Title Research

As we have a picture cut finalised, we now need to focus on what titles we need to put into it. As our opening title sequence is inspired by the same editing style as ZombieLand and Shawn of the Dead, we have used it as a case study to see how and what order they represent the titles. 

The titles in the film ZombieLand is very stylised. The Titles are interacting with the environment and are actively part of the story telling. The text has been 3D tracked into the sequence and have been animated to fall apart. This creates are far more engaging sequence than most other films. The colour red used, ties in and foreshadows how there is a lot of blood involved. The shots filmed for the opening title sequence are also very stylised. They have been slowed down and there is always some sought of action and a story taking place, which is far more engaging to watch. 

The movies that are similar to ours typically follow along the order of this. From in order of appearance: 

Studio Company 

Associated with 

Production Company

Main actor 

Second actor 

Third actor 

Fourth actor 

Movie title 

Casting by 

Costume design 

Music by 

Edited by

Production designer 

Director of photography

Executive producer

Produced by

Written by

Directed by 

In our title sequence, as ours is a smaller film that would have come from a far smaller studio, I would put the titles in this order. Studio Company, Production Company, Actor 1, Actor 2, Actor 3, Actor 4, Directed by, Produced by, Movie Title. 

For our sequence I think we should op for having the titles fade in and out for a total screen time of 4-6 seconds a title.  We have already seen the positioning template, so I think we are going to position the titles either to the right, left and centre of the screen. For the shot of James walking down the road, I think it would be appropriate  to put the title on the left of the screen (in the blank space) and I think this would be a good time to put the actors names, The font we will use is yet to be decided. For the beginning handheld shot, I think it would be a good idea to put the company titles here in the centre. None of our titles are planned to be 3D tracked like ZombieLand, but I do want to experiment with the Movie Title Name. I want to track it into a video so that it follows the motion of the camera. 

For the names of everything, we are yet to come up with them. But they are probably going to be random.