Friday 18 November 2011

Catch Me If You Can


  • The title sequence to catch me if you can involves telling the audience quite a bit about the film. We can tell quite a lot about it through what the characters are doing. Throughout the title sequence we see the animated character move past objects and change into a different character in a different situation so right away we can see this film will most likely be about a false person, perhaps a spy or conman. We would most likely assume conman as later in the sequence a man that looks like a detective is following the main animated character, though it could still be that the man is not on the run from the law but in some kind of other trouble.
  • The typography is very interesting in this as the actual style of typography does not tell us much about the film but the way its moving does. Lines extend from the words and make what could look like walls from a certain angle and the character moves through them and changes or uses them to hide behind. This could suggest that maybe the main character will be very lucky and will get away with a lot of the things he does by not only thinking on his feet but perhaps chance.
  • In the beginning of the title sequence we see aeroplanes and when the name of the film comes up the 'me' disappears like a cloud when the aeroplane flies through it. This could suggest that in the film there will be a lot of traveling as it is such a big part of the opening pats of the title sequence, it's actually set in different parts of an airport. 
  • an interesting use of shots is used when we are in a birds eye view and see an aeroplane fly from under us and reveal a road, the shot follows the cars as if in the perspective of an aeroplane and the typography in the road is particularly interesting as the lines make the lines in the road. We then see a car chasing a taxi which could again connote the fact that this man is in some trouble.
  • There are a lot of women in this video with their breasts and legs emphasised slightly more than necessary this could mean that women or sex would be a crucial part of the actual film, or maybe there is a woman working with the main character or working against time. 
  • one of the most interesting uses of typography would be when the character enters the lift as a doctor and the lines that are used as the elevator shafts then move up and reveal they are attached to words. 
  • One of the interesting uses of this video is when the character throws paper when running through the library and the paper flies past a dark gap and reveals a person as if they were light being shone down the alleyway. The fact that the tables have turned and now the one on the run hasn't noticed how close the other character is could mean that in the film perhaps the character will at some point be out smarted and be captured.
  • the fact that the weather changes throughout the piece suggests that this whole pursuit goes on for a long amount of time, which gives the audience a clue of the set and time period of the film. 
  • when the lights and hooks come on screen bouncing up and down at a bit of an increasing speed, it perhaps tells the audience that eventually this pursuit will become very fast paced and intense. It gives the audience an insight to the mood and atmosphere at some points in the film.
  • also right at the end of the title sequence they are both running and the pursuer catches up with the pursued and the light goes right down so we never know if they caught him until the end of the film, though it is quite a sly shot and might have been missed if the audience weren't watching people which is quite an interesting way to show things. 

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