Title sequence

Title  Sequence

What are titles?

Titles give institutional and creative names involved in funding, making and producing the film. They give key information about the directors, writers etc and behind the scenes. 

Why are they included?

Titles are included in films to give the audience that are included in making and funding in the film.

Which roles are traditional always used in a title sequence?

Most traditional roles that are used in a title sequence are main star, film title, director and produced by

What names are found in titles?

Names usually found in title sequences :

Money 

Production 

Directors name film 

Main star 

Film title 

Actor 1 – (end of main section) 

Actor 2 

Actor 3 

Actor 4 

Actor 5 

Casting 

Costume designer 

Music 

Edited 

Production designer 

Director of Photography (DOP) 

Executive Producer 

Produced by 

Based upon 

Screen play (writer) 

Director

This helps the audience get an understanding of famous, or names they like that are going to be introduced in the film as-well as celebrating names that have created the film.

How are they used to reflect tone narrative and genre?

Titles used at the start of the film reflect tone narrative and genre through colour, font and the way it is presented. For example Coraline:

Coralines font type is weird and quirky as-well as the narrative giving off information and key elements of the film. This gives a view to the audience about the way genre is going to be observed.

Another example is code 8, from this title sequence the font is used as a "cryptic computer" font to preview the title called 'code' aswell as the red representing blood and death in the title and the narrative being video shots representing computer hacking and what not.