Coraline
1.
How does the title sequence establish genre,
character and narrative?
2.
How does the title sequence attract an audience’s
interest?
3.
What do you consider to be the target audience of
the film and why?
4.
Who has produced the film and how is that evident
in the title sequence?
The
doll in the opening titles is the main focus because it seems to be the main
object in each bit of the scene. The doll is quite strange and scary and the
weird odd like music adds to the strangeness of the doll.
It
is obvious that someone is working on the doll and planning to do something
with it. When the person who is working on the dolls hands are revealed, they
are not ordinary hands, they are made from metal and they seem to be quite
large and scrawny like.
The
doll is being ripped, torn shredded to pieces and as the doll looks like a
person, in our heads we imagine this to be a real person so it could be quite
disturbing.
The
enclosed kind of workshop place makes it feel weird as it could be a really
weird psychopath that has his own workshop/study that keeps all these strange
little dolls that allot of people could find scary or abnormal.
The
lighting is very artificial because the whole film is cartoon/play dough based
but the lights seem to be a dark green/yellow kind of colour.
When
the sewing and piercing and ripping is taking place the noises are quite
strange and really do add to the effect of a strange atmosphere. Even though
all the movement is in cartoon it is still really life like and weird.
The
title sequence attracts the audience because it is an on-going project on the
doll and they want to see what the end product will look like, also the
audience will want to know what this thing/metal handed thing that is making
the doll looks like and the audience will want to know what the doll has been
made for and if it has a purpose.
The
target audience of the film could be either children or adults. It could be
suitable for children because it is cartoon based and kind orientated, as well
as using the doll, allot of children have dolls. It could be targeted at adults
also because the strangeness and weirdness could intrigue the adult to want to
watch more.
The producers of this film are callled LAIKA, they show that they have produced the film by introducing them , here is a screenshot of where they are mentioned in the title sequence:
The producers of this film are callled LAIKA, they show that they have produced the film by introducing them , here is a screenshot of where they are mentioned in the title sequence:
