Title Research: Gone With the Wind

The film at hand, gone with the wind, starts off with the company who produced it. It is on some sort of plaque and it says a Selznick International Picture. There are forty titles displayed in the opening sequence. In the opening sequence the movie introduces the actors, producers, and directors to the audience. One title that was displayed was the production designer. The production designer is William Cameron. Also a large part of the opening sequence was the actors. For example, George O'hara plays Thomas Mitchell. There is steady aspect of the opening sequence that stays in the majority of the sequence. In the background of the titles that are being introduced there is a countryside. This countryside includes morses, a white house, and a grass field. The connotations of the images is that it is establishing the setting. The audience from the start is being introduced to the setting and where the majority or all of the film will take place.  The genre is reenfored from the outset by the sound. There is one soul sound throughout the whole title sequence. This sound is very dramatic, it sounds like an orchestra playing. The music creates a dramatic and emotional effect right from the beginning of the film. The way the film creates and enigma from the outset may be from the soothingness of the music and scenery. This film is a drama, and is very exciting, suspenseful, and scary at times. The smoothness of the beginning of the film may confuse readers to think the film will not be as exciting. The strategies  that are used to target their audience is by the amount of suspense and scary parts of the film. This targets an older audience because this dramatic film is known to not be for kids. The way that the technology is being used correctly is from the editing standpoint. For example, this is a very old fim, yet is has nice transitions for the words. One way the words transition is byt moving up the screen.