Research For Ideas On Task

Before our group start planning further how and what we are going to do, we thought that it would be a good idea to research opening sequences that would help with our planning.

se7en
The film se7en is about a retiring detective (played by Morgan Freeman) and his replacement (played by Brad Pitt) working together to solve murders that involve the seven deadly sins.



In the opening credits of the film "se7en" they have used lots of different ways to make the opening credits effective and creative. i think they have done this through the using different editing styles. This is due to where the film is about crime, murder and religion, which all have different diversities, making the opening titles disoriented would reflect this. Also i feel that this would create the audience to be confused and intrigued. In addition, i like the way that the film has used cinemaograghy. this is because they have mainly used close up shots of items such as books etc, and have make the background fussy and phased out. i think this is useful to our group as it is a good example of what we can take ideas on as we want to focus on items that reflect the film. Plus, to give the connotation of crime and thriller, the opening titles have used low lighting to give the sense of danger which still follows when the screen is black with the white titles. i think the use of dark lighting will reflect that the film will be dark itself, that the film will give the audience the emotions of negativity due to the ideological connotation of black for people is everything bad. plus, i feel that the genre has been established through not including continuity as this would make the audience confused.

Six Feet Under



this opening title sequence would be useful towards our film due to some key elements that would give us some ideas. This is due to where we want to create an effect of symbolising the mental instiution from which the charcter has come from, there are images- even though it trying to reflect a most mortom- they have settings of a hospital feel which we can get ideas from. At 00:36 seconds there is a shot where the hospital bed is being wheeled down a corrider but the view infront is unclear as it is just a beam of light. In this case i feel that the directers have used this as due to their character being dead, it is representing the body going into the afterlife or officially dieing as people believe by seeing the light or walking into the light is common idiology when you die. i like the idea of this and feel that it is effective at the end of a piece as it makes the title stand out and could go well with our own. This could be used when opeing the door and seeing the light but in our context use the light as a symbol of a new life and start after the rehabiliation. For our piece we want to put random objects in a series which this clip does with the beaker and mesuring cylinders. In this case these types of props are used to enhance the mise en sence with the hospitial feel, if we did this we would have to make sure these random objects still link to our theme. Also they have varied the types of shots while filming these objects. this has been done trough focussing on only a part of the object or taking a shot then flashes to another of the same object but closer. in addition when they film the parts in the hospital the main colour is white with gives the conotations of a clean, healthy and pure feel. The only thing that i would not find useful from this opening sequence is the music seems out of place to me. However, this could be the music is flowing and the sounds would fit with the process of the what they are doing in preparing for her dealth with the postmortom till the berrial. I do like the sudden "dun" type bit as it is sudden as is in contrast with the other piece of music. In this case i feel the contrast in the different sounds in the music is for even through the process is normal to the doctors the sharpe part reflects how the other people who know the dead person would be on edge and upset.

Creep

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peggLQ1fLg8

the hpyerlink above is a clip of the opening sequence of creep. this is useful in our reseach when it comes to focus on distortion and the credits themselves. The clip has use very show and jumping movments with the camera and through editing with the contrast of the quick jolting credits. The credits in this clip unlike the other clips have a decorative font. I like the use of this when there are shots of just the credits places above a black background. They also use graphics upon the credits like the shine that flicks across from right to left of the title.