The Arts of Title Sequences

For Our Thriller opening sequence, We had two choices in how to illustrate the title sequence onto our actually sequence. Firstly, we could either render a background onto both our credits and titles which would be the background shown in our sequence which would be separate from the film itself and interrupt the clips being shown to the audience in order to show the title of the film, characters names, directors name etc... or we could overlay the credits and titles onto the clips within our opening sequence which would allow the audience to view what's happening during the opening sequence. We thought that it was more effective to overlay the credits and titles onto the clips within the film as it wouldn't take the audiences attention away from what is happening during the opening sequence, but enable them to find the the title of the film, the characters involved within the film and the directors name etc... By using effects on Final-Cut Pro , we was able to apply cross-dissolves onto both our credits and titles so that there was a smooth cut as the titles and credits changed from one to another to correspond the changing of clips within the opening sequence.

Above shows an example of the Arts of Title sequence as it enables the audience to view what is happening during the opening sequence through the variation of different shot types and actions happening within the clips.