Sunday, 2 February 2014

Title Sequence Analysis - Sherlock Holmes




Order of titles:

  • Directed by
  • Screen play by
  • Produced by
  • Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson were created by
  • Executive producers
  • Co-producer
  • Director of photography
  • Production designer
  • Editor
  • Cast - Robert Downey Junior then
  • Title as title is RDJ's characters' name
  • Rest of cast 
  • Casting by
  • Music/music produced by
  • Costume designer
  • Visual effects supervisor
  • A ............ presentation
  • In association with
  • A ............ production
  • A ............ production
  • A Guy Ritchie film

The titles all look like they have been written with an old fountain pen, in an old looking font giving the feeling of mystery, and this also depicts when the movie is meant to be set.  Scenes/shots of the movie are shown before turing them into inky drawings on tea-stained coloured paper.  Once the shot has been turned into a drawing the title comes up and the ink around it keeps moving like someone as spilt it.

The short and snappy shots from the movie show it is going to be an adventure and fast paced movie and the music backs this up with it being up tempo and high.  The scenes shown from the movie are all black and white, even though the movie is in colour, this also tells the audience that it is set in the past.  By using scenes from the film you are giving the audience a taster of what is about to come.

The font used is an olden day type of writing and the colour is either black or white depending on the background, so it can stand out.

Compared to Serenity, they show not a lot of the cast, only the main characters and it also shows what they look like in the film.   This may be because it is set in the past, the actor may not be as recognisable and this helps people show who they are.

View sequence here >>> Sherlock Holmes (2009) — Art of the Title <<<

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