Thursday, January 17, 2013

Credits in title sequences

Title sequences are what give information and add atmosphere to your work, if the title sequence is done very well it gives an image of professionalism. Title sequences may contain credits which are names of important people in the production and usually with some music , pictures or action in the background.
from the information gathered from Wikipedia i have found out that there's a common opening credits order which is :
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  • NAME OF THE STUDIO)
Name of the studio that is distributing the film and may or may not have produced it.

  • (NAME OF THE PRODUCTION COMPANY)
Name of the production company that actually made the film

  • (PRODUCER NAME) PRODUCTION or/and (director only) A FILM BY (DIRECTOR NAME)
Director's first credit, often "a film by XY or "a XY film".

  • STARRING
 Principal actors,
  • (FILM'S TITLE)
Name of the film.

  • FEATURING
Featured actors

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  • CASTING or CASTING BY
Casting director.

  • MUSIC or MUSIC COMPOSED BY or ORIGINAL SCORE BY
Composer of music.

  • PRODUCTION DESIGN or PRODUCTION DESIGNER
Production designer.As a variation some of the below may be noted:
  • SET DESIGN
  • COSTUMES or COSTUMES BY or GOWNS (older movies)
  • HAIRDRESSER
  • MAKE-UP ARTIST
  • SOUND RECORDING (older movies)
  • VISUAL EFFECTS DIRECTOR or VISUAL EFFECTS BY

  • EDITOR or EDITED BY

  • DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY

  • PRODUCER or PRODUCED BYEXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Producers, co-producers, executive producers, 
  • BASED ON THE BOOK (PLAY, GRAPHIC NOVEL etc.) BY or FROM A PLAY/BOOK BY (older movies)
If based on a book or other literary work.
  • BASED ON THE CHARACTERS BY or BASED ON THE CHARACTERS CREATED BY
If based on characters from a book or other media.
  • STORY or STORY BY
Person who wrote the story on which the script is based, gets "story by" credit, and the first screenplay credit, unless the script made substantial changes to the story.
  • WRITER(S) or WRITTEN BY
Screenplay writers

  • DIRECTOR or DIRECTED BY


This information was found from Wikipedia to show the order of the credits and the expectations of a title sequence.

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