Film openings

Today in class, we watched the opening of films in order to analise the opening credits to come up with ideas for what we want to use in our own opening credits for our two minute thrillers. Opening credits are usually shown as superimposed on a blank screen, static picture or even over the action or picture in the background. Opening credits usually consist of the production company, the main characters, other actors, producers and directors etc.
We watched two film openings; 'Panic Room' and 'Se7en'. we watched the opening credits and dicussed the order in which the cast and production team are displayed. We dicovered that in both film openings it was as follows;

• The production company
• The production company logo
• The main character, general to the particular
• The co-stars
• Members of the crew such as editor, director, camera man, music, costume etc.