Opening Titles Analysis

Opening Titles Analysis

Shark Night 3D

The film opens with the production company logo for the film appearing in the centre of the screen. The size of the text is quite small but it is large for it to be easily made out by the audience. The font is a large Impact style font with some brown decaying over the top of it. Underneath the logo it says “presents” in a smaller font but in a different font style. The font style in question resembles Copperplate.  The film then shows two more production companies with the same font styling and graphology of the “Rogue” text but are in a much larger size which gives the idea that these companies had much ore influence on the film when it was being produced. Another production logo and the director of the film then follow the previous texts.  All pieces of text in the title sequence are coloured white p to this point.

When the title of the film is revealed it has an image of large shark teeth around the text. The text in question has a yellow stain to it and has a large font size. It has an impact font again and has some very faint red over the text, which could be seen as dried up blood. Each word in the title has it’s own line which makes it much more visible with the word “Night” considerably larger than the other words. The film then goes on to list off the cast of the film in a white text with a black stain on certain parts of the text in white text with a large Impact font. The text will be various sections of the screen to coincide with footage of sharks edited together also on screen. The film will then list off the production members by showing their title in a smaller text above their name in a smaller font. 

Friday 13^th Part 3

The text appears at the start of the film when it enlarges itself, zooming onto the screen and popping out at you. The text has the shape of the text trailing behind it to give it a 3-D effect to it. The font styling of the text is a blood red colour with a particularly large font, which is due to the text always moving towards the screen. This is to emphasize the 3-D effects, which are featured in the film. The text will then revert back to being unseen and zoom back out to the point where it cannot be seen.

 This is also done with the cast but the titles or introductions don’t zoom out until all under the title are gone. For example, the word “Starring” didn’t leave the screen until both actors under this role’s text went off screen. The antagonist of the film and it’s actor get a full screen to instead of a section of it like other texts to show that they are the main attraction. This is also done with the more important production members such as the executive producer. Other production members are pushed ore to the side of the screen when their text is shown instead of being in the centre of the screen like the cast members.

Night of the Living Dead

The film begins with the production logo of the film. It is in a white large font in an Imprint Shadow styling. The word in the production log “Image” is considerably larger than the other pieces of text. The logo appears with word “night” in a much larger transparent text only showing the outlining of the letters. The other parts of the text are in a smaller, bold, Impact font which is in white. The film will go on to list of various production members in sections of the film with all the screen writers on one section and then all the effects in another section. The text is in a Copperplate styling which is in a white text yet again. However the text is quite small and can be hard to read at times considering it is a black and white film.

Opening Credits over the years

Old films would go as far as to tell you in some situations the entire cast and crew at the start of the film and at the end for the audience. However, in some situations the credits would not be clear enough  for the viewer to see due to the limitations of technology. Credits in their later years would try and be entertaining by using dynamic visual effects and dramatic music so it can make audiences pay attention to who was in the film. In the modern age many films decide not to show many opening credits as it may distract from the full experience. 

The opening credits were important to research the opening credits to see how I can present them in the film without taking away from the tension of the story while giving the necessary information for the audience. I have gone and researched 3 opening credits from a present day horror film to the end.