Opening Title Sequences- Analysis & How They Inspired Me

For research of my initial idea, I wanted to look at related films, and films in the opposite style to see what the convention was, and how I can follow this somewhat when creating my own OTS.
For this analysis, I decided to take a look at 3 opening title sequences that interested me regarding the style in which they were created. The title seqeunces will be as follows: 127 Hours (Danny Boyle), Poltergeist (Tobe Hooper) and Final Destination 5 (Steven Quale).

127 Hours

[Unfortunately I could not find a clip of this OTS]

127 Hours uses multiple footage to create the visual feel of a busy scene. There are usually 3 video tracks played simultaneously to create this feel, this shows the rule of thirds. The footage presents itself in a fresh, original way incorporating various thriller conventions including the style of soundtrack, the colour filter and so on.
From the start, the title sequence uses the screen and splits it three ways to show video, and text for the titles. These segments interchange with eachother at different intervals to show something different on the screen, and they match up to display a single scene to put emphasis on the specific scene. By using three different sections, the footage is paid less attention to consciously and therefore transmits subconsciously, making the audience think back to it later in the film. This is taken advantage of by showing scenes like the tap still dripping after the main character leaves, the bottle overfolowing, the reaching inside the cupboard for the knife and so on. This is all dramatic irony as it lets the audience see later on that the problem of him being trapped could have been minimalised.
The audio is also an essential part of making this title sequence successful, from the diegetic and the non diegetic audio. For example, the main character receives a phone call but it goes to voicemail as he does not answer it, and it turns out to be his relative asking him where he is going. This again is dramatic irony. And as for non-diegetic sound, the backing track makes many reference to hallucinogenic drugs, which later on in the film he is seen to have hallucinations.
The title of the film is displayed at the end of the title sequence, whereas the title credits are displayed during the titling scenes. I liked how this was executed and decided to use this idea in my own film. The music also stops when the OTS is over, I also used this to show the demarcation of the OTS and the actual film in my OTS production.

Poltergeist

[Unfortunately I could not find a clip of this OTS]

Poltergeist is a spiritual horror that incorporates the theme of children being vulnerable and plays on this to make the audience connect with the infant characters. This title sequence is much shorter than that of 127 hours, but I would still say it makes a successful OTS and it inspired the creation of my own. It puts all of the title text on a plain black background which is typical for horror of the time it was made.
The producers clip is played at the beginning of the OTS, and I rather liked this idea also, so I put "A Craig Gambell Production" at the beginning of my footage. The only way you can tell that the OTS is over is when the music stops playing, which isn't very conventional for modern day horror, but was a big thing back in the time that Poltergeist was made (1982). It's only scene that is composed of non-textual footage is that of a man (the father) asleep on an armchair with the TV playing something with loud music, and then it cuts and all that is shown on the TV is white noise, this is what demarcates it from the actual film.
I have incorporated the style of text into my production (black and white text in a regular font) and the production part has also been placed at the beginning. Although rather than placing my text on a black background, I have placed it on top of the footage.

Final Destination 5

Final Destination was created in 2011, and is a modern horror following the concept of the previous quadrilogy. At the end of the film you find out that it is actually a prequel to the first of the Pentalogy which is a smart twist for the franchise. Because this is a recent film, you can expect the OTS to be CGI (conputer generated imagery) with explosions etc which is stereotypical of modern hollywood movies, and this lives up to the expectations of the media. This specific OTS was created by Prolugue http://prologue.com/. With this film actually being mainly sold as a 3d movie, they have used multiple 3d elements such as glass 'flying at the audience' and this is done in a 3d animation software usually.
There are a lot of explosive elements to make up this OTS, and it uses many other modern conventions used in hollywood editing such as time remapping (the slowing down/speeding up of footage of various points). This footage was all created on a computer in post production.
Demarcation of the OTS and main film is apparant when the music changes and when the actual camera footage starts, which was a convention used back in the days of Poltergeist.
Because of the style that this film is in (modern horror), my OTS didn't use any of the conventions introduced in this modern OTS, although I have still used music stopping at the end of my OTS to demarcate it, just like Final Destination 5 did.