two opening title sequences

Misfits

Task: find two opening titles sequences from television shows that appeal to you. Look at editing, music, camera angles and the text as it is important. Say why this appeals to you, what colour is the text, why does it fit with the overall look of the sequence? What style of the text is used? And where is the text positioned in the frame?

  

I have chosen misfits television show as it is very interesting because the show is about five teenage outsiders party girl Alisha, hard as nail Kelly, one time sporting hero Curtis, painfully shy Simon and smart alec Nathan get caught up in a freaky storm while on community service and suddenly find themselves with a strange superpowers, Alisha can make men want her in a sexual way, Kelly has the power to read mines, Curtis randomly turns back times when he regrets something, Simon has the ability to turn invisible and Nathan is immortal.

These different powers that each of the characters  have, has made the television show appealing for a wide range of people which includes children aged  12 year olds and over as it is a different type of TV programme and as it is an urban atmosphere filmed in south Thamesmead, the children can relate to the environment.

   

At the beginning the television programme shows re-cape of the previous last episode in the last series then introduces a new character without dialogue, in the background there is music playing ‘ clear island by liars’ we also here ‘stress by justice within the show. when we see one of the characters, Kelly bailey (Lauren socha) gets hit in the eye with a flying paper aeroplane that has been thrown by another character which is introduced to the television programme with a bit of dialogue from the actor this starts of the music again but it is a different song, the music changes into the signature tune,  which is very distinctive / is the theme music for the show and it increases in volume .As the music volume increases this is the start of the opening title sequence which is an urban animated form also depicting the characters and their ‘powers’ which is created from the lighting. There are images of the urban area where the series is located in Thamesmead; within the programme we see different images which represent the characters portrayed in the series these images are seen when the characters are introduced by their physical appearances. We also see the names of the actors in the title sequence, iwan bellamy, Robert Sheehan, Lauren socha, Nathan stewart-jarret, Antonia Thomas the actors names are shown at different times one after in capital letters in Arial front, either in black or white colour and we then see the title of the film ‘misfits’ which is in Arial font, is black and bold making the title of the television show eye catching. After we see the title of the show it follows on to showing who wrote and created the programme ‘ Howard overman’ in Arial font and in black capital letters, at this point we see ‘Nathan’ one of the characters, it goes on showing the other characters in their physical appearances as it gets to ‘Alisha’ we see who produced it ‘Kate crowe’ the front is the same and is in white capital letters then the camera pans up ‘to the sky’ and it shows directed by tom green n black bold letters using Arial font, each of the names who are involved in making the television programme names where slightly bigger than their job name this makes their name stand out more and clearer to read.

           

In this television show there are many edits for example as the television show begins it shows the previous events that had happened in the weeks before leading up to on occurring events but we only see certain parts that had happened during the previous weeks as it shows different parts of the programme, this is a smooth editing as it follows on one after the after to each event in the different scenes as a whole run through without any stops or black outs. The title sequence that introduces the television show with the characters/ actors shown and their names, finishes it follows on showing one of the characters Simon bellamy (iwan Rheon) looking down the piece of paper, this is one of the cuts as it goes from the title sequence straight back into the programme.  We see the characters go in and out of certain room showing different parts of the scenery in one scene we see all of the characters Simon, Curtis, Kelly, Alisha and Nathan run out of the locker/ changing rooms into the corridors then into the hall these parts are edited and then put together smoothly, we see the characters walk through the locker room with dialogue then Simon appears in the corridors and with the others following behind chasing after a new character Lucy which then follows in to the hall we can tell editing has been used by the way of the different camera angles each time the character enter another area of the building in that scene.
FINISH OF THE OTHER TITLE SEQUENCE.