Title Sequences

Title sequence

The opening sequence of a film MUST hint to the audience the genre and storyline of the film, which can be difficult to do in a short space of time.

Although this title sequence from 'Seven' isn't the same genre as our film, it is a perfect example of how it portrays the films genre.
This is done through iconography of the genre. For example, black and white portrays a dark, eerie atmosphere for the audience and the use of the colour red connotes blood and danger.


Every film uses the iconography of its genre in their titles in order to portray the films message to the audience.
Even in a film as famous as James Bond, its titles show that it is an action film.

This still from the opening of the James Bond is the same in all the films. The shot from the point of view of a gun shows the audience the genre as weapons and violence are associated with actions film and again, the red represents the blood which is an iconography of this genre too.

Our film is a drama. An example of a title sequence from a film of this genre is Little Miss Sunshine. The purpose of this title sequence is to introduce the members of the family. It is very light hearted due to the target audience. 

This example screen shot shows the daughter of the family. By having each of the members drawn in cartoon form, it suggests that the audience the film revolved around and is aimed at is children. Additionally, taking the storyline into consideration of beauty pageants, it also shows that it is predominantly females who would watch Little Miss Sunshine.

Although our film is also a drama, due to our storyline including cancer, it cannot be as light hearted. Despite this though, it isn't revealed straight away and, so that it is as shocking as possible, we could have the titles not hint cancer at all. For example, link more to the 'magic chocolate' side of our film.