The document compares the opening credits of four films - the typical Hollywood convention, My Name is Joe, Fish Tank, and London to Brighton. It notes that My Name is Joe follows some conventions but not the standard order. Fish Tank has an unusually short credits sequence that lacks the director or actor names. London to Brighton similarly has a sparse credits sequence missing the film title.

1. Comparison of Open
Credits:
Category, Type, Order & Timings
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2. Opening Credits
In Hollywood film openings they usually follow a number of conventions
of feature film openings. However, there is a certain order the film credits
should be set out within the film intro. They are often listed out like this:
-Studio
-Production company
-Producer
-Actors
-Film title
-Casting by
-Music
-Production designer
-Editor
-Photography
-Director
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3. My Name is Joe
In ‘My name is Joe’ I can see that it follows a number of conventions of feature
film openings. However, they are not listed in the right routined order. Here is
the order ‘My name is Joe’ has been set:
0:01 - Production Title
0:05 - Production Credits
0:09 - Production Credits
0:21 - Main Actor (Peter Millan)
0:25 - Main Actress (Louise Goodall)
0:29 - Film Title (My name is Joe)
0:34 - Actors/Actress (David Mckay, Annemarie Kennedy)
0:39 - Actors/Actress (Gary Lewis, Lorraine Mcintosh, David Hayman)
0:45 - Production Designer (Martin Johnson)
0:49 - Photography (Barry Ackroya)
0:52 - Costume Designer (Rhona Russell)
0:55 - Sound Recordist (Ray Beckett)
0:58 - Editor (Johnathan Moms)
1:03 - Music (George Fenton)
1:07 - Executive Producer (Ulrich Felsberg)
1:10 - Screenplay (Paul Laverty)
1:14 - Producer (Rebecca O’Brien)
1:18 - Director (Ken Loach)
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4. Fish Tank
However, Fish Tank has very short film credits which do not involve a lot
of information. Fish tank does not follow the complete rule of conventions
and is quite unusual as it only has three different film credits, which are:
0:09 - Production Company
0:14 - Production Title
0:22 - Film Title (Fish Tank)
The unusual thing about ‘Fish tank’ is that during the opening of the film
credits it does not mention and actor/actress name also it does not
mention the directors name. These two things are very important to a
film.
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5. London to Brighton
London to Brighton is very similar to Fish tank as it only has four credits,
which involve:
0:01 - Production Company
0:13 - Production Credits
0:16 - Production Title
0:24 - Production Credits
London to Brighton is missing a very important credit which is ‘Film
Title’.
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