ideas for opening title seqences

 1) The plot of this film would be about an adduction. The victim would be a college/uni female student. She is shopping at night from a big food shop and as she walks back from her car is when she is adducted. The film would follow her struggle to strive as she travel across the country tied in the boot of her kidnappers car. 

In the opening sequence, it would start with our victim walking out of the automatic doors, the camera at a wide shot behind the women as the cameras focus zooms in on her. The credits start apperring She is listening to upbeat music (some sort of breakup song, similar to a up beat Taylor swift song). The camera is walking next her in a mid shot. The camera cut to her shoes walking on the ground and then to a strangers. Every time it's the strangers shoes there is no music just there footsteps.As the women gets closer to her car, a creepy music starts to play. One of the final is the women shoes are next to the strangers, there is silents for a second, then the shopping bags drop and the only noise is the bags hitting the ground. As the bag hits the ground the camera falls and hits the ground and then becomes pitch black as the last thing we hear is the car boot being shut. 

2) The plot of this film would be psychological thriller. It follows as a girlfriend is saying goodbye to her partner for the night as she begins to hear things in the house. It's actually her having a hallucination from a tumour pressing on her brain. 

In the opening sequences, it would start by the couple hugging before the bf leaving. There would be close up shots as she locks the door. The camera would follow her as she processes to make a cup of tea. there would be close ups on the tea bag being put in the water and ect. The sequence would end on the women sitting down and hearing her first noise of cupboard being slapped open. 

3)The plot of this film would be on female rights and struggles through the ripe of empowerment. It follows a group of women through traumatic experiences and how them join together by connecting through their traumatic experiences

The opening title sequence would be the start of one story of at the gym a women is working out and in the corner of her eye can see a man looking at her work out. The camera zooms in and out of focus of these man and the women is trying to avoid making eye contact. Her heart rate on the machine starts racing up as the man take steps closer to her. The sequence ends with the machine reach a high rate and saying 'take a break". 

4) The plot is a coming of age comedy about a male who lives his life doing what everybody expects him to do and he finally has enough and changes careers and from his upper middle class life and goes on to try different random jobs that he enjoys and then form his own company and becomes successful. 

The opening title sequence starts with the lead man doing a very over productive morning routine. I follows the man as he calming turns the alarm off, camera glides with him as he begins to make a large breakfast. The sound of the eggs being fried, with him prepare a meal for his soon to be wife. Camera then follows him to when he begins to get changed and brush his teeth. When he slashes water on his face the camera hold as he stares at himself, stepping out of a smile into a broken look then hears soon to be wife call his name. He sighs and quick changes his facial expression and walks out his front door as it is slapped shut.

reviewing "Welcome Home"

'Welcome Home' starts with the establishing shot is a pull focus shot, of a wire to fence to a house. There is an non-diegtic music playing in the background. Then cut to midshot of a road, the camera is most likely hand held camera as the shot was bobbing up and down and could view a little part of the dash board like the audience was in the car.  Then cut to the side like a person was looking out the window. Then it cuts to low angle shot in the back seats, postioned like a kid looking up. The creepy music is lower as the sound of the car is loud

reviewing what i like in opening sequences

 From the opening sequences i have watched already, the thrillers and horrors work better, because there is something happening and actually shooting it would be interesting. While the ones that are just panning over object and set are rather dull and repetitive. 

I would like there to be some dialogue but only a couple of lines. It's easier to not have anybody speak, as in some videos the dialogue falls a little flat and the sequence would have been better of with no dialogue. I prefer there to have some non-diegtic music, but not for the whole sequence as for me i like when the music build onto the tension for whatever is happening.

I prefer the sequences with characters in them and learning something small about them, it's only a couple of minutes. This is  why i don't think too much needs to be told about the character/s but enough to keep the audience interested. 

For shots, i like a range of different lengths and angles. I think i would have most the shot mid while when a character is showing distress or an emotion to have a close up. I would prefer to also shot on a location rather in a studio, just because in the studios it's still a set, rather on location it makes the sequence for me seem more authentic. 

Developing Ideas

In class today we named 10 thing from our childhood that were significant to us(text/media) and then if any of those relate to see if we like a certain type of thing and if any had things in common.

significant texts 

- the lion, the witch and the wardrobe film/book

- les miserable 

- chicago 

- power rangers 

- Mario Kart on the wiil

- the water horse 

- winx club 

- high school musical

Overall all of give me nostogaic - hate feeling of growing up 

Some were Musicals - les miserable, chicago, high school musical 

a few were kid tv shows - winxs club, power ranger 

A few were make believe/fanstry land - the lion, witch and the wardrobe, the water horse, winx club, power ranger

Kyle Cooper Research

 Kyle Cooper Research 

Kyle Cooper has directed over 350 of main title and visual effects sequences across a wide range of broadcast media and film. He mainly works on main sequences but he is also a graphic designer and works on adverts & TV title cards.  He received his MFA from Yale School of Art, he independently studied with Paul Rand (American modernist). He has 7 Emmy nominations and two wins. He was born on Friday 13th in 1962. 

I find watching this reel a lot of his work has text that turns into something else or edited so its fly to the front of the screen for example 'Bewitched' arrives through sparkles or the logo of superman shines out colours and travel forwards. The title tend to 'jump' to your attention. A lot of he work is rather fast pace, which keeps me interested in whats to come next. This is rather important because it's the first thing that is saw to keep an audience interested in the film.

Iron Man opening sequence, Kyle was the executive producer. In this sequence it start with a close up shot of Robert Downey JR then the editing comes on filter then transforms into a lot of graphic images of iron man and gun which rather fits the sequence as the title appear every time a new part of the design is shown. Such as there is a gun that part rotates, when the image rotates a new title would appear. 

Genre research task

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) - horror 

The editing flickers on the title of "from new line cinema", that title fades out. Then cuts to a window on the screen where the action is taking place while title continue to play. The sound is a static noise, with interruption of the items being moved such as the knife as well as a breathing noises and growling. These sounds are already unsetting for the audience, as they are seeing rather odd things happen with no clue how is doing it and uncomfortable sounds. This automatically makes the audience think whoever is doing this is up to something out of the ordinary. The static noise becomes louder as the editing of the title comes on. Then following that there is screaming, as the shot changes to knife like hands tear through a sheet. We see a mid-shot of a teenage girl the first character we have seen their face.  There is creepy music layer over the static noise along with the sound of rain drop from the water along side the teenager's foot steps as she runs. A gunshot sound take place as the women takes a sharp intake of breath as the camera cuts to a sheep that screams and is running away from the direction to which the teenager was running. The sheep which is rather odd to have, make the sequence even more unsettling,  The music changes into a taunting, as the women is running around what seems to be some warehouse, away from the thudding sounds. The warehouse as steams and dim lighting which makes the area seem dingy and adds to the creepy atmosphere. The last see is the same knife like hands that through the sheet from just before we saw the girl,  and the sequence ends. The knife hands going through the sheet is almost like it going through and bed cover, and my seeing this imagine twice is almost like it's the beginning and end of this teenage girls dream.  

From the just the sequence, we expect the rest of the narrative to be from the person who has the knife hands to carry on haunting the teenage girl or other people and eventually see the persons face. 

The genre of the film for the sequence seems to be a horror, from the creepy music and atmosphere and the random screams and the knife like hands.

The target audience is for young adults, and a white American audience as it made as an old American film. Also made for a male audience as it a horror and slasher which are typically made for males due to computer game such Grand Theft Auto being popular in males teens and young adults which have a lot of gore and blood in them. 

I think the opening title was successful for when it was made, as the movie is around 40 years old the editing and quality of the sequence is a little out of not date and not as clean as films today. Also the knife hands are that scary compare to modern film such as Annabelle with has a lot of SFX.  But the sound of the sequence would unsettle any audience, and put the audience on edge and builds tension. By being able to create and hold tension and engage the audience i think this is a good opening title sequence and it makes the audience attach an interest.

opening sequence ideas

Cliff fall cuts off part of Jurassic Coast beach

The sequence would start with the establishing shot of a bird eye shot of the cliff edge and panning up and around. While being panned have it on a held hand camera, and then a hand (parent) grabbing the camera. So the shot is a pov from a low angle. (low angle as the kid) Then have a crime scene tape set up. 

The social dilemma - Netflix 

A news channel comes on,  an announcement has come on that everything you ever has been sent has been leaked to a website. And then have different households reacting