ART OF THE TITLE 1 : PAUSE 2017

Pause is the most enigmatic and unusual film that I have picked to look at because of its combination of glossy technical beauty and its futuristic scifi theme. I could find very little about it apart from what the designer of the title sequence, Zaoeyo Zeng, writes on the Art of the Title site.

Its visuals pay homage to technology

 With an extreme close up on typing in green in a computer, buildings are shown, then with a hard cut, the camera focus on a building. Again, the camera, used close up to the computer and a cat. With a hard cut, the distance between the camera and the cat is getting further. Padding through darkened office towers and subway tunnels, down alleyways bathed in neon and cathode rays, and streets glistening with fresh rain. It then zooms out to show a certain amount of computer screens. With a bird’s eye view and the effect of tint, a car park which is full of cars is shown. Then camera focused on the right (dark) side to make the lights of the cars looks blurry and created a scene which looks like star on the sky. With the cat slowly walking on the street, which is filmed by the point of view, with a worm’s eye angle. With a hard cut, the director films a multiple of screen and hart cut in to a further view, showing that there are actually more screens in behind. The screens are flashing in different duration, so it gives an impression to the audience that they are flashing randomly. With a hard cut again, the scene changed into an office with no-one in it. The lights are flashing when it has just been switched on. Then the lights slowly stopped the flashing. The cat is then shown from a blurry to a clear frame; the cat also have electronic images projected on it, this makes it looks more sci-fi. with a lift’s door opened, the cat is walking pass it. So as the tunnel, the bus stop, the telephone box and an alley, there is no-one and the lights keep flashing.

With a close-up of a woman, the mise-en-scene is settled in a room with no lights, whereas the lights out in the street are full of colours lights, and once they are switched on, they wouldn’t flash. This brings out the contrast of the empty place, seems no-one is there- looks like that it is an office that has just been abandoned.

With an bird’s eye view of the road, it seems like it is just after a rain. Everything has stopped but not the cat- everything seems dead and the cat is the only one who is alive, which we can bring up to probably, the time has stopped. The angle has changed to a point of view of the cat slowly walking to the end of the street.

With a zoom out of shops’ name, the escalator, the tunnel, it then turned in to a tracking shot of the cat walking in a tunnel, again with no-one. It then shows that it is actually a endless trip for the cat, where the cat could enhance the feeling of isolation between people and building, from this, we could tell that the film is going to be about a man's adventure. His adventure is describe as a cat walking everywhere, and the empty city has tell the audience, there is only one main character.