Title's Research to Opening Sequence

The Captain America Winter Soldier:

This Title sequence has very Bold titles for the names of People. It also has a variety of special effects at which are all cartoon. The colors are varied towards the end however the colours at the start resemble the title with it being a winter soldier which relates to the white winter and soldiers back in the day everything was black and white. The constant theme was then taken out by a red which resembles blood and war. The special effects are very consistent. The actors names come towards the end of the opening sequence.

History of Title Designs

Today we were given a task of researching different types of titles.
I found some of these titles very inspirational especially the Vertigo one as that fits in with our genre. It was an air of mystery and the title fitted in well with the background image of the eye. I also liked the title of Pink Panther as the size of the title increased as well as good effects which made the title stand out. The colours of the titles were mixed through this video. Every titles colour however linked with the film itself e.g. Pink Panther title colour was pink. The titles that I found worked the best had special effects such as Shaun of the dead where the title transformed into blood.

Similar genre film openings

Today we researched certain films which we felt as though would help us and give us some inspiration. I choose the film 21 and over. I choose this film as it is an age group at which our film is targeted at. Our actors are of similar age. In this film it is heavily involved in drugs where the main characters took the drugs and over time they become more heavily consumed with alcohol. This is similar to our film as in our film we are showing party scene. We were asked to create a timeline in order of the opening credits and to give us an idea in what would work well and what didn’t work well.

21 and over:

Timeline:
0-6 seconds there is a blacked out screen, with music on in the background which builds up tension.
6-21 seconds there is the person who made the credits, then there is the distributor who in this case was columbia pictures, and then the production company which in this case was, A trigger street production,  in association with relativity media. Up to this, the credits are moved quickly and this is due to the music. The music is quick which then blends into the credits. There are single digit number in the background for effect.
21- 25 seconds the title of the film, 21 fly's into the shot and stays there.
25- 37 seconds the main characters names appear onto to cards as a link to the title 21 as the game of cards is called 21. This is a good pun which is shown throughout the opening credits. The main names are given there own card such as Jacobs Pitks. The title links well with the card of the Joker card. All the names link in to the cards. These main characters are on screen for longer than the film companies at the start and this is to show the names in the film. The main characters in the film are shown. The colours contrast to what the cards usually looks like, this is added affect for the audiences viewing. e.g. the ace of spades usually  has a white background with black spades however in this video this is the reverse. This creates an overall enigma as to why things are not the same and why every card has a black background.
38- 43 seconds these are characters who are not as important and therefore they are grouped together. This is where the characters and these people are not as important in the film itself. They are not apart of the main characters. These three people shown the time is quicker which highlights that they do not have as big part in the film itself.
44- 50 seconds this is where the director and producers are shown. they are given longer than the actors as they are the people who are the most important in creating the film. However they are after the actors as they are behind the scene when creating the film whereas the actors are the people who you will see.
51-54 seconds the cinematographer and the editor are shown. They are both shown in one place.
55- 70 seconds there is a series of special effects after all the titles are done. Then the title of the film arrives which ends the opening credits of the film. The title of the film is shown at the start and end of the film.

Feedback on film pitch

Today we pitched our ideas to our fellow peer's and we received very good feedback although there was one thought which was to our film certificate. They believed that our film was not a 15 but an 18 as it contained taking drugs. However we researched this as we thought that our film was in the 15 category.
After doing some research about what is allowed in 15 and 18 films
We found this that a 15 allows : 'Drug taking may be shown but the film as a whole must not promote or encourage drug misuse.'
This means that fortunately our film would be accepted as the main message of the film is not to take drugs. This was important as if it was an 18 rated film and a teen drama it would have a very limited target audience.

Group meeting

Today we pitched our own individual film ideas. We then discussed eachother's ideas and contributed to what we felt would improve or what we could do slightly differently. During this discussion we then choose the film idea which we felt would be different and something that has no been done before. We choose this film and then gave our own ideas to try and impove and develop the idea.
After we gave feedbackwe choose issak's film pitch idea, The eZ life:

Issak's Film Pitch - The eZ Life

Individual Film Pitch from issakcook

James Film Pitch - Second bite of the Apple

My Individual Film Pitch

Today we created our own individual film idea. Between the three of us we had to create our own ideas. We then had to pitch our own ideas to the rest of our group. By doing this we created more ideas and then we together picked the best idea which we all contributely discussed our ideas.

Past Student Film Openings

In today's lesson we evaluated three past student film opening scene's. We did this to give us an insight into what we think the sequences were like. This will also help us and give us some ideas which we could see what it is like to create a film opening scene.




Roses are Red is an opening sequence which came across as a teen drama or teen bully. This came across evident as it was fairly stereotypical in the fact that the younger girl was listening to an upbeat song something that is associated with a teen girl that is commonly seen doing make up and taking a long time to get changed. I think the editing skills and the camera shots was very clever as they organised this around the titles. However although the editing with the titles was extremly well done i found this piece rather boring as personally i would not like to see somebod getting changed for up to three minutes. This rather dragged for me and it did not make me want to carry on watching. However the twist at the end did add some extra effect of mystery but i felt as though i waited to long for that to happen. I think the editing was really good however the music i found rather irratating. Overall i think that it had really good editing. I gave this task a Level 3 42/60.



GEMINI is an opening sequence which came across as a thriller. This came across as a thriller because it had a cetain air of mystery. It gave the audience an enigma as it started off straight into the action which i personally liked. It made the audience ask lots of questions such as why is there two couples. It enters straight into the action which immediately makes the audience want to carry on. The editing was not great as i found the movement between he camera shots to be quite sudden and although they tried to make this to add to the mystery i found this was not the case and every shot was not timed perfectly. some of the editing however was really good effect such as showing the splitscreen and the timing of the sound effect of the gun came across really well. The titles and the movement of the titles was a really good idea and the colours suited the genre. I think although the idea was really good and it made the audience want to carry on i feel like if they edited and sorted out the sound to a higher quality then it would of been a really good piece. I felt as though some of the acting could have been better. Overall i think that it was a good opening sequence. I gave this ask a Level 3  47/60



The Edge is an opening sequence which came across as a thiller. This came across as a thriller because it was a very mysterious piece of work where the use of older age groups showed this. It immediately gave the audience an engima such as: why was the boy there? why was the boy on roller skates? This opening sequence had very good titles which suited and was in time with the music and camera shots. The editing was really well done as the shots all flowed and the titles entered at precisly the right moment. The action made the audience want to watch more and the overall story was quite unique as you dont often see a young boy on roller skates being chased. The music was very in tune with all the movements with the music starting off slowly before being in tune with the chase. They used different shots from a person view to a high angle view which really created a greay effect. The fast paced shots and movement from one shot to another made it flow and the chase looked real life and believeable. Overall i think that it was a great opening sequence. I gave this task a Level 4 60/60