Planning opening credits
Credits play an important role in a film as they tell their audience who was in the film and give recognition to who contributed in the making of the film. All genres of films include credits and usually include it in the beginning of the film to help set the scene, for example the font of credits can help introducing the genre. It also is used to show the hierarchy in the making of the film, for example the director may put himself first, and then the big actors or actresses be the first to come up in the credits about the actors, as this would attract a larger audience.
The credits in Se7en are introduced into the film once the main part has happened, which sets the scene. The credits help contribute to making the film conventional to a thriller due to the shaking hand writing font, showing unsteadiness, contributing to the thriller genre as it shows the film is not going to run smooth, and there is something going wrong. The font being white on black, and flashing when on the screen making the font seem blurry shows there is an engima within the narrative, also that their is evil going on with the film as the black and white creates a contrast, which may be evil against good.
The credits are conventional to a thriller due to the photos in the background, and the main colours through out being plain colours of beige, black and white with flashings of red, showing the aspect of danger. Where as the dark colours creates shadows shows the theme of hidden identity and the flashes of white and red create enigma, making it conventional to a thriller and attracts the audience as they want to know what happens.
The importance of each person which contributed in the making of the film are usually shown in where they appear in the credits. For example in the credits of se7en, the production company is shown first, followed by the director then the most famous actors. Followed by the title, more actors and then the director- fincher again. The director being shown first and last shows that the director values what he does and believes he is highly creditable.
My chosen credits to look at are from insidious, I choose these as I believed they would help influence me on the making of my own credits, and I understood how they contributed to making the film relate to the thriller genre. At the opening of the film, the word insidious is highlighted in bold red writing across a black background, immediately alerting the audience of danger. The red writing creates a contrast against the black, also telling us that the main genre to the film is a thriller, so it makes the audience aware of what there going to watch. Not only do the names appear in red, but when they appear of the screen smoke comes off the top of the writing showing danger.
From looking at se7en and insidious, my group and I decided that we think it would be best for our opening sequence to have our credits appear at the start, which a number of different images appearing in the background. We thought that we should have the inside of a clock ticking in the background, showing the audience that it is an indepth narrative and based on time, with font big and small depending on what it says. Also keeping it consistant with the colour theme by having the font in either red black or white, but causing it to contrast with the background.
The credits are conventional to a thriller due to the photos in the background, and the main colours through out being plain colours of beige, black and white with flashings of red, showing the aspect of danger. Where as the dark colours creates shadows shows the theme of hidden identity and the flashes of white and red create enigma, making it conventional to a thriller and attracts the audience as they want to know what happens.
The importance of each person which contributed in the making of the film are usually shown in where they appear in the credits. For example in the credits of se7en, the production company is shown first, followed by the director then the most famous actors. Followed by the title, more actors and then the director- fincher again. The director being shown first and last shows that the director values what he does and believes he is highly creditable.
My chosen credits to look at are from insidious, I choose these as I believed they would help influence me on the making of my own credits, and I understood how they contributed to making the film relate to the thriller genre. At the opening of the film, the word insidious is highlighted in bold red writing across a black background, immediately alerting the audience of danger. The red writing creates a contrast against the black, also telling us that the main genre to the film is a thriller, so it makes the audience aware of what there going to watch. Not only do the names appear in red, but when they appear of the screen smoke comes off the top of the writing showing danger.
From looking at se7en and insidious, my group and I decided that we think it would be best for our opening sequence to have our credits appear at the start, which a number of different images appearing in the background. We thought that we should have the inside of a clock ticking in the background, showing the audience that it is an indepth narrative and based on time, with font big and small depending on what it says. Also keeping it consistant with the colour theme by having the font in either red black or white, but causing it to contrast with the background.
This post demonstrates some understanding of why opening credits, are essential to include within a production. You have analysed the credits from Se7en well, but you need to relate your points back to the conventions of a thriller film in further detail and discuss the audience relationship, to demonstrate further understanding.
ReplyDeleteWithin this post, you also need to consider a second opening credit sequence to analyse and then you need to discuss what your credits will say and what they will look like. What fonts/styles are your selected to include and why? What colours and effects will you include and why?
Also aim to include the video links and screenshots to support the points that you have made