Titles and ident

Titles

Titles tend to appear in this order:

(1) 'Your Production Company' Presents
(2) A Film by 'One name - usually the director'
(3) Starring or With
(4) Male star
(5) Female star or other way round
(6) Title of film - or could be at the end
(7) Also starring - 2/3/names - each on seperate title
(8) Then 3/4/5 of the following - you choose - each on seperate title
Editing
Music
Cinematography or Director of Photography
Casting
Set Designer
Costume Designer
Script
(9) Then Producer(s) - can be more than one
(10) Always finish with Director - one name, usually the same as A Film By ...
(11) Could put title here
Remember to use LiveType and try to make titles interesting. They can be either over black or superimposed over your film. Space them out over the two minutes of the film.Give the audience plenty of time to read the titles.
(12) Finish with a fade out & fade music out

When making any movie opening titles are extremely important. Within our opening we will include titles. They are very important as they give the audience an idea of what the film may be about and how it may be portrayed. For example if a title appears saying 'Produced by Tarantino' the audience will be able to familarise with his past work and decide whether they would wish to watch the film or not. Also a large procudtion company such as 'Warner Brothers' allows the audience to be sure that the film is of good qaulity. We will have to create a production company ident of our own.  Along with this ident we will need to create a catchy piece of music. The art of titles, a website will help us to produce our own titles. Here is an example of how the titles may look. The titles advertise the producer and actors, the font and background help to create a thrilling feel. The jaggered edges portray danger and the errie somkey background portrays some form of problem or even mystery.

Ident

 An ident is a logo which becomes recognisable of major film companies. Within the film industry the most famous comapnies are known as the 'Big six'. Below are there idents:

A famous ident for example would be the 'warner brothers' logo. It is also possible to have variations of the famous Ident. This is usually done to help the ident fit well with the genre of the movie.

We will aim to create a catchy ident. Hopefully one that can includue thriller elements like the warner brothers varaition below.  The colour scheme gives the ident an eerie look. I would love to portray an element like this. We will need to think about a name and logo