RESEARCH - Favourite film titles

MEN IN BLACK 

One of my favourite movies since childhood is ‘Men in Black’. The titles for this film were designed by Pablo Ferro. In the opening scene the plot is not being set up, the camera is following digitally created dragonfly while the credits are being shown in front of it. The whole action takes place at night time, so the main content that catches my attention is the starry black sky. This is a good use of background as the white titles on them are clear and easy to read. The titles are integrated into the sequence because as I mentioned before the camera starts following dragonfly until it crushes into the car’s front window which leads to the first movie scene, this makes the sequence narrative. Also, the soundtrack of this movie creates mystical feeling, but at the same time instruments makes it sound positively. It is easy to guess that the genre of this movie is going to be mystical, fiction or comedy.

THE SEQUENCE

0.10 – COLUMBIA; SONY PRODUCTION (indent of distribution and production institutions)

0.24 – COLUMBIA PICTURES PRESENT

0.29 – an AMBIN ENTERTAINMENT PRODUCTION

0.35 – in association with McDONAD PARKED productions

0.40 – a BARRY SONNENFELD film

0.44 – starring TOMMY LEE JONES

0.49 – WILL SMITH (famous actors names goes before the title to attract more audience)

0.56 –MEN IN BLACK (the main title credit stands out; the front is larger)

1.04 – LINDA FLORENTINO

1.09 – VINCENT D’ONOFRIO

1.15 – RIP TORN

1.23 – TONY SHALHOUB

1.28 – casting by DAVID RUBIN and DEBRA ZANE

1.33 – alien make-up effects by RICK BAKER

1.38 – visual effects supervisor ERIC BREVIG

1.43 – music by DANNY ELFMAN

1.48 – costume designer MARY E. VOGT

1.53 – film Editor JIM MILLER

1.58 – production designer BO WELCH

2.08 – director of photography DON PETERMAN

2.21 – based on the marvel comic by LOWELL CUNNINGHAM

2.27 – co-producer GRAHAM PLACE

2.33 – executive producer STEVEN SPIELBERG

2.41 – screen story and screenplay by ED SOLOMON

2.46 - produced by WALTER F. PARKES and LAURIE MacDONALD

3.00 – directed by BARRY SONNENFELD