Main Task 1: Conventions of an Opening Sequence

From watching some of the opening sequences on www.artofthetitle.com I can see that the main conventions of an opening sequence are:

• They show the main actors and actress’s names on the screen first, the well- known ones.
• They then show the main people in the technical team. For example the director and producer. They only show a few of the names, as they are normally shown at the end of the film, and otherwise the opening sequence would be too long.
• They have theme music which is appropriate to the genre of the film.
•  They use moving images from the film.
• They use relevant colours, for example a horror movie uses dark colours, mainly black.
• Sometimes they use different animations, again to fit the genre of the film.
• They normally show the main character/characters.

     This is from Casino Royale. These pictures

show clips from the opening title sequence. I chose this

one to look at because it was a good genre and the 

opening sequence included lots of animated pictures,

like the cards.The music linked to the genre.

This is from Catch Me If You Can. This was

a good opening sequence as it has lots of

animation, which made it different to the

other ones i had seen.

This is from Se7en. This was a good opening

sequence to look at because it was a

different genre to the other two. It was quite a

opening, which made it stand out.