Research: Analysis of Title Sequences - 21 Jump Street

While the titles of 21 Jump Street are over moving images, they also use animation/ motion - combining the uses of two types of title sequence categories. The moving images act as a metaphor and a narrative thread as well as introducing the audience to the themes of the film and possibly foreshadowing events in the film. Furthermore, some of the moving images consist of clips from the film. The use of animation comes from the text as it moves with the images and fits in with the background of the film. Therefore these title sequences count as Discrete as they are separate from the film (even though it uses parts of the film - it is still stand alone) however are also Stylised as the text is integrated into the title sequence. In addition to this, the moving image in the background seems to match the theme of the credit appearing, e.g. when the costume designer is being credited, there is a zip being undone in the background and also when it credits who did the music, it shows recording equipment in the background.

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