Titles Task

An area students often mess up this titles task will help you learn how film institutions help identify both the film and the production company involved, and to act as a signal to viewers that the film had started.

Here are some links for initial research.

www.watchthetitles.com/


Top 10 Movie Opening Credits - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKlQ0XrLSYU

Art of the Title

www.artofthetitle.com is an amazing website dedicated to titles.

Watch this and be inspired by some of the best title designs of all time:

http://www.artofthetitle.com/news/a-brief-history-of-title-design-announced/

http://www.artofthetitle.com/feature/the-title-design-of-saul-bass/

Be inspired. Then listen to Richard Morrison's interview and advice and write three points he makes which may be relevant to your own production.

http://www.watchthetitles.com/articles/00193-Richard_Morrison_interview

Choose one title sequences from films in www.artofthetitle.com
Screengrab each title in order, write down the jobs titles and seconds from the start so that you can and the length of each title. Write a summary discussing the various titles, fonts, colours, sound, effects and any meaning that may link them to the genre or narrative. Titles are numbered T1, T2 etc