Timeline of a film opening

In a motion picture, television program, or video game, the opening credits are shown at the very beginning and list the most important members of the production. They are now usually shown as text on a blank screen or over the top of pictures, or sometimes on top of action in the show. There may or may not be accompanying music. Where opening credits are built into a separate sequence of their own, the correct term is title sequence

While there are numerous variations most opening credits use some variation of the basic order noted within:

• (NAME OF THE STUDIO)

Name of the studio that is distributing the film and may or may not have produced it (Walt Disney Pictures, Columbia, Lions Gate, Universal, Marvel Studios, Dimension, Miramax etc.).

• (NAME OF THE PRODUCTION COMPANY)

Name of the production company that actually made the film or name of the investment groups or companies that financed a substantial part of the film (usually credited as "in association with" or "A (studio name) production.").

• (PRODUCER NAME) PRODUCTION(director only) e.g. A FILM BY (DIRECTOR NAME)

Director's first credit, often a film by' or 'a XY film'.

• STARRING

Principal actors, (Sometimes the stars' and director's credits will be reversed, depending on the star's deal with the studio; sometimes, as in many of Disney's films, the title of the film will be shown before the names of its actors; sometimes, as in many of Cannon's films, the names of the principal actors will be shown before the names of the producers.

• FILM'S TITLE

Name of the film (can sometimes be placed at the ending of the opening scene.)

• FEATURING

Featured actors.

• CASTING or CASTING BY

Casting director.

• MUSIC or MUSIC COMPOSED BY or ORIGINAL SCORE BY

Composer of music.

• PRODUCTION DESIGN or PRODUCTION DESIGNER

Production designer.

An example of a film opening following the convention of the timeline is the films Avatar, Wanted, The mummy returns, The dark knight, How to train your dragon and many more.

Timeline for our film opening
For our film opening we will be using this order of credits with only slight change in order. Firstly we will start the opening with introduction clip of our film company which is Universal pictures. Then onto the credits which will be edited into the scenes, first will be the title of the production company we will include 'See film productions'. Next are the names of the main actors/actresses starting with the main starring 'Emily Hamer, Sacha Wyatt, Emily Read'. We then will included the Director of the film 'Ben Affleck'. Next is the Editor 'Richard Jenkins' and the music producer 'Ben Pearce'. Lastly is the producer 'David Andrews'

Text size/font/colour
After researching film openings of different genre films we looked at the variety of font that is used. we decided to keep the font for the credits simple, we chose this as we wanted the text to be readable as well as not distracting the audience from the scene. But for the title of the film this is different as it will be the last clip of the scene and will have no background we decided on having a different font to make it appear more prominent, but still keeping the same colour as the rest of the text.