Welcome to my blog on this blog you will find work that i have done throughout the year and group work of three slasher film openings with, Ben Brearley & Declan Williams.
On this blog you will also see the research planning and production aspects of the film of which we are producing.
The working title for our slasher is Black Nightmare.


Friday 7 December 2012

Idents & Titles Analysis

Slasher (2001)
Low budget indie movie $165K. No titles.
Set like a game show, no idents or main titles viewed even after the main plot was set.

Urban Legend (Jamie Blanks, 1998)
Budget: $14m and box office made $38m in the US and £1.1m in the UK. Trimark and Phoenix were the idents for this movie. It didn't have any digetic music over the titles, this stopped after 2.31s and eventually after this the movie titles started to play again.

Scary Movie (Wayanes,2000)
Budget: $19m (low budget for American film), it made $157m in the box office.
Dimensions Films is the only ident that was on screen.

Mad House (William Butler, 2004)
Budget:
Opening plot is a wall with blood all over them, there is no credits or titles until the opening scene has run through and the guy is killed by a car. The titles appear with white text on a black background. Lions Gate ident.

Black Christmas (Bob Clarke, 1974)
Budget:
Serif font used quiet often in the opening titles. First thing you see is the ident for Rouge Pictures, this eventually disappears of screen.

Cry Wolf (Jeff Waldow, 2005)
Budget:
An ident for Rouge pictures appears on screen at the begging of the titles and gradually fades away, as this occurs hypnotic pictures ident appears on screen. The opening scene titles show the font in what appears to look like a type writer style and looks decayed.

Donkey Punch (
Warp Films ident and Film 4 idents appear on screen during the opening titles. They are both then followed by the title of the film which is in serif font.

Dressed to Kill ( Brian De Palma, 1980)
Has a Metro Goldwyn Mayer ident that Samuel Z Arkoff ident that follows that with roughly 6 titles on this.

All the boys love Mandy Lane (Levine, 2006)
Only the one ident. The colours are very dull as they are a grey and black, there is very little audio. The ident that appears is Occupant Films. It has a very strong serif font signifying a knife. There are only 4 titles viewed in the opening scene.

April Fools Day (Fred Walten, 1996)
Idnet of Paramount Pictures, and then a Hotel Films productions. The titles end 5minutes in and 13 titles.

Babysitter Wanted (Jonas Barnes & Micheal Manaserri, 2008)
Large screen ident (The Independent Film Company).
Music is similar between idents, white sans serif font is used in the title.

5ive Girls (Waren Sonoda, 2006)
Alliance Atlantis is the ident. This ident has a lot of animations. The second ident that gradually appears on screen is Archetype Films, this doesn't stay on screen for too long. Eventually the titles for the film start to appear 4minutes in. Use of blood in the titles add graphic detail to the titles.
Voice over of a man reading.
Warp films

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