What titles? And Fargo

Analysis of FARGO
To understand the roles/ logos in the title sequence of FARGO- Directed by Cohen Brothers.

Job's: opening credits- actors names, MGM- advert, gold, black and the lion image.
Music by carter Burwell
Cinematography: Roger Deakins
Editing: Roderick Jaynes

Logo's: Poly Gram- flash of red light under it to stand out, fade out, big bold font, red, black and white. FARGO- title in bold black letters, working title films to show they put money into the film production. Three different titles but only to logos?

Mise-en-scene: snow, blue sky, cold, car in the back ground (main object is composed within the shot) good composition, the first establishing shot, long shot to a mid shot then to a close shot (as the car gets closer) the lighting was smooth and blue, this mad it real to the viewer. The sound track in the backgroung helped set the mood of the thriller, this made me as a viewer ask questions on the film.

Ideas for me to steel: true story information, use of font, cross dissolve (bird in the sky) the main actor has to have- good costume so you know what type of character they are, good performance so you know what type of person they are (shy, outgoing?) To keep the audience gessing and asking questions in the first few minutes of the film.

Five things that are good in this opening sequence:

1. Sound gets loulder then it stops when the opening location is set (the bar).
2. Shot/reverse/shot of the three characters talking in the bar.
3. The action make the viewer ask questions. Who are they? What are they talking about?
4. The way they just meet in the bar makes you feel as if they don't know eachother, then after the first few minutes they become friendly.
5. The good use of shot types: mid shot and close ups of Jery. The camera always gets the action. The conflict between the three characters. The main character tells the two men alot about his family (wife and father in law-not short of money!) The use of the 180 rule is effective, the viewer feels as if they are in the conversation, the way you can see all the main action in the first few minutes- the actors performance, dark cloves to see they are bad people, Jery's character tells alot about him as a person (shy, hunched over, quite)

My anaylsis of Fargo
This film helped me to find my chosen genre for the opening sequence to my own film.The way the characters are presented in the film to the viewer if effective and very well filmed. The use of the camera show there status with in the world of the film, and the use of shot reverse shot shows the audience who the characters are and what the film is based around. This film is a very good example of a thriller. So I will take a few of these idears and I will try and involve them with in my opening sequence thriller.