BP 9 - What are the 4 Different Types of Film Openings?

                 

Title on Still Images

The main conventions and reasons for use:

• Clear, readable font
• Text incorporated with visual images
• Titles placed over images
• Title cards developed
• Music to define genre type

                  Wimbledon

• Title placed over still images
• Title moved like a tennis ball, side to side

Title on a Blank Screen

Main Conventions/Reasons for usage -

• Low Budget
• Different fonts
• Institutional information
• Most common type of title sequence
• Easily readable clear backgrounds (Black/White)

                   Psycho 

• Plain black background, white font
• Font - Clear & Simple

                  Pulp Fiction

• Black background, yellow writing
• Titles have no spacing

Titles over Moving Images

• Introduces tone
• No dialogue, only soundtrack, sound effects, pre-recorded and moving imagery
• Metaphor & narrative categorising 

                  Rear Window - Narrative Thread

• Use of sound effects & music
• Title placed over the moving images
• Bold white/red font

                  City of God- Metaphor

• Strictly close-up shots 
• Music defines the setting

Titles using Animation or Motion

• Stylised editing, digital technology
• Titles, a part of the moving image
• 1990s

                  Casino Royale

• Sound track
• Animated
• Moving images with track

                  Catch me if you can

• Animated stick characters doing normal, everyday things in a usual setting/location.

Certainly my favourite title sequence 'type' merely because I am intrigued by the use of animation or motion