Titles

A key component of any media product is the titles, these grab the viewer and offer a hint of what the coming film or show will offer, they are critical for securing the viewer's attention and so were carefully considered for our project.

Our major influences were the innovative and experimental titles of Saul Bass, who worked with many of the leading directors of his time, most notably Alfred Hitchcock. This relationship created some of the most recognisable and ingenius titles in film history and were a major influence. Vertigo in particular was an inspiration, it's spiralling credits are quite similar to that which we aimed to create.

For our movie titles, we used Adobe After Effects CS4. We have never used this software before so we had to watch several tutorial videos to learn the basics and then experimented with it to work out what the titles would look like.















We downloaded some images from Google,I.e various Silhouettes of business men and gangsters and then used Adobe Photoshop to create a custom image.

Using these images above and a few others, we created a new unique image that would be used in the ending of our title sequence. These criminals that appear in the image are the criminal organization that will appear later in the movie. As our movie opening focuses on the victim and the criminals, the leaders of the organization will not make an appearance until the plot unfolds, we only wanted to set the scene in our video and start our story. These images establish the tone of the film and their enigmatic nature draw the viewer in and leave them wondering who they are and how the connect to the plot.