09. What are the 4 different types of film openings?

Different Film Openings?

Title on a blank screen 

Titles superimposed on a black screen usually with white text to add contrast. before modern technology  this was commonly used due to its simple nature to produce and for films with a low budget. An example of this can be seen in Pulp Fiction

Pulp Fiction Opening.

Titles on still images

Titles wa the next evolution of simpling having white text on a black screen but now they incorporated hand drawn borders and  other images. With is move it allowed the opening sequence to hint at the tone of the movie and even the genre of the film so this led to further development of more elaborate title sequences.

This is a sequence produced by Kyle cooper for Wimbledon which incorporated moving images and also stills whilst the use of sound effects to give the effect of a tennis game during the sequence.

Titles over moving images 

This type of opening features moving images behind the titles with sounds but no dialogue. To introduce tones and storyline of the film moving images are made into metaphors & narrative threads for the audience to follow.

Titles using Animation or motion 

Animated text became popular in the late 1990s, the technique of merging titles and moving images waas a title type that required a lot of digital technology & stylised editing.