Thriller Research- Casino Royale

We had to watch 2 clips of seperate thrillers to watch the opening sequence of credits, to see what different thrillers look like and their different ideas on how to make it look better and attract their audiences.
The first thriller film i watched was 'Casino Royale' (Ian Fleming, 2006). I therefore made notes about what I saw on the opening sequence.
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who is involved in the movie
costumes
camera
font
effects
- goes with the genre (storyline)
- gun shot- thinks what is going to happen?
- circle going round James Bond creating secracy and mystery
- red effect dripping down the screen (creating the sense of blood- danger)
- with the sound track being quite mysterious -"you know my name"
- DANIEL CRAIG- red background representing James Bond having may be a love interest or representing danger
- bond 007 effect from bullets being shot into a card of hearts
- goes to a black background
- sound track still rockish and also quite slow but goes with the film
- clips of the main character (guns and pocket chips)
- different background patterns appear but still with the use of the cards (spades, clubs, heart and diamonds)
- King of spades in background- using a gun (representing power)
- a lot of guns shooting in the background
- alot of the different playing cards appearing in the background with also silhouttes of main character (James Bond) and his enemies (gangsters)
- cartoons still mimicking what happens throughout the movie
- silhouttes smashing into pieces effect
- heart (romance)
- view finder of a gun going across a cartoon queens face but then as it goes across it turns into a proper face
- viewfinders start turning into poker tables
- computer typing effect
- blocks to black silhoutte
- then cuts to a blank black screen.
- starring EVA GREEN
- Mads Mikkeisen
- Alancarlo Giannni
- Caterina Munno
- Simon Adkanan
- Isaach De Bankole
- Chris Munroe
- Eddie Knight
- Jay Maldment
- Paul Endelen
- Christine Nlundell
- directed by Martin Campbell
- associate producer- Andrew Noakes
- production executive - David Pope
- Jesper Christensen
- Ivana Mkicevic
- Tobias Menzies
- Claudia Saniamana
- free filming stunts by Sebastien Roucan
- ALEBERT R. BROCCOLI' S EON PRODUCTIONS LTD presents
- IAN FLEMING JAMES
- With Jeremy Wright ( appearing in the left hand corner of the screen)
- and Judy Dench as M (appearing in the middle of the screen- showing importance in the movie)
(top right hand corner, fades in and fades out)
- going to blank red screen with extra hearts, swirl effects surrounding the font
- font- middle of screen, capital letters, white font, sophisticated font.
- CASINO ROYALE
- fade in transition
- black vs red silhouttes fighting representing good vs evil
- when James Bond is fighting with the enemies in the opening scene they are all in different colours so we can tell which is the bad guys and which is the good guy
- montage of smaller clips which happens throughout the film but just the silhoutte of the character in different colours
- business/ smart suit
- image of James Bond (close up of his face see his expression)
- extreme long shot of main character reaching for gun
- camera starting moving backwards so that James Bond gets further away
- fighting scenes


These were the notes that I had made when I was watching the Thriller of the opening sequence/ credits for Casino Royale (Ian Fleming, 2006)