Tasha's Titling Task

Rear Window

The film title the 'Rear Window' suggests that the film is a thriller due to the fact that the title lets the spectators believe that its based on secretiveness. This is because of the words used in the title; the word 'Rear' means the back of something and obviously a 'Window' is something u can see out of. So by the title being called the 'Rear Window' suggests that the film is centred about looking through this particular window. This may create enigma within the audience as they will want to know more about the film and why the title is called this.
        
The layout and design of the title includes it being centred in the middle of the screen with the directors name above the title. This suggests to the audience that the filmmakers aren't that focused on the name of the film standing out. As it seems they care a lot about including famous names as well. The style of the title seems to be a very basic font that is bold in a light beige colour with red outlining it. Overall, this suggests that the style and visual appearance of the title isn't that important in the eyes of the filmmakers. Considering this was made in the mid fifties proves that their opinions and concepts of the visual style of films as different to what we think today.                

 The institutional information included the logos and short sequences of the production companies involved. For instance, at the very beginning of the sequence 'Universal' appeared on the screen along with its iconic soundtrack playing with it. This then faded to black and was followed by 'Paramount' presenting their logo into the sequence. Both these production companies have very iconic soundtracks and visual elements to them which are well known to the audience. These two sequences took up a good amount of time which could have been used to help emphasise the film. However, when considering the time period I think that this was an important thing to include to help promote how important these production companies are for filmmakers back in this time periods. Whereas nowadays the production companies are only shown very briefly in the opening credits as filmmakers care more about including as much elements of their own film as they can.    

When considering the sound included in this sequence; throughout there is a continuous loop of a jazz song playing. This helps create a continuous mood throughout which also creates a generally balanced pace and vibe for the audience to feel.