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The Analysis of 3 Gangster Film Credits The Godfather At the start of this film, the production company appears in white text centred on a black background, this soon fades out and the title fades in again in the white text centred on a black background, with famous puppeteer hand. By having the back background it connotes to us that the narrative of the film will have aspects of death, evil, and bad occurrences, as many people associate the colour black with those things. But by placing the white text it creates a connotation that the film may have some good aspects to it such as love between family or relationships. Also by having the image of the puppeteer hand it creates an image that the film can be recognised by like a logo fora sports business. By having the selected font it creates a connotation that all the actions with in the film may be connected in some way and create an event that is the turning point/end of the film. Donnie Brasco At the start of this film, the production company appears in white text aligned left in the middle of the screen on a black background, this soon fades out and the title the main actors names fade in and out in the white text aligned left on an extreme close up of eyes. The title then appears aligned right in the lower third of the screen. By having the back background it connotes to us that the narrative of the film will have aspects of death, evil, and bad occurrences, as many people associate the colour black with those things. But by placing the white text it creates a connotation that the film may have some good aspects to it such as love between family or relationships. By changing to the extreme close up of the eyes it connotes that the eyes will be important as some people feel they are the door to the soul and by having them in black and white so the pupil is all black it connotes that this man will be evil/bad. Reservoir dogs At the start of this film, the directors name appears in orange text on a black background, this soon fades out to moving images of the main characters with the actors names appearing centres at the bottom of the screen when they are shown. After the actors have been introduced the title rises from the bottom of the screen to the top. The moving image then fades to black with names of cast and crew members being displayed centre of the screen (fading in and out). By having the back background it connotes to us that the narrative of the film will have aspects of death, evil, and bad occurrences, as many people associate the colour black with those things, But by placing the orange text it creates a connotation that the film may have some good aspects to it such as love between family or relationships as orange is bright and people associate this, with happiness this also challenges the white text on a black back ground gangster convention. By showing the audience the actors it gives them a feeling that they are being introduced and going to get to know them further within the film. By then having the title rise to the top it creates a connotation that the film will follow the gangster narrative convention of hopeful gangsters rising to the top to control the underworld empire then by changing to credits in orange text it feel that that chapter is closing and another will open by them watching the film

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