Tuesday, 23 November 2010

List of Titles

For our opening, we need to include opening credits and incorporate them into our film.  By coming up with a list now I can fit these into the storyboard i am drawing up and produce a more accurate vision of what our film opening will look like and I will be able to add in timings to see how it will all fit together. Opening credits are important for introduction the film to the audience and mentioning some of the more important names and roles behind the film and more importantly, to give the film title as well.
I looked through Wikipedia's page on Opening Credits to find out what the common opening credits are and the typical conventions of them. A lot of films have now started to follow the trend not to add in any opening credits but maybe just show the title. As my criteria for this project tells me to add in opening titles I think it would be best not to follow this trend but maybe add in only a few titles and not go overboard with it, still showing the main title at the end on the smaller titles.

The typical titles that appear that I am thinking of using for our film opening are:
'Name Of Studio' - In our case, we have made up a studio name, Ours is 'HMG'.
'A Film By...' - This would continue to show the directors names, Becky & Della.
'Starring' - We will show our actors names during the opening. Preferably when they are introduced in the split screen scene of our film. Will Steele & Alison Cowling.
'Directors' - Who the film has been produced and directed by - Becky Daniels & Della Helwig.
'Name Of Film' - Our film name is 'Foretold' and will appear at the end of our opening credits.

By only having 5 titles it shortens the title sequence so that it does not go on for too long. Also it keeps it short for the audience to remain interest and not get annoyed or bored of names appearing on the screen.  The five I have chosen are quite important in real films and are the basic main titles a film should have.

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