Titling Exercise - Shannen

Quantum of Solace 

• The titles are very long. It is almost like a seperate film - 3.23 minutes long. 
• It it hugely based around Daniel Craig (James Bond in the film) doing different things which you would associate with a spy/the James Bond films 
• Heavily created by computer graphics - using odd colour schemes such as orange and blue, to crease a unrealistic feel. 
• The people that feature in the titles are also made of computer graphics, so further establish the unrealistic feel. 
• The font used for the credits themselves is sans-serif, and quite block-like. It helps establish a "macho" feel. This fits with the James Bond films within themselves. 
• Each of the main actors' names are on the screen for 5 seconds each. 
• The less important names and credits are on the screen for 3 seconds each - this establishes the difference in importance between the different actors/people credited. 
• There is quite a dramatic song over the top of the titles, to add to the action/spy feel to the credits. 

Here is a short clip of an interview with the title directors of the shoot:

Alien

• The titles themselves are 1:50 minutes long - so not that long.
• Gradually, the title "Alien" appears along the top in a "sci-fi" sort of font
• There is a very creepy sound track over the top, which creates the sort of "un-known" effect on the audience - you really don't know what is going to happen
• The fonts of the rest of the titles - i.e. the names - are actually in a very basic font. This gives no clues to the audience. 
• The background is black, with something dark moving in the background - it's quite scary as you don't know what it is 
• The names of the main actors are on the screen for 4 seconds, and the rest 3 seconds. 

Buried

• The main colour scheme of the titles is yellow, blue and very dark brown/black
• The background seems to be going deeper and deeper underground - this links with the film being based underground. 
• The graphics of the titles is very linear based - lots of linking lines from one thing to another, and large blocks of lines. This all seems to make you more of the downwards moving effect. 
• After each title/name has appeared, it drifts upwards - also establishing the fact that everything is moving upwards as we seem to go downwards. 
• The main production company's name was on the screen for 8 seconds. The main actors'/creditors names were on screen for 5 seconds, and everything else tended to be on screen for 4 seconds.