Research: The Importance of Titles In Film Opening

Titles are very important in a films just because it clarifies what type of film genre you are about to watch.The opening title sequence of a film is that film’s opportunity to make a good first impression on you, the viewer. A well-crafted title sequence introduces the audience to the tone and theme of the film as well as the cast and crew. For example, they tell the audience a lot of information about the film as shown above. In the film 'Se7en' the name 'Brad Pitt' is first to come up as he is the most well-known and famous actor in the film and it was very important to have him in the opening titles of the film because it might attract the audience. Not only is this good for the movie but it is also good for Brad Pitt because it raises his profile and exposure.

 Here is how the opening text of the film looks like. the thing with this is the way it is been presented and here they have used the idea of credits as handwriting to suggest the dark part of John Doe’s personality and his obsession, and he actually scratched all the credits on a scratchboard and then scanned it back in. Then they made an animation, pieces of film where the type is clear and everything around it is black, and put those on a light box and shot them all on film, and then opened the gate and over-exposed them. they had to composite all these type accidents on top of the live action plate 

(se7en opening title)

here are two other opening titles that are totally different to se7en but from the opening, you can easily get the idea of what type of film they are:

here the the opening for saturday night fever which is a film that you get the feeling of people eventually dancing, partying and having fun through out and this was showed from the use of music and how the characters footstep matched the background music and the use 

In the case of a James Bond movie, its gun barrel sequence, as designed by Maurice Binder, acts as a fanfare. Then the raucous music, vibrant colours and dancing silhouettes kick in, preparing the audience for a heightened realm of intrigue and violence. The Bond films have changed much over the past 40 years, but their use of titles as a means of establishing tone and pace have remained broadly the same.