2. Consider how the film title design might further communicate meaning to the audience about genre, meaning or story. (Colour, font, animation, size, background etc).
3. What institutional info is included?
4. Is additional story info included - eg date or location of story? If so, why?
5. Are actors included? How are they introduced in the title sequence?
6. For the sequence as a whole - consider the relationship between title and credit information and the background for that frame (onto black, a still image or moving image of the actual film). Suggest reasons for it being effective as part of the Thriller opening.
7. Is the sound diegetic or non diegetic - how is the title and credit sequence edited to the music? Are sound bridges used?
8 Study carefully the relationship between moving image segments of the film (the start of the plot) and the introduction of titles. What is the order in which they are introduced? Why do you think this is?
Se7en
The title of the film is 'Se7en', which creates enigma to the audience as we wonder into seven what? The use of the number '7' replacing the 'V' is unique and generates interest in the audience. 
The first view of the title is small on lit up white titling. It flickers and distorts, becoming larger, The black background is a common feature used in titling, as it makes the title stand out to the audience when it appears. The font is distorted and flickering which can communicate to the audience the genre of a thriller, the animation of the flickering can be a code to the genre, creating unease to the audience.
Two pieces of institutional information are shown in the first few seconds of the opening. This is typical of the thriller genre recently to contain limited institutional information.
Only one piece of additional story information is used, to set the time, but even then it is limited, only saying 'Monday' this creates enigma to the audience, as it is vague, not giving us an exact date, meaning it could be set in any time. The titling of the word 'Monday' is set in the same font, continuing on the thriller code, the flickering creating unease in the audience.
A large amount of actors names are mentioned in the opening, introduced in the same style as the rest of the sequence, with flickering distorted images used in-between, on a black background with white lit up writing. The font itself is written as though it is handwriting, which could link in within the actions shown in the sequence, of a person writing in a book, shown through the flickering images, showing distortion.
For the sequence as a whole the relationship between title and credit information and the background for that frame is effective as part of the Thriller opening. As the frames and images shown are used in the same style throughout, in a warped distorted style, the title and the credit information is shown on a black background with white handwriting styled font .
A non diegetic soundtrack is used alongside the title sequence, no sound bridges are used, it is used alongside the title sequence to go along with the theme of distortion and giving thriller genre codes. the music is edited alongside the title and credits to create highlights on certain points in the titling for example a distorted noise is used on a title, which is animated to flip upside down and flicker, the noise directly correlates with the image and overall gives off the codes for a thriller. The title sequence is the beginning of the film, the story has not yet been introduced, so the title sequence being used before anything else creates enigma to the audience, as the warped and distorted images are used to create questions.
Red Lights
The title of the film is 'Red Lights'. This is a vague title and can create enigma for the audience. Blurred lights streak this way and that with swipes of white and grey, the type fading in and out in a flash, growing larger and smaller, and then comes more: hands reaching in the darkness, the glimpse of a tunnel, and the sinister sounds of a violin being hastily plucked. A dark cellar full of secrets emerges through shocks of x-rays, weathered photographs, ancient texts, equations, and newspapers. As the music crescendos, the storm of letters and lights is swallowed by television static and the thunder of a jet flying into view, the red light of the plane in focus 
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