National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Here are screenshots I took of the opening sequence to the film, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.
I chose this film as it relates to our genre and uses many titles we will use. However this is different to what ours will be like because this is a cartoon where as ours isn't. Watching this, I learnt a lot about what titles are included and told me what order they usually come in, this will help when making ours as we will know what names need to added and when.
I used the following website (www.artofthetitle.com) to find this title sequence and print screened the page every time a title appeared, I wrote down the timings and converted them onto this blog page. I had to copy the images onto a word document, save them as an image then open them in paint to crop and edit them. I then saved the final image in my documents and added them below.
I used the following website (www.artofthetitle.com) to find this title sequence and print screened the page every time a title appeared, I wrote down the timings and converted them onto this blog page. I had to copy the images onto a word document, save them as an image then open them in paint to crop and edit them. I then saved the final image in my documents and added them below.
Timings...
Below are the timings used for the films title changes.
0.10- Warner Bros logo. The first thing shown is the Warner Bros logo to show the company which produced the film. Warner Bros is a popular company which suggests this film may have been popular. We could consider using this producer for our film.
0.23- A Hughes entertainment production. This shows the production used for the film, it is important so is used early in the titles.
0.30- Chevy Chase. Main characters/voices are added to the first titles.
0.34- National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (film title) The most important title in the sequence is the title of the film itself. It is not shown first or last but is one of the very first ones included.
0.49- Beverly D'angelo. More characters/voices are introduced into the titles.
0.52- Randy Quaid. More characters/voices.
0.57- Miriam Flynn. More names are shown from the film. This then follows to 1.18 when casting names are shown. The 21 seconds between these are lists of more characters.
1.18- Casting by. The cast is then introduced.
1.22- Costume design. Costume design is also an important role especially in festive films.
1.26- Music by. A music track is used throughout the title sequence and shows who is head of music for the rest of the film.
1.31- Editors. People who took part in editing are shown.
1.36- Production designer. A person who is responsible for the overall look of the film.
1.40- Director of photography. The person in charge of camera and lighting is another important role.
2.06- Executive Producer. The head producer who oversees the creation of the films performance.
2.13- Written by. The person who has written the film is included towards the end of the title sequence.
2.28- Produced by. The producer is mentioned later on.
2.35- Directed by. The final title included is the director of the film.
This task has taught me what order the titles should go in which is really useful for making the titles in our film as our film opening is focused on titles so is important that we get it right. It told me how the most important people are included and how the very first things is the production company used.