Title Research - Rasmus Klingstroem

Fight Club

The film's title sequence is a 90-second visual effects composition that depicts the inside of the narrator's brain at a microscopic level; after which the camera starts to zoom out, eventually getting to the outside of the narrator's head, and into the introductory scene.
Realistically, this is not something we could achieve with our media production, it would require too much special effects which we wouldn't know how to achieve, as well as it is unlikely the college, or each of us has the programs used to create this splendid piece of work.
However we can take some things from this piece, although the overall idea cannot be reused by us, we can take the initial idea of an object, blurred, coming into focus, turning out to be something completely different to what the audience had expected.
The actual title of this title sequence does not seem to be the main focus, whereas other title sequences build up to the title, or have the title centered, and persistent on the page - Fight Club has the title on the sequence for less than 5 seconds. This shows us that unique title sequences can also be quite effective, the audience clearly saw the title, but were more intrigued with the special effects, and what they were suppose to represent, and what this was leading towards.
The soundtracks used helps the feel of the movie - as the movie is titled "Fight Club" the audience would be expecting high a high action thriller, and having music to contradict this would serve against the creators.
The lighting ideas from this piece could be used by our group in the sense that desaturated scenes could help portray the mood of a specific piece. For instance, having a dark, and grim themed introduction would work best with desaturated colors to help show the audience that this is not something which should be happening.



Seven

The entirety of the title sequence for this film is used to make the audience ask a large quantity of questions as to whom the characters shown are, what their intentions are, and what they are intending to do. It also makes the audience identify with the character seen before much more than when they were viewing it - simply because of the disturbing nature of the title sequence.
Although this is unrealistically going to be used for our product, it is good to get different opinions about big films released from Hollywood, and what they interpret as being a good thriller opening.
The soundtrack over the title sequence helps to portray the chaotic nature of what is happening during this sequence, backed up with a unique text type.
The placement of the text throughout is sporadic at best, sometimes it's difficult to see, sometimes it's in awkward positions, but all this helps the audience get a feel for the story, and the title sequence.
Soundtrack used in this opening sequence is non-dietetic yet adds to the mood and enigma created by this title sequence as the use of cinematography with restricted narration allows the audience to think for themselves as to what is happening within this sequence.
Lastly, the music helps to create a tense atmosphere nearer the end as it progressively builds towards the ending climax of this title sequence.


Misery

The title sequence of this film is far simpler than the other two i've reviewed (to an extent). The title sequence itself is quite different than what is normally used within thrillers and horrors - using a red color for the font.
The soundtrack used in the title sequence is contrapuntal as the music is quite upbeat but as the scene progresses thing start to become more tense with the build up of weather and the close ups on the characters face allows the audience to see distress in his facial expression so will be anticipating something bad is going to happen.
A long drawn out title sequence is something which is definitely do-able by our media group for our product - unlike the other two title sequences that use a lot of special effects, this one doesn't, either through choice, or the fact that it was created in 1990.
The text is quite simplistic in comparison to the other two in this post, and thus makes it the best candidate to take ideas from in terms of applying text to our piece of work.