Title Research: Underwater

They are 25 titles in the opening scene of underwater. At the beginning the titles start descending down the screen which correlates with the title under water. Those titles are just the companies that collaborated to create underwater and the title underwater. After the titles just start to appear on the screen in a smaller font ranging from executive producers to star actors. Images that are prioritized in the opening scene is the subtitles and words in a newspaper. An example would be "worlds deepest drill under construction.” This obviously makes the audience assume that a main plot of the movie will be the drilling being that it was one of the boldest worlds during the opening scene. Another image prioritized is the large map of the ocean. This tells the audience that the main setting will be the pacific ocean or the Marina trench because the camera begins to zoom into as the opening scene continues.
The connotations that the images carry are a feeling of seriousness and suspense as well. It brings these feelings out by the images themselves. The images are different documents and facts that tell certain things that are important to the film. These images show some of the facts, but leave the audience wondering what importance the images have in the film. Not only does it have the audience guessing, but it brings out a level of seriousness cause of the different official documents that are shown. This brings out the importance in the film by the audience knowing that official documents such as those shows something significant happening. The genre is reinforced through symbolic and technical codes from the outset by the director using different the titles as a way to represent the film. The titles are presented in a going down manner to represent that the film is going to be taken place underwater. This hints to the audience that the film will be taken place underwater. The title of the film also gives some hint to this as well. The director also hints to some of the details to the film in the documents shown by including statements like “under water drilling project”. This reinforces the mysteriousness of the film because it leaves the audience wanting more. 
The film establishes enigma from the outset by leaving the audience wanting more. It does this by having the documents have words on them that hints to the details of the film, but they move very quickly. This makes the audience want to know what the document says and leaves them wondering what hints does the documents give them. 
The strategies that are used to ensure the film appeals it’s targeted audience is the editing techniques that they use and the sound as well. The sound and the editing techniques make it seem like something is about to come out of the screen. These types of effects attract people who like to adventure and people that are curious. The images of the documents talking about drilling underwater also attracts marine life enthusiasts and people interested in the environmental factors of the drill. Technology was used effectively by the editing techniques and the transitions. The transitions were very fast portraying a sense of urgency for the film. This helped let the audience know that this was important as well. Not only were they fast, but the transitions were going downwards to connect with the title underwater, which enhances the suspense for the movie. Also, since some of the documents shown were newspapers it gives off the sense that the incident was so important that it was in the news. This is an important technique using technology because the audience knows that things in the news are major events that the world needs to know about, this means that if this was in the news then it was a very important event. Not only was it in one news paper, but the sequence shows that it was in many newspapers across the world. This makes the audience even more eager for what actually happened and in the process shrouds the incident that took place in more mystery. 

All of these things that I have said combined reinforces and enhances the mystery aspect of the film efficiently.

Title Research: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

There are 29 titles displayed during the title sequence of the movie. The images that are prioritized during the opening sequence of the film are many dark images portrayed as being tortured. The shapes are shaped as human beings and you can see some of the features. Some of these features that you can see are the human mouth, eyes, hair, arms, legs and the rest of the body. Some of the torture things that you see are the people being bounded by a mouth gag, people being burned alive, and also eyes being burned. These images bring out the audience's curiosity. It does this by showing some of the torturing devices being used and having the audience wondering what is going to happen in the movie. It makes the audience wonder what leads to such devices of torture and it also has the audience questioning what the movie's details entail. Not only does it bring out the curiosity of the audience, but it also creates a sense of suspense through the way the titles are being displayed on the screen and the gory images on the screen. These things combined brings our the mystery genre of the film.

The genre is reinforced through the symbolic and technical codes from the opening sequence through the ways the titles were placed on the film and by the font the titles were in. The titles seemed to be slammed on to the opening sequence and were moving sort of fast like they were running away from something. This leaves the audience with a suspenseful attitude, thinking about what is going to happen in the film. Not only are the way the titles are placed giving a suspenseful feeling to the audience, but the font the titles are placed in is a font that would be the titles of newspapers. Mystery genres usually have something to do with finding out something through the use of news articles and then investigating it which gives the film this mysterious feel. The images are another way that shows the mysterious nature of the film. The torturing of the people show that there is going to be some type of crime in the film that will be investigated. This connects the font of the titles to the pictures showing that both of them work together in order to give the film the mysterious sense to fit the genre. Not only does the fonts and the titles play an important role reinforcing the mysterious side of the film, but the music does as well. The music works well with the titles and the images by enhancing the feeling of mystery from both the title and images.

The film establishes an enigma of the film by the images. The images of the film are very difficult to understand. They start with an eye burning and goes on to show people splitting apart and looking like they are screaming. This leaves the audience puzzled because they do not know what is going on in the film. Not only is enigma established by that image, but the image with the shadowed figure blindfolded has the audience questioning why the image is blindfolded and what purpose does this show in the film. The techniques that that is used in the opening sequence of the movie that attracts the attended audience are the lighting of the images being displayed and the music of the title sequence. The lighting the images are being placed in is a very dark lighting. This lighting causes a ominous feeling that attracts a more adventurous audience that would want to explore the things that the images portray.Technology has been used effectively by the different editing techniques used. The editing used includes the fastness of the images coming on and off the screen, the way the music goes along with each image moving along the screen. The effects of the eye burning and the people splitting apart also enhances the genre of the movie. The bodies melting away like candle wax and then re-emerging from the ground into a solid form give the movie that mysterious and suspenseful sense. It makes the audience wonder what’s about to happen in the movie. 

All of the these things that I have spoken about enhances and brings out the mysterious genre of the movie.

Title Research: The Conjuring 2

There are 29 titles that are displayed in the opening sequence. The titles range from producer to costume designs by. Images that are prioritized are of tape recorders, families, and houses. Also, crosses, damaged couches and beds, and a dead looking nun are shown. Some images are side by side of actors and pictures of the real characters. Since the movie is based off true events real pictures are displayed. The images create a sense of mystery and thriller. Most images are dark. This creates a suspenseful atmosphere. There's a happy family but damaged goods in some of the images.

Genre is reinforced through symbolic and technical codes by some of the images being black and white. It shows something has happened and there will be an investigation.

The film establishes an enigma by the footages used. The footages have no direct connection to each other. The opening sequence shows a couple of families and then a nun. The nun looks dark and scary. This could mean that the nun has something to do with the families. 

Strategies that are used to ensure the film appeals to its target audience is by the suspenseful background and sound. Dark, lowkey lighting is used throughout the opening sequence. This creates a suspense that’ll interest audiences. Audiences that like mystery movies enjoy the inauspicious that’ll keep them on the edge of their seats. This creates a gloomy mood. 

An old projector showing film stock video footage is used. Each footage that pops up is a key element to the film. An example would be the families and the nun. The nun has to be connected with the family. Also, each footage was edited to have vignette. This creates importance to the photos. The opening scene was effectively created to produce interest.

Title Research: Get Out

They are 22 titles displayed during the opening sequences to the film. The titles range from executive producers to important actors. Images such as a white car driving away and the pictures taken by the camera are prioritized during the opening sequence. They are prioritized because they are emphasized on the screen by having a longer screen time. Such as the driving away of the white car uses about 40 seconds of the man getting in the car and driving away. While all the black and white pictures are emphasized because they are so many different versions. This makes the audience assume that they're from the camera showed in the next shot which will connect to something. Conclusions taken from these images is that in some part of the film they will become important to the plot of the film. The genre is reinforced throughout the symbolic codes by the images are all black and white or dark colors which makes someone try to figure out where the images would be placed during the film. The technical codes shown is the story being told throughout assuming that they're going somewhere and something might happen when they arrive. I assume that because the male charterer is shaving and taking a shower while the female is buying coffee and breakfast pastries. However, in the beginning, the white car makes the audience assume that it had something to do with main character either packing something in their trunk then leaving. The genre is definitely reinforced because it makes us question everything that is happening. This film establishes an enigma because first it begins when someone gets out a car and then packs something in it and then drives off which makes the audience question what the person is actually packing. Another enigma the film is establishing is the question of “where are they going?” The strategies used is having the audience question their every moves. Such as the pictures all we were wondering was what would happen with those. I even wondered whether the white car was important or not. Maybe it was just there to throw us off the questions about the pictures. The technology use was efficient such as how far the camera was when the guy was packing the car one technology strategy was the camera being so far. We didn't know what he was packing however we assumed it was important. Get out titles were efficient because we payed attention to each title that appeared. The opening scene had me questioning the next scene.

Title Research: Watch the Titles Website

While continuing the research on title sequences, we came across another website. This website was called "Watch the Titles". I learned how to navigate the website and where to go to find title sequences. This website was very similar to the "Art of the Title" website that we discovered. It had various title sequences from different movies. However, they included interviews from famous actors and included title sequences created by students. They also provided examples of title sequences used in video games. One cool thing about this website was they they provided title sequences from french cinema. On my free time, I watched those videos as well because I was interested to see what they were like in France. My group members and I have been researching title sequences so that we can create on for our film. On this website, we watched title sequences that were in the mystery genre. We utilized this website so we can get more examples of title sequences. I saw that many movies used sound and visuals in the title sequence to make the sequence more interesting. They also included the names of the cast members, production team, and etc. Now that we watched many example of title sequences and how they portray the genre of the film, we are excited to create one on our own!

Title Research: Art of the Title Research

The other day, we came across a website called "Art of the Title". On this website, it had a variety of title sequences from hit movies. They included movies from certain studios. For example, pixar animation studios. I realized that the website organized top ten movie title sequences through the years. For example, they had the top ten title sequences from 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019. Not only that, they also included title sequences from binge-worthy tv shows. One thing I liked about the website is that they included movies from different genres. While exploring the website, we watched multiple title sequences. Most of the title sequences were very interesting. The visual effects that were used added Title sequences are the opening sequence of movies and tv shows. Often they would include the title, key production, cast members and etc. They would utilize cool visuals and sounds to make it more engaging. I learned that the editors of the film will use music and titles that will help the viewers infer the genre. As for the mystery genre, we realized that the music would be suspenseful. The website was very beneficial because it gave my group members and I and idea of how we want our title sequence to be.

Get out

Movies similar to our genres are easier to spot being that a mystery genre typically has a plot of solving a mystery.Some noticeable camera shots in the specific movie is the use of close ups . When a film maker use close shots it makes the audience focus on that subject.One of the films i focused on was "Get Out" Produced by Jordan Pelee. An example in get out of a close up shot is when Chris face is zoomed when being hypnotized , this gives audience the ability to feel his emotions. Another camera shot Jordan Peele uses is the point of view shots. When we take the place of Chris eyes and see the Gardner running towards him. This also makes the audience focus on the gardener and have a curious mindset on what will happen next. Another aspect of this film is the use of low angles . Such as when Chris explains his concerns about him being uncomfortable and Georgina responds. This is also used to emphasize the emotions of Chris concern. However Movements in mystery genres tend to vary. However in this movie they're a lot of tracking shots. Such as when their in the car driving to their parents house. It made the audience feel as if they were driving along side of them. Another movement was the zoom as They closed into Chris face it felt as if we felt his emotions and hurt more and more.

Movies such as Get out tends to use the same editing strategies.One editing strategy i took note of is the jump cuts. Such as when the camera cuts away when Chris looks at something. During the scene of the Gardner running away the camera cuts away as he turns. Which emphasize the curiosity of why the man is running. Another editing strategy i saw was the insert of the pictures during his hypnotism. They inserted the pictures to show his memories. The sound of the movie had typical scary movie music. Which included the taunting sound of having the audience believe that something is happening.

I love mystery movies, it keeps me on the edge of my seat . Get out especially kept me on the edge of my seat with the different camera shot tactics. Being that I learned about all the reasons why movie producers use different angles and shots it made it more easier after watching it another time. The movie became clearer as i understood the emphasize of the angles, movements, and sound and editing. However there are somethings that i dislike about this genre. I dislike how a mystery genre tends to have the same plot. I also dislike how the conventions tends to be a dark setting rather than a a sunny or lighter. A lot of mysteries happen during the day so for our project we will hopefully twist the conventions a little.

It wasn’t many customs in the film. They were just everyday clothing and job attire. However the lightening played a significance in this film such as the darkness during the hypnotism which made us connect the dots during the hypnotism. Also the actors even tho they were plan regular people if the maid and garner didn’t act in such way we wouldn’t have been curious of the workers. The close up of the maid showed the audience her make up which made the audience question her character. Another aspect of the film was is the props being used such as the axe or even the tea cup during the hypnotism. The setting made the movie which every different idea was in a different science which made us connect all pieces of the story together.