Titling In Film Openings

Key Credits

• Can involve the movie stars, production company and others who contributed to the larger jobs to create the film will be credited. (All others who were involved in producing the movie are usually credited at the end)

• In my research of PACIFIC RIM & FAST & FURIOUS I found examples of these written as:

– “DIRECTED BY director”– “STARRING name of actor/movie star”

• “AS name of character”

– “production company PRESENTS”

• The key credits may not always follow this format but these are the primary ways they are set out. Sometimes they may just name the star but not their role or character they are playing.

At the start of PACIFIC RIM the director and producer are named first.

Throughout the middle section to the opening sequence are all the more important producers credited.

Some stars character roles aren’t present in some of the credits.

At the end of the opening sequence the production company (WARNER BROS) and the name of the film are presented.

The opening to this film which is a standard 2/3 minutes involves only key credits although not all films will do this.

Titling in film openings can express a lot about the film you are about to watch. One way in which this is done is with the TYPOGRAPHY used. This is the appearance of the text including it’s colour and font.

In PACIFIC RIM the title is chrome and shiny, this gives it a very futuristic appearance which gives the audience an idea that it is set in the future and maybe of a sci-fi genre. The typography is also bold and 3D which gives it a serious impression, it suggests it may involve a lot of action.

Titling is also commonly used in films to establish the location and/or the era it is set in in the start.

Here are my own images I produced to create examples of this.

PARIS 2017 AC

Titling In Film Openings

Titling is used a lot in film openings but sometimes may be miniscule to just the name of the film.

Titling is never used a lone to set mood and atmosphere in film openings. It can have a lot of involvement but will be involved in opening sequences with different choices of factors such as sound, camera shots, special effects and mise en scene contributing to what the film aims to achieve in the opening.

Titling In Film Openings

Titling is used a lot in film openings but sometimes may be miniscule to just the name of the film.

Titling is never used a lone to set mood and atmosphere in film openings. It can have a lot of involvement but will be involved in opening sequences with different choices of factors such as sound, camera shots, special effects and mise en scene contributing to what the film aims to achieve in the opening.