Titles, what are they?

Titles are used by the institution by using creative ways to present names involved in funding, marketing, and producing. Usually they are show at the start but also incorporated as credits at the end of a film, the key information is often shown before the film, this is known as the title sequences. 

There are 21 titles found in an opening sequence, usually in a set order. 

These are the main 21:

1. Money 
2. Production 
3. Directors name film 
4. Main star 
5. Film title 
6. Actor 1 
7. Actor 2 
8. Actor 3 
9. Actor 4 
10. Actor 5 
11. Casting 
12. Costume design 
13. Music 
14. Editing 
15. Production designer 
16. Director of photography 
17. Exclusive producer
18. produced by 
19. Based upon 
20. Screen play 
21. Director 

Title sequences usually include creative aspects such as: 

• Fonts and style 
• Colours 
• Framing / screen placement 
• Pace of credits, transitions and edit 

Drive

I have studied this opening title sequence to understand the genre, tone, time period and theme. 

The music indicates the genre is a drama/action, and we can grasp hints of romance from the pink, feminine title style. Aside from the modern, 80's feel, there is also a sense of the dark tone which suggests it is a thriller. 

Catch Me if You Can

From this creative opening title sequence, we can guess that this is a crime/drama genre of film due to it's mysterious, fun tone. The animated titles hints at the 60's time period. The style of animations including the clothing, the typewriters, and old cars suggests the time period, as well as the soundtrack reminiscence of the 1960's. From this title sequence, we get a rough idea of the storyline about a cat and mouse game involving the police. 

 

The Terminator 

In this sequence, we see no characters or hints to the plot, however we know this is a science fiction genre from the style, font and music. The font style looks like it has be typed or coded on a computer, it reflects a 80's style, along with the colour combinations of green, blue and black. We can guess from this title sequence that the film will be around technology and hacking. However, no narrative is given but the tone of the film is already suggested.