MAIN TASK: Post 1: Conventions of and opening sequence

By looking at a number of different opening sequences on http://www.artoftitle.com/ i have noticed the main conventions of and opening sequence and they are:

• They show the name of the film industry that are involved with the production of the particular film.
• They show the names of the main actors and actresses in the film.
• They have the theme music playing throughout the sequence.
• They show the names of the main people in the technical team such as the director and the producer, they do not show all the names because there are too many so they show all of the names right at the end of the film in the credits.
• They use some moving images from the film.
• They use animations that would fit the genre of the film e.g Casino Royale
• They use relevant colours such as in a horror film they would use mainly darker colours.

Se7en

• They use mainly black and white in the clips that they show which tells us that it is proberly a horror film.
• They have different noises behind the music, high pitched, scream
• Writing of names, title etc. move quickly, intense, jumpy
• Images shown over another clip
• Some flashing when names go off the screen

This particular film sequence was a horror film, it showed images of things in the film and was a very dark sequence which is more intense and also the clips that were shown in it were jumpy and quick which is giving a more intense feel to it.

The incredibles

• Bright colours
• Livley music
• Fast animated images
• Bold writing

This is a liveley and more colourful opening sequence compared to se7en, this is showing that how different the sequence and the different ways of doing things is with different genres of film.