PREP: TO KILL A MOCKING BIRD, DELICATESSEN

 PREP To prepare for tomorrow's practical work of filming an opening sequence, please watch the following two title sequences which are filmed in in a similar 'table top' style. 

• Delicatessen (dir. Jean-Pierre Jaunet, 1991)
• To Kill A Mockingbird ( dir. Robert Mulligan,1962)

• what titles and credits appear on screen?
• how is the film's genre conveyed? 
• what use is made of sound?
• what hooks the audience and makes us want to carry on watching?

Delicatessen:

The credits appear in French on items relating to the subject for example music was on a record, the costumes were on a jacket and the director was on a camera. The title comes up when a man throws his hand up while he holds a knife cutting into a persons head and as he swings the knife down the title of the film appears onto the screen with a big bang noise and an effect making it look like the title has just fallen down from somewhere and had a rough landing.

The film genre seems to be horror and quite gruesome, we can tell by the way at the start the man has a knife and is stabbing someone in the head. The objects that the credits are shown on look very worn out and ruined which shows some sort of distress which can link to the subject of horror.  

At the end of the title scene there's a slight creek sound of something swinging on a chain, this sound effect is usually heard as a creepy sound which people are automatically alarmed by when they hear it and think there's something spine shivering about to happen. The non-diegetic music in the back sounds like clown music or music that doesn't bring people joy, when i hear this music it makes me think there's going to be some sort of jump scare or surprise of something scary is about to happen. 

The beginning of the movie is what hooks the audience. We see a scene where someone is potentially getting killed, but we don't actually see if he definitely gets killed, maybe he escapes? maybe the scene is made to look like the guy is about to kill someone but really he's swinging the knife at something else? This makes us want to keep watching and find out what really happens.

To kill a mocking bird: 

The language for the title and the credit is English. The title is shown when a young child is scribbling on the paper with a crayon, we see it slowly appear so we don't know what word will be next until the word appears. The credits are shown edited on the screen, but as the credits are shown we see different objects, things like a pencil, a clock, a pen, a marble rolling along a table. We don't only see objects but we also see the child drawing on a piece of paper again.

The film genre is conveyed as sort of horror but not in the same way as the other movie was. We hear a little girl singing in a weird way, they are drawing and the items look very old. As soon as we hear a high pitched hum which we don't like the noise of, we think the film is definitely got something to do with a young child with a horror side to it. 

At first we hear the sound of the child humming which shows us that there is a child involved in the movie. As the humming carries on a non-diegetic music fades into it, the effect of this is to add a bit more sound rather than just the humming sound for the whole time of the credits, this re attracts the watcher as there's a new sound added to it. 

The different change of scenery attracts the viewer to keep watching. We keep getting a change of the box full of objects and then the child drawing. We don't know what the link of these are and we wonder why we keep getting shown them. The viewer wants to find out what the link is and keeps watching as they are intrigued to find out what happens to the child, and what the objects have to do with the movie.