Title Research: The Changeling

1. There are 29 titles in the movie opening that all introduce the jobs and names of the people that worked on the movie. They also had the movie title appear in the beginning.
2. The main image is the main character. He is a man who I would think is in his 50s. We watch in the beginning that he is helping his family push a car down to a telephone booth where he calls someone to come help with their broken down car. Then we see him in walking down the street and coming out of work.
3. The beginning brings the connotation of family and happiness. He connects with his family through pushing the car and that adds a togetherness to the movie. Then when he witnesses his family die, we see him gloomy and depressed and his mood sets the tone for the rest of the opening.
4. Action movies usually introduce the characters in the beginning of the movie. Then we are given a glimpse into the story of the character and why he acts the way he does throughout the rest of the movie. Because he saw his family get hit by a truck and die in the beginning, he is gloomy and depressed in the rest of the movie.
5. Normal action movies introduce their characters differently. In normal action movies there an intense animated opening scene that gives the name and job of each person and then those titles don't show up on the actual footage so they wouldn't take up room. The characters in normal action movies are introduced afterwards. More recently movies have been showing the titles at the end of the movies instead of the beginning.
6. This is where I think this movie is very strong. The beginning sets a story that grasps your attention by setting a story that the audience wants to follow. They start the movie off with a traumatic event that will effect the main character for the rest of the film.
7. The main technology used were the editing and camera angles. We got constant switching between the truck and the man in the phone booth and the instigating car to increase the intensity of the moment and keep the audience interested. They used camera angles to show how fast the truck was going and how the accident actually happened. They used a eagle eye angle to show that the instigating car caused the truck to spin out and crash into the Family who was playing with snow. They used technology very well considering the year this film was made in.