2. Openings examples
Below are some of the videos we took inspiration from
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64uWxQgKGXI – The
exorcisim
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL3Wtu4Kuzg&featur
e=youtube_gdata_player
– Psycho
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDpjSr9VhG0 – Dark
knight rises
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWTv8toR3Ug - Taxi
Driver
3. Opening credits
From the links above, we researched into what
credits were included in the opening sequence of
the films. We needed opening titles in our main
task as we had to create the opening to a thriller
movie, and opening credits were part of the
requirements included.
In researching the already existing thriller openings
we found that the credits appeared in two ways –
by either fading to black or by imbedding the text
into the scene. Since we only had around 2 minutes
for our opening we decided to embed the text into
the image rather than fade to black.
4. From the research, we took notes into what credits
appeared most frequently, below is the list of the
ones we found:
• A film by...
• Casting by...
• Music by...
• Director of photography...
• Screenplay by... / written by...
• Cast – just names on their own
• Producer...Executive producer
• In association with...
• Editor...
• Film name
• Costume designer...
• Based on...
5. How we applied them
We looked for shots that were stable and that the
main focus could be on the credits, but that did
not detract from establishing our films setting.
We then looked at the most frequently used
opening credits (to make our main task more
realistic, and used those credits for our piece.)
We also decided to make up the names of our
producers etc as we all had a part in the creation
of the main task, and didn’t want to imply that
the names on the credits were directly related to
what our roles were within the production.
6. Our Credit choices
As we only had just over 2 minutes for our opening
credits as well as telling the beginning of our story, we
decided to keep the credits to the minimum, only
using the most common ones
In Association With: NAME productions
A Film By: Marcus Rippley
Screenplay by: Jenifer Bernsdale
Director of Photography: Bethany Eton
Directed by: Peter Johnston
Produced by: Michael Flemming
Music by: Josh Latern
Cast: Georgina Head, Rachael Wyeth, Chloe
Lock, Isabelle Lock and Isobel Anstead
