Research & Planning 4: Title Sequence Research

()= refrences to particular scenes in the youtube link

Drive:

There are 21 titles used in the opening sequence of 'Drive' which the key titles in the centre for example the main title 'Drive placed in the centre after Ryan Gosling's title (0:07)

and the directors title at the end(2:32) .

Usually the Movie title should be first but in this case we can tell that the director decided that it was more necessary to put the main star first most likely because the whole movie centre's around Ryan gosling's character. Whereas the other cast members are placed on the side of frames (0:41) in line with the objects around them.

You can particularly see that 'extra space' was created in the frames so that the titles could be placed in the car scene there are a lot of out of focus backgrounds in which the titles are placed in there meaning that the crew had already pre-planned the positioning of the titles most-likely through their storyboard and so our group have pre-planned the positioning of the titles that we have created and where to position them within the frame where applicable.

(1:06) At this Birds eye view of the night city you can see that this frame was filmed with more extra space to the right so that these titles would have positioning. The font is pink which is very significantly linked to the 80's as well as the music choice: Nightcall by Kavinsky. This particular opening sequence was edited very cleverly to match the music especially when Ryan Gosling's character  walks to switch of the light (2:05)

it falls in time with the beat of the music and the next bird's eye view shot follows after smoothly which still continues the 80's mood.

The Girl with the dragon tattoo:

This opening sequence is a further example of how music can compliment the action of film. From (1:58)

As the flower opens the music speeds up and so does the cuts in the frame showing how the music has influenced the editing here and this is one of the things that we are going to consider when putting together our piece. 









Se7en:

This opening sequence particularly uses 'black space' as the platform to place titles. Even though on certain frames shots such as the production crew are shown the director has chosen to use the blank frames to place the actors perhaps because of their familiarity (Brad pitt and Morgan freeman are well known names) this could be a good idea as if lets the audience focus more on who is starring in the film instead of focusing only on the action on screen which could be shown in the next frames

Catch me if you can:

This opening sequence is very pleasing to the eye with a clever animation in which the titles are drawn out for us.

I particularly enjoy the use of the space in the props such as these lamps containing some titles. I feel like this use of the animation taking place to introduce the titles was a smart idea and a great way to engage the audience in more than one aspect of the sequence.

In the end I was able to learn about the directors clever uses of 'free space' to place titles and that we don't always have to stick to the normal conventions needed in placing titles as you can see in drive the main casts name appeared first which is different to what we're used to seeing.

Thank you for reading my blog post and I hope that you were able to engage more with the specific conventions used in this sequences to introduce the titles.

Goodbye~