Conventions of an Opening Title

What are the conventions of an Opening title?

 

What is the purpose of titles in a film opening?

 

• To inform the consumers on who is involved in the production
• Sets the scene/theme/tone
• Can foreshadow certain characters’ personality
• Introduces the film/actors

Film titles

 

• Titles are used in film and TV and acknowledge the work of the institution, cast and crew on a product
• Opening titles are shown at the very beginning and list the most important members of the production
• They are now usually shown as text superimposed on a blank screen or static pictures, or sometimes on top of the action in the show.
• They may or may not be accompanying music. Where opening titles are built into a separate sequence of their own, the correct term is title sequence.

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What titles do they use? (Captain America)

Editors

Costume designers

Co-producers

Music/supervisors

Casting

Director of photography (Cameraman/woman)

Actors

The production company such as Paramount, Marvel.

The title of the film is presented at the end.

 

 

 

What effect/theme does the opening create?

• Propaganda
• Graphology of past events
• Music is synchronised (Patriotic)
• Match on action
• A very thematic in terms of world war
   
  How are they different? (Domino)
• Urban music, more modern, also voice overs and sound clips
• The title of the film is revealed earlier on (in the middle)
• Anti-stereotypical narrative (female holding a gun instead of being a damsel in distress)
• Executive producers
• Screen play
• Music by
• Superimposed on top of the images
• Introduces the characters’/ sets their persona