Design of Title sequence

When designing my group's title sequence for our thriller, it was important that we understood the conventions of a title sequence and the commonly used order that comes with it. After carrying out some in depth research into the origin of opening credits, I found out that in older movies, credits would normally appear on a blank, black screen with a very basic font and next to no animation involved; it was seen as something that had to be put in by definition. On top of this, there is also a common convention of the ordering of the credits with people like the director typically coming last and the producers coming first.

Nowadays, many directors like Christopher Nolan, the Coen Brothers etc. have chosen to not even include any credits or even the title sequence. Other directors use opening titles to great effect and have it deliberately tie in with the theme or event which takes place in the movie and this is personally something I wanted to emulate when making our title sequence. My inspiration for this idea mainly stems from looking at ARTOFTHETITLE.COM, where I did some research on Dawn of the Dead and was particularly drawn by the way the titles were animated like blood splatters.

With this in mind, I wanted to make our titles link in with one of the key themes of our film which is the use of technology and the modernity of social networking, as well as the negative connotations that come with it. I wanted to create a data glitch text which appeared on the screen in a very fragmented nature and this clearly ties in with the theme of social networking. The glitch also represents the darker side of the internet as you commonly associate glitches with viruses.



This title sequence will be used in the final piece and will be overlayed on top of the actual video footage and this is a choice made more because having a black screen wastes the amount of time we can have of actual footage. Had we not been restricted to 2 mins, I would have personally done the names on plain black because it makes the titles stand out more.