Comments on: Intro Sequences: The Good and the Bad http://www.extratextual.tv/2010/02/intro-sequences-the-good-and-the-bad/ Up The Content Stream Without A Paddle Sun, 25 Sep 2011 11:55:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Michael http://www.extratextual.tv/2010/02/intro-sequences-the-good-and-the-bad/comment-page-1/#comment-1763 Michael Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:38:33 +0000 http://www.extratextual.tv/?p=558#comment-1763 Have you written on the way TV intros work before? It seems to me they are in some ways an even more central paratext than trailers, as they help shape your emotional response right before you view the program, and for repeat viewers help get you in a familiar frame of mind. (I'm just discovering your work via Jenkins now, so maybe you have made this *exact* point). They also seem to have evolved from an example like Friends (which is well done and iconic, but more or less simply a series of clips) to more abstract and symbology based, helping to set the tone of what is to come. Do you have an analysis on this? Another great new intro is for the HBO's "How to Make it in America". I think your description of intro as chuck/bond/comic was freakishly good - though, of course, it is indeed based on a comic series. Music truly awful. Have you written on the way TV intros work before? It seems to me they are in some ways an even more central paratext than trailers, as they help shape your emotional response right before you view the program, and for repeat viewers help get you in a familiar frame of mind. (I’m just discovering your work via Jenkins now, so maybe you have made this *exact* point). They also seem to have evolved from an example like Friends (which is well done and iconic, but more or less simply a series of clips) to more abstract and symbology based, helping to set the tone of what is to come. Do you have an analysis on this?

Another great new intro is for the HBO’s “How to Make it in America”.

I think your description of intro as chuck/bond/comic was freakishly good – though, of course, it is indeed based on a comic series. Music truly awful.

]]> By: charles echangiste http://www.extratextual.tv/2010/02/intro-sequences-the-good-and-the-bad/comment-page-1/#comment-1746 charles echangiste Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:09:06 +0000 http://www.extratextual.tv/?p=558#comment-1746 Well you´re right the opening of Human Target is graphically good but the music is so lame, slowing doing the rest and making it boring as death! It is not even cheesy it´s corny! Thanks for the post anyway as I enjoyed it :) Well you´re right the opening of Human Target is graphically good but the music is so lame, slowing doing the rest and making it boring as death!
It is not even cheesy it´s corny!
Thanks for the post anyway as I enjoyed it :)

]]> By: Jonathan Gray http://www.extratextual.tv/2010/02/intro-sequences-the-good-and-the-bad/comment-page-1/#comment-1737 Jonathan Gray Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:31:09 +0000 http://www.extratextual.tv/?p=558#comment-1737 Not a list -- just a sample :-) Not a list — just a sample :-)

]]> By: Annie Petersen http://www.extratextual.tv/2010/02/intro-sequences-the-good-and-the-bad/comment-page-1/#comment-1736 Annie Petersen Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:29:07 +0000 http://www.extratextual.tv/?p=558#comment-1736 No mention of True Blood?!? One of the few intros that I watch all the way through for each and every episode. I also enjoy the quietude of the FNL intro. No mention of True Blood?!? One of the few intros that I watch all the way through for each and every episode. I also enjoy the quietude of the FNL intro.

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