RESEARCH - Blog Post 7

Conclusions about title sequences

The order the title sequences are displayed commonly is:

• The Ident
• The film producer company
• Director
• Actor 1 (in order of importance)
• Actor 2
• The movie title
• Rest of actors
• Casting Director
• Sound designer
• Music producer
• Costume designer
• Film editor
• Production designer
• Director of photography
• Executive producers
• Producers
• Author of the book the film is bases on (not with every film)
• Screen player
• Director

The length of average for title sequences are 2-3 minutes long. If the credits were much long such as 5-6 minutes the viewers would become bored of seeing names that they don't know, which would make them uninterested.

The font styles used depends on the film genre. For example, an action film would have big, black, bold fonts to represent the powerfulness of the film. Also the fonts would be more straight edged and simple. Whereas a romantic film would have dainty, rounded and natural fonts to represent the delicate and dreamy love in the film. The fonts are using much smaller however still bold enough for the viewer to recognise the film title.

The sizes of fonts depend on the importance of the person and how they contributed to the film. For example, the ident is the biggest size and always comes first as they are the most important company for the film. Then the director/producer would have a large font as they made the movie. The main characters would have a media sized font as they're not as important as the ident or director. Then the film title would also have a large font to inform the viewer on what the film is called. After the film title font sizes would remain a smaller size, than the rest, as they are not as important and influential for the film.