Film opening titles

The 3 film opening titles for which I observed was begin again, Talented Mr Ripley and The hunger games. However, at the beginning of the first opening was ‘Begin again’ which appears to be about a new upcoming artists who are trying to make it in the music industry. However, the way in which the opening sequences begins with having the opening title but more specifically with idents, but in fact the film company decide to include 5 of them. This portrays the companies that have been involved within the making of the film. Although, when they continue with the credits they include production companies’ names that are making the film with a black background and white lettering, created the maximum contrast in colours. In addition, when they begin to actually include the name of the main stars they only occur at the end of the first scene within the film. But only the main characters rather than other characters that maybe involved later on the scene with much smaller roles to play. Furthermore, the title of the film isn’t introduced until the first four minutes of the film have actually been shown. As well as, the director’s name is the finale of the sequence of the opening titles, which states his importance compared to the rest of the film.

However, the film opening of ‘talented Mr Ripley’ introduces ta similar idea of having the companies names who were involved in the making, idents but all of the companies were displayed in the same way of having each company in white writing. Although, the directors name is shown first, showing authority. In addition, when the names of the cast are displayed they are shown through coloured overlays that appear in strip to the side or the bottom of the screen. But, this showcase doesn’t appear until the first 3 minutes of the scene. However, these are continuing to be displayed even though the film is 5 minutes in. But, it is becoming more of a trend that the film titles are being portrayed at the end of the film rather than beginning, therefore the film can start straight away rather than the audience sitting through the titles they now have a chose if they want to don’t want to watch them.

However, The hunger games is much recent film, for which displays the changes more are the opening of their film has only 2 idents at the beginning of the film. For which are portrayed through black and white, as the lettering is white and background laid behind is black, create a bold but subtle statement. It is clear to make the assumption that the titles that display the cast and crew that were involved with the film are shown at the end. This film defiantly shows the modern conventions of films of rolling the credits at the end of the film rather than the beginning. This allows the film to begin without any interference but also allows the film to look like a film rather than a trailer to the film.