Friday 17 October 2008

Title Sequences

Here are links to what I think are some of the best movie title sequences & what makes them so great.

Kyle Cooper:

Kiss Kiss Bange Bang
Opens with a silhoutte of a man running. Never cuts away, the shot always follows him. Views of city buildings. Gives away themes and settings, an introduction to the film. Next part of the sequence is a red background with silhouttes of women in seductive poses and a gun. The gun fires and out of it grows branches with leaves. Quite a contrast between guns and a blood-red background & foliage moving smoothly and delicately. Any red used (eg. the bridges 1 min in on the video) isn't clean. It looks scratched, smudged. Silhouettes used to create mystery, anonymity. One of the silhouette people gets killed by another at the "party" full of anonymous outlines. Idea you don't know who could be a killer, people's secrets, dark sides.....

Spiderman 2
Spiderman 3
Spiderman - The Marvel "flip book" came from Cooper and is now used in most Marvel films. Cooper was inspired by his own "pet" spiders for the sequences. Have an eerie feeling. When I saw both 2 and 3 at the cinema I remembered the title credits as being fantastic. 3 serves as a part of the film, summarising the previous two movies in style, through things like broken mirrors and cobwebs. The titles from 2 use cobwebs to disect the frame. The style of 2 is more like a comic book, with illustrations of the characters and previous scenes.





Wild Wild West
Mimic - Much the same style as SE7EN. Very gritty, edgy. Makes the audience feel uncomfortable. The editing isn't smooth, it's jumpy and the cuts are very sharp. Sometimes the screen appears to move and shake. Alot of the text is blurry or smudged. Text looks like it's been typewritten, which reminds me of case reports from crime scenes. This is also the same effect you get from the use of alot of still & negative imagery.

Daniel Kleinman:

Casino Royale

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