- "the gag" these are visual, aural, verbal jokes, carefully timed and delivered for maximum impact
- the visuals in the animation are outlined cartoon drawings, often associated with comedy.
- the actions in the animation are funny and make refference to toilet humour etc
- the soundtrack is very upbeat and creates a mood that can be portrayed as happy
Wednesday, 17 November 2010
Eurotrip titles
The opening titles in Eurotrip follow a theme of a in flight brochre, that of which promotes safety etc. i believe the strategy of this is to develop humour and to interest the audience already in the opening of the film. this is done by the "comic" like animation and fast moving transitions between titles. The titles themselves are contained in the animation in a live text like format, i believe this was chosen to fascinate viewers with moving pictures and also to promte the idea that the film is a comedy and not of another genre. the font style is chosen to create the effect of the word being stamped on a document, this again relates to the flight brochure idea. apparent conventions shown in these titles are :