Research into title sequences
The Conjuring
In 1971, Carolyn and Roger Perron move their family into a dilapidated Rhode Island farm house and soon strange things start happening around it with escalating nightmarish terror. In desperation, Carolyn contacts the noted paranormal investigators, Ed and Lorraine Warren, to examine the house. What the Warrens discover is a whole area steeped in a satanic haunting that is now targeting the Perron family wherever they go. To stop this evil, the Warrens will have to call upon all their skills and spiritual strength to defeat this spectral menace at its source that threatens to destroy everyone involved.
Link to video of title sequence - http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/the-conjuring/#
The title sequence of The Conjuring contains a slide show of images which include old family pictures and then moves on to showing newspaper articles. This idea could be used in a similar way in our film sequence as pictures of Lucinda and her sister could be shown before she is kidnapped and the newspaper could be articles of her disappearance. In the sequence, you also see a hand moving the images and the newspapers which in my title sequence could be the detective trying to work out Lucinda's sisters kidnap. There are close ups of each of these images so that the audience get a clear view of each picture as they are only small. The images also have a black and white effect put over them so they give an old fashioned look to them which could also be done in our piece. The editing of the slide show of pictures has been designed so that at the start the images fade into the next, and as the piece goes on the images start to transfer more viciously as the pages are flicking onto the next. There is really sinister non-diagetic sound which even though it is eerie throughout, it starts out quieter and builds louder as the editing becomes faster and rougher. There is also diagetic sound of the newspaper pages being turned which brings your attention back to the newspaper articles and makes it sound more realistic. These sounds can be used in ours as it is a sinister story so the music will match.
In 1971, Carolyn and Roger Perron move their family into a dilapidated Rhode Island farm house and soon strange things start happening around it with escalating nightmarish terror. In desperation, Carolyn contacts the noted paranormal investigators, Ed and Lorraine Warren, to examine the house. What the Warrens discover is a whole area steeped in a satanic haunting that is now targeting the Perron family wherever they go. To stop this evil, the Warrens will have to call upon all their skills and spiritual strength to defeat this spectral menace at its source that threatens to destroy everyone involved.
Link to video of title sequence - http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/the-conjuring/#
The title sequence of The Conjuring contains a slide show of images which include old family pictures and then moves on to showing newspaper articles. This idea could be used in a similar way in our film sequence as pictures of Lucinda and her sister could be shown before she is kidnapped and the newspaper could be articles of her disappearance. In the sequence, you also see a hand moving the images and the newspapers which in my title sequence could be the detective trying to work out Lucinda's sisters kidnap. There are close ups of each of these images so that the audience get a clear view of each picture as they are only small. The images also have a black and white effect put over them so they give an old fashioned look to them which could also be done in our piece. The editing of the slide show of pictures has been designed so that at the start the images fade into the next, and as the piece goes on the images start to transfer more viciously as the pages are flicking onto the next. There is really sinister non-diagetic sound which even though it is eerie throughout, it starts out quieter and builds louder as the editing becomes faster and rougher. There is also diagetic sound of the newspaper pages being turned which brings your attention back to the newspaper articles and makes it sound more realistic. These sounds can be used in ours as it is a sinister story so the music will match.
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| One of the newspaper articles included |
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| One of the pictures included |
The GameNicholas Van Orton is a very wealthy San Francisco banker, but he is an absolute loner, even spending his birthday alone. In the year of his 48th birthday (the age his father committed suicide) his brother Conrad, who has gone long ago and surrendered to addictions of all kinds, suddenly returns and gives Nicholas a card giving him entry to unusual entertainment provided by something called Consumer Recreation Services (CRS). Giving up to curiosity, Nicholas visits CRS and all kinds of weird and bad things start to happen to him.Link to title video sequence - http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/the-game/
In the title sequence of 'The Game' it shows us several different clips which are clearly set from the past. These video clips are given a sepia effect and have lines going through them to give off the effect that these videos have been taken by a family themselves with an ordinary old fashioned camera. All the characters in the sequence are wearing old fashioned outfits such as dresses and suits which supports the fact that it was taken in the past. This can relate to our story as video clips of Lucinda, her sister and her parents could be shown in old videos they will have taken together to show the closeness their family once had before the kidnap. There are several different shots used throughout the sequence to represents the different scenes such as long shots, mid shots and wide shots. The music is a simple piano playing which starts of quicker and builds louder towards the end to increase the tension and sticks to the theme of it being old fashioned.
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| Shots used from the scene |
John "Scottie" Ferguson is a retired San Francisco police detective who suffers from acrophobia and Madeleine is the lady who leads him to high places. A wealthy shipbuilder who is an acquaintance from college days approaches Scottie and asks him to follow his beautiful wife, Madeleine. He fears she is going insane, maybe even contemplating suicide, because she believes she is possessed by a dead ancestor. Scottie is skeptical, but agrees after he sees the beautiful Madeleine.
Link to title sequence - http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/vertigo/
The title sequence of Vertigo focus's on an extreme close up shot of a womens face. The shot pans round her face and then finally stops onto her eye. We see close up of her lips, nose and both her eyes. If we chose to have our title sequence like this, we would use Lucinda in the womens place. This way the audience will see extreme close up of her face and her makeup will emphasis how ill she is. The music also matches as it makes the women seem delusional, which Lucinda also is. However, our music would be more up to date as this was created in 1958.
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