Planning Opening Credits - Miss Georgiou

In this post I have been asked to discuss the credits that I will be using in my opening sequence. Credits are important to the opening of an opening scene fuck as they inform the audience which role everyone has done in the film, they also tell the audience which actors are featuring within the film.

I analysed the opening scene of 'Se7en', and analysed the credits that were used. The credits appeared on screen in the following order Production company, director, actor, title of film, actors continued, casting, music, costumes, editing, production, camera operator, co-producer, producer, writing and the director again. As you can see the title of the film appeared directly after the main actors, this is because these two are the most important credits and it is important that the audiences attention is attracted to them. The colour of the credits used in this opening sequence was important; they was white on a black background, this is to contrast the difference between good and evil. The font used in this clip was jagged and jerky, this is to represent the unstable position that the audience are going to be in creating enigma and a sense of unease, also it establishes the genre to the audience. 

I also analysed the opening credits of 'Insidious', the first notable feature of the credits is that they were written in red, from this we can connote blood and death, both strongly related to the thriller genre. This informs the audience what they can expect later on in the film. The style of the font is very representative of the thriller genre, for example the credits turn into smoke, this looks extremely mysterious and creates an enigma. The credits to this film are conventional to a thriller film as low key lighting is used throughout, this dark background is in contrast with the red font, allowing the credits to stand out.

My opening credits:
After reviewing the opening credits of several films I have come to the conclusion that my credits will appear in the following order...
1. Sandstorm Productions
2. Director - Joe Smith
3. Director of photography - Daniel Armstrong
4. Actors - Cara Gaffner, Daniel Armstrong, Joe Smith
5. Film Title - TBC
6. Editing director - Reggie Witham
7. Producer - Sam Smith
8. Co producer - Mark Abraham
9. Costumes - Lara Walker
10. Music - Joe Smith

I feel that this is a very concise order and it will look professional as this is similar to the order that is used in many of the big budget films that I have analysed. 

Fonts, Styles and Colours..
For the font of our group credits I have suggested a jagged, almost hand written font. I believe this is conventional to the thriller genre as it will look as if it has been written by someone who is unstable. I also believe this font is most relevant to the images that will be shown on screen at the time. I have also seen this hand written type of font used in many of the thriller films that I have analysed, therefore it must have some type of impact on the audience. Furthermore, I have suggested that the colour of the credits should be in red, I believe this is most conventional of the thriller genre as it connotes evil, danger and blood, all of these being things you would expect to see in a thriller film. I was going to use the colour white, however I don't think this will allow the credits to stand out as much as the colour red will. For the style of our groups credits, I would like them to fade on and off of the screen slowly, so that its noticeable to the audience but at the same time it will create an eerie effect.