Audience Feedback on Forever Hold Your Piece (Rough Cut)

Product Research: Mad Men

I have recently been looking into a variety forms of image, and I approached the hit US TV show 'Mad Men', I decided to watch the opening credits, and even though the genre of the show is not action thriller, I thought it had very similar things to an action thriller. 
Firstly, the orchestral sound is very controlling, it almost makes you feel as if you are on a mission, I think this type of music is similar to what we have made for our project.
Secondly, the silhouette of a character we cannot see is very ambiguous  and I as a media student and as a viewer want to know who that is, or what he represents by being in a silhouette. 

Product Research: True Blood Opening Credits

Recently, a friend of mine asked me to find them a link to watch the US TV show True Blood, I decided to watch this as I gave them the link to see what the fuss was about. What really shocked me was the opening sequence, it was very moving and symbolic.
 My favourite part in the opening is the little children eating strawberries which is obviously symbolic of blood, and vampires. Even though the credits gives away a huge amount of the plot and what we are expected to see, we still ask the question "Why? How? When?", which are the vital ingredients to any moving image.

Product Research: Panic Room Title Sequence

The title in Panic Room blends well with the scenery of the setting. It creates a sense of power, and makes the opening seem as if it is important.
It has a dominance over everything else in the setting, and is the centre of attention.

This is very amusing, Uncut Production are hoping to do something similar to this, we are currently using Adobe After-Effects on our perlimary task to play around with it, and learn how to use it, so when it comes down to our thriller, we know how to place different types of titles.

Product Research: The X Files Opening Sequence/Title

The X Files is an American mystery thriller TV series which lasted from 1993 to 2002. It has been largely popular for the mystery that the show has to offer to the audience.

The opening begins with the title of the series shown in a X-ray view which is associated with the title, and also creates a link, the 'X' in the title symbolizing X-ray. This also creates a sub-genre for the series as it may have generic conventions of a scientific thriller. 

At 00:19 we are shown a name tag of a FBI agent in blue only, this is to express power, the colour blue is known for being in authority. The camera is zoomed onto the face of the agent which creates a suspicion for the audience, this is generic in a mystery thriller because it gives the audience the idea of the FBI agent having an undercover personality.

The whole opening is shown in low light with bold colours being shown, this indicates the idea of a journey to discovery.

I am really taken with the idea of importance shown by colour and lighting, I hope to learn from this and maybe include in Uncut Production's thriller project.

Product Research: Suits Opening Sequence/Title

Lately I have been exploring an amount of opening titles to get an understanding for my product research. Today, I bought my first US Weekly magazine and on the back of the magazine was the promotion for US TV series Suits which caught my attention because the poster was black and white, and the title of the show in red, which was very contrasting and challenging the modern theme of colour, and also going back to originality of black and white.

The current running special effects is the tiles blacking out and introducing a new scene that is in the series. I think this could be taken for the opening credits of Uncut Production's final thriller project. This informs the viewers about continuity and also an order not necessarily from: beginning, middle and end. The sense of realism is also created because from scene to scene there is some relevance to the topic of the show, whereas it would be absurd to go from the man going to work then being introduced to pirates on a ship.

Red, blue. The colours of the police car lights, and also danger and safety. Filling the screen with one colour for each character is symbolism of their identity, the red representing: danger, passion and death. Whereas, the colour blue is a representation of: safety, freedom and power.
The two colours coming together is a sign of power and coming to victory but, the colours against each other shows competition.

Product Research: Breaking Bad Title Sequence

I was surfing the internet looking for thriller openings and I came across Breaking Bad and I decided to check out the opening title sequence, it had me blown out because of the clarity and mystery used just in an opening sequence.
The letters coming from the periodic table to create the name of the stars is absolute genius, it also makes it clear that it is a scientific thriller. The opening also attracts its main audience science fans and it also engages other types of audiences because the opening sequence is so distracting that it catches your attention instantly.

The colour dark lime puts emphasis on the scientific part of the thriller sub-genre, dark lime is associated with potions, it is also associated with weakness of a hero in superhero films such as Superman, and the fact his weakness is kryptonite.

If Uncut Production decide to do a scientific thriller it would be great to have the credits presented like they are in Breaking Bad.

Product Research: The Silence of the Lambs opening sequence.

Product Research: The Birds Opening Credits

Alfred Hitchcock starts the sequence of The Birds in a rather unusual way, he uses contrast in his title sequence to confuse the audience which is a common feature of a thriller opening. 
Black birds on a light grey sky with bold turquoise colours. The black is a symbol death and evil, whereas the light grey sky creates a double meaning: it could represent hope from the evil or innocence being destroyed by the evil. The turquoise is a symbol of action as it stands out from the two rather dark colours. It can also be that its two (black and grey) verses one (turquoise). When the credits are finished in the opening sequence it cuts to a blackout from the light grey which hints that the light grey is not a symbol of hope.

The font of the credits is very bold and almost as if it has authority over you because its in capitals. It’s the kind of font which is usually used in a police department.
Alfred Hitchcock uses diegetic and non-diegetic sound to build suspense for the audience. The sound of the birds is diegetic sound, we are given a clue of what the film may include, its also an unpleasant sound of birds which we see at an isolated place, its not the stereotypical sound of birds singing and damsel in distress appearing and singing with them like they do in fairy-tales. The non-diegetic sound is of a piano with other instruments such as the drum, the non-diegetic gives an isolated imagination to the viewers. Hitchcock is trying to make the audience feel like when they do when they go to the kitchen at night without turning the lights on to wake anybody up.