Title Sequence and opening scene of 'The Italian Job'.

We studied the opening title sequence of the film 'The Italian Job' and decided what the main aspects of the title sequence were. We gathered from watching that one of the main aspects of the the title sequence is the titles themselves, they were small, in contrast to the rest of the images on screen, and simple. We thought this was a good idea because it doesn't distract the viewers too much and only gets across what its designed to do.
The main feature of the title sequence was many different iconographic images that related to the film, such as the waters/canals of Venice; the film is set in Venice, so this is iconography. There is other images in the title sequence which give the audience a small hint as to what the film is about. For example the map and the notebook suggest a plan of some sort which involves a getaway.

The title sequence of 'The Italian Job' is 2:21 long, this length of time is perfect for a feature length film such as this, but for our production, which will only be two minutes long, its far too long. I thought that a good time for the opening title sequence for our production would be around the one minute mark, so we would then have a remaining one minute for the opening scene. The main aim of the opening scene of 'The Italian Job' Was to introduce the main characters and storyline, we could incorporate this into our own production and use the first scene to introduce the main characters that are involved.