Summarise the conventions of title sequences that were most important to this task.
Title sequences are important as they give credit to the people who worked hard to create the programme/film that you are about to watch. The rules behind title sequences are very strict and so it is important to give credit to all of the right people who were involved. It is also important to make the titles themselves look good, they cannot look as if they have just been placed on top of the image, they have to look like they are part of the scene, like they are supposed to be there. To achieve this, a clear and effective font has to be chosen which also represents the genre of the show.
How did your group plan to edit the title sequence? (consider timings, industry requirements etc.)
We tried to include as many titles as we could because usually they include up to 20 different titles; however, we had very limited time to complete this task and so we managed to do 5 titles. We chose a red font for our titles as we felt it matched the genre very well.
Explain the creative decisions made by your group.
The main "Dexter" title is red so we chose to continue with this colour theme and we made all of our titles red as well. The colour red also made it clear to the audience that it was a thriller due to it's typical connotations with blood and death. We chose a simplistic and clear font so that the words were legible on top of the moving images. For some of our titles we had them so that they moved with the image, like when the tissue soaked up all of the blood, we made our titles fade away as the blood spread towards them. I thought this title was particularly effective.
How does your re-edit compare to the original?
I think that the original was much better than our re-edit as it included many more titles than our one did but we only had a very short amount of time and it was my first time doing a task like this and using the software we had to use. I think that if we had more time to complete our re-edit and do as many titles as the original had then it would have looked much better. The original titles were very professional-looking and stylish, they portrayed the genre instantly which is why the Dexter title scene is such a good one.
Well done, Molly. Your homework posts have all been presented to a very high standard and you have shown very good theoretical understanding in each task. You also use technical terminology frequently and with accuracy. You are making excellent progress, so please maintain this high standard of work.
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