Title Sequences

                                                                Title Sequences

The titles are played over one shot of a forest, that pans down until we see the protagonist Clarice. The credits continue to roll over the footage of Clarice while she is completing her morning police training. The titles start with the main actors first and is then followed by the title, and is then again followed by more minor actors. Only after Clarice reaches the compound, do the technical roles such as casting appear. As we follow Clarice's journey through the compound, we see more of the roles, until finally, the directors name appears and the story actually begins. Little pieces of dialogue are interspersed between these titles, for example a quick greeting to a friend, or Clarice asking after Inspector Crawford. These titles tend to suit this film, being bold and chunky. From an aesthetic perspective, they aren't pleasing, but they prepare you for how the inevitable action is going to be. The actions that happen aren't aesthetically pleasing, but they are bold, and are shocking too. The titles and the footage surrounding them doesn't particularly give anything away, the poster does that more convincingly, but as a result of this, we do become intrigues as to what the film's content can hold after the opening titles are over. 


Batman(1989)



This film was produced by: Warner Bros., Guber-Peters Company, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment. 

The titles here are presented over the footage, that moves from looking at the sky, to hiding inside the infrastructure of the elusive Bat signal carved out of "stone", before the main title appears. The main actors turned up before the main title, and carries on through the other actors, technical cast and musicians, and staying with tradition the director goes last. This fits the film as it allows you to travel through the outline the actual shape of the bat, although we don't realise this until the end of the sequence. The darkness eludes to that fact that his is how the character works and is, but otherwise, we are left in anticipation for what is going to happen next.

Limitless (2011)

Much like "The Silence of the Lambs", the titles are shown over the footage. The title of the actual film takes precedence over the rest of the titles, before naming the main actors and then less prominent actors. Following this, the technical rules are shown such as the costume designer. The titles are shown in bold text, standing apart from the continually changing environment. The films title itself spirals into view, creating a sense of confusion, just as the environment that changes and morphs continually starts to move, solidifying the fact that this is a thriller. The titles give little indications into the drug that is the focal point of the film, with the titles being similar to how the drug would affect the mind. In the second half, we see the mind and maps of neurons, and this gives an idea that this truly does affect the mind., and this small image links back into the location that is first presented in the beginning of the credits which is New York from the skyline.