I'm in a group of 3 with my class mates working on a slasher film opening with DOM ELLIS and DECLAN WILLIAMS and on this blog you will see the research planning and production aspects of the film of which we are producing which had the working title of Black Nightmare.







Friday, 7 December 2012

Idents and Titles Analysis

Slasher (2001)
Low budget indie $165K,no idents and no titles
Set like a game show and no titles ran throughout the film even after the main plot had begun

Urban Legend (Jamie Blanks 1998)
Budget $14m and made $38m in the US and $1.1m in UK
Has a Trimark Ident and Pheonix ident also has non diegetic music over the titles opening stops after 2:31s and more titles start again.

Scary Movie (Wayanes 2000)
$19m budget for this film in US and made $157m
Dimention Films is an only ident, after the opening scene there was the title of scary movie

Mad House (William Butler 2004)
Budget
Opening shot is wall with blood and no credits or titles and opens with a window screen, titles apear on a black background with white writing. Lions Gate ident.

Black Christmas (Bob Clarke 1974)
Budget
Serif font used quite often in the opening titles and

Cry Wolf (Jeff Waldow 2005)
Budget
An ident for rouge pictures and then dissapears and then a hypnotic pictures ident appears behind it. Then the opening title show the title and is in a sort of typewriter style and has a serif font also has decayed lettering on the title.

Donkey Punch ( Ollie Blackburn 2008)
Warp Films ident and film 4 ident appears with titles following with a serif font also then

Dressed to Kill (Brian De Palma 1980)
Has a metro goldwyn mayer ident then a Samuel Z Arkoff ident follows that with roughly 6 titles on this.

All the Boys love Mandy Lane (Levine 2006)
only one ident the colours are grey and black and there is very little audio and has the ident occupant Films ident. also this has a very strong serif font signifing the knife, 4 titles are in the opening sequence

April Fools Day (Fred Walten 1986)
ident of paramount pictures and then a hotel films production, titles end at 5 mins in and has 13 titles 21 seconds in and the characters are filming one another.


Babysitter Wanted (Jonas Barnes and Michael Manaserri, 2008)
bigscreen ident and the inependant film company ident, music is similar between idents, white sans serif font.

5ive Girls (Warren Sonoda 2006)
alliance atlantis ident and has alot of annimation then the second ident is archetype films and the titles appear after 4 mins in and has a rock music audio. Use of blood in opening titles. and graphic behind the titles. vioce over of a man reading a prayer.



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