The Opening Titles for the film The Usual Suspects (1995) gives the audience no indication really for what is to come up in the film because this opening title sequence is very vague and wants the audience to think about whats to come.
Genre: From watching the opening titles of the film, I couldn't really work out the genre of the film, but I thought it was a Crime, Mystery and Psychological Thriller. The reason why I thought it was a psychological thriller is mainly because of the dark colour scheme really because it was mysterious, the black colours added effect and as well as that the music makes it seem like something kind of psychological is going on as well. The reason why I thought there could be Crime in there is because of the front cover of the film as it has a few men in a police station standing up against a backboard with numbers to show their height in front of a camera. And finally the reason why I thought there could be Mystery in there is because of the titles at the beginning it doesn't give anything away so it wants you to think about the film.
Narrative: The narrative wasn't that easy to work out really because there wasn't anything shown in the opening titles, I think that it will be about a few men that get caught by the police or something like that by looking at the cover of the film as well.
Characters: In the sense of characters in this opening titles sequence, I could see that there would be a man as the main actor in this film because he is featured in the opening. I could see from the titles that there were a few actors names I knew in there such as Kevin Spacey and Stephen Baldwin, they seemed like the main actors as well as Gabriel Byrne, Kevin Pollack, Chazz Palmintiri and Pete Postlethwaite because they all came up on the screen together as titles.
Atmosphere: The atmosphere within these opening titles is predominately mysterious although at some points it does make you feel on edge as it is a very weird but plain opening sequence.
Setting: From watching the opening titles sequence, I couldn't tell where the film is set to be honest as it doesn't really give it away, it could perhaps be set in a police station in New York or something just by the way the front cover of the film looks.
Sound: The non-diegetic music over the top of the opening titles makes it seem even more creepy and mysterious as it is just simple mysterious sounds but keeps you on edge.
Titles: The titles in the opening titles sequence are silvery and black this is the effect I think the producer was going for because I feel that he want's to set the scene for the film but not give too much away.
The Opening Titles for the film Identity (2003) gives the audience some indication of what is to come up in the film because this opening title sequence shows a little bit about the story I feel as it has a picture of the actor next to their names on the titles and these opening titles give away its setting. These opening titles are very short though at about 30 seconds.
Genre: From watching the opening titles of the film, I could work out the genre of the film because unlike the other one I feel that this one want's you to know the genre of the film before you start to watch it and I think it is a Horror and Psychological Thriller. The reason why I thought it was a psychological thriller is mainly because of the colour scheme and there could have been a hint of crime in there because of the detective stuff going on but it seemed more like a psychological thriller to me. And the reason why I thought there could be Horror in there is because of the front cover as it has generic conventions of a horror such as blood and someone screaming.
Narrative: The narrative wasn't that easy to work out really because there wasn't really much shown about the film except from the location, I think that it could be something about police again and the characters have done something wrong and there being tracked down hence the name "Identity" for the film.
Characters: In the sense of characters in this opening titles sequence, I could see that there would be three men and two women as the main actors and actresses. The males are called Aidan Gillan, Elyes Gabel and Shaun Parkes and the women are called Keeley Hawes and Holly Aird.
Atmosphere: The atmosphere within these opening titles is predominately mysterious as well because they also make you feel on edge and you want to know what is going to happen next and it is a very good opening sequence.
Setting: From watching the opening titles sequence, I could tell where the film is set because of the establishing shot at the beginning and it is in London as you can see Canary Wharf and the river Thames.
Sound: I wanted to do this opening sequence as I felt it was a really good one for the genre but with this clip I got from YouTube there is no sound on it and there were no other opening titles of this on there so I had to use this one.
Titles: The titles in the opening titles sequence are pretty plain really but the font sort of makes it fit the genre, this is the effect I think the producer was going for because I feel that he want's to set the scene for the film but not give too much away again.
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