Credits Influences

For our thriller film we were asked to complete a opening credits sequence, we all had different ideas of what we thought would make the credits as good as we could possibly make them. One group member suggested we placed the credits at the end of the opening of our film, we tried this and felt it didn't have the same effect that a thriller would have, as it somewhat slows the film down, as we didn't want to forget the fact that the film has to continue after the opening.

After much consideration and watching other films we felt it would flow at a much faster pace if we were to place the titles within the shots, prehaps to link them to what is going on, on the screen. After viewing the title sequence of JCVB we thought this was extremely effective, as the film is never slowed down and is constantly flowing.

One of my favorite films Taxi Driver also had an influence, the fact that it somewhat starts slowly and builds up, revealing the title on a fairly blank screen with smoke, so the attention isn't taken away from the movie title, with whats going on in the background, whilst the people who worked with the movie somewhat link to the images being shown on screen.

After coming up with the idea we then had to think of the way in which the typography would appear on the screen, we decided to make the typography appear on screen with a both eerie and somewhat scary font with neutral colours so once more the attention isn't being taken away from the film itself. We then felt that at the end of the opening when the car drives away from th camera, that this would be the perfect opportunity to fade into the title of the film, Deceit, with colours that relate to both danger and maybe even innocence, giving a more psychological feel to it, and perhaps suggesting that the film itself is a psychological thriller.

Anthony Wilson