Opening Titles and Logos

Analysing Opening Titles and Logos

Seven

I have chosen to analyse the opening titles of the film seven, I have chosen to do this film because the titles are very good. The font of the text had a feel like someone had written them with a pencil, this was a good effect as in the opening scene we see someone drawing and writing on what looks like old paper.


With this picture, it shows the face of a man or boy with the eyes crossed out. This gives us a feeling that this person could be the victim.

By the boy's face being drawn over, shows that its enigma and is a mystery  to the rest of the film.

With the picture of the boy's face drawn out, it shows that he could now be either a dead person or a soon to be dead person. Although it's a mystery, it does start to give the audience a clue about whats happening.






At the start of seven, we don't actually know whats going on so it's all a mystery to the audience. However, we do know that the film involves violence from the scene with the hand pouring with blood. This person could have either been a hero and trying to save someone or a villain who was killing someone. This way of starting the film is a very good way to do so, as it puts the audience in confusion yet also builds up tension as they know that something is going on, involving a murder.






Dexter

The Dexter logo is a great logo, especially for the type of program that it is. First of all, the word 'DEXTER' is written in different shades of red and has splats of red all around the page. The creator of this has done that so that it looks like blood, as the whole program is about someone going and killing other people, therefore there is a lot of blood involved. You can also see that the text isn't perfectly straight, this is because it's made to look like blood is dripping from someone onto the background, this just gives more of blood effect. Also the background is meant to look like old paper, which also gives the effect that the dripping blood isn't meant to be a design and is meant to be natural. 

The blood splatter at the end of the word 'DEXTER' sort of looks like a full-stop. This is there because it's all there is to say, the name of the main character and the blood effect is all that is needed for the audience to get the point of what the program is going to be about.

The intro of Dexter is a very good intro. It uses multiple conventions of a crime in the morning routine of the main character. For example When he starts to shave, he cuts himself and there is blood shown. This makes the audience feel like it could symbolise death and blood at a later stage. It's foreboding that danger will occur in the future.



In this one, it makes it look like 'Dexter' is using a knife in a bad way, like killing someone. However all he is doing is cutting an orange. The director has done this because it fools the audience to feel like he is a violent person who uses violence all of the time.

This happens throughout the opening scene, the director wants the audience feel like the murdering and death is happening but it's really symbolising whats happening in the future. By doing this, it makes the audience stay tuned to watch the whole program.