Art of the Title format for Dawn of the Dead

The word "DEAD" of dawn of the dead is bigger then the other words to put emphasis on it. It lets the target audience know immediately of the horror genre that will be in Dawn of the Dead. The typography of all of the opening credits/titles all follow the transition of dissolving and splattering into the background as shown on the left. This makes it nearly certain it will be gory and many people will die very quickly.

At the start of the of the Dawn of the Dead it starts off with the institutional company that produces it because this allows the audience to know who created this movie and that they deserve credit first. For all of the opening credits that goes by, it follows the same concept of having a black background with big, bold and red font in the middle of it. The Black connotes to the darkness that is linked with the movie and the red connotes to the danger and blood that will be heavily involved in this movie.

                 Dawn of the Dead starts off the actors/actresses with Sarah Polley who is a well known Canadian actress, who has starred in movies such as Away from her and her documentary: Stories we tell. People know that she can star in a variety of different movies and this movie is no exception, which allows the audience to know that the main heroine in this movie will be really professional and realistic in it.

When the movie wants to show the other actors/actresses that aren't that well known or famous to the audience, they show multiple names at one time, as shown on the left. This allows the opening credits to roll along quicker, shortening the duration of it and keeping the interest of the audience.


  This credit tells the audience who gathered and casted the actors and actresses of this movie.
People can make an assumption that if they see someone who has casted great movies, then this means the current movie will likely to be superb too.

Again this credit allows the audience to be aware of who edited this movie, to see if the scenes flow well together, that there are absolutely no flaws to create a finished product. If there are scenes that do not have continuity or make sense then the audience will be able to know whose fault that is or vice versa: if the editing was excellent, the audience will want to watch future movies with the same editor.

The music is an important aspect of the film and the audience need to know who is composing the music. This is why the credit has been put in the opening credits, also the music needs to fit of the genre of the movie which is horror. If the audience feels that the music fits well with horror then they can applaud and remember who composed the music.


The production designer is in charge of how the movie is produced and what to include in it. For example he is the on responsible for the blood on the zombies, the amount of characters in the movie and things such as that. This is why the production designer is given credit in the opening sequence.

Zack Snyder is shown at the very end of the opening credits because he is the director of the movie. He deserves to get a lot of character and is why he is placed at the end because people will remember his name just before the movie starts.

What's In The News?

1st idea: "Terror corruption on the horizon?"

This headline shown above could be the title for a British Social realism movie. This is my idea of how I can use this title to create a British movie. The themes will be based on: terrorism, violence and corruption of youth.  The plot of the story starts off with an Islamic state video being shown going viral, showing terrorists bombing an area and thus murders a handful of innocent people in London. The public goes into a frenzy of panic and is paranoid of going out, in fear of being killed. This prompts the government to take action and holds a conference of how they are going to deal and suppress the increasingly threatening terrorists. The main character is called Abdul and is a smart sixteen year old Muslim boy, who is just living like any ordinary teenager. However, the terrorist that consists of five jihads using propaganda in order to persuade every Muslims to join them in their corrupted acts and this affects Abdul as the story goes on. The leader of the terrorists, Fabio aims to start off bombing small places such as car parks and parks, and then increase the scale of the places/people they are bombing such as David Cameron's car. As Abdul witnesses the ongoing chaos that ensues throughout London, he is torn between following these terrorists because he believes that following them is the right thing to do according to Islam, or actually staying away from these terrorists and helping the government imprison these terrorists. As you continue to watch the movie, the biggest decision of Abdul's life will become clear and it will affect him and other young Muslims who are also in the same situation as him...


 2nd idea:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-30189092

This headline gave me inspiration of a hit and run incident that can occur in a British social realism film. The themes will be based on: violence, aspiration and escape and social class clashes. It is set in London and the plot of the story will begin with a young man: Yuri, in his early twenties running away from a couple of thugs in a gang chasing him. Yuri has many big debts that he needs to pay off but is unable to do so, prompting the gang to capture him and murder him. He barely escapes at the start from the thugs, however from then on his life continues to deteriorate in an unfortunate way. His family and friends get involved, in some cases, they are captured and held for ransom to his complete horror and dismay. Yuri owes debts to gangs because he needs to support his family, who consists of only his two younger twin brother and sister due to his mother dying when he was a baby and his father's mysterious disappearance. He tries many ways of escaping from the intimidating thugs, which includes trying to even leave the country by a bicycle as  his last resort. However, a plot twist that occurs will leave you in complete shock...

3rd idea: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-30196925

This headline also interested me because of how unique it was. Acid isn't really used much in movies as the start of a movie but I believe it can be a great smash mouth opening. It will start off with the masked man as an antagonist throwing acid to the main protagonist - Lucy. The themes for this movie are: Mental illness, violence and success and failure. Lucy is a middle waged woman who is horrified by the acid being thrown at her, also unknown of why this is happening to her. The story carries on with Lucy, attempting to track down the masked man to the best of her ability, using everything she can. The masked man knows that Lucy is coming back after him and he uses malicious in order to lure Lucy into his hands...

Week 6 Productive Log

This week I had to look at the history of Film 4; this is the film company that will help distribute and promote our movie. I found out that Film 4 started up at 1982 and is responsible for the showing of many British social realism movies that includes popular movies such as : Slumdog millionaire and Attack the block. This helped the decision to choose Film 4 as our film company because the themes that they usually show in their movies is what we are going to use in our movie and opening sequence. I have been able to find this out because I have researched two movies shown by Film 4: This is England and Four lions. Themes in This is England include: corruption of youth, racism and violence and in Four lions it is: terrorism, comedy and violence.

The week also included me looking and researching opening credits of a movie. This has helped me have a perspective how opening sequence credits are structured and layered out. The movie I looked at was Dawn of the Dead - a horror movie. I found out that the institution logo is depicted in a huge bold writing, along with the equally big title of the movie. After these two credits have passed, the main starring actors/actresses are shown in the credits, then the side characters are shown later. Later on, the rest of the staff of the production of the movie are named, for example: the production designer, editor, director and many more. Finally, they usually last under 2 minutes at least, which is helpful for our opening sequence because the maximum time we get on it is 2 minutes.