Film Title Analysis

The title of the film is one of the most important components in a film as it introduces the audience to the film and must accurately represent the film and genre in order to entice the viewer and make them interested in watching more. For example, action movies often use bold colouring and font effects in so as to convey a sense of dynamism.

In this particular title, vibrant red colours are used to contrast with the black background. This colour scheme carries strong visual weight and is used to draw the viewer's eye due to its catchy, attention-grabbing nature.

Thriller movies often use smaller fonts, faded out effects and dark colouring to add an element of suspense.

The black colouring combined with the faded, dark background in contrast to the faded white font colouring adds an element of mystery. The abstract nature of this background amplifies this.

The Silence of The Lambs emits a mysterious, gloomy atmosphere due to the muted, grayed out background that has low saturation and cool-toned colouring. The font used is fairly big so as to direct the viewer's attention to the title. This is further emphasised by the solid black colour and white framing of the titles.

Horror movies often use dark red colours and 'trail' effects (such as the titles dripping) to link it to the blood and gore themes frequently essential to the horror genre, as shown below.

The title of our Media Studies film opening project will be Quicksand. We have chosen this title because of the desert setting inspired by Mad Max: Fury Road, not to mention in our audience research questionnaire most of the votes were for Quicksand out of 4 options. It's short and catchy which reflects the genre and plot line of our fast-paced action-packed film opening well.

The film title shown above is made by Jack. This is the general layout we will be using for our film title opening. However, it also involves an animation effect that will need to be shot on the first Shooting Day therefore it cannot be displayed at the moment. Below is a video that shows our inspiration behind this idea from Borderlands 2.