The next step for our thriller was to add titles, but first we had to research into the construction of titles in a film. We were given a sequence to watch from artofthetitle.com, Ellie and I chose to look at the opening credits of The thing. We were looking at the positions and placement of the titles but also the physical style of the titles such as the font and design, whether they followed a specific theme. We also analysed the transitions and any other animations or effects out in place.

The titles of ‘the thing’ are unusual in that the transitions and animations in are different for each title however, the titles reflect slightly the themes of the film as they are animated so it looks as if all letters are latched onto each other, which hints to the film which is about deadly bacteria that infects people in the north pole. We created a timeline of the title sequence noting down things we need to know such as the order of titles and details about the style of the titles.

We also wanted to do a bit more research into the titles and the order that they appear in so I watched another sequence, The Conjuring, to get a second reference to see if the titles were in the same order but also to look briefly at the typeface. The titles within the conjuring were rather simple in typeface and transitions however, they give the film a very serious feeling as the letters were large, bold and white, reflecting the font used within the images of newspaper headlines, representing the true elements of the story and showing how hysteria was created, the simple font contrasting well with the chilling images; My analysis of this is linked below.

Ellie also did an analysis document of the opening of Deadpool which is linked below:

From this research, we then compiled a list of a production team for our film and allocated names to each job in the order that we saw appropriate after researching other films: