Edward Scissorhands
This film title sequence has being created to present their title and introduce the cast and crew members who are involved in making the film. Also the title credits often give the audience and indication as to what the film is about and who it is aimed at specifically. This particular sequence has being created for the Film Edward Scissorhands starring the world famous Jonny Depp released in 1990. The ident creates a very intense atmosphere and builds up tension prior to the film. The ident open with an establishing shot of the iconiv 20th Century Fox logo immediatly the audience are familor with the production company and associate with great success although a darker effect has being used as it appears to be snowing. The screen than fades to black and the title credits begin to roll using a a large bold font the text then becomes to enlarge as it apperas to draw closer. A pair of rustic old scissors then appear on screen slanted so we are able to see the blade as the title credits roll down passing what appears to be a robotic machinary at work. The title credits begin to rotate and move around the screen as the machine produces steam. images of different shapes what appears to be a man flsh on screen twisting from sde to side. The camera then zoom in on the image of an old man the slowly zoomz out allowing us to see his entire face. Finally snow begins to fall as the title credits end untill the screen turns to black.
As this ident was created in 1990 before the advance in technology no advanced CGI has being used although animation has. Throughout the ident the lighting is very dark and all of the colours used are bold matte colours with 100% opacity. This creates an eery effect and isolates the thought of happiness metaphorically representing the characters emotions and feeling's in the beginning of the film as we relate bright colours with happiness. The title rolling credits have being done using computer graphics and editing techniques. As the text appears to be getting smaller and bigger as it rotates around the screen an effect will have been used superimposed over a blank screen with the different images behind therefore are made up of layers. The soundtrack to the ident utilizing conceptual visuals and sound. As is ident has being enitially created for the cinema the screen ratio will be widescreen standard 16:9.