4 - Analyse 2 title sequences

From: www.artofthetitle.com

I have chosen to analyse the title sequence from the movie 21 Jump Street and Kung Foo Panda

Title Sequence: 21 Jump Street opens with the credits of who played a role to the movie, from the actors such as Jonah Hill to the director Chris Miller. This went in the name of the directors appear followed by the names of the writers and producers with the cast appearing just before the title screen with the most notable actors first. The typography of the title 21 Jump Street  is a bold font and has the colours of red and blue in order to show a sense of authoirty through the colours which portayed Police sirens, this lead onto the film as it showed a sense of genre to the movie as being action based. Moreover being placed in the middle of the screen, the typography is aligned on the middle of a black background in order to make the typo uniquely stand out for the audience and signify the movie.

Title Sequece: Kung Foo Panda, the title sequence starts with an animation of moving typography. DreamWorks, is preseted after a few scenes of the characters and scenary.

The sound links well to the title sequence, and is an oriental Chinese type theme.
The title sequence then moves on in a flash transition to introduce the title of the movie in big bold letters, (the music plays alongside this as it changes to a higher pitch sound to introduce the title) This all takes place as an overlay on top of a sunset type scene, and then as the title is used as an overlay above this scene, it moves into the actual setting. The title of the movie then fades away and action begins, narrative is used to tell accompanying the music and a backstory is told to give the audience an idea of what to expect in the current movie. The backstory is told in a 2D animated perspective, the title sequence then ends and moves on swiftly into the actual movie which is told in a 3D animated perspective.