2. The Pacific
http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/the-pacific/
• There is a great use of extreme close ups and slow
motion at the start of the opening when the graphite
pencil is used, you can see the splintering of the pencil
as it is being used
• He music that accompanies the images is quite mellow
dramatic and sets the tone for a war film as it is quite
sad as a lot of people die.
• Any moving shots are in black and white to represent
what the technology would have been like in the time of
the war but during the shots some of the screen starts
to turn red this is to signify all of the blood that was
spilled at these battles.
• The shots of the battles are mainly long and mid shots
otherwise the viewers would not be able to see what is
going on in the surrounding areas around the soldiers.
• There is a use of slow motion in some of the shots this
can make the shots more dramatic as it makes the
audience wait to see what is going to happen.
• There is also a lot of use of graphic match between the
graphite drawings and then the real people the
transition between the two is very smooth and makes
the sequence more effective.
3. This is England
http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/this-is-england/
• This is England is set in 1980/90’s England so its
opening sequence deliberately has really low quality
picture even though it was made in 2009 and they did
have access to HD cameras.
• The opening sequence shows big events that happened
in England at the time that the film is set to remind the
audience of how England was at this time For example
there is footage from the miners strike to the Diana and
prince Charles royal wedding
• The colour of the sequence is quite saturated and fuzzy
to convey the effect that cameras in this time had.
• The title of the film has quite a distinct font that looks
like it has been worn down and old this is a
representation of how worn out and old things were at
the time this is then supported by the next shot by the
graffiti and the cracked walls surrounding the men
going up the stairs.
• There is then some mid and long shots of a concert to
show to the audience what music people listened to
and what clothing people wore just to still give people
a sense of what time period it is
4. The Cardinal
http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/the-cardinal/
• The sequence starts with a close up of a church bell
swinging making noise, the camera then pans down and
just below the bell we can see an establishing wide shot of
where our sequence is set.
• The colour of the film is as natural as possible for an old
film so it does look very vibrant and colourful.
• The title the Cardinal appears pretty much as soon as the
sequence starts which gives the audience a clear
indication of what the film is called.
• There is then a lot of usage of long shots when following
the main character but there are some use of different
angles. Eg: A high angle shot looking into a pool of water
for the refection of the character walking by, there is also
a shot looking directly at the floor so the characters
shadow comes into shot and then walks by, there is also
use of an high angle birds eye view shot of the character
walking underneath
• The transitions in-between the shots fade into eachother
to make it seem more natural and not like a sudden cut .
• the music is peaceful and has no change in tempo or
rhythm to make the transitions easier
• The credits are in plain white writing so that they are easy
to read for the audience
5. Stranger Than Fiction
http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/stranger-than-fiction/
• The sequence opens with the sound of ticking and an
establishing wide shot of the planet earth, the camera
then starts to zoom in to the earth, non diegetic sound
of people talking on telephones and watching
television have been edited in as the camera is zooming
into the earth to resemble traffic.
• The strong use of narration in the sequence clearly
explains what is happening and who the main character
of this film is.
• There are some interesting camera positions like one
inside of the characters mouth when he is brushing his
teeth, then in the next shot the frame of him brushing
his teeth gets moved and another one appears soon
there is four shots of the main character brushing his
teeth in the same frame.
• Writing has been added in through editing that the
character cannot see, it shows how many times he has
done certain tasks or how long they have taken there
are also graphs along with these numbers purely there
for the audience.
• During the whole of the sequence the main character
only says two lines of dialogue and the narrator speaks
for the rest of the opening.
• Apart form the numbers there is also a lot of graphics
like protractors and lines marking the corners of certain
objects going on in the background its almost like he is
in a computer simulated game instead of a film.
6. Contact
http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/contact/
• The sequence starts off silent the production company warner
brothers comes up but sill no sound. The title “Contact” appears
butt still no sound, this is to hold the audience in suspense for the
coming of audio as it is quite unusual to have no sound.
• The sound suddenly jumps in with an establishing wide shot of
planet earth, a lot of songs are playing at the same time which is
supposed to represent earths radio stations that are being
broadcasted into space.
• The camera then zooms out from earth, there is also an edited in
lens flare from the sun to make it seem more realistic.
• When going through the asteroid belt the signal seems to get
interrupted but then returns when the camera comes out the
other side its much like a tunnel.
• As the camera zooms back the songs and broadcasts slowly get
older this is because the radio waves take time to travel through
space even though we are broadcasting new music now a light-
year away you will be able to pick up broadcasts from world war
two.
• On looking a nebula we the audience eventually stop hearing the
broadcasts as we are too far away from earth as we keep going the
silence continues until we have come out of our galaxy and a
disoriented sound and muffling starts playing this is obviously the
“contact” mentioned in the title this has been inserted to tease to
the audience what is going to happen
• The whole sequence contains just establishing wide shots where
no characters are actually visible until the very end of the
sequence when there is an extreme close up of an eye I like the
contrast between extremely far away to very close up
