Titanic is a 1997 film directed by James Cameron about the sinking of the RMS Titanic. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as members of different social classes who fall in love aboard the doomed ship. The Vow is a 2012 romantic drama based on a true story about a married couple whose wife suffers memory loss in an accident. Both films begin with production logos and credits before establishing the settings and introducing the main characters and titles.

2. Titanic is a 1997 American epic
romantic disaster film directed,
written, co-produced, co-edited
and partly financed by James
Cameron. A fictionalized
account of the sinking of the
RMS Titanic, it stars Leonardo
DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as
members of different social
classes who fall in love aboard
the ship during its ill-fated
maiden voyage.
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The Vow is a 2012 romantic drama film
directed by Michael Sucsy, starring Channing
Tatum and Rachel McAdams. The film is based
on the true story of Kim and Krickitt Carpenter.
The Vow was a box office success, becoming
the sixth highest-grossing romantic drama film
of all time.
(source Wikipedia)

3. Titanic
Titanic opening starts of with
their production logo “
DIGITALLY THX MASTERED”.
This lets the audience know
what production studio
developed helped develop the
movie.
Some movies start of using two
production logos such as
shown in titani.

4. Titanic
They also gave credits to the
production labels once again
It also shows the facial
expression of the people,
perhaps that was important
for the director to show to
show the contrast of how
they were to how they went
near the end of the movie.
Titanic start of showing
establishing the
settings through
various different shots.
We can see that this
was set in the olden
times and is also set on
a ship.

5. Titanic
The title is then introduced after showing
the first few seconds of establishing the
setting. We are now 1 min 38 seconds in
to the movie. This is introduced now with
the ocean behind it. This is because it fits
in with the movie and continues on from
where it left with the ship sailing off into
the ocean.
Here we are shown a
few ships driving past,
this making it seem that
the ships are really
important throughout
the movie

6. The Vow
Once again the movie shows the
production labels before it starts, they
also give the credits to the production
companies.
Here the was two different production
labels. In both ‘Titanic’ and ‘The Vow’, the
music that comes along with the
production labels are fixed. They are only
given through the production labels and
are always specific according to the
specific production label.

7. The Vow
In the very first scene, we are
introduced to the main characters, we
see them walking out of a cinema
holding arms. This straight away
highlights to the audience that they are
either good friends or a couple.
Mise En Scene is used very strongly here too, the women is wearing a very beautiful
red coat, which represents the colour of love. The bright lights behind them help to
emphasise the happiness. It also helps create the romantic atmosphere.
Here we are shown
parts of the setting
and given an
establishing shot of
the place. We can
see her that there
is snow which is
seen as romantic.

8. The Vow
Here as the couple stand,
the man kisses her on her
forehead. This shows that
they are a couple and not
just good friends, again
adding to the realism if
them being a couple.
Here the title is introduced,
‘The Vow’. Thus is introduced
as the couple walk off.

9. The Vow
The actors names are then shown. Its
shown in a specific way to give you an
insight of the characters personality
etc.
We also have more credits which role
up, while yet introducing the
characters slowly.