Title Research: Watch the Titles

  With our research on movie titles, we also came across the website "Watch the Titles." The first thing on the home page was a slide show of their featured title sequences and featured interviews of their designers. When you scroll down more interviews are shown, each one had a video of said interview. A little further down on the homepage were the different categories of title sequences. Some of them were for TV shows, featured films, events, video games, even one called student projects. So of course I had to check that one out. It had a few title sequences sent by actual students around the world. Most of them were assignments for a class so they were either a title sequence for a fake movie or a title sequence for an actual movie, that wasn't actually used in the movie. For each sequence there was an article explaining the thinking process of making each title, some even provide photos of exactly how they did it. For example one of the titles had a background with two different stencils on top to make the font they wanted. Most of them explained  for each title why they did what they did, the feeling they were trying to cause, because each title still has to match the genre and story. That what makes each title so detailed and complex. On screen it's just a title but without noticing it gives character to the movie, like how or where it's placed. A lot of creativity goes into it, and by using some of these examples it give us a better idea of the effect we want to produce in our movie.