Art of the Title grid analysis

Summarise your film idea. Provide a brief synopsis and outline what happens in your film opening.

Our film idea is in the genre, psychological thriller, and is about a teenage boy who has extreme paranoia, hence the film title 'Paranoia'. In the film opening you see, at the beginning, just a normal school boy. Then as the film opening progresses, it reveals that the boy is all alone, let alone being in school and by the end, the screen cracks as well it getting darker and darker, showing his mental distortion.

What kind of information has been included in your film opening?

In our film opening, we've included the credits of the important people. For example, who it's written by, the director and music composer. Also we've included hints of what kind of person the main character is. We've included that he a very secluded person despite being in school, which is usually full of people and a place where people meet their friends.

How do the titles link to the main film idea?

The fact that our title fonts(Plane Crash) are slightly eroded gives the idea of a distorted mind. This fits the concept of our film since our film itself is about a boy with paranoia which so it shows that his mind isn't stable.

Identify three things that you included in your grid that are important in the construction of an opening sequence and explain their role in understanding the film

• We've included a font that is able to connote the genre of the film just by the look of it. Most film openings have fonts that express the genre of the film. For example, in the opening credits of 'The Conjuring', the font used is very sinister showing that horror genre.

• We have used long shots to express his loneliness in the shot of him in the assembly. 

• The darkening of the shots as it progresses to the end of the opening sequence signifies that the film is going to have a sombre tone.

How effective is your film project as an opening? Explain your answer.

In my opening, I think the film idea was good. It had a really strong enigmatic ending to the opening title, which just makes the audience question why the screen cracks, even though they get a slight understanding of why, but doesn't have the whole story.