Making a Title Sequence (Group Project) - Coursework

In my media AS class as part of our coursework we are creating our own title sequence and as part of our planning here is some research on other films that have the same conventions that my group are trying to show in our own product (title sequence).

Existing Product Conventions

The Orphanage (2004) – This film was written by Claudio Carvalho in 1996 and finally debuted in 2004 with Jaun Antonio Bayona as the director. The film tells the story of a woman brings her family back to her childhood home, where she wishes to open an orphanage for disabled children. But soon after, her son begins to communicate with an invisible new friend. This film shows many of the usual conventions of a psychological horror, as Bayona successfully uses images and sounds to create enigma throughout the film keeping the audience intrigued into Carvalho’s twisted plot. Using a range of techniques such as; low tilts, high key lighting, creaking doors, off-screen sounds, and a combination of unnatural shapes, although these effects may sound very simple, visually they pose as very effective.

 

The Ring ( 2002)- this is an American psychological thriller that tells the story of a young journalist who has to investigate a mysterious videotape that causes the death of anyone who watches it a week later. Adapted from the Japanese novel written by Koji Suzuki, American writer Erhen Kruger was able to recreate this novel into a film for a wider range of audience, alongside Gore Verbinski as the director.

It (1990)- This was a two part film series which told the story of seven outcast kids that fight against a demon in the form of a children’s clown. The film was written by Stephen King et al and directed by Tommy Lee Wallace in 1990. By using a clown to represent the main antagonist of the film it creates a storyline a chilling element is created in the film because clowns are used represent fun and a careless behaviour.

 

The Shining(1980)- This film was adapted from a novel written by Stephen King and by Stanley Kubrick in 1980. The film tells the story of a family that have moved into an isolated hotel for the winter but are tortured by the farther who becomes influenced by spiritual presences.

 

 

Identity (2003) – This film is about ten strangers who atare stranded a deserted motel in Nevada during a rainstorm who befriend each other after they realise they are being killed one by one. Written by Michael Cooney and James Mangold in 2003.

 

 By Diana Odoom