Resit - Title Sequence Research

Titles play a big part in the opening of a film, some titles introduce the storyline others just add a very unique twist to keep the audiences attention because it is the first thing they see when watching a film.
Titles are very important as they introduce the people in and behind the production of the film. There is a specific way people are listed in the titles therefore I have done research on the opening of films to find out who is listed and when they are:

In Catch Me If You Can these are the title listings in the exact order.

1. Institution Presents
2. Another institution
3. Another Institution
4. Another Institution
5. Main Actor
6. Another Main Actor
7. Title of the film
8. Minor actors
9. Minor actors
10. Minor actors
11. Minor actors
12. Casting by and Casting associate
13. Co-producer
14. Based upon the book by
15. Music by
16. Costume designer
17. Film editor
18. Production designer
19. Director of photography
20. Co-executive producer
21. Executive producers
22. Executive producers
23. Produced by
24. Screen play by
25. Directed by


Casino Royale title sequence order:

1.Institution
2.Main Actor
3.Main Character
4.Name of the film
5.Actors
6.Actors
7.Actors
8.Actors
9.Actors
10.Actors and Stunt man
11.Actor
12.Actor and character
13.Associate Producer and Production executive
14.Camera operator,second unit assistant director,script supervisor, publicity and marketing, promotions and assistant producer.
15. Sound recordist, electrical supervisor, stills photography, make-up supervisor, hairdressing supervisor and wardrobe supervisor
16.visual effects and miniature supervisor, supervising art director, property master, construction manager, post production supervisor
17.unit production manager, second unit production manager, first assistant director
18.casting and stunt coordinator
19.special effects and miniature effects supervisor, main title designed by
20.second unit director
21.costume designer
22.editor
23.director of photograpghy
24.production designer
25.Music by
26.executive producer
27.based on the novel by
28.screen play by
29.produced by
30.directed by

Aliens title sequence

1.Institution
2.Institution
3.Main actor
4.Main actor
5.Main actor
6.Main actor
7.Main actor
8.Minor actors
9.Name of the film
10.Executive producers
11.Music composed by
12.Alien effects created by
13.Certain visual effects by
14.Visual effects supervisor and visual effects supervisor post production
15.Editor
16.Production designer
17.Director of photography
18.story by and based on characters created by
19.screen play by
20.produced by
21.directed by

Title sequence of SE7EN

1.Institution
2.Another institution
3.Another institution
4.Main actor
5.Main actor
6.Title of the film
7.Main actor
8.Main actor
9.Main actor
10.Main actor
11.Main actor
12.Minor actor
13.Minor actor
14.Minor actors
15.Minor actors
16.Minor actors
17.Casting by
18.Music by
19.Costume designed by
20.Edited by
21.Production design by
22.Director of photograpghy
23.Co-producers
24.Co-executive producers
25.Executive producers
26.Written by
27.Produced by
28. Directed by

After researching these big title sequences and other title sequences I have discovered despite the different genres the titles genuinlly run in the same order. Some films have more titles than others for example Casino Royale had lists of names on the same title page. The main similarity I have found is that the majority of films have the Insitution/institutions names first then they have the main actors names/or name then they reveal the title of the film. This is because the titles in the opening of a film are used to introduce the film and get the audience familar with the actors, storylines, style and genre of the film. However, a trailers title sequence is aiming to reveal the film therefore leaving the name of the film for the end of the film.
This pattern in titles will help us when we put titles on our own film. However, we will not use animation like Catch Me if you Can because we only have 2minutes to explain the storyline and display titles. So we will use titles over the filmed footage of our opening.