Planning Opening Credits- Miss Georgiou

The purpose of opening credits is to let the audience know of the different roles, in the making of the film, to introduce the film title, to name the production company and to introduce the mood or style of the film. We analysed the film Se7en to look at the order the credits appeared and to give us some ideas of what opening credits can look like in a thriller production. We discovered that the production name is the first credit that is shown, and the director appears last. The black background has connotations to death, where as the white credits represent innocence. This shows a representation between the victim and the antagonist. There was also hints of red shown throughout the sequence, relating to blood, death and danger; drawing attention to these parts of the sequence.

We then used Final Cut Pro to design our own style of font for our opening credits. When designing my idea for the opening credits, I concidered what would make it conventional to a thriller. I started by chosing a font that I thought looked distorted and then added a blured effect to make it look slightly creepy. I was inspred by the opening credits for the film Se7en, as I thought they created enigma in the sequence. I then added another distorted effect which made the writing change colour as the opening credits appear. I did this to make the credits stand out on the black background, so the audience could clearly see the title of the film. The slight movement of the letters would make the audience feel unsettled as they watched the opening credits unfold the title, cast and production company. This is conventional as the audience are kept on edge and it creates suspense. I chose to put the title in the top left hand corner to demonstrate an unbalanced sequence, to emphesise the disturbed mind of the anatgonist. This creates tension and allows the audience to feel uncomfortable.

Tyler's idea: 

Tyler's design idea consists of a spaced apart, thin, white font which would be good to use in our thriller sequence as it shows a contrast in colours and portrays the idea of the victim being innocent; the colour white, and the black protrays death, emphesising the danger of the antagonist. This design idea would benifit our sequence as it creates enigma as it appears on the screen. However, this design may be a disadvantage to use as it may be seen as bit simple, as it does not have any distaughted features. If this was seen in our sequence it may be considered that the film about to be seen is an action film rather than a thriller.

Mikaeel's idea:

Mikaeel's design will be extremely effective in our thriller sequence as it is clear, big and bold, and the white font stands out on the black background. The distorted effect emphesises that it is a thriller sequence and the blur at the end links to how the antagonist's mind is disturbed. The font of the title will inform the audience of how creepy the antagonist makes the victim feel which creates tension and an eerie atmosphere. Disadvantages for this design are that it appears across the whole screen so any action behind it might be difficult to see. Apart from this, we decided that this will be the best design to use as it is the most conventional to a thriller as it will create surpise and suspense as it appears on the screen.