'P.S I Love You' is a drama about a young widower who discover that her late husband has left her 10 messages intended to help ease her pain and start a new life.
The title sequence is similar to what we want ours to be like because they are realistic and have a combination of titles and and shots. A similarity between our film and P.S I Love You is that the film starts in the past with something that has already happened, the titles are then shown and once they are done the film is to the present day. I like how it is in a different order to how most title sequences start, we could apply this idea to our film. Here are screen shots of the opening titles;
The film starts with a tilt from the sky to the street below, this is known as an establishing shot. An establishing shot is used to set the scene and sometimes time.
In this shot we see that it is set on a busy city street sometime in the evening.
The shot then pans across from left to right showing more detail on the setting. We then pick up one of the main characters just walking up out of the subway, with a man hurrying behind looking as though he is trying to keep up with the lady. The camera speeds up to make the audience feel hurried and rushed.
There are lots of short shots of the couple going down and across the road to their apartment. This again makes it look rushed.
Along shot is used to show the two people walking down the corridor, it follows them to the stairs then follows then slightly up. This helps the two shots flow together and keep continuity.
Two point of view shots are used to see what each character is looking at. The woman is looking down on the man making him look inferior, this is done using a low angled shot. And the man is looking up at the woman making her look more superior and this is done using a high angled shot.
Another establishing shot is used to to show where they are and how far they have to go. This is done by having the camera high up looking down the centre of the staircase. It also gives us a full view and both characters. After this short starter of the film the titles start, unlike how most films start with the titles first and the the first scene is shown.
For the majority of the titles the style and font used is the same. The is a black with a picture of the actor who plays it in black and white. The white border around the photo helps it to stand out. The font used is like it has been written, this represents the letters and messages that run through out film, this is used through out the titles.
The titles with the name of the film on also matches in with the names of the actors, with the same type of photo, font and colours. The only different is the shape of the photo, it i shaped as a letter box. This is similar to how a postman would look if he looked through a letter box to make sure the letter has dropped. (This could be the first clue about the rest of the film.)
The film makers names are shown on different backgrounds; all represent something that is going to come up in the film.
To link in the colour pictures to the past layout of the titles a black and white photo is used the other layout of the black background, photo and written font.
The final shot of the titles is another establishing shot, of a pub. It shows this is where the first scene is going to be set. There is also winter written on the shot in the same font as the titles to how what season it is and time of year. This then fades to the shot of inside the pub and all the character wearing black showing it is a funeral.