Titles and Credits - Rachel

1. Credits Separate to the moving image and appear on a blank screen; These can be continuous or cut between the actual film's opening sequence.
   

• Credits are separate and can add nothing to fhe film narrative and are simply informative. However, sometime they can be used to communicate something about the film. Music would also convey meaning.



• Credits are separate to the opening sequence, adding something to the narrative of the film through font style, colour, effects. Usually it is genre expectation.

However

• Credits can be separate to the opening sequence but create a mini narrative, adding something extra to the film in some way.

2. Credits can be superimposed into the opening sequence.

The Orphanage

The opening sequence is in two parts; the first part establishes a foundation of the plot, in which we see the children playing in their orphanage uniforms and all seems well other then a sinister looking scarecrow which is probably irrelevant to the plot, but is a little disturbing and communicates a darker undertone to the plot. The titles sequence is a separate piece to the film and it seems that the film will be about children and that something mysterious is hidden. we know this from the children's hands (which we recognise as being from the orphanage buy their uniform) ripping off the wallpaper and from the ECU shots of the cracks, swooping through them and this makes it seem that this is significant by the way that we the camerawork focuses on this. The way that the paper they rip off is red and then beneath it is grey could suggest that there is something bad, decaying or evil in the wall and the ripping off paper gives a sense of something being revealed as a main part of the plot.

Se7en
Similarly to "The Orphanage", the film begins with a short introductory sequence, introducing the two main characters and basis for a plot and then cuts to black and the opening credits begin before the rest of the film. The opening credits consist of CU shots of someone making a booklet and of someone of the material in this booklet as well as 'routines' or 'procedures' this character practices, such as removing their finger prints, writing some sort of journal, developing photographs, sourcing and saving pieces of information or tiny fragments of material, colouring out words in books as well as clips of a gun. All these acts are unususal and the images that we see this person collecting are disturbing and the way that these shots are combined with footage of him removing his finger prints etc shows that this may be someone who enjoys these disturbing images. These clips build a character - some sort of loner, violent and agressive (communicated through the CU of the gun or weapon being moved - this shows that he is active in using it) and because there is constant movement in all these clips such as shadows of just his hands its shows that this is an ongoing progress. We do not see this person's identity but know that this is the significant antagonist from the story.

Vertigo

ECU shots of woman's mouth and eyes are very intensely intimate and this makes her seem in a way more vulnerable and exposed to us. When the red filter is introduced this communictaes a sense of danger and her eyes seem panicked.