Opening Credits

Through research of films and websites, Nadine and I discovered the norm for the order and roles for the credits that would be in our title sequence. Although, the genre of film may not make much of a difference to how the title sequence is ordered, I still mainly focused on Thrillers for this research.

The films I looked at for their title sequences were:
Scott Pilgrim vs The World (2010, dir. Edgar Wright)
I looked at this film because I knew it had a good title sequence, and I could use it to compare to other thriller films I looked at as this is not a Thriller film. It also is the only one I looked at that has a cold open, which structurally is similar to our production, so we would need to know what to put before and after the cold open.


[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGCfhwq1qBE]

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005, dir. Shane Black)
This is a Thriller, that has also some Film Noir themes to it, so this film would be very similar to our and a good research film because of that. This also, has a animated title sequence, which the others do not, at least not in the same way.


[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bpP9sI72bM]

The Thing (1982, dir. John Carpenter)
I looked at this film as a reference to a slightly older film that the others, to see if the trend in how title sequences are structured have changed.


[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs-fpBCdOz0]

Se7en (1995, dir. David Fincher)
This is a known Thriller that, regarding the animation and editing of the video in the title sequence "that helped rejuvenate title design in mainstream cinema" [http://www.artofthetitle.com/2008/03/26/se7en/] and by many film fans and professionals, is regarded one of the best title sequences in film. As Se7en, is a also a Thriller film, I thought this would be a good film to include in this research.



[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEZK7mJoPLY]

Scott Pilgrim vs The World	Kiss Kiss Bang Bang	The Thing	Se7en
·         Distributing company ·         [cold open] ·         Production company ·         Title ·         Starring x17 [last 3 on screen together] ·         Casting by ·         Music composed by ·         Music supervisor ·         Co-producer ·         Costume designer ·         Visual effects supervisor ·         Editors ·         Production designer ·         Director of photography ·         Executive producer ·         Produced by ·         Based on ·         Screenplay by ·         Directed by	·         Distributing company ·         Production company ·         Starring actor x 2 ·         Title ·         Starring x7 ·         Casting by ·         Based on ·         Costume designed by ·         Music supervisor ·         Music by ·         Co-producer ·         Edited by ·         Production designer ·         Director of photography ·         Executive producers ·         Produced by ·         Screen story and screenplay ·         Directed by	·         Distributing company ·         Production company ·         Producer ·         Main actor ·         Music by ·         Screen play by ·         Edited by ·         Director of photography ·         Production designer ·         Associate producer ·         Directed by ·         Title	·         Distributing Company ·         Producer ·         Director ·         Starring x2 ·         Title ·         Starring x15 ·         Casting ·         Music by ·         Costumes Designed ·         Production designer ·         Director of photography ·         Co-producers ·         Co-executive producers ·         Executive producers ·         Written by ·         Produced by ·         Directed by

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opening_credits
As the list given in the Wikipedia, matches similarly to the ordering I saw on the film, Wikipedia seems to be trustworthy in this instance. Below is the basic order, according to Wikipedia that a majority of films follow.

(NAME OF THE STUDIO)

 (NAME OF THE PRODUCTION COMPANY)

 (PRODUCER NAME) PRODUCTION or/and A FILM BY (DIRECTOR NAME)

STARRING

 (FILM'S TITLE)

FEATURING

CASTING.

MUSIC or MUSIC COMPOSED BY or ORIGINAL SCORE BY

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

EDITOR

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY

PRODUCER/EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

BASED ON

STORY BY

WRITER(S)

DIRECTOR