Friday, January 31, 2020

Title Research: Underwater

They're 25 titles in the opening scene of underwater . At the beginning the titles start descending down the screen which correlates with the title under water . Those titles are just the companies that collaborated to create underwater and the title underwater. After the titles just start to appear on the screen in a smaller font ranging from executive producers to star actors . Images that are prioritized in the opening scene is the subtitles and words in a newspaper . An example would be "worlds deepest drill under construction" . This obviously makes the audience assume that a main plot of the movie will be the drilling being that it was one of the boldest worlds during the opening scene . Another image prioritized is the large map of the ocean . This tells the audience that the main setting will be the pacific ocean or the Marina trench because the camera begins to zoom into as the opening scene continues. 
The connotations that the images carry are a feeling of seriousness and suspense as well. It brings these feelings out by the images themselves. The images are different documents and facts that tell certain things that are important to the film. These images show some of the facts, but leave the audience wondering what importance the images have in the film. Not only does it have the audience guessing, but it brings out a level of seriousness cause of the different official documents that are shown. This brings out the importance in the film by the audience knowing that official documents such as those shows something significant happening. The genre is reinforced through symbolic and technical codes from the outset by the director using different the titles as a way to represent the film. The titles are presented in a going down manner to represent that the film is going to be taken place underwater. This hints to the audience that the film will be taken place underwater. The title of the film also gives some hint to this as well. The director also hints to some of the details to the film in the documents shown by including statements like “under water drilling project”. This reinforces the mysteriousness of the film because it leaves the audience wanting more. 
The film establishes enigma from the outset by leaving the audience wanting more. It does this by having the documents have words on them that hints to the details of the film, but they move very quickly. This makes the audience want to know what the document says and leaves them wondering what hints does the documents give them. The strategies that are used to ensure the film appeals it’s targeted audience is the editing techniques that they use and the sound as well. The sound and the editing techniques make it seem like something is about to come out of the screen. These types of effects attract people who like to adventure and people that are curious. The images of the documents talking about drilling underwater also attracts marine life enthusiasts and people interested in the environmental factors of the drill. Technology was used effectively by the editing techniques and the transitions. The transitions were very fast portraying a sense of urgency for the film. This helped let the audience know that this was important as well. Not only were they fast, but the transitions were going downwards to connect with the title underwater, which enhances the suspense for the movie. Also, since some of the documents shown were newspapers it gives off the sense that the incident was so important that it was in the news. This is an important technique using technology because the audience knows that things in the news are major events that the world needs to know about, this means that if this was in the news then it was a very important event. Not only was it in one news paper, but the sequence shows that it was in many newspapers across the world. This makes the audience even more eager for what actually happened and in the process shrouds the incident that took place in more mystery. 
All of these things that I have said combined reinforces and enhances the mystery aspect of the film efficiently. 

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