RESEARCH: Blog Post 7 - Conclusions made on Titles in Film Openings

Typical order of film credits:
Insidious:

1. The Ident
2. Production company
3. Film Director
4. Film Title
5. Main characters (in order of importance)
6. Costume designers 
7. Music producers
8. Film editors
9. Production designer
10. Director of photography
11. Line producer
12. Co-Producer
13. Executive producer
14. Producers
15. Writer
16. Film director (2nd time)

The film opening including the title sequence is almost 4 minutes long. The title sequence on its own is about 2 minutes long. In my opinion, i think having it for longer than 2-3 minutes would make the audience less interested as less important film credits will appear in the sequence. 

The size of the font matters, the more important the person is in producing the film, the bigger the size of font used. The same applies to less important people (smaller font).
Also, the most important names are usually mentioned first in title sequences. 

Usually, a single glance at the film title is enough to understand whether it is comedy or horror, romance or action thriller. This is because different film genres use different font designs. For example;

• In horror genres, the font is normally either black, red or white. The style of the font is creepy, (e.g. long and curvy) 
• Modern, classy or groovy style fonts are normally in drama genres 
• Comedy genres usually have their titles looking fun, positive and funky. 
• Romance genres have their titles looking romantic and classic, font is normally curvy (representing love letters, etc)