Formatting/Order of Credits

For today's blog post, I was told to write about something of my choice. I have come to the conclusion of talking about the format of credits in an opening. Like I talked about in a previous blog post, the credit sequence within a film opening is one of the most important parts. It shows who was behind the making of that film. 

My film opening must include:

-Producer

-Director

-Writer

-Cinematographer

-Editor

-Major actors

-Music by ____

Something else that MUST be included in a film opening is the title. You would think that's an obvious, but I have been told it has happened before where the title was left out of the opening for a movie. I mean, who does that?? Like did you really do all that work just to leave out the name of the film?! Awkward...

Anyway, moving onto the actual order of a credit sequence, it all kind of depends on the genre. Because the genre of my film is mystery, I looked back at the "Credit Sequences Within Genre" blog post I had made. In doing so, I saw that all three of the films I had researched began with giving credit to the major actors. In "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" and "Gone Girl," the title was shown in the beginning of the opening. On the other hand, in "A Simple Favor," the title was shown at the end. This gives me the idea that the title can really go anywhere throughout the opening, as long as it "flows." For the rest of the credits, they all vary. 

 Reacting to Openings

I thought this video was really helpful because they watch four movie openings and talk about what they thought was well done, and what could have been improved. This video gave me some ideas!

I also took some notes in class of what needs to be included in our title sequence: