Title Research: Splice

     Splice is a sci-fi thriller shot in 2010. The first five seconds, the screen is black, maybe to build suspense. Then letters fall into place that reveals the production studio the film is from. The letters falling gives us an idea about the type of movie it is. You can tell that it's a horror thriller because the way the letters fell gave off an eerie vibe. The start is very slow, probably to build suspense. This is a good way to get the audience interested in the movie. By giving them the feeling of uneasiness that would normally come with a horror, it's a good start to the movie. After the production, we see a green coloured screen with spooky, slow music playing in the background. The green has a type of pattern on it but the camera is so zoomed in that it's hard to tell what it is. This keeps the audience guessing and keeps them intrigued. The next words are showing the name of the director of the movie.
     After the director goes away, we are shown very vague shots of this green thing, which keeps us guessing. Then it speeds up, showing us much more of the green thing but not enough to figure out what it is. The music is still playing, but it sped up and got louder. Then we see the names of the actors, written in a type of cloth. It starts with the main actor then moving on to lesser known ones. After the actors, the shot goes to zooming through the green substance with the names of everyone behind the camera floating in white font. During the entire clip, the music continued to get louder and faster. This builds high suspense for the audience, giving us something to look forward to when the story-line starts. The green thing is slowly revealed throughout the shots but it's still hard to make out. This can be because it's a really big turning point in the movie later on, or because it is completely insignificant and it was just something used by the creators for a creepy feel.
     Two minutes and forty seven seconds in, and the green thing starts throbbing. Almost like there's a heart behind it. After the writers show up in floating letters, the letters fade and we're left with what looks like a beating heart behind skin and veins. Those veins then shift around to form the title of the movie, then it shows the directors. We are then presented with, what looks like a streak of light that the camera keeps pulling away from then pushing to. Every time the camera gets closer,the light gets bigger and brighter. Then we are confronted with a white screen which begins the start of the movie.

Title Research: Final Destination

 I went on Watch the Titles website to choose a thriller movie. I wanted to go on Art of the Title website, but couldn't because my computer wouldn't let me. When I got on the website, I clicked on the feature films and looked for a thriller movie. I found Final Destination and decided to watch it. When the movie starts the title immediately pops up with blood. The music sounds like music you would hear in a video game. The names of the actors that played the main characters showed up first. The font of the letters seem basic and all the names are uppercase. Then the names of who it was casted by showed up. The names were all uppercase, but the heading "casting by" was lowercase.
     Then came the costume designer, associate producer, visual effects supervisor, music supervisor, co-producer, edited by, production designer, director of photography, executive producers, produced by, written by, and directed by. The whole title scene has this x-ray effect. Just by looking at the title scene, you can see that the movie is going to be about a car accident. At the beginning of the scene it shows how a ladder from the side a building went straight into someones skull. Then it shows a person getting a pole through the skull. It shows a van blow up and then a person get cut into pieces by a wire. An x-ray of broken bones is shown and then one of the bone pieces turns into a car. It also shows a person reaching for a knife, but then the knife fell of the counter and stabbed the person straight on the chest. A skull with nails is then shown and then lights blow up then transitioning into a bunch of broken glass flying everywhere and an x-ray of a person with headphones that fell out. A hall blows up and then transitions to an x-ray of a skull. It then goes into a spine and makes it seem like its a roller coaster.
     At the end of the title scene a bus crashes into the letters to finish it off. The title scene is kind of give bits and pieces of what happens in the movie. You can already tell what the movie is about by what's on the title scene. The title scene shows that there is a lot of things that are going to go on in the movie. The title scene was suspenseful and exciting.

Title Research: Crash

  I went onto Watch the Titles website and went onto featured films. I scrolled down to look for thrillers. I found Crash which is a thriller. When I started watching the title scene, I saw that it wasn't anything special. The title of the movie didn't come up immediately. First the producers names came up and then who it was distributed by. The directors name came up next and after that the actors names came up. Finally the title appears, first from far away and then close up. After the title appeared the rest of the actors names popped up. Then the rest of the credits appeared and it looks like the credits are coming out of the screen.

     The credits are lined up and come forward to the screen. The music is subtle and gives it suspense. It isn't too loud, which makes it kind of creepy and suspenseful. The font has a blue shine, which makes it look like glass. The screen starts off black and then a blue light appears from a corner. The light moves across diagonally to the other corner to reveal the words. The blue light is kind of white in the middle. The middle of the light is white and gets a darker blue as it leaves the middle. The entire title scene is a black screen and then a light coming from a corner and then going diagonally to the other corner to reveal the words. This title scene is very simple, but still has the effect it needs.

Title Research: Dr. No

     Dr. No is a thriller movie that takes place in 1962. It starts with naming the producers of the film, followed by a short clip of a man walking through a circular lens, as if  he's being followed. The man stops and shoots a gun at the camera, which leads us to believe that this will be an action packed movie. Then the circle fades out into a white dot, soon filled with the name of the author who wrote the James Bond novels. Without knowing what the movie is about, we already know that it is one of the first James Bond movies, which is going to be filled with action and adventure. The clip then switches to show various types of positions of the title, Dr. No. Which can imply that the movie will be very fast or filled with action. We are shown the actors names next. It starts with a very high end actor. This is probably to get an audience, or to get the audiences attention or excitement. If this is one of the first James Bond movies, then using the name of an actor that people know and/or love, will give them a type of security and they can put trust into the movie.
     That name is followed by the other main characters of the movie. This is to give insight about who's acting in it and that they'll have important roles. They give three lists of names, probably to give more power to certain people. The first group of names were of the immediate main characters of the movie; the best friend; boss; etc. The second group of names is of the characters who James Bond had a good connection to, but not the main focus of the movie. The final group of names were of people who had enough lines to not be considered extras. The screen then started to show the names of the people behind the camera. Starting with the director of photography then to production designer.
     Then it cut to two silhouettes dancing, then three. Then revealed the production manager and editor. It showed the copyright notice, then continued with the names. While the names flash onto the screen, the people dancing in the background change. Almost to show the actual people dancing as silhouettes. After the dancers, the background cuts to men walking with canes in a line. There are two more groups of people that are noticed, then the producers and directors. The old men are then show as people actually walking on the road and the movie begins. During majority of the scenes, there was very spy like music, music used to build suspense in a movie. Toward the end of the credits, as the movie was starting, the music switched the upbeat.

Title Research: Watch the Titles Website

     Watch the Titles is another website that also shows the opening titles for movies, shows, games, and even projects. At first glance we are shown three second clips of featured films. When scrolling down we are shown interviews of creators and categories for the film titles that can be viewed. We decided to ignore the interviews and just look at the categories. The featured films category and the event titles category caught our attention. We went under featured films and noticed many horror/thriller movies. After glancing through them we switched to event titles. We didn't like the films under event titles, so we decided not to use them. Then we went to the search bar and looked up thriller movies. We were disappointed to find no results in the search. We went back to featured films and picked five of our favorite to review. This gives us leeway to pick our favorite two to blog about. To know what we are dealing with, we clicked on a random title. We wanted to find out what information they would give us. We were given the title; the date it was released; a summary fo there movie; the credits; and the clip of the title sequence.

Title Research: Art of the Title Website

     Art of the title is a website that shows the opening titles for movies, shows, games, and short films. We are looking at this website because we need to research professional title shots. This website will allow us to see titles from any genre and allow us to find our own. We started with the "Top 10 Title Sequences of 2019." We noticed that none of these titles worked for our genre, so we went searching deeper. We searched thriller, and got the titles of many thriller movies, shows, games, and clips. We were given titles sequences, designers who create thrillers, featured title screens, and news. After we got the chance to look through what they showed us, we decided to stick to the title sequences. We then had to decide what title sequences we wanted to look at out of the 34 that we were given. After realizing that not all of the title sequences were movies we decided to add movies to out thriller search. We were then left with 18 movie sequences to choose from. By clicking on a few title sequences that were chosen at random, we were given information about the title sequence and how it was created. We were shown the video of the opening scene, given a summary, and showed the credits. By seeing this information, we understood more of where to take our own film. Using this information we cut our choices down to 5 different movie opening to choose from.

Thriller Research: Creep

The camera angles, movements, and shots in the movie were: point of view shot, eye level, high angle, low angle, two shot, close up, extreme close up, hand held camera shots, mid shot, long shot.

     The costumes the actors were wearing in the movie were: jacket, jeans, wolf mask. The lighting in the movie was: practical lighting, high key. The actors were: Mark Duplass played Josef and Patrick Kack-Brice played Aaron, both are the main characters. There was no makeup in the movie. The props used were: camera, hatchet, money, phone. The setting of the movie was in a small town.

     The sound used in the movie was: diegetic sound, dialogue. There was sound of water when Josef was in the tub and sound of screaming when Josef was watching the CD at the end.

     The editing in the movie was: eye line match and cut scene edits. 

     The elements in the movie was intensity and suspense that are in thriller films. The plot twist about how Josef lied about having a pregnant wife and that he was actually talking about his sister. The movie was all hand held camera shots because Aaron was filming Josef the whole time.

     The elements we liked ware the intensity and suspense and the plot twist in the movie. The element we did not like was the fact that it was all hand held camera shots.