Thursday, 26 November 2015

Comparing Warp film openings to Working Titles Openings



Working Title Films
·        Pride and Prejudice
·        Les Miserable
·        Love Actually

Warp Films
·        This is England
·        Tyrannosaur
·        Submarine

Straight away you can see the difference between a Working Title film and warp film they are binary opposites of sorts. Tyrannosaur and This is England both start with a black background. The opening of both these movies start with the text flashing up on screen with a black background. This is England's font is different as it looks like its withering away. Warps Film has a more dark and realistic feel to it than Working Title films, this is clearly shown with the colours used. This is England and Tyrannosaur have dark and clouded skies, even in the morning while Pride and Prejudice starts of with blue and vibrant colours. As does Love actually, the colours are very bright and friendly while Warp use dark and unwelcoming colours.


This is England and Love Actually both have a montage in the start of these movies but This is England uses clips of violence and war while Love Actually uses clips of people hugging and being happy. Both Submarine and Love Actually use voice overs but in Submarine the tone he uses is very sad and sloppy while in Love Actually it is cheerful and motivating.



All Warp Films have text appear on the screen with a dull background while Working Title films openings text appears on screen as the movie is playing. The reason for this is because Working Title films have a higher budget so there opening look friendlier and neater while Warps is very dull, it is also because Warp films are very dark in the use of colour and story and these openings tell the audience that.

The use of music is also quite different as This is England plays Rock Jazz music while Love actually place nice relaxing music. This is to fit with the genre but It also tells the audience what company made the movie.


To sum it up Warp Films use a darker technique of editing and filming but it also looks a bit cheaper which in my opinion makes it feel more realistic, while Working Title films have a happier feel to it. Even Les Miserable which shows clips of slaves use strong colures later on and doesn’t feel as dull or sad. 

Having looked at this it tells me that my theme will be a bit darker and less colorful than Working title films, Because im a low budget company my film will lean more towards Warps film making darker tone. 

2 comments:

  1. adding just 2 screenshots, binary opposites, would help here!

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  2. You're always thinking HOW MIGHT THIS INFLUENCE ME...as an Indie low budget filmmaker. Can you say anything on this?

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