re analyse the sequence again.
You have made a start in explaining your choices and decisions for your own design, but you need to ensure that you have related your points back to the codes and conventions of a thriller in more detail, which will enable you to support the points that you have made.
Finally you need to include evidence of your group's designs with examples, to show evidence of group planning that has been taken. You also need to explain what the final style will be and also what the credits will say and where they will appear they will appear in