Task 4 - What are the features and purposes of film openings?

What are the features and purposes of film openings?

Features of a title sequence are important to contribute to the rest of the film, for the audience they are treated as a form of first impression on what they are about to see. 

This includes finding out about:

•  Characters, this gives the film time to introduce the characters to audience and show the parts they play in this film.
• The title of the film, shown to directly introduce the film.
• Overview, the plot of the film would be introduced through the tone of what is shown in sequence, whether it be the an directly linked sequence which leads into main film or even an animated which shows subtle hints into what the genre of film may be.
• Setting/Location, where is the film taking place?, when is it taking place? - this is important for this to be established to the audience early for them to put themselves in a mind frame of knowing what the era might be, what country and even the area
• Institutional information-  this is important to know the professionalism of the film and this helps understand also other films they have worked on with high status.
• Credits, the credits help benefit the people who are working on the film for their future works and help decipher who from who.
• Non-diegetic and diegetic sounds, mostly in title sequences there will have a main non-diegetic sound of an artists song through synergy injected at parts with diegetic sound
• Set a theme, tone and atmosphere would mean again that when putting in the music or certain clips make sure for them to be able to correspond to the main film and be able to set these for the audience to link what is shown to the film.
• Genre, this is set again by the music choice, images which are shown and even the colour pallet.

The purpose of title sequences include 3 things to set the mood of entire film, draw in the audience and to state the ownership of film.
Juno does this firstly through displaying an mostly animated sequence which corresponds later on to the characters childish mind. The mood in which it provided was interesting based on a very sing-song music choice with an unusual style to it. This helps again show Junos personality and even match the lyrics about love and connection to the plot.