In this week, we have been looking at opening sequences of films in which we have specifically been looking at credits. Doing this has taught me valuable things such as why the credits appear in the way that they do and how they are ordered. The opening sequence either shows an animation which has nothing to do with the film, or actually shows the opening scene of a film with credits which appear along side this on the screen.
One thing I learnt was that the credits are not always shown at the end of the opening sequence, as this is a convention of a trailer. Also, credits do not always appear in any particular order, as the film title can sometime be shown right at the beginning, or in some cases, shown halfway through the other credits. When credits appear on the screen, I learnt that these credits appear in order of character importance. The main 2 character's names will appear on the screen independently, and then the less important side characters names appear 2 at a time on the screen, as they are not seen as important to have screen time to themselves. I will stick to this technique when doing my own credits, and also, I will spread them out through the opening sequence, rather than having them all shown at the end like a trailer. Another thing I noticed was that the Production Logo is mostly shown at the beginning so I will make sure that I keep to this as well.
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