Media journal-Week 7

This Christmas week, I watched Dorian gray,Hugo, Confessions of shopaholic and Hairspray. I particularly focused on the title sequence. All the films I watched this Christmas were all made up different genres,which I think was portrayed through the title sequence. Looking at all these genres(thriller,historical fiction,Rom-com and musical comedy);the different titles sequence are quite effective and convey the film's ideology.


Mise-en-scene is shown in some of them,whilst films like Dorian gray had a sort of mysterious and dark way of portraying the film. This definitely created an enigma for the audience. As I watched the title sequence I couldn't gather information such as the narrative/storyline. Although the images faded in and out quite quickly, it was obvious it looked like paintings of the main character.The titles were gold and italic with an effect that looked like splashed paint or blood across the font. Once I realized that, I thought the would a series of dark scenes and murder scenes in the movie.


In the film, Hugo the theme of time,clocks and mending e.g(relationship,friendship,robots)is conveyed through the sequence.The birds eye view of Paris streets looks like a clock.This was a very clever way to incorporate a clock into the parisian streets.The sequence shows a sense of time being lost/missed out on.Which could be a lack of personal time,family time,childhood time.In this film the theme of time has been shown through the narrative,whereby a boy loses time with his mother and father due to their absences.He also loses time with close friends and school.The one memory he holds of his father is the robot called an automon which he and his father used to spend time fixing together.This automon is linked with an a man who used to be passionate about films before the 1920's.This man is an unhappy because time has passed by so fast nobody remembers his work on film making.The boy tries to help by showing the man that himself and others are still interested in his,but because of the war a majority of people lacked interested.This theme of time is very significant to the narrative.