Planning Opening Credits-MIss Georgiou

Planning Opening Credits

The purpose of opening credits within a film is firstly to inform the audience on what the name of the film is called and the name of the production company that has made the film. As well as this the credits also contain the directors names, the actors names and any other member of the production team. In the opening credits they also inform and prepare the audience for the type of film they will be watching, in the case of these films they prepare the audience for a thriller.

Se7en Analysis:

Their are several techniques used in credits so that they are able to portray the genre of the film effectively. The first thing I noticed was the use of colour in the credits, to set the scene of "se7en" the producer has used dark backgrounds with white writing. These two colours contrast each other and give an effect of good and bad, because the credits are mostly black a number of conventions are used which tell the audience that they are watching a thriller. The low-key lighting that is used creates an enigma as the audience struggle to see what is going on within the scene and cannot see the mysterious character.

The writing itself also sets the scene well because it is faded and flickers in and out of focus, this obscurity creates tension which is typical in thrillers. The last point I noticed was that the credits themselves where hand written which gives the whole scene a feeling of being out of control which is conventional to the thriller genre also. 

The order of appearance for these credits are:

1. The Production Company 
2. The Main Actors Names 
3. The Name Of The Film 
4. Other Team Members 
5. The Dierectors Names 
6. Other Team Leaders

Individual Analysis - Memento:

There are also many techniques used in "memento" that are very different to the opening credits of "se7en". The colours used in memento for example are conventional but in different ways, they have still used dark colours with low-key lighting in the background of the titles. The colour that was used was dark blue in a bold font, this makes the words stand out more and gets in the face of the audience. The plain bold text seems to me as if the film is saying that this is an every day film with a twist which the audience could relate to. There are also many conventions use within these credits such as the slow editing used and the fading in and out of the text. This convention creates suspense and tension as the audience become more and more anxious for the credits to finnish. In the background of the text their is a man looking at pictures but your are not shown his face which creates another convention in thrillers which is enigma. This keeps the audience guessing as to who this mystery man is.
The order of appearance in these credits are:

1. Title
2. Star Actors
3. Other production roles 
4. Producer
5. Co-producer

My Groups Credits:

For my groups own credits will include a background of our footage we record with the text covering it alternating from fading in and flickering in to creates the feeling of the scene being unsteady and out of control. To the right you can clearly see the variety of colours and text fonts which our group will be deciding on. The group favourite seems to be the text font with the colour red, we also intend to use red as the colour of our connotations. we think this uses a combination of looking old and jerky with being bold and in your face. The text is conventional to thrillers because it is very dark blood red and the 

background shot would be filmed in a low-key light. This will be used to created an enigma and the flickering jerky effects will create and unsteady and out of control effect. 

The order in which our credits will be is: 

1. Production company - LAN productions
2. Actors - Lucy, Noah
3. Camera man - Alex
4. Music - Heather 
5. Title - The Woods
6. Editors - Alex, Lucy, Noah
7. Producer - Noah
8. Writer - Lucy
9. Director - Alex

By Alexander Flanagan