Themes & Styles

THEMES

A theme can be described as being the underlay of a specific idea. It tends to act as support for the general idea of a specific piece of work, art or medium. The theme would mostly be displayed during the title sequence of a film, TV programme or video game, to give an idea to the audience.

There is a common theme going on through out the opening title sequence of dexter. One can connote that the whole theme of the show is blood. Blood is presented from the very beginning when the fly lands on his arm and he kills. This then persists right till the end with the grapefruit where the remains of it looks like blots of blood, due to the red colour that is presented within the fruit.

 Not even that, we can judge themes based on Genre, Narrative and even Location. The location theme is presented in the EastEnders opening scene. as it begins the audience would  see a water style animation then as it zooms out one can establish it as being a river. Towards the end people would be able to then understand that it is the River Thames, as it is one of the landmarks of London.

STYLES

A style tends to relate to a method or the aesthetics of a film of television programme, one can ever say that a style is quite symbolic. Yet when someone thinks of a style the main question that would arise is how is something created? This can be done through editing, camera angles or even the colour.

The video example used is from the film Superbad and the style it portrays is the old 70's look. The Mis-En-Scene is what really proves the style of this opening sequence. The sound, lighting and editing give it that 70's look. The sound is an old music track from the 70's it is very upbeat and even the actors are dancing in that very old disco style. The lighting used is very limited and the colour choices used are from that specific era, thus again giving it that look. Finally the editing this helped it too give that old style effect. There is much of a flickering effect used giving it that old TV style look, such as the white lines and the the space between each phosphor dots, giving it a limited PPI.