Credits and titles

We changed the credits a lot from the orginal idea we had discussed as a group. The way we have designed them is based on the titles from Mean Girls, the colour helps show the girly side to the film. We also decided to name our piece Snakes and Ladders. We decided this because its not to cheesy or to straight to the point but it does relate to love being a game of ups and downs.

Titles for bloopers

Credits/Titles and Sound

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) 

Title sequence - Credits

Since we were close to finishing we had started looking into what we wanted out credits to look like. The most similar to what we wanted was that of the Legally blonde credits. We wanted very a girly and handwritten style of credits that matched and complimented the sequence. This is the ideas we have so far. At the moment we are leaning towards the third set of credits although we need to find the right movement

Credits and Distribution Logo

Now that we have finished putting our sequence together as a whole we have moved on to thinking about our the other things we need to include. We are beginning to have a lot more of a delegation process during the time we spend working on our sequence. As a group we have decided its best to split off and get things done individually, by this I mean some of us will edit while others are looking at sound, credit fonts etc. We also created our distribution logo this week, its very different to the original idea we had for our logo but we felt it need to be somewhat interactive like the logos of the distribution companies of the same genre and style  as ours.