RESEARCH: TITLE SHOT

For the title shot, as a group we decided to do some research into what title shots of previous psychological thrillers looked like and which ones we thought we could adapt into our title shot. We tried using my Pinterest account, but unfortunately we couldn't directly find any, so therefore on Google Images we simply typed in names of psychological thrillers we had watched and added the words title shot to view them.

Most of the psychological thriller title shots looked quite similar, by simply having the name of the film in the middle and either a black background or a plain background, like in Gone Girl, the view of the sea, which is interesting, but not the sort of intrigue, which our group is trying to accomplish with our title shot.  To the right, I made a collage of previous psychological thriller title shots. My honest opinion is that they all look too similar and that they should incorporate the basis of their film into the title shot.

Out of all of the psychological thriller title shots we looked at, one stood out, which was the title shot for The Talented Mr. Ripley. The film's story was incorporated into the title shot since there are a range of adjectives flashed through before it sets on the adjective of 'talented'. This is so that the audience knows that he is a sociopath and that describing his sociopathic skills as talented is ironic.

Therefore, for our title shot we will incorporate the story into it, like it has been done in The Talented Mr. Ripley. We think that this will be a clever aspect to put in our film and will make the film captivating from the start.