Title sequence ideas

The title sequence within a film sets the whole tone and genre of the movie. This is why we have researched different title sequences of Thriller films to see what connotations our target audience expect. The first title sequence we analysed was from the film “Seven” by Director, David Fincher, 1995. We learnt the importance of colour and the use of enigmas within the titles. They have to attract the audience and keep them guessing whilst maintaining all the connotations of a psychological/thriller. At first we decided to have our titles appear above what was going on in the scene, as we thought this would be an effective technique in creating enigmas, however as we researched and brainstormed our ideas further we decided the use of the fade to black between shots, revealing the titles, would be a more successful way of creating tension.




Although we are still discussing the final font of our titles we are certain on the idea of having a strong, sharp font as this is what is expected of a typical title sequence for a Thriller. The sharp font represents the sharp tone of the movie. However a children’s film would use a fun, quirky font as this is what would appeal to the target audience better and would represent the light, fun tone of the movie reinforcing the genre of a family film. Whereas if we were focusing on a horror we would be looking more at a font that would represent blood dripping, as this would instantly inform the audience of the dark genre.

Within our title sequence we want to create a sense of relation with our antagonist and place him as an everyday normal guy. However as our titles develop we shall have shots of the antagonist travelling, showing him get more and more isolated, creating suspicion. He then reaches an abandoned warehouse indicating to the audience that he is not what he seems. The title of our Thriller will appear just after an establishing shot of the warehouse, bringing forward questions within the viewers mind.

We then have to focus on the sound within our title sequence. We have decided on a non-diegetic soundtrack however we have not yet chosen the song. We will be looking for contrapuntal music, as we do not want it to be loud and dramatic but calm yet haunting.