Dexter Evaluation Questions

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

In order to succeed in creating an effective title sequence, it was necessary for us to include the details of the actors and crew involved and highlight their roles, eg. the director/main character. We also had to introduce the genre of the show, and suggest what sort of things would happen in the show, and finally introduce the name of the show, so that viewers can grasp onto it.

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

As a group, Ellie and I decided that we should retain the red colour that the font of the Title of the show had, in order to keep the subtle, professional look of the sequence, furthermore, we decided to use a similar font to retain the same style throughout, and keep the text clear but not intrusive, so that the viewer could keep trackk and follow the shots in the background. We decided to place the titles both between the action and also within it, with some effects to show its interaction with the video. Regarding timing, we decided to keep the titles short to prevent dominance in the sequence.

 3. Explain the creative decisions made by your group. 

We used the most similar font to the title that we could find in order to maintain style, and kept this the same throughout the sequence, however we changed the font colour to white as we felt that it was a better colour to fit into the sequence, and worked better when effects were added to it. The effects we decided to use were not very bold, as we thought that we did not want them to cause the viewer to detract from the main visual, and also we wanted to retain the professional, subtle style. However, we managed to place some within the action, and used effects to make them appear to react with it.

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

In comparison, our edit and the original opening sequence had some obvious similarities, but many differences, for example, the official sequence retained the same font and colour the entire time, simply making it smaller than the title, and moving the titles around the scree, whereas we changed the colour of the font in order to make the titles more subtle. A similar aspect of the two was that they both have similar positioning of the text within the sequence, surrounding the action but never placed directly in front of it, to stay informative, yet subtle. However, the main difference was that the official sequence contained no effects within the titles, whereas ours used a variety to both merge in with the action and also make them stand out to the reader. Apart from this, the titles were rather similar due to their simple actions and style.