Wednesday, 14 November 2012

Titles & Credits


We spent some time looking at film openings in our genre with a specific focus on the title and credits to get ideas for how and when these appear and how our genre manages them.

Summary:

  • In some thriller films, the classic white text against a black background is used to give the film a more serious atmosphere. If it's this type, it's usually in the middle, for titles and credits with images or videos as a background, titles and credits may have to be placed somewhere else to make both the titles & credits and background visible.
  • In conjunction to the previous point, another factor to give the film a serious atmosphere is sometimes silence or very subtle music.
  • Fonts for the credits are usually uniform to the title's film.
  • Sometimes, actors (sometimes just the main actors) and director's names are used to keep it brief - our genre does not seem to use a long credit list.
  • Each credit does not appear for more than 4 seconds.
  • For our film, I think the white font with black background and  probably some old photos is suitable for our genre.

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