Research for Titles and Credits

http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/snatch/


Snatch (2000)
                                                                                                                                                              

In this opening title sequence for snatch, the credits and titles are shown in a very creative way. The way that they used freeze frames to introduce the characters was very interesting and eye-catching which is originally why we planned to do a similar opening. 

We didn't want to make it too stylistic so to make it more modern, we decided to still use freeze-frames but to have narration describe the characters instead. It is very similar to ours because they show the first few credits on a completely black screen. We intend to show all of our titles on a black screen and to have a voice over of the robbery itself. 

We can see from these pictures that the production and distributing company Columbia  Pictures will always be the first credit to be given as they are responsible for the film. The next credit is for SKA Films who invested money into this film i.e. a co-producing company.                              
 One way of getting people to come and watch your film is to include big names as selling points and to make sure that they appear early on in the credits so that people watching trailers will immediately be inclined to go and see the film when it comes out. 
Even before the actors have been credited, the names of Matthew Vaughn and Guy Ritchie will draw attention and interest towards the film.
                                      



The only other difference that we have is that we will have longer gaps between each credit. This film holds the credits for about 5 seconds and then fades out with the next title coming straight after. For our opening title we intend to show a credit for about 4 seconds and then have a gap of about 6-8 seconds depending on the length of the dialogue in that moment. The effect of this should hopefully be that the audience are dragged out of the sequence while at a point of tension which grabs their attention and makes sure that they are never bored.








Heat (1995)
The heat show its credits in a very basic way by fading from credit to credit. The style of the font used is similar to what we were thinking of using as well as the time frame between each credit. It is very relaxing for the audience to watch and it doesn't distract them from the sequence.

Big name attracts audience and is the most important credit so that goes first.

Any associating company will come straight after the first credit because they invested money into the film.

Production companies can also attract an audience such as when a single name like Matthew Vaughn is used, however names such as Forward Pass aren't generally known to an audience.

These are the stars of the film and will attract a huge audience. The reason they are left until last is because no matter how big the actors are, they wouldn't have been in the film without the companies paying for the film to be made.

         The title of the film is always left until last because the audience should be all sat      down by then which means that everyone will be able to remember the name of the film.