Planning Opening Sequence Credits - Miss Georgiou

Credits are important because they can indicate to the audience the initial genre of the film that they will be watching.  It is able to establish a tone for the audience, so they can fall into the mood which the film may make them feel.  The best openings will leave the audience intrigued which will leave them settled in the seats making them want to know more about the narrative.  The credits show who were included in the making of the film including the director, producer, actors etc.

In the se7en opening sequence the colours are limited as the colours are only black and white, this conveys to the audience that there may be mystery included in the film and it also conveys good and evil to the audience as white has connotations of purity and black has connotations of fear and evil.  In parts, it looks like there are specks of blood, indicating to the audience that there will be death/murder involved.  Black and white is conventional to the thriller genre because it represents mystery and and uncovered scenes or problems which may happen within the film.  

The style of credits are in sync with the music, the credits have movements which are shaky, jerky and a jumpy effect to them.  They also seem to have a handwritten effect, which makes it more personal and eerie feel.  The credits also tend to appear in different areas of the screen, making the audience look more of what is showing.  The style of credits is conventional as it would be able to make the audience engaged to the film and keep them looking on the screen.

There are a series of thriller conventions which are included in the opening sequence, indicating to the audience that the film will be a thriller.  One convention is the suspenseful music as this keeps the audience in suspense, another element of the music is that it seems to be high pitched in certain parts.  The fact that it is high pitched in different parts is that it may add the sense of shock to the audience and keep them engaged in the opening sequence and make them keep watching.  

The images in the background would also create suspense as the pictures are of sharp objects such as knives and needles, making them wonder why those particular pictures would be shown.  The sharp objects are also conventional to the thriller genre, because they signify death and have meaning added to them.  The sharp objects are generally considered to be part of a thriller as it means that somebody is going to get killed.  Iconography such as sharp objects are conventional to the thriller genre as 

The credits help to establish the genre of the film, the order of appearence of who are involved in making of the film and the actors.  The credits seem to go in the order of importance.  The first name shown is the production company 'New Lines' and then goes to who it was directed by 'Film by Fincher' and then it shows the big actors names including Brad Pitt, Gwyneth Paltrow and Morgan Freeman.  It then shows the names of the music, costumes and director of photography and so on.  At the end it shows the directors name again, as he thinks that he would have been the most important in the making of the film.   

INDIVIDUAL ANALYSIS

 The colours in the opening credits in Hannibal are just black and white, which would portray to the audience that mystery may be involved in the film.  Black and white may also indicate the different sides of people, who will be included in the film because of the colours as each colour has a connotation to go with it.  Black would give off connotations of evilness and white would have connotations of the good side.  The colours are conventional to the thriller genre because black and white give an idea of mystery and eeriness as there may be things to uncover during the film. 

The style of credits seem to be very fast paced, which would make the audience may more attention to what they are watching.  The music seems to be something you wouldn't expect, as they would be able to hear a piano in the background with all these fast paced images showing.  Depending on what the background of the clip is, it depends if the credits are black or white, which would show contrast and make the names stand out.  The series of clips which are shown seems to be shown through of what seems to be a CCTV camera, which give the audience the idea of someone being watched without them knowing.  Fast paced credits are conventional the thriller genre because it gives a sense of jerky unexpected movements which may be portrayed throughout the film.

One of the conventions of this opening credits is the type of editing, as it's quite fast paced, as it keeps the audience engaged and would make them pay attention to what the credits say.  The fast paced nature of this opening sequence, makes it conventional to the thriller genre because it keeps them engaged.   Another convention would be the colours, most thrillers may have an opening sequence where it would have limited colours as it would create a different effect, comparing to if it would be in full colour, RGB.  The fact the colours are limited suggests mystery of the film, as the real colours will be shown as the problem is being solved.   Fast paced editing is conventional to the thriller genre because it keeps the audience on edge and keeps them engaged into watching the first scene of the film.

The order of appearance is very different compared to Se7en's opening sequence as the first names which are shown are the actors names and then follows onto the people who were involved in making the film by the 'casting by Louis Digiamo' being the first person to be shown after the actors, and then showing the names of the costume designer, music, production designer, director of photographer, executive producer, based on the novel by, produced by and then the very last name shown is the director 'Directed by Ridley Scott.'

GROUP ANALYSIS

In our group, we discussed what we would each be considering what kind of jobs we would have already done at this time, and also considering what we will be doing later on.  The credits will go in order of importance, taking into consideration what production role or actors would go first.  The credits will go by what other credit sequences look like 'directed by..' 'costumes by..' 'Director of photography by' etc.

We plan to have our credits white/grey, as it would contrast along on our clips.  The credits will appear in different parts make the audience pay attention to other things which is happening.  We plan to have the credits to have a handwritten style because it would add a different effect than what a different one might.  The credits will fade which will give them an eerie effect as they fade away.  The font we have selected is 'Bradley Hand' because it looks handwritten and more natural to the eye.

We have decided to keep the colour natural because it would make the audience relate to the scenario of what's happening.  The colours would be in full colour of RGB but our thriller opening sequence is already in limited colours considering it is in mostly black and the orange coming from the lights.