Case study 1: Forrest Gump (1994)
Genre: Drama, romance
Plot: Forrest Gump is a simple man with a low I.Q. but good
intentions. He is running through childhood with his best and only friend
Jenny. His 'mama' teaches him the ways of life and leaves him to choose his
destiny. Forrest joins the army for service in Vietnam, finding new friends
called Dan and Bubba, he wins medals, creates a famous shrimp fishing fleet,
inspires people to jog, starts a ping-pong craze, create the smiley, write
bumper stickers and songs, donating to people and meeting the president several
times. However, this is all irrelevant to Forrest who can only think of his
childhood sweetheart Jenny Curran. Who has messed up her life. Although in the
end all he wants to prove is that anyone can love anyone.
Title sequence: http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/forrest-gump/
This title sequence
follows a feather which floats around town to different places also connoting
what the narrative is about as it is all about his life story, like he is
‘floating through life’.
What I like about this
title sequence is how simplistic the sequence is as conveys the genre of a feel
good drama with an orchestral soundtrack and soft lighting.
Case
study 2: Tamara Drewe (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Plot: Once the ugly duckling in the Dorset village of Ewedown, Tamara
Drewe returns to sell her late mother's house, now a glamorous journalist with
a life-changing nose job. She awakens feelings in sexy old flame, Andy, the
decent odd job man at pretentious author Nicholas Hardiment's writers' school
and in Nicholas himself, a serial philanderer who cheats on his loyal wife
Beth. But Tamara has a new man in her life, Ben, an obnoxious rock drummer
whose marriage proposal she accepts, to the dismay of local girl - and Ben's biggest
fan - Jody. Jody's efforts to sabotage the engagement lead to Tamara, on the
rebound and finding Andy in the arms of another, allowing Nicholas to have his
wicked way with her, and also allowing it to be photographed and sent to a
distraught Beth. Beth's secret admirer, American writer Glen, confronts
Nicholas out in the fields, but Ben's dog Boss has got loose and has caused a
local farmer's cattle to stampede towards them, an event which will shape the
futures of everybody.
Title sequence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0IYR0JrVUU&safe=active
This title sequence is
of a British country side with shots of the county and a man cutting wood with
text coming up around him. This follows Morrison’s technique of film sequence
as the sequence shows little of what the film is about, only the setting.
What I like about this
sequence is how little of the narrative is revealed in the titles and how the
use of warm colours from the setting connote the genre of a feel good drama.
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