Film Credit Analysis

http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/taxi-driver/


1. "Columbia Pictures Presents" Production comapany
2. "Robert DeNiro In" Top actor
3. "Taxi Driver" Title of film
4. "A Bill/Phillips Production of a Martin Scorsese film" Producer and Author 
5. "Starring Jodie Foster" Actress
6. "Albert Brooks as Tom" Actor
7. "Harvey Keitel" Actor
8. "Leonard Harris" Actor
9. "Peter Boyle as Wizard" Actor
10. "Cybill Shepherd as Betsy" Actress

• Correlation between the use of the luminous red text and the title of taxi driver. 
• For example, the colour of breaks being red which could indicate the sign of danger that might occur within the film.
• Credit sequence is very interesting as it only states one well known actor before stating the name of the film. 
• Personally I believe that all the actors, actresses, editor, director etc should be stated all before the name of the film as it leaves the audience remembering what the name of the film is which they can correlate between the images.
• The placement on the screen of the titles variate e.g. maybe centre left or in the right corner. This would then show the irregularity that may correlate with the style or theme of the film.

http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/quantum-of-solace/ 

1. Production Company

2. "Daniel Craig as James Bond" - Main character

3. "Quantum of Solace" - Title

*Bullet transports showing the rest of the credits whilst the bullet is still moving*

4. "Olga Kurylenko" Actress

5. "Mathieu Amalric" Actor

6. "Giancarlo Giannini" Actor

7. "Gemma Arterton" and "Anatole Taubman" 

8. "and Judy Dench as M" Actress

9. "Andrew Noakes" - Associate Producer

10. "David Pope" - Production executive

• The first movement and action is the exact replica of the original James Bond.
• They also add the modern twist of this well known movement as they added more of a motion and actually followed where the bullet lead to.
• My personal favorite moment is where they show the three james bond's with the red flooring whilst he is holding a gun. This portrays the danger and maybe hurting someone as the red can be linked with the blood.
• Title is stated near the beginning of the credits to assist the audience to correlate between the title and what they are seeing in the opening sequence.
• The placement of the titles variate but the title is the only credit that is in the centre of the screen. This would mean that they wanted to emphasis the importance of the title of the film and how the rest of the sequence could link with the title of the film.

http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/goodfellas/ 

1. "Warner Bros. Present" Production

2. "An Irin Wilker Production" Producer

3. "A Martin Scorsese Picture" Director

4. "Robert DeNiro" Actor

5. "Ray Liotta" Actor

6. "Joe Pesci" Actor

7. "Lorraine Bracco" Actress

8. "And Paul Sorvino" Actor

9. "This film is based on a true story"

*We see a car driving down a road in very dark and dim conditions*

10. "New York, 1970"

*Three men in a car driving down, hear a noise from the boot, stop on side of road, all men stand ready with weapons (spade, gun and knife), open the boot, man covered in blood but nearly dying, man stabs him numorous amount of times then another man shoots him many times, man shuts boots, freezes on him and creates a sound bridge of him saying "As far back as I can remember I've always wanted to be a gangster."

11. "Goodfellas" Title

• The entrance of the credits were zooming past the screen so that we could get a quick glimpse of it as it had then appeared again in the middle of the screen. 
• Clear representative as we can assume that it is full of action, as if they are running from something or trying to protect their property. 
• It could also indicate that there maybe an aspect of something illegal or something very dangerous therefore having the aspect of speed.
• The font is white and is written in capital letters with very simplistic writing.
• The credits are all centre of the screen and all the credits are shown shortly after each other.
• The title of the film "Goodfellas" appears after a short taster of what the film consists of and the title of the film appears in red to signify the blood of what had just been shown to the audience and how this maybe carried out in the film.

Opening Sequence Research

• Gives audience a clear indication of the genre due to the colours and movement from the actors
• My favourite camera shot was when it was rapidly moving backwards between the cars
• It could make the audience feel a build up of what might occur next in a positive manner due to the bright colours of the clothing and the atmosphere created by the actors.
• Cutting between the current scene of the "dance show" and what is occurring elsewhere assists the audience to feel as if a cliff hanger is about to happen and they are unsure of what might happen next.
• This is because the cuts between the scenes are appearing more frequently to build up the tension. 
• The use of slow motion from the larger and more choreographed dance moves gives the audience more of a chance to observe and feel amazed by these curtail and amazing dance moves.
• I learnt about the different camera angles that we could use in our opening and how this would create effect for the audience.

• The intense and simplistic music starts right from the beginning of the opening sequence 
• An extreme close up shot of an old man with very dim lighting, when he carries on his emotional speech the camera zooms out.
• This is my favorite moment as it provides the audience a chance to view only his facial expressions and are not aware of what the surroundings might be.
• It also allows the audience to feel as if there is a build up of tension as the lighting is very dim and the audience is only able to tell what the situation is just from the speech that he is giving which provides the audience with a clear genre via the speech and mystery of this scene.
• This opening taught me how important lighting is and how it can portray the characters mood, feelings, scenario etc at that moment and how it can make the audience feel.

• Start off with a black background with the aspect of middle eastern style music initially starts off quiet then begins to become more intense.
• The writing appears in a middle eastern style which could give the audience the idea of a correlation between the style of writing and where the film maybe set which would correlate with the genre of the film.
• My favorite section of this opening sequences is how you feel a strong sense of culture and story from the music that is being played and the style of the writing which reflects into the background as well.
• I learnt how crucial it is to correlate the music and the font with the style and genre of the film in order for the audience to understand what the film might be about straight away.