Title research: Eva

During the opening sequence of the film there are titles displayed eighteen.  The movie Eva is about a programmer named Alex. He returns to his home town after ten years to work on a robot boy. He uses his ten year old niece, Eva, as his muse and inspiration.The opening sequence shows many images and varying perspectives of design. They are meant to mimic the behavior of interconnected elements inside a neural network. There is incredible detail in the images. Soon the neural elements start to transform into mechanical looking tools and objects representing the elements of the robotic child. The visuals of the neural network and the mechanical objects are connotative of the elements of the a robotic being. They do not contain the spiritual and emotional elements which make up the human brain. That is why the neural networks in the opening sequences develop into machinery. Through this the genre is also reinforced. Science fiction is a genre of speculative fiction that typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as this one which would be advanced science and technology. The extremely delicate and intricate visuals show ideas which are far beyond our modern day technological platforms. To ensure it is appealing to the right audience the title sequence uses technology in motion demonstrating the futuristic elements of the genre. Through delicate and intricate details of the title sequence were made possibly through 3-D animation. This is a useful form of animation because it allows for movie designers to reproduce something that can not be produced in real life or would be to difficult to reproduce. 3-D animation is also used for efficiency. Sometimes designers find it quicker,cheaper and more practical to produce designs through technological platforms. With the use of technology the designers were also able to capture obscure angles and camera movements. Computer animation can also be more versatile when capturing certain views of something because their are no restrictions such as those found in real life. As a result their is a variation of close-ups, zooms, pans, and tilts which are produced from computer software are created.This can be used to enforce anticipation and excitement while also foreshadowing parts of the film or the main story line.

Title research: Dunya and Desi

In the beginning sequence of the film Dunya and Desi there twenty-one titles displayed. The story revolves around two eighteen-year-old best friends who are experiencing their own personal crises which leads them to the same country on their own adventures. There is a pattern of feminine and girl imagines prioritized in the opening sequence. There are female products scattered all over the opening credits such as makeup, magazines and other miscellaneous items that would be found in a young women's room. This is likely representative of their age and signifies that they are still young and growing because it looks significantly of how an older women's room would look. There are also several photos showcased of Dunya and Desi. Many of their photos together are prioritized in the opening sequence because their friendship is what drives the plot. It is important to the development of the story line. The images are directly connotative in showing the audience that Dunya and Desi are best friends who play a big role in each others lives and that they are still maturing and growing together. The genre of the film is comedy. The messy and unorganized images can reinforce comedy. As compared to a horror or thriller the opening sequence is very playful and all over the place. To make its appeal to its target audience it creates a disorganized sequence which many people can relate to and find amusing. People are often satisfied when plot lines and characters are realistic and relate able to it's audience. The opening sequence was done with real props and a camera. This allows for traditional camera work such as zoom ins and zoom outs. The role of the movements in the opening sequence are to show off the titles. I think it was very clever for the designers to fit the names of the titles into objects in the room. The camera does a good job making sure that the titles are visible and stand out even though that they disorganized a bunch of other objects but focusing on the titles and making them stand out from everything else.

Title Research: The Final Destination

How many titles are displayed during the opening sequences to the film?
The movie The Final Destination was the second movie we chose to research. There was a total of 21 titles displayed throughout the 1 minute and 29 seconds. We found this beginning sequence on watchthetitles.com

What images are prioritized in the opening sequence?
The whole beginning sequence of the movie is based on humans getting killed in different ways. In the beginning the director uses an x-ray kind of vision to show the animations. He or she displays humans getting killed in multiple ways. It ranges from a person getting nails stuck in their head to someones head getting sliced open vertically. For the animations it's not always a whole persons skeleton being killed. The director uses blood splatter to represent a person being killed. For example, there's a scene in the beginning sequence where a train is coming and the audience can assume it hit a person because what followed was blood splatter coming toward the screen.

What connotations do the images carry?
The connotations of the images show that the movie following it is going to be scary or about death. The images show something that people are scared of which is death. This means the beginning sequence makes the audience feel scared or anxious.

How is genre reinforced through symbolic and technical codes from the outset?
The animations shown in the beginning sequence reinforces the genre through symbolic codes.
The images in the beginning give people that scared feeling which reinforces the genre. The director  made sure to include animations that go with the movie because it would not enforce the genre whatsoever if they showed animations of bunny rabbits in the beginning sequence.

What strategies are used to ensure the film appeals to it's target audience?
The target audience for The Final Destination is anyone that is ages 16 and up. The movie leans toward people that enjoy scary or gory movies. The animations of people dying help to keep the audience engaged or actually want to see the movie.

How has technology been used effectively? 
A bunch of different angles have been used in the beginning sequence which helps keep it less boring which will in-turn keep the audience entertained. The art of animation has also been effectively used. This got the point that the movie will be gory an scary across without it being too gory. Editing was a good part of the beginning sequence because it goes hand and hand with the animation. This just made the sequence more appealing.

Title research: Austin Powers

How many titles are displayed during the opening sequences to the film?
There was a total of 18 titles in the opening sequence to the film Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery. I watched the beginning sequence off of a website called artofthetitle.com The beginning sequence was a total of four minutes and ten seconds. These included the title of the movie along with who casted the people for the film, and who picked out the movie, ect.

What images were prioritized in the opening sequence?
 The whole beginning sequence was based around girls going crazy over Austin Powers. The opening scene starts with him walking down the street in London, England. Everyone is wearing crazy 80's clothing and they begin to dance. Austin proceeds to walk down the street while a big crowd of girls begin to form. He starts running shortly after this, trying to get away from them. He finds various disguises to conceal himself from the mob of women.

What connotations do the images carry?
The meaning of the opening sequence being the way it is which is women chasing him is to set up a basic knowledge of him for the rest of the movie. It shows that he's irresistible to some and that he's famous.

How is genre reinforced through symbolic and technical codes from the outset?
The genre is comedy for the Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery movie. Genre is reinforced through symbolic codes because it it shows in the beginning that the movie is going to be funny and light-hearted. The women chasing him is never serious, as he's always smiling throughout the time.
Every time he tries to disguise himself it's always in a comedic way, it's never scary or serious.

What strategies are used to ensure the film appeals to it's target audience?
 The target audience for the movie is anyone from ages 13 through 50.  It's anyone that wants a good laugh but also likes crime involved as well. So the director keeps the theme of comedy throughout the film by adding funny gestures and dialogue throughout the film.

How has technology been used effectively?
Technology has been used effectively by using a variety of it that will enhance the theme of comedy.

Title research: watchthetitles.com

We got this movie title off of watchthetitles.com. For this website, we chose the title page named, “The Snow White and the Huntsman”.  In this title page, it quite basic as there is not much but just the whole name of the movie in bold black print. The background consists of a winter theme background as to resemble the winter theme since the movie is about Snow White. The title announces the identifier of your screenplay — no different than your given name that people use to refer to you. It’s important because a great title is also a key marketing factor of your script. It can win someone over right away or turn them off instantly. Not only that, a title page is important as it also gives many of the general information behind the film.
The general information that goes along with that title, including the name of the writer(s) involved, their representation, and their contact number, are essential for networking and contact information. This way, viewers get a sense of who created the films and who the movie was written and acted by. Speaking on the main title page, my group would create a more vivid and colorful title page so it can catch the viewers attention better.

Title research: Artofthetitle.com

   We got the this title page from artofthetitle.com. In this title page named the "Carnival Row", it portrays the whole text of the movie across the screen. The background resembles a temple and it seems like a fairy shape right above the text. Titles play an important role in the marketing, reception, and even understanding of a film – they are often the first piece of information that a viewer is given. Since a title needs to be appealing, memorable, original, and encapsulating all at once, a good title can be hard to come by. Watching this title page, it attracts to the viewers which is very important as you want a attractive title page so it gets the viewers attention. Since we are creating a movie, we wanted to create a similar title page where we would have the name of our movie spread across the screen and we would have a related background in the back of our title. There were many other title pages on this website that appealed to my group but we still instead to decided to go with this one instead. The bold lettering and the dark background made our eyes catch right into the title. This is what we would like when we create our own title page for our own movie. We would want the viewer to understand what we will be portraying in our movie. We want the viewers to have a glimpse of what our movie will be about.

Genre research: Jexi

      Another movie we chose for our genre is Jexi. This is a comedy based movie which features Phil, who is the main character of this movie and he has a major dependency issue -- he's addicted to his cellphone. He has no friends and his love life is nonexistent. Forced to upgrade to a new phone, Phil soon learns that the latest model comes with Jexi -- an artificial intelligence life coach, virtual assistant and cheerleader. With its help, he begins to get a real life but as he becomes less dependent on the phone, Jexi starts to morph into a tech nightmare that's determined to keep Phil all to itself. The phone assistant, Jexi starts overriding the phones control and starts ordering Phil to do actions or else the phone will act up and potentially embarrassed or ruins Phil’s reputation in public and his workplace. As the movie plays throughout, Phil starts getting more used to his phone as he sees that it not as bad as he thought since the phone got him promoted at his job and also helped him get his first girl’s number.

          My group really enjoyed this show as it not only funny but a lot of camera angles and editing techniques as used throughout the whole movie. Since the group project is focused on the opening of a movie, we watched the opening of Jexi multiple times as it was quite confusing at first since the opening of Jexi is just scenes of people walking around the streets, all staring at their cellphone so it got my group wondering what was the purpose of that other than the people in this movie is all addicted into their cellphone. However, as time passed, we gained a further understanding of the opening of Jexi, the purpose of the opening of Jexi was to show the audience and viewers that the main character is addicted to his cellphone and is not aware of his surrounding. This will eventually lead to the climax of the movie which is when Phil bumped into another person which caused him to break his phone and forced him into getting a new phone.

           The movie really starts getting more interesting as Phil receives his new phone and starts interacting with his new mobile assistant known as Jexi. My group wanted to use similar scenes from Jexi to create a humorous opening for our own movie. We wanted to make a opening such as a scene from Jexi where we will have one of our group member open a phone box to act like they just received a new phone and the phone will get activated and starts voicing commands to the group member. This will freak out the group member and we will have the group member screeching and running around the room which will set the viewers laughing. We thought this will be a very creative opening for our project because not only does it cause a sense of mystery as to what will happen throughout our movie but it will also set a good laugh seeing our members in fear and being clumsy.