Goodfellas - Title Sequence

Words which appear

• Picture presents
• Production presents
• Film by
• Actors/Actresses
• Film based on true story
• Date/Setting - New York 1970
• Title
• Excutive Producer
• Based on book
• Screenplay by
• Produced by
• Directed by

Font/Colour Scheme

• White coloured font on black background
• After killing - format colour turns to red over black background
• Words moving across screen representing movement of a car - speeds past then focuses on writing
• Capitals

Images/Background

• Black background with credits on it - movement representing car movement
• Focuses on the scene of 3 men in car, they pull over and kill man in boot
• Screen then goes black focusing on red coloured title and some more credits
• You see the main actors, but storyline isnt given away, you only know the film is based on gangsters

Sound

• Sound effect of speeding car - effective behind moving words
• Engin of car
• Minimal speaking from actors
• Sound of action - gun shots/knife stabbings
• No music until 1.55 minutes into credits after horrific killing scene
• Music by Tony Bennett - 'Rags to Riches'

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Title Sequence

Words which appear

• Pictures presents
• Production presents
• Film by
• Actors/Actresses
• Title
• Casting by
• Costume design
• Music by
• Production designers
• Director of photography
• Excutive producers
• Produced by
• Based on - Originally published by
• Screenplay by
• Directed by

Font/Colour Scheme

• White font on black background
• Title - in different font to other credits
• Black liquid washes over title
• Captial letters
• Monochrome colour scheme - except for the lit match

Images/Background

• Flashing shots - in beat of music
• Following movement of black liquid which looks like it symbolises petrol fuel, especially because the fire spreads upon it when the match is lit
• Thick black liquid included in every shot
• Two main actors covered in the black liquid
• Black liquid pouring from lips, travelling through a key pad, pouring over actors faces
• Black ooze that seeps into everything, dribbling into eyes and lips - suffocating
• Flashes of murk, sticky vines, hands, petals and fists inflict their fury
• Tangles flowers and vines symbolising the cycle of life and death
• Plants and vines look like they are attacking the two characters and the dragon
• Drangon is featured linking to title  

Sound

• Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Karen O's version of 'Immigrant Song'
• No speaking involved
• Beat of the music goes in timing with the shots

The Dark Knight Rises - Title Sequence

The opening scene is creatively presented to reveal the Batman logo, starting with logos of the production of the 'Dark Night Rises' eventually leading into flashing images, writing and lighting which effectively doesnt reveal the storyline of the film. The music in the background helps to create a tense atmosphere, leaving the audience in suspense because they won't instantly know the storyline, they will only know the actors/actresses and the genre.

Words which appeared

• Warner Bros Pictures Presents
• Syncopy Production
• Association with Legendary Pictures
• DC comics
• Film by
• Title
• Actors/Actresses
• Based upon
• Screenplay by
• Story by
• Executive Producers
• Directed by

Logos

• Warner Bros Pictures
• Legendary Pictures
• DC comics
• Batman Logo

Font/Colour Scheme

• Flashing words
• Black and white colour scheme throughout with flashes of dark red
• Font of actors/actresses names - black font over white background or white font over black background
• Dark red font fading into black font - Based upon, Screenplay by, Story by, and Produced by

Images/Background

• Smokey black and white lights
• Flashing images - pictures of actors and actresses - being burnt or teared apart
• Newspaper articles - focussing on words and images on the artile - faces circled on article
• Batman logo - bold and dark / smashed to pieces
• Maps - with annotations
• Ice smashed
• Ink poured over images
• Sketched images
• Messy paper pieces
• Focusing on Batmans marsk on the snowy ground
• Hands wearing black gloves, only finger-tips are revealed

Sound

• No speaking involved
• Tense beating music throughout
• Music by Hans Zimmer

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Words to describe Thriller Films

I created a Wordle where i have collected all the differents conventions and words that come to mind when thinking about a Thriller Movie. These conventions will help me later on, as i will be able to look over what i should include when it comes to making my own Thriller. 

Thriller Genre

In our first lesson of Media Studies AS level, we researched into the Thriller Genres giving examples of thriller films and looking into the typical conventions, characters and themes.