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  Title Design Research: The Dark Knight Rises The fourth movie is “The Dark Knight Rises”. It is 2 minutes and 5 seconds long. It is an action and thriller movie, and was found on  www.watchthetitles.com 1. How many titles are displayed during the opening sequences to the film? Which ones?      There are quite a few titles displayed in this sequence. Them having the Producing & Collaborating Companies, Distributing Companies, & Director. This also includes the Title Designer/Director and the Additional Modeling/3D Animation. 2. What connotations do the images carry? (How do you they make you feel)      The connotations behind the images are very unsettling and dark. This specific title sequence did an excellent job of making the audience feel a sense of apprehension. The almost threatening and aggressive manner of certain elements used in the sequence helps give the thrilling chill that the audience is meant to anticip...

  Title Design Research: The Number 23 The third movie is The Number 23. It is two minutes and 41 seconds. It is thriller and we used the  https://www.watchthetitles.com/  website.  1. How many titles are displayed during the opening sequences to the film? Which ones?      Eleven titles are displayed during the opening sequences to the film. They include Design & Production, IF Creative Director, IF Director/Art Director, IF Producer, IF Designer, IF 2D Animator, IF Editor, IF Flame Artist, and IF Coordinator. It also included the Production Company and the Director of the film.    2. What connotations do the images carry? (how do you they make you feel)      The connotations the images carry are very crime-related. It gives a sense of mystery, and the typewriter-style of the lettering makes it seem like an investigation of some kind is going to take place. As the titles go on, the images start to g...

  Title Design Research: Manhunt The first movie is Manhunt. The title sequence is a minute long and it is a thriller. We used the  https://www.watchthetitles.com/  website.   1. How many titles are displayed during the opening sequences to the film? Which ones?  The beginning is about one minute. It includes 12 titles. These twelve titles include the Studio (The Mill+), Designer and Creative Director (Manija Emran), Executive Producer (Stephen Venning), Post-Production VFX (The Mill LA), VFX Producers (Adam Reeb and Lusia Boryczko), Animators (Justin Sucara, Victor Duncan, and Andrew Marks), Junior Animator (Kyle Moore), and Coordinator (Krissy Estrada). Also, Manhuny Director (Greg Barker), Agency (HBO Documentary Films), Production Company (A Passion Pictures & Motto Pictures Production) and, Music (Black Snowflakes by Max de Wardener).  2. What connotations do the images carry? The images resemble “clues” in a mystery and make you feel suspense...

Title Design Research The second thriller movie is called “Hostage.” We also used the  https://www.watchthetitles.com/  website.  1.       How many titles are displayed during the opening sequences to the film? Which ones?   The beginning was around 2 minutes and 55 seconds, including 9 titles. It started off with the stratus film company and Miramax, a Cheyenne Enterprise production, film by Florent Siri, casting by Victoria Burrows Scot Boland, music by Alexandre Desplat, co-producer David Willis-edited by Oliver Gajan and Richard Byard, Director of photography Giovanni Fiore Coltellacci, executive producers Hawk Koch David Walley, Executive producer Josek Lautenschilager and Andreas Thiesmeyer, producer by Bruce Willis and Arnold Rifikin, directed by Florent Siri, andProduced by Mark Gordon and Bob Yari-.   2.       What connotations do the images carry? The images carry a suspenseful connotation. The choice o...

  Title Website Research Art of the Title Website:  https://www.artofthetitle.com/ We decided to research ‘Art of the Title’ as our first website. The front page alone was very eye catching. We were very confused about this project until we found this website. It is hard to come up with ideas when you don’t even know what you like. The website includes a tab that is labeled “Designers + Studios”. After clicking on it, over 100 names of designers were listed. Also, over 20 studios as well. We went through the majority of the designers and read a little bit about them and what they have done. We all gain some inspiration and new ideas that we can include in our film. Reading about some of the studios and how they were involved in the creation of a film, was interesting to read about. Looking through the different titles that are associated with the movie on the “Title Sequences” tab, showed us how to link our genre and title of our film. Watch the Titles Website:  https://w...

  Our Pitch   Pitch A:   After Alexandra Delgado was found “dead” after being missing for 3 months, Sophi e Walker mysteriously disappeared after unexpectedly running into her “ dead ” friend.   We feel that we can be very creative with this film. It leaves a lot of room for us to do whatever we want. Also, it is similar, yet different from other films. We can get a lot of inspiration from other films with this pitch. The only bad thing is sometimes this can be too “ideal”. We don’t want it to be “too basic” or “too much”.   Pitch B:   When Molly’s best friend Jenny moved back home after leaving 5 years ago, the huge question “is if that con nection is still there?” pops up.    This pitch is one we feel would be fun and interesting to make. It ’ s something that isn’t too flashy of a storyline which will stand out on its own. We think it would really help us lear n how to use and challenge more conventions in our films. We also feel t...

  Movie Convention Research: Nobody ·         Common camera angles include over the shoulder, close-up, long shot, tracking shot, two shot, and three shot. Some of the common camera movements include close ups, tracking ,and panning ·         The costumes consisted of more solid and muted colors. A lot of the characters where wearing solid shirts, shorts, and jackets. Some of the “bad” characters in the movie where wearing leather jackets. Nobody started off with cooler colors and as the movie went on, the palette changed to warmer tones. The lighting in the beginning of the movie started off very dull and muted in colors, and as the movie kept going, more and more vibrant colors were being added. There were also a lot of fighting scenes that included silhouettes and the use of shadows to help create that tension that is usually in thriller movies. Since this movie included a lot of action and fighting scenes the...