RESEARCH - ANALYSING DEADPOOL TITLE SEQUENCE

Art of the title 4 - Deadpool (2016)

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"The opening notes of Juice Newton’s adult contemporary classic “Angel of the Morning” drown out what are sure to be the final screams of some extremely unlucky hired goons. Here, frozen in time, in the back seat of an exploding Cadillac Escalade, a hyper-violent tableau takes shape. In what can only be described as some unholy marriage of the Three Stooges and a Michael Bay movie, battered bodies fly in all directions, engulfed in a shower of spit, blood, and broken glass. Guns are fired. Eyes are gouged. Tea is bagged. This is Deadpool… or rather it’s our introduction to Deadpool, the masked mutant in the middle of all that death and debris — the guy deftly executing the wedgie to end all wedgies.

From the moment the first credit appears on screen, it’s clear the Deadpool opening title sequence is designed for one thing and one thing only: to gleefully take the piss out of the entire proceedings. In a world where star Ryan Reynolds is at once People’s 2010 “Sexiest Man Alive” and Wade Wilson — the chimichanga-craving Marvel Comics antihero with a penchant for breaking the fourth wall — it’s appropriate for Blur Studio’s opening to acknowledge the fact that it is a title sequence in a movie. Full of sly (and not-so-sly) nods to comic book fans and self-reflexive title cards that say what we’re all really thinking, there is no way to come away from the Deadpool opening sequence without knowing full well what you’re about to get into."

- This shows that the director/producer has deliberately created this 'piss take' to be    original and witty. As the director/producer has said it in the paragraph above, it is    not something people will expect... it is definitely portrayed as a unique and                spectacular super hero movie.

This film is about a normal man who somehow has his life taken away from by getting summoned to be experimented on which makes him immortal... He is conceived as a cocky but dangerous and specialist type warrior who lives his short but heroic (in his own way) life defeating the 'bad guys' finding a cure to turn him back to who he was to resume his life with his Fiance.

The credits has been displayed in a very unique and creative way; as Deadpool is a very different film to others, the director has used his comedic side to him by using witty captions instead of the actors' names. For example, rather than "Ryan Reynolds" the animator used 'A British Villain' which in my opinion is very unique and used intelligently as it matches the comedic moral of the film. 

•      Director: Tim Miller

•      Studio: Marvel, Twentieth Century Fox

•      Producer: Abbey Keller

     The Mise en Scene of the film opening displays the wittiness of the whole film by using a creative method of descriptive captions and also the extreme slow motion frames. The frames presents a small picture which moves in slow motion with calm and traditional music which could be classed as classical. This completely contradicts what the film is about which makes the film significant; It couldn't be more unique.

      The audience is attracted mainly because it is seen as a spoof of hero films which contradicts Marvel although it is a change and many people like this (including me). Also, the fact that Ryan Reynolds is playing the main actor - which is DEADPOOL Himself - draws the attention of the audience as supporters (of him as an actor) which gets many people to watch it due to him being a very famous actor.

In the interview between Tim Miller (director) and Franck Balson (from Blur Studio), Tim identified that the writers loved the clever idea of stupid titles instead of names in the Intro credits. It not only gave the film originality but was quite funny... 'God's perfect idiot' for example; Because it came across witty, it linked in with the purpose of the film very well.

THE BUSINESS OF FILM

  For AS Media, it is suggested that we do some extra work to widen our knowledge on the business of film. in this specific element of AS Media, we learn about 'The Big Six', the distribution process and the production process. As these things are covered lightly over AS, we use this course to expand our knowledge and information about the film industry.

MARK RIBOUD PHOTOGRAPH

Marc Riboud

Demonstration against the Vietnam War in 1967 by Marc Riboud

Using photographs taken by Marc Riboud, whose obituary appeared in The Telegraph, we deconstruct the representation of a 16-year-old girl holding up a flower to the serried ranks of US soldiers, taken in Washington, 1967, during the Vietnam War.

In the first lesson, we took a look at a famous photographer's photograph of the soldiers and the young girl holding the flower and started analysing it as a class. we talked about composition, expressions, background meanings and more. Here are most of the things we analysed:

Marc Riboud has taken this photograph in a mid-shot concept to not only capture the feelings – from the facial expressions of the girl – but also the line of soldiers in their uniforms holding weapons.

The girl’s hands holding the flower looks like she is in a praying stance as she is up close to the end of the soldier’s weapon (bayonet). However, it is significant how the soldiers are holding lethal weapons yet the girl is gently holding a beautiful shaped flower.

In contrast to this, the soldiers are wearing the same uniform which shows lack of identity and teamwork; But on the other hand, the teenage girl is wearing ‘hippie’ style clothing to signify peace and harmony aimed at the soldiers.

The viewers can visualise the girl’s expressions being scared on the inside due to the weapon which is pointed directly at her, but in reality, she is letting peace and harmony shine on the outside to show gratitude of who she is and what she is standing up for.

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RESEARCH: ANALYSING ZOMBIELAND TITLE SEQUENCE

Art of the Title 2  - Zombieland (2009)

This film is about a universe (starts off in America) which gradually increases of zombie population throughout the whole country. One of the main actors finds this out at a petrol station and his quest begins from there… He meets people along the way around the country to survive as long as possible. He describes to the viewers how to survive step by step E.G. Double tap (makes sure the zombie is dead).

In the credits at the beginning of the film, as well as having the credits of the actors, there is also step by step instructions of how to survive the zombie apocalypse such as ‘#2 Double Tap’. The producer’s names are presented first as they created the film and then follows the name of the actors. The credits physically move in the short slow motion clips as the people hit the letters which is a very clever edit.

•      Director: Ruben Fleischer

•      Studio: Columbia Pictures

•      Producer: Ben Conrad

The Mise En Scene of the film displays a very wide spread of as it varies location from buildings, to open land, to streets etc… The use of spitting blood and eating people in the opening scene gives the viewers an insight of how gory the film. In this case, Zombieland is 10/10 gore – couldn’t be gorier although it is also very comedic. The way the characters throughout the movie survive is very comedic as half of them aren't very good at it which results in them relying on one person... the country guy.

The background music is strong and bold which makes the viewer understand it is a very serious film from the start despite the comedic parts to it. Moreover, the colours in the opening scenes – too many different colours, shades and locations – already interprets how chaotic the film is and the lacking of structure due to the disruption by the zombie apocalypse.

The audience is drawn in by the famous actors (especially Jesse Eisenberg) which will get many fans of this actor to watch the film. The use of ‘Rules’ which are presented step by step attracts the audience to remain watching as it is addressing the viewer on what to do in the situation.