Case Study 2

Case Study 2


Napoleon Dynamite opening sequence:

The piece of media text, I have chosen to discuss is Napoleon Dynamite I will be looking into how the micro features like:  camera choices, sound and mise en scene, fit into the generic conventions of film. I will also explore editing; and how it is cut with, credits. Plus in what aspect does sound play a key role? Especially the uses of diegetic and non-diegetic sound, and how I can use these methods in my own title sequence. The differences I have made on this case study, from my first is that in this  sequence I am focusing more on, the timings of the titles to prepare me for when I began my en media product.






 The tile is simple but it’s clear the sequence is introduced with “MTV”, 0.03 second in then it stays on our screen for 0.04 seconds. Sound is non diegetic and the song is introduced 0.01 seconds in, the music has been chosen appropriately. I like the timings of this and would like to incorporate this into my own title sequence, by following some of the timings.

Then the next two credits “Fox and Paramount” fade in for 0.05, after that the titles fade away; and for 0.03 seconds stars pop up on the screen then the title of the film is introduced and stays on screen for 0.07 seconds. Some of the credits have the speed adjusted and increased so that the credits appear at correct times, I would also try this in my edit for my tile sequence.

 After that more titles are introduced the first is the “director Jared Hess” which stays on the screen for 0.05 seconds. Then the next tile is introduced and its very clever how there is a series of names introduced. They are cut to the beat of the song and pop up in sync; every 0.01 seconds so four names pop up in 0.04 second and stay on screen for 0.03 seconds before going away in consecutive order.

They do the same thing for the next title sequence where title pop up for each second. And as its two names it lasts for 0.05 seconds. After that there is series of titles with just names on their own and last for 0.05 seconds.   The cuts and the edit in this is perfect the all the titles link in with each other as the makers have, thought carefully about what to do.