Emily Bland 'The Ring' wordle

I copied the plot of 'The Ring' from wikipedia to wordle amd it produced a word collage of the most common words that appeared in the plot. some key words which are relevant to our ghost genre are death, missing, mental, video and Samara who is the dead little girl. It is clear from this that we should use a young girl as our ghost.

Isabel Wong: Sixth Sense Wordle

The keywords of the wordle of Sixth Sense are 'videotape', 'dark',
'truth', 'ghost', 'alone'. Thses are popular elements in horror films.
These can possibly imply to our own film, with the victim staying alone in the dark
and he feels something spooky then he dicides find out the truth. Then he finds out some
old videotapes and meets the ghost.

Wordle - Gothika

The key words in this wordle (Excluding the characters names) are : 'ghost', 'body', 'girl'  and 'hospital'. We could use the words 'ghost','body' and 'girl' as they are easily achievable to do and fit the genre well but using a hospital as our location would be very difficult to accomodate so i don't think we'll use that in our horror film. However, we could use the medical idea instead.

Laurie Dyche and Title Research

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqNd_qlT2ls


Dark Water

The information we are given in the opening titles of ‘Dark Water’ is quite short. We only find out who is starring in the film;Tim Roth John C. Reilly, Dougray Scott and Jennifer Connelly. We also find out what company produced it (touchstone) and who directed it which was Walter Salles.

The font is presented to look like it is written on the bottom of the bath and there is a ripple effect added to link in with the title of the film. When the title of the film is shown, it is just written in black with a plain cream background so that catches the audiences’ attention as it is the only thing that they can see so they don’t get distracted by other things on the screen.

The visuals we see during the titles are taps, water, bath, legs and plug hole. This relates to the film because it relates to the title and the plot of the film.

This has made me think that for my horror film title sequence we could relate the visuals to our title like in this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn_DjzN8410
Nightmare on Elm street

The information we are given in the opening titles of ‘Nightmare on Elm street'. We find out who stars in it, who the casting director of photography is, Production designer, mechanical special effects, associate producer, film editor, music, executive co producer, producers ad who wrote and directed it. 

The font is just plain font, similar to this but a little bolder. When doing our film, i think we should make the titles a bit more interesting and eye-catching.

The visuals we see give us a little introduction to hint what the film is about and show a victim and the killer. It is set in some sort of factory at night-time as the victim is in her pyjamas and the lighting isn’t very bright.

This has made me think that for my horror film title sequence we could continue the story and show a little bit of the background of our main character like in this film.

Emily Bland Title sequence analysis (The ring & The Messengers)

The Ring

1) The opening titles tell us the: Film company, Name of the film, cast, casting and music director, production design, photography director, producers, writers and director

2) The titles are presented in a child like font, showing that the film is about a child.

3)- repeated images of a circle (ring) are used to symbolise the opening to the well where the child died

   - images of an empty chair and bare branched trees in desolate places, show emptiness as if there used to be things/people there.

4) I think that the idea of using a jewellery box song to show that our film is about a child would be effective and to have the titles in a scruffy, handwritten font.

The Messengers(title sequence from 3.28-5.46mins)

1) The opening titles tell us the: Name of the film, cast, casting and music director, production design, photography director, producers, writer, screenplay and director

2) The font style is fairly basic and clear, it generally appears next to an object that gives us information about the story.

3) We see many farming tools and old childrens toys which give away the location on where the film is set (a farm). Childrens toys are often used in ghost films and especially dolls and jewellery boxes are seen as spooky items.

4) I think that a good aspect of this title sequence to use in our own work would be images of the location and props to give an audience an insight to what the film is about.

Isabel Wong and Title Research

1. What institutional information are we given in the opening title?
Throughout the whole opening sequence of se7en, the actions of fliping through some books,
highlighting some keywords, soaking the teabag into a cup of hot water, writing journal, dealing with
photographs, doing copy and paste work etc. give the evidence that the main character of the film is
a researcher. When we observe those actions in detail, we will find out more about the film or the
main character. For instance, keywords that are being highlighted contain some negative words like
"capricious" and "offensive", which indirectly give the clue that the film isn't about something postitive. There are even photographs of dead bodies in the sequence which provide further information to the audience that the film maybe about crime. Nearly at the end of the sequence, the word "GOD" is being clipped out in which the film maybe related to religion as well.

2. How is presented (fonts/style)?
The font used by the opening sequence is kind of handwriting type.
But the font it uses creates the impression that the words are written by
a sentimental man or devil. The style throughtout the whole sequence is quite
old-fashioned because there is continuous frame jitter as if the video clip is from an old tape.

3. What visuals do we see? How does this relate to the genre?
There are continous flashes and different couloured tone filters in the opening.
Such effects create a sort of fear or wonder to the audience especially the red filter,
when it matches with the black coloured background of the sequence, audience may easily
relate the film to death or crime. The sudden flashes and the overlap effect of pictures and words put a mysterious impression to the film as well.

4. What can you learn from this title sequence for your own?
The most fabulous thing that can be learnt from the sequence is the close up of the actions and objects. Even without a shot of the main character, the audience have already had a minor picture of the character and his personality in their mind.

Character based title sequence storyboard

Here are some of our ideas for a title sequence which would relate to the character
This is actually inspired by the title sequence of the film Se7en.
Here we tend to use close ups of different single props which are related to our plot.
Since our film is going to be children-based, we will have a shot with a little girl running at the start.
Then we will put close ups like the girl's house, unhappy eerie family framed photo, stranger opening door, newspaper clips which tell the murder of the little girl etc.

The title sequence will end with a shot showing a hanging rope which means there will be another character being killed in our film due to the little girl's death.