Common opening credits order

While there are numerous variations most opening credits use some variation of the basic order noted within:

• (NAME OF THE STUDIO)

Name of the studio that is distributing the film and may or may not have produced it (Walt Disney Pictures, Columbia, Lions Gate, Universal, etc.).

• (NAME OF THE PRODUCTION COMPANY)

Name of the production company that actually made the film or name of the investment groups or companies that financed a substantial part of the film (usually credited as "in association with" or "A (studio name) production.").

• (PRODUCER NAME) PRODUCTION

• STARRING

Principal actors, (Sometimes the stars' and director's credits will be reversed, depending on the star's deal with the studio; sometimes, as in the Rodgers and Hammerstein films, or as in all three film versions of Show Boat, or, as in many of Disney films, the title of the film will be shown before the names of its actors; sometimes, as in many of Cannon's films, the name(s) of the principal actor(s) will be shown before the name(s) of the producer(s), i.e. "The Cannon Group presents X in a Golan-Globus production of a Y film").

• (FILM'S TITLE)

Name of the film.

• FEATURING

Featured actors.

• CASTING or CASTING BY

Casting director.

• MUSIC or MUSIC COMPOSED BY or ORIGINAL SCORE BY

Composer of music.

• PRODUCTION DESIGN or PRODUCTION DESIGNER

Production designer.

As a variation some of the below may be noted:

• SET DESIGN
• COSTUMES or COSTUMES BY or GOWNS (older movies)
• HAIRDRESSER
• MAKE-UP ARTIST
• SOUND RECORDING (older movies)
• VISUAL EFFECTS DIRECTOR or VISUAL EFFECTS BY

• EDITOR or EDITED BY

Editor.

• DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Director of photography.

• PRODUCER or PRODUCED BY, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

Producers, co-producers, executive producers, 'also produced by' (credited for various reasons according to contracts and personal scrutiny of the principal producer). Often, though, the name of the producer will be the next-to-last opening credit, just before the director's name is shown.

• BASED ON THE BOOK (PLAY, GRAPHIC NOVEL etc.) BY or FROM A PLAY/BOOK BY (older movies)

If based on a book or other literary work.

• BASED ON THE CHARACTERS BY or BASED ON THE CHARACTERS CREATED BY

If based on characters from a book or other media.

• STORY or STORY BY

Person who wrote the story on which the script is based, gets "story by" credit, and the first screenplay credit, unless the script made substantial changes to the story.

• WRITER(S) or WRITTEN BY

Screenplay writers. The Writers Guild of America allows only three writing credits on a feature film, although teams of two are credited as one, separated on the credits by an ampersand ("X & Y"). If each works independently on the script (the most common system), they are separated by an "and". If more than two persons worked on the screenplay, the credits may read something like "screenplay by X & Y and Z and W" X and Y worked as a team, but Z and W worked separately.

• DIRECTOR or DIRECTED BY

Director. The Directors Guild of America permits a film to list only one director, even when it is known that two or more worked on it. Except in very rare cases (a death in mid-production) there is only one directing credit.

Juno opening scene

 

 

This is the opening sequence of Juno. This was done in school while watching the opening sequence of Juno, this is to help us plan how our opening sequence will look like. This was a really good practice because it helped to us create fascinating ideas for our 2 min film-intro

Opening Title Sequence of GoldFinger.

     This is the Opening Title Sequence of Goldfinger.

    The Timeline Starts from 00.00 and Ends at 2.45.

The use of varies colours is used to

 illustrate the people with the most important jobs.

     I noticed that the title of the film didn't come last,

     it came quite early to be precise 0.50

                                     DIRECTOR: Guy Hamilton.

 

 

                                           EDITOR: Peter Hunt

 

SPECIAL EFFECTS BY: John Stears

PRODUCED By: Harry Saltman

 

I found This analysis of Goldfinger Opening sequence very useful because it gave me and idea and a head start for my own film intro. The drawings of timeline and the annotation and analysis helped me to break each steps down and build my title sequence gradually. I have learnt alot from this, for example i learnt that film titles do not come last, instead it is usually who it is Directed by. In addition this analysis showed me how the genre of the whole film is displayed in only a short amount of time. The Genre was shown in the video through the mise en scene and most importantly the flow/pace of the music.

The Post Preliminary task ( The first not so good version)

This is the Preliminary task we first did, this project wasn't that good because a couple of mistakes were made , an example of the mistake we made was that when an actor is speaking, the camera is not capturing he's face. According to my media teacher "this is not right" so we had to re-shoot the whole thing. This clip is very important because it helped us to realize how easy it is to make mistakes on projects like this.

The Main Location

This is the main location we have chosen for the first scene, and this is where the practice intro was recorded. Black and white filter was used to help us indicate where and when this opening sequence was set in. We chose this location because the area was isolated and matched with the genre and concept. One main reason  why we chose thisplace is because it would help our audience to understand and visualize the theme of our film.