INSPIRATIONS AND RESEARCHES

          For my story I decided to look at some movie title sequence to get inspiration of how title sequence works and also how I can communicate to the audience about what the movie is about. And here are some of the title sequence I looked at :

 

              One of the movie title sequence that got my attention is series "Dexter" which is about a serial killer disguised as a crime scene analyst, At first we can clearly see from the beginning of the movie some l hint of violence with the killing of the mosquito, to cutting an orange with a knife and also cutting himself while shaving. This is a well detailed start up for a movie as we already know there's going to be blood shed setting the audience in the right mood and anticipation of what the series is about. Also the font used in this sequence is red and self explanatory.

 

        Here is another title sequence of another series called "penny dreadful" it is presented in a dark gloomy evil kind of way with different creatures in slow motion in an up close manner, letting us get a feel of what the series is about, with this movie you can sense a bit of religion with the usage of a cross, blood which means there's going to be murder, and some type of supernatural occurrence as the movie progresses.

        True detective is also a good one I looked at, the whole presentation is smooth showing different locations in the city inside within the characters silhouette. Also with this series we can get a feeling of some religious topics been raised within the movie. Sex also could be part of the series as we can see some female figures presented in a sexual way. Even the song choice gives a flow to the movie creating some kind of  calmness to the beginning of the movie. An opposite of this where the music  matches the content of the movie is  "300"where the title credit is quite full of action and the font choice is red and quite dramatic giving the audience piece of  sneak piece  the movie

 

 

              And finally the walking dead, looking at the walking dead you get a feeling of earthy, kind of feeling to it from the colour choice, font which is like dark brownish colour etc. Also we get a feeling of what is going on, like images of different location presented in a way that looks unpleasant, dirty and abandoned. Even the style itself is non aggressive and natural as each scene flows with each other.

 

 

 

COLOUR USAGE IN MOVIES

 

          Movie/movie sequence uses colours on how they want the audience to feel at the beginning scene of the movies for example red represents anger, heat, danger, blood etc which is used in movies and font colours as well to depict certain image of the movie before it even begins.

Colours like Orange represents humour, energy, vibrance in movies. Black represents power, sexuality, evil, sadness, elegance, evil, sadness and anger etc. Gold represents precious, riches, extravagance. warm, wealth, prosperity, grandeur. And Blue represents both negative and positive. the positive side of blue are   faith, spirituality, contentment, loyalty, fulfillment peace, tranquility, calm, stability, harmony, unity, trust, truth, confidence, conservatism, security, cleanliness, order, sky, water, cold, technology. Negative sides are depression, scary, gloomy etc.

Below are different movie colour usage.

This scene shows evil act going on with someone being attack in the dark.

 

Here is a movie with dominant colour blue to make the audience feel scared and afraid.

 

like this scene we can get a feeling of warmness/vibrance.

 

 

Here is a movie where the colour usage is mostly gold,showing riches ,and wealth.

 

Overall I was able to get some ideas on how to colour works in movies/title sequence, usage of fonts, style and meaning behind each scene. I believe its very useful to know this in other for me to progress with my plan and how I execute them.