Film Titles and Credits - 500 Days of Summer - Jess D'Alvarez

• Short, maybe 2 minutes, of film before titles begin. This film at the beginning has a commentary and tells the audience what the film is about 'boy meets girl'.
• Titles start off with black background and moving image/video of boy to the left of the shot and then title to the right of the shot.
• Typography is very simple, white, plain, easy to read on black background.
• Moving images/videos show the growing up of a boy and a girl. The boys moving image/video is always on the left and the girls is always on the right.
• These titles could be seen as a mini narrative because the moving images/videos shown the growing up of a boy and girl. At start the commentator explains the 'this is a story of boy meets girl' therefore we can relate the moving images in the titles to the, what seem to be, two main characters, Tom and Summer.
• On other shots, there are still the moving images/videos but the text is superimposed over the small videos and can sometimes be hard to read because of the bright colours of the videos.
• Colours in videos are very bright. They show children happy, smiling and laughing. This creates a happy atmosphere. The music that accompanies the titles also helps to create a happy atmosphere as it is very fast, jumpy, happy with woman singing.
• I do not think anything has been edited throughout these titles, however the shots to not abruptly move from one to another, the moving image/video and text seems to fade, therefore this has been edited, however the moving images/videos just seem like normal 'home movies'. I think that fact that the titles use 'home videos' means that the audience can relate to what happens to the characters in the film.