What are credits?

There are two types of credits:

• Opening credits
• Closing credits

The main focus for our coursework will be the opening credits since we are creating a title sequence. 

Opening credits are seen at the beginning of a film. They are crucial to showing the key member of production (Actors/Directors/Producers) They can be highly differing in the way they are presented. Many films have a specially animated title sequence, in which the credits appear in other films the credits are shown 

on top of the action.

Opening credits are essentially what a title sequence is, but some films have chosen to scrap opening titles. For example Avatar, Inception and Silver Linings Playbook. 

 Common order of Opening credits:

1. Name of the studio
2. Name of production company 
3. (Insert name here) Productions/ A film by (Name of Director)
4. Starring
5. Title of the film
6. Featuring
7. Casting/Casting by 
8. Music/Composer 
9. Production design/designer
10. Editor
11. Director of photography 
12. Producer/Produced by 
13. If applicable - Based on the book/play etc
14. If applicable - Based on characters by 
15. Story/Story by 
16. Writer/Written by 
17. Director/Directed by

There can be many variations of this list, for example there can also be added visual effects, set design, make up artists. 

Closing credits are at end of a film, they list all of the production crew. (Foley artists/Costume designers)