DYM Dexter Re-Edit Evaluation

The conventions of title sequences that were most important to this task were:

·         Conveying details of the cast and crew and in what order

·         Introducing the main character and the title

·         The film title

·         Indication of mood, tone and genre

We planned to edit the title sequence by bearing in mind what conventions we needed to include. We initially decided on what font, colour and effects to use, deciding to make this constant throughout. We then added the cast and crew names in the places we thought they could possibly go and flow smoothly.

We decided to use red text with a quite plain font to make sure it looked professional and real, yet also conveyed the genre. When deciding on the effect, we wanted something that looked good yet wasn’t too distracting so fit with the rest of the title sequence. When deciding on names, we featured members of the class as the cast to make it more efficient.

In comparison to the original, our re-edit was similar in some ways but different in others. For example, we used dark red writing so it showed against the background and matched the blood that we thought might be significant to the genre. This proved to be the exact choice of the editors who did the original. Had we had more time, we could’ve inserted more titles to make it even more realistic, but generally the titles we did put in were in the correct places. We could’ve used a bolder font to exactly match the original, but ours was clear anyway and not distracting to the eye.