PREP To prepare for tomorrow's practical work of filming an opening sequence, please watch the following two title sequences which are filmed in in a similar 'table top' style.
- Delicatessen (dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 1991)
- To Kill A Mockingbird ( dir. Robert Mulligan,1962)
- Extension work: there are many other opening sequences on the website Art of the Title
The title of your prep blog post is FILM OPENING CONVENTIONS
Copy /paste the lines above and add the two images below :
- what titles and credits appear on screen?
- how is the film's genre conveyed?
- what use is made of sound?
- what hooks the audience and makes us want to carry on watching?
in delicatessen the film genre conveyed is horror as straight away you see a man with a knife. the sound is first quite a creepy sound and then we here the acordian which is also quite creepy when acompanied by the titles and credits. the audience gets hooked when we see many strange, dusty and sometice broken objects and want to know where they come from. we also see many titles of the actors that apear in the show and the producers who helped make the show.
In to kill A Mocking bird we see a girl with a crayon reveal the title of the sequence. the film genre is conveyed to be maybe horror or drama as we hear the girl and also see more objects. the sound is used to help back up the theames that may be shown through the title sequence. not only does the strange objects shown help us to be hooked as we do not know where they are from but also the sound as we hear a little girl and want to know what role she plays in the show and also what she is doing which makes us watch further.
Delicatessen is a black comedy so the grim butcher's face is terrifying but the French accordion music quite jolly. The intriguing quality of the titles embedded in the images made this an award-winning title sequence.
ReplyDeleteI don't think there are any horror codes visible in the second example. perhaps you were influenced by watching the other one first. The second film is in fact a 'coming of age' film and isn't scary although it deals with some sadness. In the film, the child Scout gradually learns what her father means by saying 'It's a sin to kill a mockingbird...'