Blue Valentine
The titles appear over the top of fireworks displaying images, the titles are in a bold white font which makes them stand out against the black background. The actors names appear with their second names more enlarged than their first names, this makes the font look interesting and engaging for the audience. The titles appear for three seconds and are three seconds apart. The sound of the firework bangs are in time with when the titles appear making the whole title sequence fit in together and look very professional.
Days of Heaven
The film starts with a sepia tone image with the title of the film in a big capitalised white font with a black border. The film names takes up the whole screen and fades in and out. The screen then shows a variety of different pictures, scrolling up or down and displaying actors names in the same font as the film title. The titles last for seven seconds and have a five second gap between them. The music playing fits in with the titles and overall the title sequence flows well.
Sherlock Holmes
The Sherlock Holmes titles is our main inspiration for our own title sequence.
The Sherlock Holmes title sequence firstly introduces the audience to the time period of the story this is indicated by the sketched images and the font of the titles being a messy hand written font. The pace in which the titles are displayed is fast perhaps indicating that the film will be quick and spontaneous. The images which are used throughout the title sequence are from the main events which happen throughout the film, this gives the audience an indicator of what is to come throughout the film and attract them into the storyline, making them wonder what events are going to take place. The images are also used to introduce the audience to the main characters and show the close friendship between them both, this is used to set the spectator up for events which involves the two friends later on in the film. The images go from moving scenes within the film to still frames which are transformed into sketched images on parchment like paper, the colours change from greys and blues to muddy brown and red colours, again introducing the audience to the time period the film is set in. The way the images suddenly are captured and transformed also hints at the genre of the film, mystery, the audience want to know what is going to happen next which gives the opening of the film a sense of wonder.
I personally enjoyed the Sherlock Holmes title sequence because of how it introduces the audience to the film and engages them without giving any of the storyline away. We have decided to take still images from our film and transform them into hand-drawn looking images for our title sequence, hoping to achieve the same effect on the audience in which the Sherlock titles do.
