Research-Extension Activity-Watching Documentary

1. What Thomas Sutcliffe means when he says that films need to "seduce their audience into long term commitment" is that films need to make sure that the title sequence needs to be entertaining enough so that watchers will be bothered to stick around. If the title sequence doesn't seduce you to watch the movie, the filmmaker has failed in trying to "seduce" you.

2. Beinex says that "instant arousal" has risks. This is because if a movie has an incredible introduction that grabs the attention of the audience straight away, if the movie isn't as good as those first initial scenes, audiences may not like the film as much as the producers had hoped they would.

3. A good beginning must have the audience know just enough knowledge on what the basics of the movie are. This is because if you give too much detail in the title sequence, you may be able to predict the story line of the movie. If you give barely any details in the title sequence, then the audience will not have a clue on what the movie is about and may leave them with a bitter taste on the movie.

4. What Kauffman says about the classic shot is true. This is because it almost acts like an establishing shot where we learn of the new location. But in a title sequence, you have to put a little more work in and the classic shot does this because it enables the viewer to learn where the movie is taking place and who is in the movie.

5. Kyle Cooper's movie title sequence for David Fincher's "Se7en" is effective because it shows us a very discrete showing of what our main character is like. Also because it is discrete in telling us the narrative, it makes us ponder and want to investigate.

6. For Welles' movie, "A Touch of Evil" he wanted to bring his audience straight into the movie with no soundtrack or titles at all. Universal Studios did not like this idea and what he was doing so they added a soundtrack and titles for the cast.

7. The idea that is the "favorite trick of film noir" is the idea where producers put the end of their movie at the beginning. This is done for suspense because the audience now know the ending of the movie but they don't have any prior knowledge before that scene so to find out what leads to this big finale, they have to watch the movie.

8. The reason why the Shining has a great title sequence is because of the way it is filmed. It is filmed with a birds eye view and is mixed with a tracking shot of a car. This is good because it builds suspense in a way because it is like something is watching or following this car to a place and when it gets its chance, it will strike.