Credits

The opening credits of a movie are usually pretty short and only feature the names of main characters, directors, producers and maybe the production or distribution companies.

Credits don't have a specific order in the way which they are ordered although film companies do seem to follow in a specific way.

The studio which distributed the film.
The name of the company which produced the film.
The name of the director and producer of the film.
The film title is then revealed.
Then the main actors.

These are usually displayed with typography over either a blank screen or the action of the film, although other types are used but this all depends on what the production team aims to achieve with the opening of the film.

I am relating this to my opening sequence by using this the order they follow to influence our opening sequence, although we do not want to follow those conventions we had the idea we would reveal the title of our film at the ending of our opening sequence because we believe it will give our opening sequence a greater sense of the atmosphere we want to create.



Examples which follow these basic guidelines.