sci-fi film opening

Brief 1:
Brief 1 was the opening to a sci-fi film aimed at a mature audience, here are some famous sci-fi movies I have researched.

Genre: Sci Fi
Science Fiction Films are usually scientific, visionary, comic-strip-like, and imaginative, and usually visualized through fanciful, imaginative settings, expert film production design, and advanced technology gadgets. Sci-fi films are complete with heroes, distant planets, impossible quests, improbable settings, great dark and shadowy villains, futuristic technology, and unknown and inexplicable forces. Many other SF films feature time travels or fantastic journeys, and are set either on Earth, into outer space, or (most often) into the future time...

Pacific Rim
These are the closing titles of Pacific Rim, however they illustrate the Sci-Fi genre well and could easily be put at the beging of the film.

This shot demonstrates how the credits are put in a futeristic font surrounded by futeristic shapes. This adds to the atmosphere and is cliche of the genre. It represents that the film is based largely around technology (big ass robo-suits) and computers. The font and its surroundings are also quite straight and formal, representing the military and goverment element in the film. The titles also enter and leave the screen through an effect that also represents technology. Unlike many film titles, the credits are not incorperated into the shot by putting them at angles to match their surroundings. I think this adds to the formality of the font.

This shot shows one of the big ass robo-suits beating the hell out of one of the big ass lizard freaks. It demonstrates why the filmed subjects of the credits are in slow motion. The credits show elements of the film in more detail and slow motion. This is representetive of sci-fis as they wish to show off the futer technology featured in the film. It is almost compulsory for a sci fi to have good graphics in order to add a sense of realism to the technologies.

Star Wars Episode IV
This is the introduction to Star Wars IV: A New Hope, which is similar to the starts of all the Star Wars films. It has become a stereotype for Sci-Fi movies to include a written introduction at the begining since.



Sci fis often use a written introduction at the begining of the movies in order to convey when and where they are set. This is important as sci fis often have much of a back story that is required to be known in order to undersatnd the rest of film.

Many other films have used this technique since, such as blade runner: