Tuesday, 26 January 2016

'Django Unchained' (2012, Quentin Tarantino) Title Sequence Analysis (#3)



NOTES:

  • All one slow, long-take: particularly focused on editing.
  • Font design is iconic of genre; particular styling of serifs.
  • Soundtrack synchronous with the pace and on-screen titles; 'Django' being said and the title, 'django', emerging center-frame in white.
  • Strong use of western genre iconography; cowboys hats, horses, mountain lines, the font styling, colt pythons, saloon shutters, sheriff badges.
  • Very graphical; only seen motion is the text and shot transitions.
  • Strong colouring pallet; red and black mainly for imagery and white for the titles.
  • Tarantino's auteur is relatively easy to identify; the font styling and the transitions.
  • Titles having symbolic meanings; Tarantino's name being superimposed on to the image of a sheriff badge - which essentially means most important, creating a link between a sheriff's importance and his role within production of the film.
  • Inspiration; loved how the soundtrack lyrics are employed with onscreen text - I have taken note of this particular auteur.

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