Title Sequence Clips

    A title sequence can truly make or break someone’s opinions of a movie. Good movies have title sequences that grab your attention immediately, Kyle Cooper started this fascinating trend with the movie Se7en where his unmatched attention to detail gave hm a huge upper hand in helping the film. “In Se7en, Cooper meticulously scratched the celluloid by hand with a needle, adding more edge to already disturbing images of fingerprints being sliced from fingers and type being cut from pages--all set to a pounding Nine Inch Nails track. His uncanny ability to create opening sequences that tap the heart of each film's theme and subtext” (Merril, 2004). This set a new bar, Cooper was so successful he started his own company the year after in 1996 named Imaginary forces, where he twisted the idea of a normal opening credit scene for many movies and films. Movies like 2001: A Space Odyssey likely took inspiration from Coopers genius when making their very loud and prominent opening sequence with the amazing music tracks and eye-catching visuals. One of my favorite intros was Scream the hilarious parody of the man knowing he’s making this woman’s life a real life scary movie off the bat was extremely well at hooking the audience’s attention and made me even want to finish the movie sometime myself.

Foreshadowing is a tool used by all artists in any medium. In Goldfinger, the idea that a woman betrays James Bond in his past movies, and at the beginning of this one hints us to believe there will be another girl in this film who tries to cause his downfall. The opening of a movie will tell you what to expect. 9 times out of 10 the genre and or theme of the movie is given away to us within the first 10 minutes. In, The Lion King, we are introduced to Simba the newborn prince of the jungle and we already know how important he is. This leads us to believe he will encounter some tale or journey of hardship to claim his spot on the throne. This is all thanks to designers and editors who can control your feeling when watching a movie with their expertise in design. “Specialist titles are becoming an integral part of every film package. The typography and visual style created in the opening sequence can establish the mood and image system not only for the film you are about to watch, but for the poster, DVD/video packaging, web site, and all promotion and branding graphics.” (Merril, 2004).

In my current position it does not seen evident I will choose a movie for my final project seeing the production I could make is no where near as good and I would not feel satisfied. To make a beginning as Pulp Fiction’s would be a dream come true. But I also believe in originality and all I see myself doing is emulating the greats which isn’t an action I’m fond of at all.

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