Film Credits

FILM CREDITS

One of the purposes of film credits is to credit the makers of the film. he purpose of the opening film credits are to state and tell you who are the producers, production company and other important people who are key to the production.

Colours

Dark and shadowed. This makes the opening scene sketchy and dull. The colours of the paper are dimmed down and made more yellow to show paper from the olden days. As the film is based on the 7 deadly sins the film had to make the opening credits look old fashioned and they did this by dimming down the colour and editing the iconography used.

Style

Flickered and sound of common things enhanced. This is to show the weirdness of the film. The flickered text and images are there to show the disordered nature of the killer. The use of montage editing show a sense of urgency in the killers thoughts and make the audience recognise the genre to the film.

Conventions

Dark and the opening sequence has brilliant mood setting music to make the opening scary with basically no acting. You only see the presumed killers hands not the face to keep the identity hidden for the presumed chase for his identity. It ended by saying 'Day 1'. This sets up a time frame of which the film will be done. It sets up that the killer will be doing things on different days and lets the audience know this. All of that was fro the last wording to the credits.

Order of appearance

The order of appearance was the; Production Company, Director, Main Actor(s), Title of Film, Actors Continued, Casting, Music, Costume Designer, Editors, Production, Camera Operator, Co-Producer, Producer, Writing Manager and Director (again).  

My Evaluation (american phsyco)

Colours

The colours are an unconventional element to this opening sequence. the original colours to thrillers are dark and 'moody' whereas in this the colours are white background with plain black writing. This could have a deeper meaning e.g. the character having two personalities or has the or having an unexpected twist within the film. The two colours represent good and evil or innocent and guilty, an odd thing for a thriller to have the dominating colour to be the innocent one. A quick burst of colour misconceives the audience as drops of cherry and sweet red sauce drop as if blood but when the opening scene begins you see the presentation of a desert in the same pattern the spots of blood had previously occurred. 

Style

The white screen has a sequenced appearance of plain black text. This runs smoothly and is another unconventional way to introduce a thriller to the audience. Its quite a clever technique as it has the audience judging the film and making theories before the film has even started and that keeps the audience on edge. 

Conventions

They haven't followed the common conventions to a common thriller film but have the audience in the same state of mind. The audience are skeptical and exposed to what the film has in store for them and are just as wherry or even more then they originally would have been. 

Order of appearance

The order of appearance was the; Production Company, Director, Main Actor(s), Title of Film, Actors Continued, Casting, Music, Costume Designer, Editors, Production, Camera Operator, Co-Producer, Producer, Writing Manager and Director (again).  

Group Analysis and Ideas




As a group we have discussed the different credits and which ones we liked and preferred. We like the used of motion tracking in other opening credits that we have seen and we also like the idea of white text on the background but with a glow like it would be a light. An example of this is:

But we want it to be white or more suitable colours. we want them to be gloomy and dark or at least the rest of the shot to be dim white a bright white text. one of the fonts that we liked we saw when we were watching a youtube video, the font is called optic and it has sharp edges that resemble a knife. this font was obtained from Dafont.com.

Another font that we liked was called face your fears and this was also from Dafont.com. This style looks like it is blood painted onto something which shows death and this is the font that we will be using. It will also go with our motion tracked credit theme so will comply with our film very well.