Conclusion of the textual analysis

I watched and analysed a range of different title sequences from science fiction genre to comedy, and this has helped me significantly in ideas for my own title sequence to a children's TV drama. It is especially evident from what I watched that a theme is always established, and is established through non-diegetic sound and the style of the piece. Additionally, from what I have analysed, there is little need to have lots of action, a narrative and lots of titles - keep things simple, and focus on very few things - being the most important of the drama. For example, the main character and/or a prop or something in connection with the character. A typical setting of many children's TV dramas, for a young teen audience, is a school, and this has given me the idea of using a school as the focus and location.

These are some of the things that appear to needed to be included:

- a theme
- choose a particular style, e.g. animation, and keep this is the main style
- a setting/ a location
- introduce one or more main characters, can include supporting characters
- non-diegetic sound more important, no need for dialogue or any other diegetic sound
- either fast paced or slow paced

Furthermore, analysing a range of texts from children's TV drama has been very effective as an opening for my research; I have an insight into the codes and conventions and have developed some initial ideas that I had before watching the intros to children's TV drama.

Thus, while the title sequences that I analysed were each different, with quite different themes, they were quite similar in their title sequences - focusing on the similar things, introducing themes, providing the audience with the location and engaging the audience through the style, music and characters. Therefore, from my textual analysis, I have a clearer understanding of what title sequences need to express, and what is needed to be shown to attract and engage the target audience.