The film 'Blue Valentine' is a Romantic Drama film and so I wanted to focus in on the intertitles to get a better idea of the conventions for the intertitles from this type of film.
The first
intertitles we see are the film festival logos, these are usually featured on
independent films and so maybe something to consider when coming to produce my
own. Using these logos shows the audience what type of film trailer they are
about to watch and that this isn't the typical Hollywood blockbuster. The
trailer doesn't use many intertitle screens throughout as it tries to get the
audience to focus on the visuals and music when understanding the storyline,
this is also something I may try to incorporate as my trailer will rely on the
visuals and soundtrack in order for the audience to follow the narrative and
decisions made by each character. This is why the intertitles are plain and
simple so that the audience doesn't get distracted by the text shown to them.
The use of intertitles featuring more famous actors shows that’s the most
important thing to be mentioned using text, my trailer however will not follow
this layout as I have unknown actors that the audience won't be able to
recognise and so won't attract an audience to the film. The final title screen
is different to the other and so grabs the audience’s attention by standing
out. The colour scheme used is black and white, this is because colours may
distract the audience from watching the footage closely to understand narrative
which is also a feature I wish to include in my trailer.
Overall, from looking at the intertitles from Blue Valentine I
have now a better idea of how I want the intertitles in my trailer to look and
why the creators have made their decisions.
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