Preliminary Task

The Kingdom - Opening Title (Not Full)

The Kingdom
- Universal logo, fades to white
- Dessert scene with green colour milatary font, all over the scene moving rapidly
- Review about the history, text (white) & images blended in
- Every specific year such as "1970s" is followed by a clip
- Graphics match is used various times, the word oil merging into a oil pump
- Voiceover is used throughout the titles, giving a review to the viewers about the history
- Map of the world used as a level of oil in chart form

Casino Royale - Opening Title

Casino Royale
- Starts of with a gun shot pointed at the viewers
- Blood streams down with the opening title
- Blends to a variety of card shapes such as hearts, spades, clubs & diamonds
- Very elegent white font, not always centred but scattered around the scenes
- Various artworks used such as hearts and spades symbolising it to do with cards & casinos
- Characters getting chilled with shapes
- Gun shots out card shaoes instead of bullets
- Close up of roulettes turning into aims of gun shots

Max Payne - Opening Title (Not Original Sound Track)

Max Payne
- Flames & sparks inclusing smoke in following titles
- Solid, metal font in capital letters
- Shattering of glass and bombs! (explosive)
- Last word in all the titles are red contrasting to the silver, always in the centre of the screen
- "MAX PAYNE" stands out only in red with capital letters followed by a gun shot
- Use a variety of guns & bullets to indicate its about action
- Varity of sound effects are used in the original opening title of gun shots

Evaluation
After watching the opening titles of the three different films (The Kingdom, Casino Royale & Max Payne), I realised that there were both similarities but mostly difference depending on what the film is about. For example in the opening title of "The Kingdom" & "Max Payne" there was a really fast tempo compared to the other two opening titles, this created some kind of tension and thriller while watching the opening scene as you are expecting to see something in the next shot. Also in "The Kingdom" the use of voiceover was different from the other two opening titles as they has a sound track only. In the opening title of Casino Royale there was a sound track that was really retro and went with the theme of guns and cards. The images were very animated as they used the card symbols to symbolised the bullets coming out of the gun, this implied that the film is going to be about guns & casinos. Lastly, the opening title for Max Payne immediately sent an impression that the film is going to be about guns, as the opening titles had various guns and explosive. The sound track for the opening title was mainly the sound effect of guns & explosive overlapping the sound track, moreover the titles were always centred and there we no images compared to the other two clips.

The Road to Kill..

From this video I have learnt many techniques such as not breaking the 180 degree rule, shot reverse shot & tried to compose a track on garage band but ended up finding a existing loop.

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Ticket - Eyeline Match

 

I was the director & camera man of this film, done a simple but effective eye line to make it look more appealing.