Title Research: Hulk

 

Art of the Title

The opening sequence shows the production company in charge of the film. It shows the company that works with distributing the movie. The film then starts to show the actors playing in the movie. Then it shows the title of the film. The sequence then starts to name the people who helped cast the film, as well as the director. It showed who was in charge of music, costuming, editing, photography, then the producers. 

The images used seem to mainly be about biology. There are multiple particles that seem to be cells. It then shows clips of a man and a few animals in what appears to be a lab. The sequence also focuses on words that were written by the man on paper. At the very beginning, there were a series of comic pages which tells us that the movie may be an adaption to the comics.

We can conclude from these images that the man is performing experiments on these animals for a theory he may have. Based on the words written on the papers that were focused on, we can probably guess that all of the experiments the man was running have failed and are dangerous for life forms.

This opening already establishes a thriller genre by creating tension within each scene as well as uncertainty within the audience. 

The music draws attention because it adds to the intensity of the events of the scenes. Thrillers tend to immediately create a level of intensity near the start of the film. The sequence has bright and sparkly clips that could cause someone to be interested in what that has to do with the film. The last clip of the opening is a close-up of the man looking out of his microscope. The way he slowly raises his head after observing what was under the microscope is a sign that the man may have realized something or has finally found the answer to his research question. This would make the audience want to know what exactly he may have realized and why he was performing those experiments.

The fast-paced scene changes show us a level of desperation of the character in the scene. we can see that the scientist is probably trying to find a solution in his experiments very hastily. Extreme close-ups are used on the props and the man's face to really help the viewers grasp an idea of what the plot of the film will include just based on the words written on those objects, or the expression on the man's face.