Saul Bass Title Sequence Analysis

Saul Bass Title Sequence Analysis

Seconds (1966) 

To begin the title sequence, there is an extreme close up shot of an eye, we see the eye looking around creating a sense of panic; the eye is then hidden reinforcing the sense of panic. The camera moves to a shot of the persons lips, and the word 'Seconds' appears, creating the sense of time running out or a limit of something. The camera moves, and it shows the extreme close up shot of the insides of the persons mouth, which is darkness, but could suggest that the film has an input of science towards it or secrecy. There are more shots of the persons facial features similarly strengthens the science thought.

There is a shot of a mans face which has been edited to make it look very uncertain, possibly to inform the audience that he is the 'bad' person within the film. He is looking down at the camera giving them a sense of authority and presents a dangerous aspect towards them, introducing the genre of thriller to the film.

There is a shot of a person's face with something over their face, as if it has been bandaged up, this reinforces a sense of thriller as it is quite disturbing. It also suggests that the person has been 'examined' as previously stated, introducing both genres of science and thriller. There is then a birds eye view of people walking around, creating a sense of innocence towards the people.

The music editing within the title sequence is very intense, and strengthens the idea of the  genre of the film being thriller as it creates the feeling that something bad is going to occur. The typography within the film is very basic; this could be to draw the attention more towards the images rather then the text within the sequence.

The title sequence sets up what is going to happen within the film; it insinuates that it is going to be a thriller film and that there is some sort of science fiction involved too. Also, from the music, its created that the film would consist of intense moment

Zombieland Analysis

I am going to make an analysis of the title sequence of the film ‘Zombie land’. In the opening scene of the sequence we are presented with a man falling from a building, in slow motion, with a man behind him as if he had pushed him. This opening scene creates its first enigma; this gives the impression to the audience the film has something to do with this man being falling. We are introduced with ‘rocky’ violent music. The music seems to be from a rock genre; which gives the impression that the film is horror or action. Because the music had opened up with this particular genre of music, it seemed as if it needed to involve violence or violent scenes; which is stereotypically connected with horror or action films.

A mid shot of a man covered in blood was the next scene. Maintaining the horrific look, we see blood is vomiting from his mouth, this displays to the audience that it involves some gore and violence, which is usually associated in horror films. The title sequence continues to show fear by setting up a long shot of two women, one whom is dressed in typical feminine colours, pink and white, showing the connotations of a woman and representing her as innocent or the ‘angel’, this is then supported to show her innocence as she is being chased by another woman whom seems to anger this ‘innocent’ girl. She is dressed in darker clothing and covered in blood, which creates buzzwords such as ‘evil’. 

Following the last scene a scarce man wearing a cardboard sign reading ‘the end is near’ and ‘zombies’ seemed to be running towards him. The sign implies that in fact ‘the end is near’ which mean something is going to change the world for the humans. This is reinforced by the fright shown on his ace because he realizes he is going to be attacked. A wide shot where a car is on fire, and dark smoke coming from it shows the dreadful incident that has occurred. The dark colours correspondingly suggesting violence, as dull colours such as black and red are usually stereotypically associated with this. We see the title of the name appear on screen

with a glass affect with a guy with a weapon about to smash it. In the background we notice the ‘zombie’ covered in blood running towards him, so he smashes the glass effect of the writing to pieces using his weapon. This shows fear in the film. The blood on the ‘zombie’ shows an indication that it is easy to discover that genre

of the film is horror. The next shot, we see a woman running without a top, showing her to be naked. This may show create enigmas for the audience in to whether the film is associated with nudity and sex or whether it is associated with violence. When linking the features ‘violence, nudity, blood and rock music’, it would typically be witnessed as using typical brutal connotations of a horror film.

At the end of the sequence, it shows a blood splatter on the screen, shadowed by a man falling from which seemed to be the building behind him, through something which then leads into a screen of darkness. The darkness could associate that there is no hope for the people that remain human.

The typography throughout the title sequence is written in capitals and in a typical horror colour, red. Red typography is usually used to link with danger. Using the colour red strengthens the genre of horror as horror is suppose to involved some gore and blood. Throughout the title sequence the characters are always seeming to run away a ‘zombie’ or turning into a ‘zombie’. We know just by the title sequence the film is going to adhere to the story line for the film and its title.