Donnie Brasco
This film title sequence has being created by Kyle Cooper for the Film Donnie Brasco, an action thriller film that follows the life of one FBI agent who bcomes caught up in the life of a famous Mafia family set in New York City in the 1970's. The sequence opens with a black screen as title credits begin to fade in using small text, a black and white portrait picture of one of the charcters in the film is then shown as the camera slowly zooms in on the picture focusing on the eye's allowing the audience to establish the emotion and fear reflected in the eyes of the charcter. Another image of what looks like a neon sign symbolling a busy city is then layed over the top of this image although is transparent as we are able to see both images. Several images then follow this on a film photographic strip played as though we are watching a clip from the film although they are still images that change as we see a group of men huddling together as a passing car stops and a man gets out of the car. The image shown earlier is then shown again however the camera zooms out allowing the audience to see the charcters entire face giving you a different outlook as to what he is thinking and who might he be. Title credits in small text continue to roll across the screen over the top of the images. We then see a continuous montage of different images taken from the film of the characters superimposed over one another. An image of a car that has being set on fire is then shown as the action slows down. Colour is introduced slightly as the fire appears using a primary orange to enhance the events we are seeing on screen. The sequence then ends with a colour picture of Jonny Depp who plays in the film.
Almost the entire sequence has being created using black and white footage only this is to emphasise both the year the film is set and the themes in the film all of which follow the typical codes and conventions of an action thriller based around crime, the law and reality. The visual effects of the sequence are very good and leave an impression on the viewer the camera shots chosen all have a purpose as the camera slowly zooms in at the begining of the sequence focusing on the eyes of the charcter it allows the audience to analyse the emotion and feeling that his eyes could potentially portray this then causes the audience to form an opinion about a charcter they have not yet been introduced to. The images that are they imposed behind of the bright neon city lights set the scene and hint at where the film is set as we immediatly associate this with a big city. Compositing has being used as we see both the different images and title credits have been overlayed on the video footage to create one image. Flash imagery is then used as we see a montage of different pictures taken from the film, although all of th images are in black and white incident and reflected lighting has being used. Different streghnths of opacity has being used throughout the sequence as certain images are 100% opaque although when we are able to see two images 0% opacity has being used. As this sequence was originally made for the cinema the screen ratio will be 16:9 as it is a cinematic sequence.