Research Part 1: The IT Crowd

The IT Crowd Opening Title:

The IT Crowd Opening uses something that in a certain sense, is a bit different, by this I mean that the show opens with an animation, which is odd because the show itself isn’t, it’s a live action performance, This however isn’t in any way a bad thing, the way that the show has connected the animation to the theme of the shows contents is amazing, by using the animation it makes the opening fun to watch which in the long run will keep people coming back if not just for this opening, it is in a sense, catchy.

The show itself presents the conventions of a normal opening sequence in that the names of the cast appear by their representative characters, there is an indication of where the show takes place, in this instance it’s the office building in which the IT department work, the title of the show appears, as usual, at the end of the sequence, just before in this case the name of the writer, the writer will appear at the end of a comedy title because they have a more prominent role in these things as there is usually a team for these as the dialogue is the main comedic gag so to speak.  

The music used in the Title sequence for this is hard to explain, as close as I can call it is, an electronic beat that is added to whenever a new character appears on the screen, the beat then turns wavy when they fall down a shaft and then returns. This music is strange but in a way memorable for its simplicity, the title itself even has a series of gags within it, for one the tools used to fix a broken computer can be seen above as comical items, the ending of the sequence itself is of a computer crashing, this is enjoyable and also relevant and connects with the theme of an IT Department.