Planning Opening Credits- Miss Georgiou

Planning Opening Credits

Credits play a important role in all films as it gives recognition to the people who have worked hard to make it ,it gives appreciation to everyone in the film from the director to the costume designer.They are also used to show how big the people in the film are, if it was a famous  director or actor then the name would be more prominent in the credits than a new and up and coming actor who was previously unheard of. This is because audiences who have seen their previous work will want to see it again.This will help bring people in to watch what they have made and will help make other less well known people more publicly known and increase their popularity. So this changes how different people are portrayed in credits and how audiences respond to the different type of people involved as how famous a actor or directer is often helps the film make more money.

We took inspiration for our credits from many different films both thrillers and from other film genres to improve our credits. One film that we analysed was Se7en. The credits of Se7en are very unique and are not a very common style. They are in white with a contrasting black background and shake and move about constantly and how they look hand written. This I believe builds a more personal feeling with the people who have worked on the film as it seems like it is hand written.The white could represent the differences between good and evil and the hand written feels more unusual for the audience. This moving and jerking keeps bringing your attention back to them and makes you read them when they change , this brings attention to the names even though there are things going on in the background which distract you. Also in the background we can see a man reading a Bible and other religious book and we do not see his face.This makes us think he will be the antagonist and this  is from ideas of Aristotle as he believed it was themes that made a scene and the themes is having an enigma in the opening scenes of Se7en. This is where we have taken our inspiration from for our black and white contrasting effect in our own credits. Overall Se7en's credits are personel to the audience yet still mysterios and help keep the audiences attention.

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Another film we chose to analyse with very good credits are from the film insidious and cthis because it has a long opening scene. The credits are written in red and could be indicating blood and violence is to come. This is a good representation of the film and makes the audience immediately know what the film will be like and prepare for it. They almost also drip just like blood on the screen and this again links in with the film.The bright red blood also highlights the difference from the dark and gloomy background and again gives a sense of an enigma following. This again could indicate the difference between good and evil in the film which is built by these differences and the audience knows immediately that there will be a victim and a killer. We have used the idea of using colours to indicate things such as in our own we use black and white to represent good and evil against each other as they are in the scene. This is because you can use colours to put the audience in a mind set white and black are cold colors and contrasting. Whereas blue and white match and make the scene more mellow. Also the r=time between each credit is relatively slow and this keeps the credits quick to set the speed for the film.

   In our group we decided that we would have colours that contrasts such as red and black or white and black.This makes the names stand out and helps bring attention towards the names and this makes the people who have made the film happier as they are more easily seen and therefore more prominent. Also you can sense that the clip will have two sides and it helps explain the narrative.Secondly we want to have things happening in the background this makes people watch the whole screen which would otherwise not happen if it was just the credits. Also the credits will be moving as this will make audience pay attention to the screen when things are going on this brings much attention to it. Also using dramatic music suddenly pulls attention towards the screen so this will also help people keep interest in our own credits. This also uses time that would otherwise be wasted on just credits but can begin to tell the story which is valuable. There will be a gap of one second between each credit and a credit last 3 seconds. This is setting the pace of the start of the film. We will use this font

 which also makes the credits seem more natural and helps make it easier to read than if it was handwritten for instance. Although it does give an impersonal impression whereas hand written does not. Without all of these effects going on people would not even look at the credits and will defeat the point of them. This is what we have discussed as a group on how to portray our credits and the ways that we can use other films to make our own better.

The order of credits:
Actors : Beau Abery , Ellie Holt
Music : Michelle Woods
Location co coordinator: Beau Abery
Casting: Beau Abery
Editor: Wailum Pang
Camera Operator: Benjamin Yarwood
Producer : Benjamin Yarwood
Co Producer : Michelle Woods
Screen Play: Benjamin Yarwood, Wailum Pang, Michelle Woods, Beau Abery
Director: Benjamin Yarwood


Overall we have spent much time on discussing the idea of credits and we have spent lots of time discussing how we will portray them to the audience. We have finalized them and we have included things such as contrasting colors and interesting credits to make them even better viewing for the audience.