Titles that need to be included.

Titles that need to be included.

 

In an opening sequence the first thing that comes up which is important is the titles. This tells us the different jobs/roles that the different people had when creating that film and what actors and actresses are involved.

 

The first thing that you need to include is the distribution company logo. From this we can tell what company has distributed the film. some examples of where this is shown is in the film "The Sixth Sense", "Brick" and "Memento". But all distribution companies are not going to be the same for all films, there would be a different company for other types of films. Some examples of different distribution companies are:



Focus features

Hollywood Pictures
 

production company

The next part would be the production company loge and for this it shows you who had produced the film. It is the same as the distribution company where it isn't the same company used for every film, they would have different ones depending on the type of film that is shown.

Examples may be:

• Thriller
• Horror
• Comedy
• Family
• Sci-fi



This is one example of a production company
that is used in "The Sixth Sense"

 

Title of distribution company

This title just explains that the film has been distributed and being presented by tat company. An example of how it is shown is it will have the distribution company then presents.

As shown above this is from the "The Sixth Sense".
This shows the production company presenting the



Title of production team.

This is the next title in line to be shown. In this shot they will have a list of names that have been there to produce the film. It will be set out with the names then production, which shows that that certain amount of people had a part in the production of that film.

This shot shows that three people were involved with
the production of The Sixth Sense.

Main actor/actress
The next shot would be the main actor or actress in the film. This actor or actress would normally be a well known actor/ actress. An example of this would be from The Sixth Sense where the main character is Bruce Willis.
 



This actor is well known for many films


Title of film
the next shot of this would be the title of the film this just tells the audience what the is called. the shots that come after this are other main characters where the more important ones are near the beginning and the least important roles at the end.

Other main characters/casting by
Then you would see the casting list in this it will show you who is casting the roles for the different characters. This is shown after the main actor and title as they are not as important that the main character.

costume designer
 next you would have the costume designer this role is to decide what the character is going to wear as what they wear need to be specific to their character.

music by
The next shot would be music by, this tells you the creator of the music which is played through out the film. next you would see is edited by , his tells the audience that the editing was done by that certain person.

Editing by
This person is in charge of putting all of the cuts and all the different types of editing terminology such as fades, filters etc...

Production designer
this person is in charge of finding the props which are going to be used in the film, also they are in charge of finding suitable locations for the film which will always have a link to what the scene is about.

Director of photography
this person is in charge of setting up the camera for the perfect shot. this shows that the camera needs to be placed to portray the prefect shot to set a perfect effect on the audience to make them ask questions.

 

the titles come in this order importance this is because they want the audience to know the well known actors/actress first and then the other people involved who are important but not well known as the main actors/actresses.