Credits and Titles: True Blood

Secondly we looked at the opening of True Blood:

• The clip opens with a panning shot of a swamp, this creates a distinctive setting and sets the mood for the overall programme, which has a dark and mysterious theme, this is also commonly associated with a swamp. It then cuts to a glaring crocodile which makes you think the crocodile is watching you, maybe judging you, there is low lighting used to create a dark and cold atmosphere, which makes it scarier for the audience as they are watching this crocodile.
• We then see a sudden tracking shot of a church, which indicates the area is religious, but it then changes to a sexual shot of a womens body. This gives the audience an obvious contrast between good and evil.
• Lots of the cuts showing quite run down looking shots indicates the poorness of this town or village. The grass is shown as a very dull green colour which shows the lack of care shown to their environment.
• The main clip we see is the clip of the church, which sets the tone of the programme. From the view of the car the camera passes a church and on the notice board it states 'God Hates Fangs', this instantly tells viewers that this programme has something to do with vampires. Earlier we had seen clips of racism and this could relate to the way the human and the vampire race treat each other.
• After this we see the main title, it is covered by blood dripping which connotes danger and murder. But the title 'True' shows a sense of purity. The title also relates to the vampires, as their food is blood and they use it to survive

Credits and Titles: Misfits

In todays lesson, Me and Rianna looked through extra things we could put on our blog, we decided to do some work on analysing the credits and titles of a couple of programmes that had been on TV. We took down notes in class and planned to write it up at home, here is my work on the Credits and Titles of Two
shows.

Firstly we watched the title sequence for Misfits:

• The colours used are mainly black, white and grey. The grey may represent the concrete on the floor of an urban environment such as London. You also see flashes of orange which represents the outfits that the characters wear (which is the bright orange probation uniform). The orange can represent that they are different from other people with what they are wearing, they are 'misfits'.
• The background is like a storm which is typical London weather. It also relates to the programme as they all gain powers from a storm. The colours represent a dark atmosphere.
• It starts off with mid shots of all the characters, you are able to see the facial expressions on all of their  faces and you can see that they are all quite sad and not happy. They look like troubled characters who are all doing their community service for a reason.
• The first shot used is a tilt shot, going down, this shows we are following someone.
• Misfits uses their own title sequence.
• The writing is written like graffiti, the characters doing community service may have done this before but now they are doing their community service they will be more likely to be scrubbing it off. Which are opposites, like the colours black and white.
• The actors names come first and they are firstly shown as all jumbled up but then put together to create their names. This shows the characters also as 'misfits'. The titles also look like they have been scribbled like someone has written them.