Planning- Task 25- Head on activity

Spider-man 3

Spider-man 3 is an example of a film that has a good/influential title sequence. The title sequence introduces the characters with still images and moving clips/images. This suggests and shows the audience who the main characters are and what will happen within the film.

The sequence also contains a clear storyline which is a man being bitten by a spider and hence becomes Spider-man who protects the city from evil and harm.  As it is the last film in the Spider-man trilogy it carries on the storyline from the previous films. Spider-man 3 is set one year after the events from Spider-man 2. Peter Parker has become a cultural phenomenon as Spider-man, while Mary Jane Watson continues her Broadway career. Harry Osborn still seeks vengeance for his father's death and an escaped Flint Mark Owen falls into a particle accelerator and is transformed into a shape-shifting sand manipulator. An extra-terrestrial symbiote crashes to Earth and bonds with Peter, influencing his behaviour for the worst.

The colours used in the sequence are dark colours. E.g. the webs used are white but the background is a black/greyish colour.

You know that it will take place in a city from the title sequence but towards the end and the previous films. 
A costume of Spider-man is an example of a prop that is used to portray his character. The costume suggests that it is a Superhero/action movie. 

The shots that are used consists of close ups, medium close ups, medium shots and long shots. The camera movement in the sequence consists of fading and cutting out into the next scene. These different types of shots are displayed within a spider web.

There is Non-Diegetic sound used in the sequence. The sound correlates with the images being displayed. So as the image images speed up so does the music. Towards the end of the sequence  the tone of the music changes and the images within the sequence become a lot darker as the Web had disappeared. And it's mostly black and grey colours.

The reason why I think this is an influential sequence is that it is different from many others films One reason why it is different from many other films is that the images are presented within the spider web. Also towards the end I like how the tone changes. As once before there was the colour white (from the web) which can represent innocence, faith and goodness, against a black background. However that changed into dark colours like black and grey which suggests the fight between good and evil. 

Panic Room

 Panic Room is also another example of a good/influential title sequence. One main reason is that it is very simple but yet effective. For examples most of the title sequence shows buildings which have the title credited on top of them (at all sorts of angles). However the font, colour and size correlate with the buildings. Also there are different types of shots for different buildings. Examples of shots used are worm’s eye view, long shot, medium shot and establishing shots. The location of the film we know is to be set in a city. These shots helps  add something extra to the sequence.

Non-Diegetic sound is used in the sequence. The sound is fairly slow in the beginning but slowly picks up pace. You can also here many different types of instrument being played, which helps to make the audience feel tensed.

Lastly Diegetic sound is used, this sound includes hearing cars and police sirens in the city scene. The police sirens suggest that it is a thriller/ crime related.