Independent Research on Film Openings

Independent Research on Film Openings

In my independent research, I have decided to look at the titles of film openings. This is because the different uses of styles and placement of titles gives off a unique originality to a film. Most of the time, the font that is used resembles to something relevant to the film. Sometimes it can be used just to look cool or even match a theme of something.

For example:

The harry potter Title in the credits, has a very mystical aesthetic appearance to it, it’s also got very jagged lines through the writing. The jagged lines on the ‘P’ resembles the scar on Harry’s head, titles like to make sly remarks that have some sort of relevance to the film and these titles really captured that.

The titles/credits must be thought through very carefully, with regards to how long one line of text should be on the screen for, how big it should be and where to place it. If the text is white, it wouldn’t be able to be placed on a white background as the audience wouldn’t be able to see it. It can be quite difficult to master, considering that the scene and camera movement is going to be changing and capturing different colours. What the ideal credits would be, is to have them all in the same area for the same amount of time. But most film openings mix it up and can go from left to right with regards to the placement of text.

Film openings like to leave longer time for the main actors and stars names to appear on the screen. For example, in the opening of Skyfall, Daniel Craig, who is the main star of the film, is giving approximately 4 seconds of screen time showing his name, but the producers names get 2 seconds.

In Skyfall, the text is moved quite frequently and not stationery in one place. Here are some examples:

This will help us when creating our film, as we get a variety of different film openings showing us whatr they do with their film. This way we can make our own original the credits, because we can make it in association to the film genre. Addition to this, it doesn’t have to be like every other mainstream film, as the text choice and placement can be down to us, as long as it is readable.