Different Types of Title Sequences

There are 4 main categories of title sequences

Titles on a blank screen

  - White typeface on a black background to create high contrast.
  - Studios used this style of title sequence because it was very low budget and uncomplicated way to include institutional information.

Example 'Psycho'
  - is very easy to understand
  - easily readable allowing all information to be seen with just small background music to go along with it

Titles on still images

 - includes hand drawn borders and other images
 - used to hint at the films tone or genre
 - allows the credits to be longer and more detailed
 - and abled to include more than just the studio - combining two different media's

Example 'Wimbledon'

 - very simple
 - gives the viewer an understanding of the event that is on show
 - shows us what the programmes about before it has started

Titles on moving images 

 - Incorporates moving images with credits to offer either - A metaphor or - A narrative thread
 - Telling us more about the film before it has started

Example Alfred Hitchcock's - 'Rear View'

 - it sets the place along with giving us information about the studio, producers and cast.
 - we get an idea about the time the movie is set in.



Titles using animation or motion 

 - 1990s' animated text became popular
 - titles became apart of the moving images and were intergrated together
 - required lots of digital technology and styled editing

Example 'Casino Royale'
 - give the viewer more of an oppurtunity to to get a feel for the film while incorporating a fun type of animation, however still being able to have real action but unrealistic features
 - this allows the director to be more imaginative and abled to branch out.