Opening title research

The opening titles are shown at the very beginning, showing the name of the film. Depending on the type of genre the film the titles are presented in certain way.




Diary of a Wimpy Kid is a children's comedy film. They used colorful light blue writing as this connotes soft and innocence, which is what most kids are like. The light but colourful writing will also attract the kids to the poster and will make them as there parents to take them to watch it. The word 'Dairy' are in a serious more boring font where as the 'wimpy kid' looks as if a child has wrote it which will also attract their target audience 'Kids' . This connotes to audience that it wont be a serious film as having that sort of font and colours is conventional of kids films.



 The A-team is a very well know action film. This title is from the most recent A-team film made in 2010. They have used silver colour with the font to make it look like it is metallic. The bullet wholes in the writing suggests to the audience that that this film with have guns and violence which is typical of an action film They have also chosen to use bold military style font making it look tough and professional. The black background makes the title stand out and be more in your face preparing the audience for what might come in the rest of the film.

The film insidious is a horror film. They use red writing as it connotes blood and evil, however some romance films do choose to use red in there titles to, but the way in which the audience is able to distinguish between the two is the font and the back ground. The font used in this makes it look like there are devil horns suggesting that the film will have evil and . Another thing done that adds a lot of effect is the shadows on the righting from what looks to be a fire this makes its look mysterious and evil look to the righting. All these aspects of the title suggest to the audience that film will be a horror.

The opening title of the harry potter film trilogy look like they are written in old type font something which you looks like it would be in an old hand written book which reflects the theme of the film which is magic and mystery. This title is a dark old looking sliver and the back ground is dark clouds much like you would see when its raining which will make the audience think that there is going to be a lot more serious and evil parts to this film compared to the traditional harry potter title which is gold. The P in the title is shaped the same as the scar on harry, the main characters forehead making the title fit in to there story line. The detailed and unique title makes it very recognizable which makes for a great marketing tool which helps promote and sell the film.

The bourne legacy is a action packed spy film. The titles of this film are in plain white block text, which each word being in a different size boldness which makes it stand out more and gives it a sense of being more sophisticated. It is quite conventional of an action film to have plain white text. The black background of the title makes it stand out more. My group are doing an action film quite similar to bourne and we are probably going to use the same type of font as we want our film to seem as professional as possible.