The 4 types of film openings and analysis of favourite film

                 The four types of film openings:

Ø  Titles on a blank screen

Ø  Titles on still images

Ø  Titles over moving images

Ø  Titles using animation or motion

Titles on a blank screen- Conventions and reason for use:

·         This is the most commonly used type of film opening.

·         It usually includes different kinds of type face on a black background, most commonly a white face to create contrast.

·         It’s mainly used due to being low-budget and it is a simple way to involve institutional information.

Titles on still images- Conventions and reason for use:

·         Used due to being more elaborate than just simple white text on a black background.

                          

·         It’s an efficient way to incorporate text along with a moving image and sound to hint the tone and genre of the movie. 

       

·         There are more credits than just the producer and studio of the movie, also involves cast and the text matches the background image.

 ·         It also requires a combination of media.

Titles over moving images- Conventions and reason for use:

    ·         It includes: credits, moving images, titles and no dialogue.

    ·         Serves either, a metaphor or a narrative thread.

    ·         It helps introduce tone or storyline.

Titles using animation or motion- Conventions and reason for use:

·         It was highly popular during the 1990’s.
·         It contains titles, incorporated with moving images.
·         Requires digital technology and advanced editing.

Other types of title sequences- Conventions and reason for use:

Narrative title sequence- This is integrated into the moving image and it’s used to further explain the storyline briefly.

Discrete title sequence-Titles are still integrated into the moving image but its unclear what the storyline or plot of the movie is, it only hints what will happen further in the movie.

Stylized title sequence- Highly stylized, a mixture of both narrative and discrete title sequences, however the images and title have been filtered and edited to create a combined effect.