Tuesday, 24 September 2013

RESEARCH: Art of the title - Pacific Rim


Production Log 1 (24th Sep.2013)


Before we started filming our film opening, we decided to watch some other film openings for inspiration. We watched those on the ‘Art of the Title’ website: http://www.artofthetitle.com. This site is excellent as it is dedicated to displaying and examining title opening sequences. I picked three opening sequences to analyse in detail: Pacific Rim (Guillermo Del Toro, 2013), The Day After Tomorrow (Roland Emmerich, 2004), and Sherlock Homes (Guy Ritchie, 2010).
 
(Pacific Rim, Guillermo Del Toro, 2013)
They chose a suitable font. It’s bold, masculine and metallic therefore we can tell this film is going to be adventurous (choice of font affects the genre). They focused the opening on dark colours which are strong and dramatic like purple and red. This creates tension and builds up suspect. They have lots of close up shots of the robots as the light catches on them, which shows there is a strong colour contract. This places us in the world of robots.
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  1. Media@Claremont29 September 2013 at 07:26

    Very sound demonstration of your understanding of textual analysis.
    Where relevant, use language such as 'tension, enigma, suspense', terms which are technical codes.

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