DEXTER title sequence re-edit: Evaluation

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1)  Summarise the conventions of title sequences that were most important to this task.

The role of the title sequences are to show the viewer the people behind the camera, so they do not go unnoticed, for example the director, costume designers, music directors etc.
The titles themselves should improve the sequence and look as if they are meant to be there. To do this, the titles must have a clear sense of genre through the use of colour and font.
The titles may also be during a sequence with little dialogue or important events happening to capture the audience's attention.

2)  How did your group plan to edit the title sequence? (consider timings, industry requirements etc.)

We decided that in industry there are usually about 20 titles in a sequence, so we wanted to put as many as we could into our one. However, due to the tight time constraints we were under we managed to put in 5. We decided on red for our titles colour, which stood out, which was essential for the thriller genre.

3)  Explain the creative decisions made by your group.

We used the colour red for the titles, to connote the genre of thriller-horror and to show consistency from the main 'Dexter' title which was also red. The colour also had connotations of blood and anger, which worked well due to the violent actions which were happening during the sequence.
We chose a font similar to 'Times New Roman' because it's legible and we thought it fit the horror theme, also we thought a block font was too boring.
We made some of the titles move with their environment for example when the blood spread along the screen, we made the red title fade away as the blood spread to it.

4)  How does your re-edit compare to the original?

The original edit is different but better than our edit. Their edit contained all the necessary titles and were not overly ambitious. Their titles were static and had a block font which was stylish and fitted the genre perfectly. Our edit could have been good if we had finished what we had started and in hindsight a block font would have stood out more than the font we chose.