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REVIEW Exercise 7: Mini Music Video

Look at the following aspects and vote on your favorite for Mini Music Video Awards:

  • innovative concept & narrative arc (reflect music & beginning/mid/end)
  • temporal design (audio/video sync, pacing, rhythm)
  • transitions (match cuts, cut-on-action, invisible cuts, jump cuts, dissolves…)
  • composition/design aspects (framing, balance, color, contrast, blending modes, type, supporting graphics, consistency/variety…)
  • enhance meaning/mood with After Effects (innovation & quality)

INTRODUCE Final Project: Title Sequence


TOPIC: Title Sequences

Approaches to Title Sequences :

Foreshadowing/Summary/Montage: Mission Impossible, James Bond
Montage/Mood-Setting: Seven
Stand-Alone Pieces: Girl With The Dragon TattooGame of Thrones
Integrating into First Scene: Fight Club
Single Take: The Classics, The IndividualThe Long Take
Single Take Continued: POV, (inanimate object POV – Lord of War)
Contrast in Style to the Film: Monsters Inc. (also score visualization), Catch Me If You CanJuno, It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad World
Thematic: Thank You For Smoking, Godfather of Harlem (won best titles emmy), The Politician
Symbolic/Satire/Parody: American PsychoDexter
Transparent titles over first scene: The ShiningDr. Strangelove
Titles integrated into objects in film: Napolean DynomitePanic RoomWes AndersonZombielandAtlantaLegionUmbrella Academy
Character Introduction: Grand PrixRoyal Tenenbaums
Type-focused: Saul Bass titlesSpring BreakersStranger ThingsAlienGoodfellas
Consistent and prior to film: Woody Allen movies

Professional Title Sequence Resources:


DUE THURSDAY

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1. Inspiration: Link to 3 examples of Title Sequences that inspire you. Label why you chose the different examples and describe what approach you think they took to set up the film or tv show. 

2. Choice & Synopsis: Choose film or tv show and provide short written synopsis

3. Initial Brainstorm: Answer the following:

  • What genre is the production?
  • What are moods, themes, or symbolism you want to communicate?
  • Who is your audience? 
  • What feelings do you want your audience to have?
  • What keyword associations come to mind? 
  • What visuals come to mind to represent the film or tv show?
  • What are different narrative and conceptual approaches you could take?

Watch these two short videos to get more background on title design: