Planning opening credits - Miss Georgiou

Credits are important in the opening sequence of a film as it makes the audience aware of who is involved in the making of the film, it also sets the scene when introducing the audience to what the film is going to be about. Credits can do this with the font for example, if the font was sharp, black white and/or red, I would assume the film is going to be a thriller, whereas if the font were pink and red I may think the film is going to be a romance. Credits may attract viewers more into the film as famous actors/directors are introduced which makes the film seem more appealing. When creating our opening sequence planning the credits we use is important as we have to ensure the credits we use are both conventional and appropriate to the thriller genre as we want to immediately make the audience feel on edge and get into the tense atmosphere of our clip, we also want to make sure they match up to the images and music within our clip.

The order of credits used are typically:

• Production company
• Director
• Actors/Famous actors
• Title of film
• Actors continued
• Casting
• Music costumes
• Editors
• Production
• Camera operator
• Co-producer
• Producer
• Writing director

When looking at the opening credits of thriller films, I analysed the film 'The Orphan' as the credits used appealed to me and came across really creepy. The clip is below.

When looking at this clip I looked at different aspects of the credits which were:

• The font and style of the credits
• The colours of the credits and background/images
• The orders in which the credits appear
• Thriller conventions of the credits

Within the opening credits of The Orphan clip, the font 

Having researched into how opening credits are presented and why they are presented in that way, we discussed in my group the credits we wanted to include for our opening thriller, which are;

• Company Name - Dark Productions
• Actors - Ayesha Bhatti & Yasmin Bhatti
• Director - Lillian Amaning
• Title - Nostalgia
• Casting By - (L) Katie Mitchell
• Music By - (A) Olivia Edwards 
• Costumes by (D) Daniel Woods
• Hair & Make up by (A) Laura Smith
• Editor - Deanna Mathers 
• Production - Ayesha Bhatti
• Director of Photography - Lillian Amaning 
• Director of Photography (underwater) - Deanna Mathers

• Used contrast between white and black to represent good and evil, victim and villain
• Ink smudges- realistic as its acessable. Could be a metaphor saying that film will not run smoothly - negative as audience will guess there will not be a simple narrative.  Also, could guess that an accident will happen., as ink spillages are accidental. 

• put eachothers ideas together.
• Used red colour for credit with a black outline to make audience think about meaning of word. 
• Used red, black and white to show the difference between good and evil, villain and victim. 
• Changed the colour of the ink to make it seem like blood which is conventional to thrillers. 

Ink idea - Deanna 

Contrast of colours - Lillian 

representation of blood - both 

• used red - conventional - blood -- foreshadows something bad will happen - death
• used lined paper - more realistic as everyone can acess paper. 
• contrast between black background + red + white colour to show difference between good and evil (victim + villain)
• Style - Sharp font + bold to emphasise the title and make audience think of its meaning. - gives them an idea of what the films going to be about.