101 Productions Opening Title Sequence

In lesson today we discussed the important effects of the title sequence in conveying the genre and content of the film to the audience, and the importance of the title sequence in giving information to the audience about the production by crediting the people who made the film happen such as the director/s and the producer/s. The title sequence however should not derail the audience or deviate the audience's attention from their focus on the actions within the scene just because it is informing the audience and crediting the people that helped create the film.

Title Sequence Content:

Credits:

Starring:
Eniola Silva as Sarah 
Conor Drake as James

Editor:
Lauryn Corbett

Cinematography:
Sonny Rowling 

Lighting:
Eniola Silva

Producer:
101 Productions

Director:
Sonny Rowling

Composer:
When we include the music from youtube we will include the artist's name in our title sequence.

Title:
IMPOSTER

The credits will flash, shake and then fade out. The title name IMPOSTER will shake vigorously as Sarah states the last word IMPOSTER which will then echo into the title which will seem to shake as a direct result of her doing so. The title will also appear to be bleeding. As a production group we decided to do this in order to represent the scene shown in the beginning in which Sarah is shown surrounded with blood.

As a production we decided that our font will seem to hand written and will be viewed by the audience during the flashbacks of our opening sequence, the colour of the font will be dark in order to stand out from the 'happy scenes' and light in the 'violent scenes' in order to also stand out from the background images.
The credits will be written in small fonts so that we do not distract our audience from the overall shots within the scenes and also we will position our actors so that for example if we want the credit to be shown on the left our actor will be positioned on the right yet again so that we do not distract our audience too much with the information our media text is telling them about the production they are currently viewing.

Theses are our ideas for Our Production title...
We had different styles of fonts and ways of presenting our title and making it represent the opening sequence and give an insight for our audience on how the rest of our film will play out. We had multiple ideas and then we came to the conclusion of the last IMPOSTER image. 

The reason we decided to choose that specific font is because we thought it was aesthetically representative of our genre and film content. The 'S' has been reversed to connote the idea of the S being an 'imposter' so it is a letter that seems to be S but due to it being reversed its a mimic- an imposter. Also our title appears haphazard and most of the letters in the title are not on the same line- a straight- they all seem to be in different positions to show that just like the meaning of the word they make together, they are fakes that when originally viewed seem to be like any other title- in the middle of the screen and on the same line- but on closer inspection the audience view that the words are not as they first appear and what they had just viewed was an illusion.
Also the writing seems to be written in blood to link the opening scene of Sarah surrounded by blood with the title- the title, the voice-over and the visuals within the scene will be parallel as a result.

A problem with our title's typography could the creation of misconception amongst our audience, regarding our film’s genre. The style of our title could be seen by viewers to be a greater representation of a horror film than a Psychological Crime-Drama. Our thought process, however, was that the way in which our title is presented, addresses the actions that take place within our film and the death of a person by another, whether intentional or not is a horrific action-and one of the central themes in our film is murder/manslaughter.

 This is an example of a movie "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" that has used this format of having a “bleeding" title typography and has done so effectively. This is an old fashioned film (created in 1975) that uses the classic typography for horror films (genre trope of “bleeding” fonts to represent the death/s that would occur as the film progresses).  We are subverting by using it for a different film genre (psychological crime drama) and instead of using the “bleeding” effect for every single one of our fonts, we decided to only use it for our title, so that it stands out and emphasises the importance of our title and so that the meaning of our title is visually represented.