Here is the older title sequence by Saul Bass called 'Psycho' that I have decided to analyse. The first thing the audience are presented with are the hectic sound of the music Saul Bass decided to use. As the music starts to swell the background colour turns from black to a medium grey. This is when the sharp horizontal and vertical lines are shown in which could be seen as a stabbing movement across the shot. This could connote to the audience of happinnings that are going to take place later in the film. Throughout this title sequence the audience are presented of the characters that are going to star in the film, however there names do not appear easily at first glance. The characters names are unscrambled which could also give some information to the audience as the unscrambling of the characters could connote that there is hidden information that will be made present.
Here is the contemport title sequence by Kyle Cooper called 'The Orphan' that I have decided to analyse. Similar to Saul Bass' title sequence of 'Psycho' this title sequence starts off as the audience here some eery music. I believe this sets the genre as soon as the audience hear it because it will make them feel on edge and uneasy. We, the audience are then presented with the 'Warner Bros. Pictures' logo which changes from normal into UV paint splatted on it. This suggests to the audience that children could be involved in the film? The same thing then happens again on the 'Dark Castles' logo. In the first shot we are presented with what looks like a childs drawing of a bible which connotes to the audience religion will be present in the film and a childs drawing of a father and daughter. As the film is called 'The Orphan' these drawings might of be created by a child who is longing to be adopted. Also as we see this the first of the character names are present. They flash between two names which could suggest to the audience that there may be flash backs that they will need to look out for. In the second shot a second character name is present and is presented in the same way that the first names are - in a flashing motion. The background image is of another childs drawing of a person however, this time UV paint appears like before which has changed the images meaning to what seems like a destressed person which a speer through its neck with scissors also present on the person. This shows to the audience that there may be a horrific twist in the film. As this happens the character names font is changed from a normal font to what looks like a young childs hand writing. Now untill the end of the film we are presented with the same UV lighting on each of the images which reveal another meaning to each picture e.g. a building full of children on fire and a piece of ribbon. At the end of the title sequence the name of the film 'The Orphan' is revealed. The typography is bold and black. This makes the title sequence stand out and be seen easily by the audience.
These two title sequences are very different in style even though they are from the same genre class. I think that the title sequence which is more effective would be Kyle Coopers 'The Orphan' as there are many different images presented to the audience which gives the audience some information of what the film could have in store. However, I do think that Saul Bass' 'Psycho' is still effective for its time as it is very simple in style but gets the right message across and leaves the audience in suspence.
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