Napoleon Dynamite

From the title sequence we can see the film will probably be very light hearted and comedic as the titles are not what is usually seen on a film. This is suggested by the logo being written in various sauces on the plate. 

The background music begins and a wallet is brought into frame, with a ‘UFO Abduction Insurance’ card on it, giving the first insight to the leading character. This also gives information on the first actor in the film, Jon Heder.

 

The various backgrounds of these shots gives an impression of when the film is get – 70s/80s.

 

The main shot type used throughout the sequence is a medium close up birds eye.. This shot is used to draw the reader’s attention to both the objects and titles. Having it be so close also prevents the viewer being distracted by objects outside of the frame.

Title Sequence Designers

Today (10.1.14) we watched various title sequences from different graphic designers with different styles, such as:

Dexter: http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/dexter/

Se7en: http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/se7en/

The Man With The Golden Arm: http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/the-man-with-the-golden-arm/

Napoleon Dynamite: http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/napoleon-dynamite/

Each of these have a distinct way of creating a title sequence which reflects the genre of the film and what it will be about.Dexter is about a killer who only kills people who have done bad to other people. The title sequence is of a low pace, with calm back ground music but it feels like the pace could pick up and any given moment. This is similar to the character of Dexter, who is calm throughout the original book but towards the end really picks up the pace of his work, but murdering or helping to murder one of his colleagues. 

We then looked at how a title sequence is planned; the time frames between what is shown, the order of the names eg; Producers, Directors, Starring Actors, Make Up Artists etc. We then went and looked at a title sequence of our choice, seeing the pattern between the times of which something was shown, the order of the names etc. We found that it is often the same throughout every sequence, usually having the most important people first and down to the least important.