Max Payne is a film directed by John Moore but it is originally basedon a video game from 2001. Having looked at the title sequence weknow that the film is going to be about action and violence but stillfollowing the thriller genre. The first 10 seconds is bit dull as wedon't see anything else apart from the motion less text with fireparticles around it. Although this changes throughout the titlesequence. The black background and the CGI objects used alsoillustrate the genre of the film. The conventions of thrillers areusually about darkness and guns (weapons). I liked the 3D guns andweapons as they looked very realistic. The texture also creates therealistic effect on them.

The silver and red text has added texture to it so that it looks like itsmade from metal or steel. It looked like someone throwing firecrackers at static text as well as the fire particles that we see inbottom corners. The glass shattering also looks very attractivebecause when it shatters the camera moves so that we get adifferent perspective of it. We can see that a lot of CGI techniqueshas been used to create the best possible. The sound also had angreat impact. The fast phased music in the background was verythrilling as it changed when the 3D objects showed action such asthe glass shattering sound was overlapped as well as the sound ofgun shots.

Directed by John MooreScreenplay by Beau Thorne

Executive producers Rick YornKaren LauderTom Karnowski

Director of photographyBy Jonathan Sela

Production designerDaniel T. Dorrance

Film EditorDan Zimmerman

Costume DesignerGeorge L. LittleMusic by Marco Beltrami

Buck Sanders MAX PAYNE

Mark Wahlberg Mila KunisBeau Bridges

Chris “Ludachris” BridgesChris O’DonnellDonal Louge

And Olga Kurylenko

Kate BurtonCasting by Mindy Marin, CSAA Twentieth Century

Fox PresentationA Firm Film /Depth Entertainment Production

A John Moore Film

Produced by Julie YornScott FayeJohn Moore

Reference:http://www.artofthetitle.com/2008/10/28/max-payne/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0467197/

Screen Gems PresentsIn association with LakeshoreEntertainment

Jeff Bridges and Tim Robbins

Arlington RoadJoan Cusack

Hope DavisRobert Gosset

Mason GambleSpencer Treat Clark

Stanley AndersonCo-Producers Jean HigginsRichard S. Wright

Casting by Ellen Chenoweth & Kathleen Chopin Tracy Kaplan

Music by Angelo Badalamenti

A Gorai/ Samuelson Production

Reference:http://www.artofthetitle.com/2008/04/03/arlington-roadhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137363/

Arlington Road is a film directed by Mark Pellington in 1999. Thesequence starts of with a handheld camera being pointed at a manwalking in a hospital. Its a low angle view combined with the shakingcamera effect that makes it look impressive. It feels almost as if wewere in it as well. This sequence end with a slight zoom in of thecharacters but at the same low angle. This footage in the sequencelasts for about 18 seconds. The rest of the of the sequence is mainlybased on montage shots and images with the text over it. Keypoints on the title sequence is that it plays it dark colours, negativecolours. It has dreary music which makes it a mystery.

It has a montage shot of a Dalmatian dog chewing on a bone. Anegative colour scheme is added to it to make it extra thrilling. Thewhole title sequence is supposed to look distorted. The shots arefilmed using a handheld camera so that we can get as close aspossible to the objects that are shown. There are many close ups ofthe objects used in the film that then change into a negativecolours. Most of the time the sequence looks like old footage withcolour present for a while and the gone again. The text also appearsin a way so that it looks distorted. The colour red is what has beenused most of the time, it shows an object in the normal colour andthen changes it to red. There is often footage showing the top of afence, this may have an importance in the film later on and it workwell with the title Arlington Road.

A Mark PellingtonFilm

Additional Music byTomandandy

Costume designer Jeniffer Barrett -PellingtonProduction

Designer Thereze Deprez Edited by Conrad Buff, A.C.E

Director of Photography Bobby Bubowski

Co-executive Producers Judd Malkin Ed Ross

Executive Producers Tom Rosenberg Sigurjon Sighvatsson Ted Tannebaum

Produced by Peter Samuelson, Tom Gorai, Mark SamuelsonWritten by Ehren Kruger

Directed by Mark Pellington