DEXTER title sequence re-edit: Evaluation

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

For legal reasons, titles are needed in films and television dramas in order to tell the audience who has done the work in order to make the film or television drama, such as the director and the producer. However, the titles should also suit the specific genre, so the font, the colour and the effects applied on the titles must be genre-specific. and appear as if they are supposed to be there as well as moving around on the screen enough to create the feeling of movement, even in a title sequence made completely of stills by making the audience look around at different places on the screen. As well as this, it is important that the titles are in the spaces, so as not to detract from the action.

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

We spoke to each other, deciding that a professional title sequence would have approximately twenty-five sequences, but also decided to focus on the individual titles, trying to complete them to the best of our abilities with the limited software we had. We wanted to make sure that each title was true to the genre, which was thriller. We chose the colour red and a font which reflected this and placed each title in the space. We tried to time our titles so that they looked as if they were supposed to be there.

Explain the creative decisions made by your group.

We used the colour red, which was reflective of the psychological thriller genre and was similar to the main title, "Dexter". We decided that the use of the colour red stood out against the white and black and was like blood. We made the titles move with the objects on screen in order to create the illusion that they had been infused with the sequence itself and to make it seem more natural.

How does your re-edit compare to the original?

Our sequence had one similarity to the original, which was the position of the title just before the protagonist's blood drips into the sink after he shaves and the fact that a different title appears in a new place when the blood drips in the place that the previous title has been seconds before.