Title Research: Signs

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Signs

What titles are displayed in the opening sequence?

The production company is the first title that is shown in the sequence, then followed by the main actors

names, the title of the movie itself, more actors names, and who casted the actors.

What followed that was who the music was done by: the visual effects supervisors, the costume designer,

the editor, the production designer, the director of photography, the executive producer, the main

producers, and then the person who wrote, produced, and directed the movie.

What images are prioritized in the title sequence?

There are no explicit images shown during the title sequence. However, the titles are all presented in the

same manner. All of the titles are in the same formal font and in the color black, over a background of a

blue circle that fades into a black back of the circle. Each title card fades into each other as well.

How does the film establish a feeling of the genre from the title sequence?

Using mainly black and blue, with titles that fade into each other, and the bold lettering, all with an eerie

orchestra, mainly violin, playing in the background, there is a mysterious and offsetting tone set at the

beginning of the movie.