Goal II
In the title sequence for the film goal, star power is used heavily throughout the title sequence. This is because the film is a football film and it wants to use football's biggest stars at the time to attract an audience to watch the film. Well known footballers were used in the title sequence such as Ronaldinho, Lionel Messi, Roberto Carlos and David Beckham, as pictured below. Including these galaticos in the title sequence would automatically attract football fans to watch the film, as it did with myself.
Furthermore, in this title sequence archive footage is used from a game that occurred between Barcelona and Real Madrid in which it finished 3-0 to Barcelona. This is quite conventional for a film with the sub-genre of sport to include archive footage in the title sequence because it is a effective method of giving background knowledge of the protagonist/other characters and it is also an effective way of setting up the narrative, which is known as a prologue.
In addition, an orchestral soundtrack was used in this title sequence and this is unconventional for a film with a sub-genre of sport. This is because when a footage of a football game is being shown then you can usually hear the crowd or the players talking. This soundtrack is contrapuntal because the orchestral music does not fit in with the footage shown. However, an orchestral soundtrack could have been used because it is typically a European style of music and the setting of the title sequence was Spain and the majority of the film is also set in Spain.
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