Title Sequence Analysis

Title 1- 0:00- Star Productions Presents
Title 2- 0:02- Love Triangle title
Title 3- 0:10- Directed by
Title 4- 0:14- Produced by
Title 5- 0:18- Filmed by
Title 6- 0:22- Music by
Title 7- 0:26- Edited by
Title 8-10- 0:39-0:46 Names of friends
Title 11- 1:11- Name of Blake

We analysed many other title sequences before editing/designing the title sequences for our own film. These films included; Juno, Easy A and the Conjuring. We analysed how these titles fitted the genre of the film with the colour, font and the way the appeared. Our titles are colourful and in a serif font which connotes that the film will be funny, laid back and enjoyable. The transitions of the titles include sliding in from one side of the screen and then back out the other side, one letter appearing at a time and the titles rolling in one after each other. These transitions of the titles connote fun and a creative way of showing the titles as this fits the teen angst genre.

Shot List

Shot 1. Close up of the alarm clock on the bedside table
Shot 2. Mid shot of Charlotte turning the alarm off
Shot 3. Mid shot of Charlotte getting out of bed
Shot 4. Close up of her feet going into the slippers
Shot 5. Mid shot/Panning shot of Emily stood up stretching 
Shot 6. Long shot of Charlotte getting her dressing gown of the back of the door
Shot 7. Shot of her going down the stairs
Shot 8. Close up of cereal bowl
Shot 9. Camera side on with orange juice being poured into the glass 
Shot 10. Mid shot of Charlotte eating her breakfast 
Shot 11. Walking up the stairs 
Shot 12. Pj’s being thrown onto the bed 
Shot 13. Close up of Charlotte doing her hair
Shot 14. Mid shot of Charlotte getting her coat from the back of the door
Shot 15. Mid shot of Charlotte walking out the front door 
Shot 16. Match on action shot of Charlotte walking away from the door and up the drive 
Shot 17. Long shot of Charlotte walking across the field with best friends so they can be introduced 
Shot 18. Long shot of Charlotte and her three best friend walking from behind
Shot 19. Long shot Yasmin pulls up in her car 
Shot 20. Mid shot of the popular group greeting Yasmin and open the door for her 
Shot 21. Long shot of Charlotte freezing when she sees the ‘popular’ group 
Shot 22. Long shot of Charlotte standing there frozen 
Shot 23. Long shot of the popular group standing together where Blake is introduced 
Shot 24. Close up Charlotte 
Shot 25. Flash back happens
Shot 26. Mid shot of Yasmin and Charlotte bumping into each other 
Shot 27. Mid shot of Yasmin walking away and long shot of Charlotte walking in the opposite direction 
Shot 28. Close up of Charlotte
Shot 29. Close up of Yasmin looking pleased with herself 
Shot 30. Long shot of Charlotte looking uncomfortable 

USP and Locations

Our unique selling point is that we are a independent British film and the Birtish social realism it brings. This is because most teen angst films are filmed in American high schools as opposed to our film being based in a British school.
This means the British audience will be able to relate to our film more than that of films that are American based because of the situations will be more accurate to their life. We have different social groups that the are stereotypically found in teen angst films. There are also many different social groups in real schools. This is another reason they can easily relate .

We used three different locations during the opening scenes of our film. The first location was the main character's house. It shows her getting ready for school and that she is in a happy mood and enjoying her life while at home. However this contrasts greatly to when she arrives at school, another location we use in our film. We used a school as this is a convention of the teen angst genre and the audience can relate and empathise with the feelings and situations the characters will be feeling at school. The main character, Charlotte, has a mood change when she arrives at school. She goes from happy and relaxed while at home and with her close group of friends, to unhappy and worried while at school. Many people in the age range of our target audience have/still do feel this way while at school. The other scene is when we see both of the main characters, friends and social groups for the first time. This is when arriving at school.

 

                                                         Picture of the home setting

                                                            Picture of the school setting

Production Company Logo

This is our production company logo. We used the classic film strip going diagonally from left to right which indicates progression as this is the way we read. The film strip also shows that we are a low budget production company as it is the old film recording unit and isn't high tech like modern DVDs and Blu-Ray discs. The production name itself is called 'Star Productions' this connotes excellence and achievement which are all positive aspects and would make the audience think of our film in a positive way and think it is high quality. The text is in a yellow font which connotes happiness and is a colour that draws attention to it when contrasting against the colour black (the film strip). There are also two faded stars which gives a visual stimulant to the fact stars connote excellence and achievement. They are faded so the audience notice them but they do not draw the effect away from the bright name of the production company. We tried many layouts of the text and the film strip with stars and different backgrounds. We didn't like any of the background colours as they looked to complicated and again took the effect away from the name. We decided on this layout as everything seems to fit together in a way that the name and film strip worked together and flowed nicely. 

Film Title - Final

We came up with many ideas about what our film title could be and eventually agreed upon the name 'Love Triangle'. We called the film this as the name of the film suggests the situation that is occurring in the film. There is a love triangle in the film between the characters Charlotte, Yasmin and Blake. The name then connotes to the audience what will happen during the film. This will attract an audience who would be interested in love and can relate to the feelings that love can bring. This will mainly be girls. We then decided that the colour of the title should be a purple/pink colour as this is a stereotypical girly colour and many titles in teen angst genre conventionally use these girly colours. This is because it connotes that the target audience are female. The iconography of a heart connotes the film is about a love so anyone who is looking at the title is clear about the subject of the film.