Text ananlysis - Christy O'Shea

The resident evil introduction title sequence is scenes in reverse combining black screens at the beginning with artistic money shots featuring explosions, it also utilises time expansion. The different titles appear on different parts of the screen which looks professional so it would be a good idea for us to use this technique in our opening scene. The different titles moves slightly from side to side while the action was going on  screen, the smooth transition would be good to use in our sequence in such scenes such as the cigarette butt and creates a professional finish to our title sequence.

Screen gems	Stationary black screen 4 seconds
Constantin film, davis films/impact pictures-present	Stationary black screen 4 seconds
A constantin film davis films/impact pictures production	Stationary black screen 4 seconds
A film by Paul W.S. Anderson	Text coming to foreground, enlarging it 3 seconds
Milla Jovovich	Starts on left and pans slowly further left 3 seconds
Michelle Rodriguez	Starts on right and pans further right slowly, same picture as last text 3 seconds
Resident evil	Image change, dead central 2 seconds
Resident evil: Retribution	Retribution appears below previous text 4 seconds
Kevin Durand as Barry Burton	Top right corner of the screen as action continues 6 seconds
Sienna Guillory as Jill Valentine	Top left of screen 6 seconds
Shawn Roberts as Albert Wesker	Center of the screen above an air craft not interfering with action 6 seconds
Aryana Engineer	To the left of the character with prevalence 4 seconds
Colin Salmon	Bottom left of the image 4 seconds
Johan Urn as Leon S.Kennedy	Bottom right of the image 6 seconds
With Boris Kodjoe	Right of image midway of the shot, drifting towards the centre 4 seconds
And Li Bingbing as Ada Wong	Right hand side of the image between middle and bottom of the screen 6 seconds
Canadian Casting by Deirdre Bowen, Uk casting by Suzanne M. Smith, CDG	Right side of the shot 7 seconds
Music by Tomandandy	Central right of the screen, not overlapping any of the characters on screen 3 seconds
Special makeup effects by Paul Jones	Overlapping character in dark costume, not as clearly visible 4 seconds
Visual effects supervisor Dennis Berardi	Right hand side of the screen, drifting slowly further right 4 seconds
Associate producer Hiroyuki Kobayahi	Slightly right of the centre, drifting up with the explosion 5 seconds
Based upon Capcoms video gamer Resident evil	Left of the screen, slightly bigger than the other text 5 seconds
Costume designer Wendy Partridge	On the right hand side 4 seconds
Production designer Kevin Phipps	Slightly left of the centre 4 seconds
Edited by Niven Howie	Slightly right of centre 5 seconds
Director of photography Glen MacPherson	Slightly left of centre 5 seconds
Co-producer Victor Hadida	On the right hand side of the screen 5 seconds
Executive producer Martin Moszkowicz	Slightly towards the left of the screen 5 seconds
Produced by Robert Kulzer	Right of the screen 5 seconds
Written and directed by Paul W.S. Anderson	Right of the screen 7 seconds

Typography 

The text its self is a silvery colour, with a slight black outlining on certain straight edges to make it look slightly 3D. The colour is smooth and slick, adding to the horror connotations as it may represent a bladed object.

The names of the people involved is slightly larger than the title of the task they did in creating the movie, and all the letters are in capitals.

A vast majority of the text goes from left to right or right to left from its starting position slowly, this looks smooth and professional, this looks good with the movement and action on the screen  

The relationship between the film and text

The metallic silver and serif style of the text fit with the futuristic style of the movie. The movie franchise is set in a futuristic post apocalyptical world. In terms of fitting in with the opening sequence, there is a lot of spaceships and gadgets so the text looks as if it belongs in the sequence, and the slight movement of the text fits well with the fact that the scenes are in reverse. The text contradicts well, the numerous slow motion scenes, such as the main character suspended in water, this creates a peaceful effect while the text looks official and sharp.