Planning Opening Credits - Miss Georgiou

Credits are very important to film under the thriller genre this is for a mixture of various reasons. Credits introduce the audience to the film that they will be watching by engaging and drawing there attention to the centre of the screen. Credits also clarify to the audience the genre of the film they will be watching. They then go onto to show the audience the actors/actresses , production company and the director.

Se7en Opening Credits

We as a class have analysed the opening credits from Se7en. The credits from the film Se7en appear to be jerky, in a hand written style font, this is for effect as the credits make the audience feel  as they are suddenly place apon them. By making the credits stand out it makes the audience feel as if they are more involved in the scene. The colour of the text is white which contrasts and stands out to the audience as it falls apon a dark brown/black background this shows the contrast between the good and the bad or in the case of the thriller genre the antagonist and the protagonist.This puts the audience on the edge of as they can clearly have the understanding of the narrative which makes them feel more engaged in the scene.

The credits are showed to the audience at equal time intervals which sets out the pace of the film to the audience. To add to the credits they are used during low key lighting which is conventional to the thriller genre which helps for the audience to establish what the genre of the film is straight away. 

In addition during the opening scene the audience sees various Iconography that is conventional that the audience would expect to see throughout the whole of the thriller genre this are things like the small blade, scrapbooks containing photographs, but additional other elements such as, blood (also the colour red, hidden identity, soundtrack are all present within the opening credits as well to implement the understanding of the narrative and genre to the audience. 

Order of Credits of Se7en - Production company, director, actor, title of film, actors continued, casting, music costumes, editors, production, camera operator, co-producer, producer, writing, director

Hannibal Opening Credits Analysis

I individual have analysed the credits of Hannibal.

There are only two main colours used in the opening credits of Hannibal. At the very start the word "Hannibal" is the colour red or the colour of blood straight away after the audience see this they can confirm the genre of the film as the colour is the symbol of blood and blood is used widely across the thriller genre. 

Again the other colours used like Se7en are the colours black and white which again contrasts between the good and the bad. There are two different styles of credits at first the writing of Hannibal is a conventional style which is a lot like handwritten text. Meanwhile the style of the rest of the text is big and bold so it stands out to the audience but is slightly unconventional to the thriller genre. I like the way that the credits unlike Se7en appear to be still and more calming for the audience, this means that audience are given a false representation of the events of the film, and are not completely set up for the events of the film. By using credits like these it doesn't elaborate on the genre of the film and may make the future events of the film seem more alarming to the audience as they have not been set up correctly.

The credits also alike Se7en are shown at equal time intervals throughout the opening scene which again sets out the pace of the film to the audience, they are not displayed in LKL as they are white on a black and white background. But this does distort the audiences view of the credits as they have to engage more in the scene to be able to read them.

Thriller conventions used are the colour red for blood, jump cuts between the random CCTV footage of bird and various buildings, sinister sounds through the changes on screen to make the audience feel vulnerable and close up although this may not be apparent at first the formation of the birds on the floor create the face of the main character, Dr. Lecter played by Anthony Hopkins.  

Order of Credits of Hannibal - Title of film, Main Actor, Other Actors, Casting, Costume Designer, Music, Editing, Production Designer, Director of Photography, Executive Producer, Producers, Screenplay, Director. 

Our Opening Scene Credits

We have decided that our credits will be at the start of the scene and continue throughout the scene until a certain point which will be the scream. They will stop for a period of time and continue to the end of the scene up until the reappearance of the girl in the scene as this is an important part of the scene that needs to be focused on by the audience. The credits will be white so they stand out on the darkness of our footage.

Font One

 This is an unconventional font as it is quite friendly and attractive to the audience view. It engages the audience and is not the style that the audience would expect to see if they were viewing a thriller film.  

Font Two

This is why we are using Font Two as it is quite a conventional font that it similar to ones that have already appeared in thriller films. It stands out to an extent and at the same time is appealing to the audience and quite sinister looking as well. 

Order of Appearance of Relinquish

Production Company - Tiger Blood Productions

Actors Names - Hannah Mahoney, Luke Durrance

Music - Luke Durrance

Costume - Hannah Mahoney

Casting - Hannah Mahoney

Editors - Joshua Lester

Camera Operation - Joshua Lester

Co - Producer - Luke Durrance

Producer - Harry Hyett

Screenplay - Harry Hyett

Director - Harry Hyett