When conducting research into title sequences I decided to look at Shutter Island for inspiration and comparison to our ideas for our own film.
The opening sequence to Shutter Island incorporates its production credits into a montage of images on screen. The montage contains images from the film which are seen later on. This is a clever device to use when giving the audience hints and signs pointing to what is about to be shown in the film. The production credits are in red and white to contrast the dark coloured images on screen. There is then a cut to black and "Shutter Island" then appears in large letters in red. The use of red lettering is synonymous with blood and death and these paradigms will ensure the connection with danger is certain. The shades in the imagery are dark and the music is eery,and we hope to provide a similar eery feel to our title sequences, the title sequence in Shutter Island really sets the tone of the film well.
The title sequences of our film will take place during the the first scene.The actor credits will be shown on screen as the opening scene is unfolding, and the screen will then cut to black with "The Forgotten Truth" appearing in white to contrast the black background. With the time restriction of our film being five minutes, I thought that a montage like you see in Shutter Island would be too long, so instead we decided to take this approach. I hope to use similar lighting techniques in order to get the tone appropriate for the films genre and get the desired audience reaction.
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