Meeting

Please attend a meeting re equipment on Tuesday 18th December at Morning Break.
Mr Royden & Mrs Excell

Title Sequence: London To Brighton

     London to Brighton is a 2006 award winning film written and directed by Paul Andrew Williams and funded by the UK Film Council (BFI). The film opens with a woman and a child bursting into a London toilet during the early hours of the morning in a mannerism that makes the audience aware they are running away from something or someone. The older woman Kelly is shown to have a black eye so has evidently been injured in a fight or a similar activity, the younger girl Joanne is crying and seems very distressed due to the circumstances the two of them are in. An enigmatic narrative is used in order to make the audience question things such as; What has happened to them? What is their relationship with one another? The titles that appear are extremely simple and to the point as they just include the name of the production and distribution company, and also the details of the time and place of the scene that follows. The fact that the titles are minimalistic on a plain black background doesn't give any of the film away, not even the genre. The film is structured in a non-linear way so the opening scene is actually a scene from midway through the film, this intrigues the audience because they are eager to know what happened before and what will happen after.

Title Sequence: Alien

Alien was released in May 1979 by 20th Century Fox with the tagline, “In space, no one can hear you scream.” The film was directed by Ridley Scott, produced by Gordon Carroll, David Giler, and Walter Hill and written by Dan O’Bannon, who also developed the film’s screenplay. Starring in this film is Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm and Yaphet Kotto. The film opens with a slow scene of an unknown planet with eerie and monotonous music in the background, this ambiguous first scene creates tension for the audience and makes them want to know what happens next. The title appears slowly, letter by letter, gradually spelling the word ALIEN. The slow revelation of the title intrigues the audience as it gives them time to ponder on what is withheld in the rest of the film.

Title Sequence: We Need To Talk About Kevin

We Need to Talk About Kevin is a 2011 Psychological Thriller starring Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, and Ezra Miller. The first thing that appears on screen is a plain black background with the title quickly appearing word by word. It then cuts to a shot of curtains blowing in the wind, after approximately 5 seconds the camera begins to pan closer towards the curtains with the sound of something ticking becoming faster as the camera gets closer to the curtains. This opening scene is extremely effective and reels people in as it makes them question the significance of the curtains being focussed on, and why the film opens on such a dark and unclear note. Little do the audience know;  this sequence as well as a large part of the rest of the film is a flashback of Tilda Swinton (the actress who plays the lead female role as Kevin's Mother).  It then cuts to a white screen for several seconds, leaving the audience without knowing what to expect. The next scene is a high angle shot of a crowd of people, we find out that it is in fact a traditional tomato throwing festival so therefore a lot of the colour red is used which could potentially be representing blood, danger, or violence. The camera then tracks Tilda Swinton and focuses on her lying down looking expressionless although you can still see the commotion of people moving frantically all around her, during this scene we can hear diagetic sounds of screaming. Sound in this whole opening sequence is mostly made up of low mixed diagetic sounds, there is no soundtrack so therefore the silence is punctuated by regular auditory stabs and loud, sharp, and intrusive noises.