Researching Opening Titles to TV Sitcoms

As I am working on the sound for the series, I thought that it would be a good idea to research what some other series have used. I will also look at the titles sequences as I will be helping Matt H with his research. I thought that the best type of series to research would be sitcoms as we are making a comedy series and the music that we use may be similar. The first series I decided to research was 'The Inbetweeners' and this series is about a group of school kids, who may be classed as 'nerds', and their daily problems. I like this titles sequence because it focuses on each character so you almost get an idea of what they are like from the titles. The effect which they have used is almost like a black and white comic so this is another thing that may suggest they are school 'nerds' and the music is popular in teenagers. This means that because of the content and the music genre that their main audience would be school/college students. This is the type of sound that we want to go for, maybe not the same genre but something that teens will listen to and will interest them.



Below is a video for 'Grange Hill' opening titles and they do the same sort of thing. It is a series about a school and the trouble that the kids get into. The music works very well and again has some teen interest. The titles are quite original and I like that they have used a comic effect to display the characters in the titles. This could have worked well with our series but I think that it maybe a bit too much for a sitcom and we decided it wouldn't work. Even though this isn't much of a sitcom, the concept that they have used will help us with our production.

Researach Into Another Micro-series

I have also researched into other micro-series that we won't given to watch and I found Red vs Blue. From what I have watched I think that Red vs Blue is a games animation which consists of characters from the game Halo and each episode reds are battling blues, however, there are two characters who seem to always be having an odd conversation and not focusing on the battle at hand. The series also includes other characters who come in to play as time goes on but they get frustrated with these two characters talking all the time. This kinda of humour, I think is only funny to a certain extent. This is because it is game humour and you are more likely to enjoy the humor of the series if you have played the game before. The first few episodes are easy to grasp and are funny but maybe not as funny as intended.
Below is a video of one of the episodes - Red vs Blue - Episode 1