Title Research: Married to the mob

Married To The Mob

How many titles are displayed during the opening sequences to the film? 
 A total of twenty-six titles were used in the opening sequence, most of which were the names of the participating actors, the rest being a credit to producers sound supervisors, custom designers, the artist of the opening song, the casting crew, and directors.

What images are prioritized in the opening sequences of the film?
 The opening sequence is a montage of train track and lights with miscellaneous people scattered about.

What connotations do the images carry?
 The images give a sense a fast-paced and dangerous situation

How is genre reinforced through symbolic and technical codes from the outset?
 The opening gives the audience a clear sense of danger, introducing them to a presumed theme of the movie.

How does the film establish an enigma from the outset?
 By introducing, arguably nothing, until the opening credits end, the audience is left anticipating the end of the tracks; being stimulated for the entirely of the opening with no clear rhyme or reason.  

What strategies are used to ensure the film appeals to its target audience?
  Music was used in the opening scene, it's fair to assume that the music used must have been favorable or at the very least recognizable to the audience of that time. (1988)

How has technology been used effectively? 
 The opening sequence is shacky, and loosely put together; being filmed in odd angles. Like super low (face down) when on the tracks and centered angle for higher placed objects like the light lining the tracks. The nature of the effectiveness creates a sense of reasonable unease disorienting the audience with no clear purpose but to introduce danger.

Title Research: Crazy rich Asians

Crazy Rich Asians 

How many titles are displayed during the opening sequences to the film? 
 The entirely of the opening was a very short sequence with only four titles consisting of names of the main cast the directors, and the producing company. 

What images are prioritized in the opening sequences of the film?
  The opening had no direct images but it had wallpaper with an Asian theme behind it.

What connotations do the images carry?
 The images portrayed the message of a colorful and a romance with cultural undertones

How is genre reinforced through symbolic and technical codes from the outset?
 The many colors symbolize the many personalities and many aspects of the culture that will be going into this movie and leave the audience to desire the experience of a different culture.

How does the film establish an enigma from the outset?
 The audience is left to wonder how culture will play out throughout the story and how these colors or symbols might be relevant.

What strategies are used to ensure the film appeals to its target audience?
  The music isn't in English due to the attempt to stray away from the American version of what a romance is.  Tough targeting the American audience, the directors chose to diversify. The film honestly appeals to everyone, not just a specific race, culture, or ethnicity; attempting to bring material to the table.

How has technology been used effectively? 
 This opening was very fast and didn't have many transitions other than a few colors or backgrounds being changed, the director was probably trying to make it fast to fit the whole story. It didn't showcase any of the other factors that went into this movie like a costume or leaving the effectiveness of the title portion a tad dull.

title research: Grease

Grease

How many titles are displayed during the opening sequences to the film? 
 Around thirty-four in total titles including names were used in the opening sequence, including, the main cast, the directors, set producers, the production agencies, and the artist responsible for the opening song. 

What images are prioritized in the opening sequences of the film?
  The images were of the main cast, also of what was big at the time like Elvis and Marilyn Monroe, famous places to eat at the time like diners, famous baseball players, the things teens may have in their rooms at the time, and it's animated to be like a caricature of the people. 
What connotations do the images carry?
 The images represent a time period, showing what the adults may see, as the teens try to slick back their hair, and the girls act like princesses. Illustrating the time period of the 50s..

How is genre reinforced through symbolic and technical codes from the outset?
 The genre is shown by telling the audience they are teens when they show up at the high school. They also have many things in their rooms that teens at the time would have like posters etc.

How does the film establish an enigma from the outset?
  It lets the people know what they are like but not at how they all relate to each other this makes it very mysterious as to how they all fit together. Also, the way the directors made their personalities show to the audience makes the audience curious as to what kind of people are they really.

What strategies are used to ensure the film appeals to its target audience?
  They include all of the things that the teenager at the time would be interested in like the things are for males and females or every type. for instance, they look at the people who use grease for their hair to slick it back to look cool, they show the girl whos like a Disney princess and can talk to animals, they show a bad boy and him fixing his car, and they also show a girl who is punk and rebellious who doesn't wear what other people want her to wear.
How has technology been used effectively? 
 Technology has been used very effectively as for the time period all this was new so the fade from the animation to the actual scene of the high school was very cool. When they showed the different peoples names on the individual signs the transition was the pollution from the car to act as sort of a transition piece. The way it was animated made each of the characters show their characters in a split second, with the short time they showed the characters they were able to tell the audience what they were like.

title research: Down with love

The movie I chose to research its title was "down with love" as it was a romance and it was one of the first movies i saw. Im getting this research from art of the title.

How many titles are displayed during the opening sequences to the film?
-There are 25 titles displayed during the opening sequence.
What images are prioritized in the opening sequence?
- Some images that are prioritized are scenes where a man and woman is suggested in the film. There is a link of a gender signs and a man giving a women flowers and her cutting the flowers. there are also hearts in bubbles that are being popped.
What connotations do the images carry?
- Those images share a connotation for love. The colors make it seem as if it is positive but the women cutting the flowers sends a message that the movie is about an unhappy couple. There is more positivity in the images since it is filled with colorful images like, champagne with blue and yellow bright colors.
How is genre reinforced through symbolic and technical codes from the outset?
- Genre is enforced through symbols that represent love. For example, hearts represent love. Flowers are usually given between a couple. The words "love sex" clearly give away the genre of the movie.
How does the film establish an enigma from the outset?
-The beginning of the film establishes an enigma for the relationship. We know it involves something between a man and a women but we aren't sure if they are in love or they just broke up. The two contradicting images are the hearts and then the women cutting the flowers.
What strategies are used to ensure the film appeals to its target audience?
- The main strategy used is colors. The colors make the film very appealing. It ensures a light hearted film that makes viewers wonder what is to come. Some other strategies is the music that just sounds like easy and simple.
How has technology been used effectively? You want to consider camera, angles, transitions and editing techniques?
- Technology was used in ways of cartoons. The scenes showed are done with animated drawings. The type writer, and the words coming out of it. The popping bubbles and the words transitioning form it. There is definitely some very interesting forms of editing and transitioning to provide the titles for the movie.

Title research: watchthetitles.com

Watch the Titles

    Today my group and I are focusing on researching titles through a helpful website called Watch the Titles. With this research, we hope to focus on coming up with cool ideas to emphasize our titles. Since our film will be only two minutes, the titles are very important as it will take up the entirety of our screen time. We plan on using the titles to not only inform the audience who took part in creating the film but to also set a scene for the movie.
The titles though do need to focus on crediting the actors, and producers while including leads and other facilities we haven't thought of as yet.
    This site (Watch the Titles) gives us a sneak-peek into different movies. It shows us how their titles set the course and feel for the movie as a whole. This website was easy to maneuver and helped us learn many ways to go about our titles. For certain titles, the feel of the movie had to be dark and scary like a horror or crime movie title others like romantic titles, held a warm feeling and alluding to the greater feelings of joy and happiness in the movie. This website is well organized, introducing the main aspects of each title This site also sections titles off for us to view categories without having to look for a specific genre. It's not great, but it only serves as a way to expose us to movies we had not thought of. The sections we have though are; Feature Film, TV shows, Event titles, and Student projects. We are exclusively looking at Feature Flims to get the best quality in relation to what we are creating our selves.

Title research: Art of the title website

          Today my group and I are focusing on researching titles through a helpful website called art of the title. Through this research, we hope to focus on coming up with some cool ideas to express our titles. Since our main film will be only two minutes, the idea of having titles is very important as it will take most of the time.To begin, the purpose of a title is to not only inform on who helped create the film but to also set a scene for the movie. The actual titles need to focus on naming the actors, producers and everyone who helped create the film. The titles provide information about almost everyone. The actual shot where the title is put needs to be done with purpose to catch the attention of the audience. The transitions used in order to provide titles is done to fulfill catching the attention of the audience. After watching a few clips of some opening credits, I see how it creates a certain tone for the movie that is about to be watched. For example, the exorcist which is a horror, provides a very mysterious opening with black and white colors and a very slow shot. This opening was important because it either made the audience want to stay to finish the movie or leave. The exorcist did a good job of making an opening that kept the audience mesmerized to see what comes next. Overall, some few takes that we took from watching a few openings is to always try to match the background scenes with the actual movie. The actual website provides hundreds of movie and tv show options to view their opening credits. Each movie or tv show has a title, the year it came out and either the title part of it or the interview.

Genre research: Picking the romantic road

       After much discussion and research our group finally decided on a genre. Although both romance and crime will be highly used in this film, romance was the one we chose. This decision was made simultaneously and due to the fact that the story is to focus on a couple. Even though the crime part is supposed to be fun and interesting, we want that to be more of a plot twist that ends the clip. The majority of the film will focus on elements of romance. Plus, the two main characters will be focused on the most rather than a detective or a police. Overall, romance is simple and will be easier to maintain.