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|Titles at the beginning of a film/series

The titles at the beginning of a film are very important because they tell the audience what jobs and roles people are given to do with the film.

For example the first two things that will come up will be the distribution and production companies.

After that the main actor of a film will come up this is because they are the main selling point about the film and help the film make the most money so they deserve to be at the beginning of the titles.

Then the movie titles appears so everybody knows what the are tuning into.

Then the other main actors will come up on the screen but they still have a big role but are not at centre stage in the film.

Then all other actors with smaller roles come up a two or three at a time so then we still know who's in the film but they are not as important to be on there own.

Then other roles will come one after each other these roles tend to come in order of least important to most important unlike the actors which have the most important actor first and then the least last.

These roles can be;

Casting which sort out who is going to act in the film.
Costume so who is going to wear what for a specific scene.
Music so someone who will decide which piece of music will go where.
Editing so the person who will edit the scenes and put the pieces of the film altogether.
Production designer so this person will go and look for places to shoot if its not in the studio.
Director of photography is someone who will set up the shots but the director will still have final say.
Executive producer is someone to be the Directors right hand man.
Director is the person hired from the production company to make the whole film and make sure the film is what it should be like.

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The Sixth Sense (Shyamalan, 1999, US)

The first thing that comes into view of the audience is the light bulb hanging above the cellar, this light bulb slowly goes into focus which makes more tension for the audience. When the lady walks down into the room there is a long mid shot of her walking towards the camera which is placed behind the set of draw where the lady walks towards to choose a bottle of wine.The camera then does a crab shot of the lady as she goes down to look at the wines. Once she has picked up her wine she then hears a scary sound which makes the audience know someone is in the room the camera then focuses in on the lady to show her emotions and how scared she actually is. Once she turns around slowly with the wine she then runs quickly up the set of stairs away from the cellar.

The director at the beginning uses serif styled writing which is a more posher type of writing than a non serif styled writing, which also suggests its going to be a film which is going to be serious and this writing helps to indicste that.

Memento (Nolan, 2000, US)

At the start of the clip the music is very low, it makes us feel as an audience that something isn't quite right about the scene. I personally thought listening to the beginning and not actually visually watching it that it was in black and white and it was going back to the past because of the tone of the music, I was pretty close. The music stays very slow paced for the time the killer has the photograph in his hand. However when the killer puts the photograph back into his camera the music changes into a more dominating bit of music which makes me feel that someone is in control. The music then stops and the sound then comes from the pieces of equipment then returning back to the original places. For example the glasses return onto the victims face and the bullet returns in to the gun which is used to kill the victim. There is Hyperbolic sound when the equipment return, this is because the sound is over dramatic and louder than it normally would be in a real life scenario.



At the beginning of the clip it has a long scene of a man holding a picture which shows us the scene of a murder which had took place. We as an audience can tell this by the blood which is splattered up the wall. This suggests that it was a violent confrontation which ended in somebody getting murdered ,  with the amount of blood it shows us that the person who has been shot got shot in in the head because of the direction the blood went. When the killer puts the photograph back into the camera the director doesn't want to show us the killer straight away he wants the tension of not knowing what the killer looked like for a bit longer. When the man then moves the camera away from his face is when we first see what the killer looks like with an extreme close up of his face. We can tell by the killer having cuts on his face that the victim fought back against the killer and that there wasn't only a shooting there was punching and a struggle as well. When the bullet and glasses rewind then us as a audience then realise that the director is playing the scene in reverse, so then we can see what actually happened as an audience. Then there's a medium shot of the man shooting the victim.