Film title analyses

 The  Girl With The Dragon Tattoo -

In the opening title sequence for the girl with the dragon tattoo it show various images and short animations in relation to the characters actions or personalities. The sequence is majorly black and white with little use of colour. The main colour used in the sequence and is used to emphasize the heat of the fire shown and is used in contrast to the rest of the clip.

The use of animals in the sequence can be used to describe some of the characters animalistic-like nature. This title sequence influence ours by the way it uses the absence of colour to create a sense of mystery and intrigue the audience.
 

 28 Weeks Later -

 The 28 Weeks Later title is made up of mainly red and black. The red background shows the film to be dangerous, gory by the shade of red being similar to blood. The background also has black cracks which could represent that the film will take place in a populated, industrious area. The black hazard sign symbolizes the film being about an infection or some sort of medical emergency. This film title influenced our film because of the way it uses different colours to put across danger/ fear and make it relate to a particular environment.


30 Days Of Night -

 The opening title sequence to 30 Days Of Night shows birds eye views of the area where the film is going to take place. This adds a sense of scale and due to the film being set in Antartica, isolation. The shots show information about the city and how it relates to the film title before fading to a black screen with the title. The sudden fade to a black screen can put across the absence of life in the film. This film title sequence influenced our film by showing that birds eye view shots can show a films location and the meaning behind the film by only showing a certain location, e.g.: the use of birds eye view shots in the sequence are used to emphasize isolation.

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Film ideas

 

Example of Todorov's narrative theory shown in a film

Film: Inception


Equalibrium: The first equalibrium starts with Cobb (Leonardo Dicaprio) doing a simple extaction job on Saito's (Ken Watanabe) mind through one of his dreams.


Disequalibrium: Saito realises he's in one of his dreams through the failure of Cobb's architect and drives Cobb back into reality, fleeing his mission/job.


Recognition: Cobb tries to escape the reality that he failed his job and flee's to Paris in search of a new architect (Ariadne/ Ellen Page) to sculpt the dreams they implant into their hosts.


Attempt to repair the damage: Saito manages to find Cobb and his team, offers them a job of incepting information into Robert Fischer's (Cillian Murphy) mind. Unaware of the dangers Cobb agrees and follows through with the mission, gathering a team together and incepting deeper and deeper into Fischers mind to plant an idea to destroy his fathers company.


New Equalibrium: Cobb succeeds witht he mission and returns to America to find his kids with their grandfather and continues to leave a peaceful life.

Todorov's narrative theory

Analysis of a similar product

The thriller Scream isn’t shown in chronological order as the last scene of the film is shown at the beginning. This allows the audience to guess the build-up to the scene throughout the rest of the film. The first shot is built up to by a non-diegetic heart beat sound getting faster and faster. The camera tilts to show Casey (Drew Barrymore) pick up the house phone to a mystery caller. Throughout the scene she is wearing all white and has short blonde hair. Casey represents the typical young, teenage victim of a thriller through her clothing. Characters wearing white are seen as an icon of purity and righteousness. Her blonde hair shows her age and also that she might lack intelligence, leading to her imminent death at the end of the scene. She also portrays the typical, young, dumb teenager stereotype with her overly joyful and irrational actions.

One of the early shots in the scene pans across the kitchen, following Casey on the phone with a fish lens on the camera. The fish lens is used to make the audience feel as if they are the killer, stalking the victim. Her facial expressions throughout several medium close up shots in the scene show the change of emotion on her face towards the mysterious person on the phone from happy and inviting to terrified and fearful. As the villain enters the scene he is shown masked and wearing all black. Black symbolizes death in most film genres including film and the mask hides his identity. As the killer wears the mask throughout the rest of the film it creates an enigma code leaving the audience intrigued as to who the killer is and why they are committing these murders.

The opening to the film influenced our film because we want to use the diegetic/non-diegetic sound and camerawork to show the emotion displayed by characters and explain there actions. The sound used in the opening scene of the film influenced us as to how we will use our sound to build up tension in our film.

Sound used in our film

The sound used in our film will be mostly non-diegetic. The absence of diegetic sound will allow us to show the characters emotion and actions through camerawork and mise-en-scene. The non-diegetic sound added will not be copyrighted and will not need permission to use. A non-diegetic high pitched score will be used at the start of the film to show emotion in addition with the montage shots on the protagonists face and important props. After the camera fades from black the music will be tense, fast and bassy to add a fast pace to the scene and give the audience an 'on the edge of their seat' feeling. The only diegetic sound in the film will be the viscus cut and stabbing sounds during action sequences.