Title Sequnce Research

'The Truman Show' Title Sequence


Although this is an ending credit sequence, I thought it would be good to look at how a similar film incorporated it's titles. I like how it plays on the fact that Truman's life is extremely ordinary and the simple animated characters. I flows really well and uses the titles to influence the characters (almost as if they are Christof manipulating and controlling his life). However, I don't think this style of title sequence would be right for our film because it would be difficult to find a place to put it without it breaking up the action of our story too much. Also, the length of it would be a problem because it is two minuets long so wouldn't be appropriate for a five minute film.

'The Matrix' Title Sequence


This title sequence incorporates the technological theme by using the computer code effect to establish the genre and style of the film. I also like how the code drops down to make the words of the title as it makes the action run smoothly. The colour green is present throughout the sequence (even on the logos for the production and distribution company), which symbolises its importance as it is the colour of the code on the computer. The code comes forward as the camera tracks through them, which could represent that the audience is going into the matrix. There is a light that appears at the end of the code that turns into the police officers torch. This is an effect way to move from the title sequence to the action and it also allows the audience to join the story in media res, However, like the above title sequence, it would give away the twist of our plot so it wouldn't be appropriate.


'The Stanley Parable' Title

At 4:15 in the video (below)

Stanley, walks through a door to see the name of the game 'The Stanley Parable' on the wall in front of him. I really like this idea for our film as it is a creative and effective way to integrate the titles into the action and it will also highlight that David is unaware that his world is fake. I like the idea of having our titles appear on the wall when David comes out the lift in a similar way to how it is done above. However, this means that we might have to use a green screen to get the effect that the title is actually attached to the wall. If we tried to add this in editing then the titles would overlay all of the action onscreen so David wouldn't be able to walk in front of the wall because the titles would overlay him as well. This would make it look like the titles are floating in mid air and not actually stuck to the wall.