A title sequence is how a film or TV program present their title, key production team and cast members using images and sound. It usually includes the text of the opening credit and help the audience understand the setting and tone of the film or TV programs.
I will be getting the title sequences from a website called "Art of the Title".
I will be getting the title sequences from a website called "Art of the Title".
Below I'm going to post two title sequences that and then I'm going to analyse them to find their true meanings, enjoy the awesomeness!
Narcos
The solemn promise of Rodrigo Amarante’s “Tuyo” grounds Digital Kitchen’s pitch-perfect introduction to the Netflix crime saga Narcos. The title sequence is our passport into the sordid, seductive world of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, offering a tantalizing glimpse at the life of the notorious “King of Cocaine” and a peek inside the international effort to bring down his multi-billion dollar enterprise. The opening is also the story of cocaine itself — the narcotic that built Escobar’s empire — and the wealth, power, glamour, violence, and death that always seems to accompany it. Hero to some, villain to many more, the effects of Escobar’s reign are still felt to this day, making the opening feel all the more relevant and vital. The opening title also has images of people but their eyes are covered perhaps indicating that everyone is a potential drug buyer or that every one is on the business. It shows a lot of the police side of the drug industry as it shows maps and tape recorder. The music brings the setting of the show alive with a Southern American feel and makes the audience think the show is set somewhere in South America.
Bojack Horseman
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The solemn promise of Rodrigo Amarante’s “Tuyo” grounds Digital Kitchen’s pitch-perfect introduction to the Netflix crime saga Narcos. The title sequence is our passport into the sordid, seductive world of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, offering a tantalizing glimpse at the life of the notorious “King of Cocaine” and a peek inside the international effort to bring down his multi-billion dollar enterprise. The opening is also the story of cocaine itself — the narcotic that built Escobar’s empire — and the wealth, power, glamour, violence, and death that always seems to accompany it. Hero to some, villain to many more, the effects of Escobar’s reign are still felt to this day, making the opening feel all the more relevant and vital. The opening title also has images of people but their eyes are covered perhaps indicating that everyone is a potential drug buyer or that every one is on the business. It shows a lot of the police side of the drug industry as it shows maps and tape recorder. The music brings the setting of the show alive with a Southern American feel and makes the audience think the show is set somewhere in South America.
Bojack Horseman
The opening sequence features BoJack floating through the spaces of his life, disconnected from everyone and everything, staring bleakly into the eyes of the viewer. The sequence is colourful and intricate, the details inviting close inspection particularly as they evolve over the course of the series.The title sequence, and the ensuing show, is powered by BoJack and his ennui, and the screwy cast of characters in his orbit. The music is odd giving a random unorganized feel to the show maybe showing how dysfunctional the main character is. The opening sequence cycles though night and day perhaps showing that the characters are stuck in a cycle. The main character also doesn't interact with anyone maybe to show that the story has hints of sadness within it.
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