Typography and Titles

In this lesson we looked at the order in which titles should appear in our title sequence. We did a task in class where we had to predict the order in which the titles appear, the title  sequence we used was 'Catch Me If You Can'. Here is the order in which the titles should appear in our title sequence;

Typography/Titles

1. Studio name
2. Main star - star power
3. Co-star
4. Title
5. Secondary actors
6. Side characters
7. Casting director
8. Co-Producer
9. Music
10. Costume designer
11. Film editor
12. Director of photography
13. Executive producers
14. Screenplay
15. Director

Title Sequence Design

• Genre
• Style/Mood
• Possible narratives
• Production values
• Themes

Notes

Notes

• Genre

• Narrative
• Iconography 
• Characters
• Settings

Skyfall -Action and Adventure - Spy

• Narrative - Tombstones - foreshadowing death 
• Iconography - Costume (suit), soundtrack (orchestral conventional of action)
• Characters - Narrative enigma created by the protagonist shooting shadows, which signifies that their are antagonists. Sexualised women (conventional of both the genre and the sub-genre).
• Settings - River red mist - shows their is danger ahead for the protagonist. 

Deadpool - Action and Adventure/Comedy - Superhero

• Narrative - Established by writing on the screen, gun and flipped car on fire shows action 
• Iconography - Props were comical eg Hello Kitty lipstick, this is conventional of a comedy as well as a contrapuntal soundtrack
• Characters - Deadpool and villains, shows superhero genre (protagonist)
• Settings - Title sequence set on the motorway in the city, it is conventional for a city to be the location of an action and adventure film because that is where conflict happens and there is a threat of the civilians' safety.

Narrative Structure of Title Sequence

Todorov's Narrative Structure

Here is the narrative structure in which my group's title sequence will follow. This theory was created by Tzvetan Todorov.

• Equilibrium - This is where Jack, the protagonist, is at school, his mum is a single mum, they are not well off and Jack has an interest in football but he is unable to fully pursue his dream of being a professional footballer due to the fact he doesn't have good football boots and has no encouragement. His PE teacher acts like a father figure to him and encourages him to keep on following his dreams. He has a contact who is a scout for Tottenham Hotspur and organises and trial for Jack. Jack then gets signed by Tottenham and has the ability to buy nice football boots.

• Disruption - Jack starts to let the fame get to his head and some of his friends start to lose patience with him.  

• Disequilibrium - Jack gets injured playing for Tottenham and the person who injured him was one of his bullies from Secondary School. Jack breaks his ankle and is out for a lengthy amount of time, whilst he is recovering a friend of his visits him a lot and they get closer.

• Attempt to restore Equilibrium - Jack is recovering from his injury and is striving to hit the form he once hit. His aim is to return for the cup final. His girlfriend says to him that she doesn't want him to behave like he did before.

• New Equilibrium - Jack returns for the cup final, against the team in which he broke his ankle against. Jack scores the winning goal.