Analysis of contemporary titles/opening vs. older titles/opening

PSYCHO

OLDER TITLES/OPENINGS

                                                                                         
Psycho title sequence has been made by Saul Bass in 1960s. It starts of by only text and lines coming across from every way possible. The text splits in the middle by a line going across which is very simple but looks very interesting as it is different. After the titles have been shown, an image of a city appears. The camera pans right and keeps going, while the camera shows the audience the whole city white text appears in the middle of the screen, which tells the audience the date and the time of the film. The title sequence ends by the camera zooming completely into a house and then a half way open window. This title sequence is very simple as not a lot is going on. The colors have been chosen correctly as they do not hurt your eyes. As the lines keep coming on and of the screen the music is rather fact and goes with the name of the film 'Psycho'. As the city appears diegetic sound is used, which means the music has been turned of and the sound of the city has been left on.

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SALT

CONTEMPORARY 

TITLES/OPENINGS

The title sequence starts of by white credits coming up on a black screen while the sound is of a man talking. As the credits dissapear the sound of chains is heard. Then from the black screen a door/lid opens and a squeek is heard. Two men are then seen from point of view, the point of view changes to what the men see and the audience get introduced to the main character Evelyn Salt. The first impression of her is not very nice as her face is bloody and she is rather dirty, locked up. The fact of diegetic sounds being used from the very start of the title sequence is a very interesting and a good idea. This lets the audience wonder what may be going on. This is a very different type of title sequence compared to 'Psycho' as the music has been used very differently and 'Salt' is much more simple, also as easily seen 'Psycho' is in black and white and 'Salt' is in colour, this shows us the improvements from the past 51 years.   

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